Pirates! The Penzance Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording, now available via streaming and digital formats. The CD edition is released on 14 November 2026 (Center Stage Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The opening jazz number transports us to a joint-jumping New Orleans in this recording of ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’. […]
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Scotland, PA – Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, New York
Scotland, PA continues at Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, New York until 8 December 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ McDonald’s (that’s the omnipresent hamburger dispenser) and Macbeth (that’s the bloody Shakespeare tragedy) make for an uneasy mashup in the new Off-Broadway musical Scotland, […]
Holiday Inn the New Irving Berlin Musical – Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York
Holiday Inn, the New Irving Berlin Musical continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York until 15 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Holiday Inn is the kind of show that makes you feel like a time-traveller. You’ve been whisked back to the late 1940s (that’s even before the ubiquitous […]
She Loves Me – Studio 54, New York
She Loves Me continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York until 12 June. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ On the heels of its great Off-Broadway revival of The Robber Bridegroom, the industrious Roundabout Theatre Company outdoes itself with its sublime Broadway remounting of She Loves Me. From its opening […]
The Robber Bridegroom – Laura Pels Theatre, New York
The Robber Bridegroom continues at the Laura Pels Theatre, New York until 29 May. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Director Alex Timbers and a cast of top-notch gleeful talents put a bright and especially frolicsome shine on The Robber Bridegroom, a half-century-old musical being revived Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company, […]
On the Twentieth Century – Roundabout Theatre Company – American Airlines Theatre, New York
On the Twentieth Century continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre, New York until 5 July. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Roundabout Theatre Company has made its revival of On the Twentieth Century quite a luxe journey. From the smashing sets and glamorous costumes to the perfect casting headed by the diminutive […]
Into the Woods – Roundabout Theatre Company, New York
Into the Woods continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, New York until 22 March. Star rating: 5 stars ***** A fresh breeze is blowing through Into the Woods. It’s not that anything ever seems stale about this enduring and always-compelling masterwork by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. But as re-envisioned by the prodigiously imaginative […]
Just Jim Dale – Roundabout Theatre Company
Just Jim Dale continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, New York, until 10 August. The spirit of English music hall informs almost every moment of the new Off-Broadway solo offering simply but aptly entitled, Just Jim Dale. And together with Dale’s more-than-triple threat talents as singer, dancer, physical comic, actor and raconteur, it […]
Cabaret – Studio 54, New York
Cabaret continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York, in an open-ended run. The Kit Kat Club has never been more repellent and yet more enticing. The Kit Kat Girls have never been more sullen and yet more watchable. And the Master of Ceremonies has never been more brazen and yet more entertaining. Yes, […]
Violet – American Airlines Theatre, New York
Violet continues at the American Airlines Theatre, New York until 10 August. Violet, the eponymous heroine of the musical Violet, tells us early on that she has a “scar that cuts a rainbow clear across my cheek”. It’s the result, we eventually learn, of an accident some 12 years earlier when Violet was 13. Violet was […]
