After more than a year of pandemic-caused lockdown, New York theatre is showing increasing signs of a reawakening. While a return to any sort of normalcy is not expected before the start of autumn, various performance venues, from comedy clubs to concert halls, have opened their doors for one or slightly more showings of special […]
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Dames at Sea – Helen Hayes Theatre, New York
Dames at Sea continues at the Helen Hayes Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Ruby, the heroine of Dames at Sea, is a small town tap-dancing innocent who steps off a bus in New York in the morning, gets cast in a show and through happenstance, gumption and talent […]
Trip of Love – Stage 42, New York
Trip of Love continues at Stage 42, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The psychedelic 1960s are back in force Off-Broadway with Trip of Love, an elaborate song and dance spectacle that pulsates, gyrates and undulates through some 28 tunes from that eventful decade. It’s a garish frolic that’s relentlessly […]
Daddy Long Legs – Davenport Theatre, New York
Daddy Long Legs continues at the Davenport Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Daddy Long Legs, a musical adaptation of the 1912 novel by Jean Webster, premiered in 2009 at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura in southern California. Since then the show, written and directed by John Caird with a score by […]
Gigi – Neil Simon Theatre, New York
Gigi continues at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ Despite his legendary Gallic charm, I always found something discomforting about Maurice Chevalier, as the old Parisian roué Honoré in the movie Gigi, singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”, while eyeing the young femmes playing in the park. In the new […]
John & Jen – Clurman Theatre, New York
John & Jen continues at The Clurman Theatre, New York, until 4 April. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Sibling co-dependency gets the spotlight if not much examination in John & Jen, an Off-Broadway musical from 1995 now receiving an appreciative revival, courtesy of the Keen Company, one of the many smaller not-for-profit producing groups that dot […]
Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano – Crazy Coqs
Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack – Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano at the Crazy Coqs, London. It was most inconsiderate of Andy Murray to drag out his quarter-final until 7.20pm on Wednesday as nobody was going to leave their sofa or Wimbledon seat until the final point had been won, and that was surely […]
