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Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees

April 26, 2022 | Broadway, caroline, hangmen, kimberly, lehman, News, Off-Broadway, pass over, sf gate theatre reviews, the lehman >

Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees By David Roberts Theatre Reviews Limited The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, are pleased to announce the nominees for the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway season….

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Broadway Review: “Hangmen” at the Golden Theatre” (Closed on Saturday, June 18, 2022)

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the jibber-jabber to the riff-raff, the riff-raff,” former hangman Harry Wade (played with a menacing panache by David Threlfall) seems quite content to…

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Broadway Review: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” at the Booth Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 5, 2022)

“Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozake Shange in her choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” currently running at the Booth Theatre for the second time…

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Broadway Review: “Take Me Out” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 11, 2022)

The revival of “Take Me Out” by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political climate and the conservative challenges of LGBTQ+ rights. The story about a major league baseball star surprisingly coming out in a public arena, deals with the…

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Broadway Review: “The Little Prince” at the Broadway Theatre (Currently On)

It has taken this reviewer a couple of days to contemplate the new stage version of the well-known children’s story “The Little Prince” penned by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which has taken up residence at the Broadway Theatre for its New York debut. At first, although mesmerized by the illusionary concept put forth by an impressive creative team, the question that…

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Broadway Review: “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (Currently On)

Broadway has been graced with quite a bit of royalty considering the “SIX” queens that currently occupy the stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, vying for the title of the most victimized wife of Henry VIII. Appropriately titled “SIX,” the musical gives each of these candidates the opportunity to convince their audience with a musical number which describes their individual…

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Broadway Review: “The Music Man” at the Wintergarden Theatre (Currently On)

February 19, 2022 | a man of, Broadway > | "The Music Man", Andrew Minard, Ann Sanders, Audrey Cardwell, Aydin Eyikan, Benjamin Pajak, Branch Woodman, Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Design), Carlee Flanagan, Curtis Holland, Daniel Patrick Russell, Daniel Torres, David Chase (Vocal and Dance Arrangements), Eddie Korbich, Eloise Kropp, Emily Hoder, Emma Crow, Ethan Lafazan, Ethen Green-Younger, Garrett Long, Gino Cosculluela, Hugh Jackman, Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, Jerry Zaks, Jessica Sheridan, Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrations), Jordan Beall, JT Church, Kammie Crum, Kathy Voytko, Kayla LaVine, Kayla Teruel, Lance Roberts, Linda Mugleston, Luc Verschueren for Campbell Young and Associates, Maria Briggs, Marie Mullen, Max Clayton, Meredith Willson, Mitchell Tobin, Nicholas Ward, Nick Alvino, Patrick Vaccariello (Musical Director), Phillip Boykin, Rema Webb, Remy Auberjonois, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Ryan Worsing, Santo Loquasto (Scenic & Costume Design), Scott Lehrer (Sound Design), Sean Montgomery, Sherisse Springer, Shuler Hensley, Sutton Foster, Tanner Quirk, Warren Carlyle, William Thomas Colin, Wintergarden Theatre

The recent revival of “The Music Man” which has opened at the Winter Garden Theater comes to the stage with some good news for fans of a certain celebrity, and some bad news for avid theater goers looking for an astounding reincarnation of this classic musical. Audience members who have come to the theater to see the megastar, namely Hugh…

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Broadway Review: “Mrs. Doubtfire” at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (Reopens Thursday, April 14, 2022)

The latest Broadway opening is the new musical comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” based on the immensely popular 1993 film which starred Robin Williams in the leading role. The plot revolves around a divorced dad, who loses custody of his three children, and poses as an elderly English nanny when his ex-wife starts searching for someone to help with the children and…

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Broadway Review: “Caroline, or Change” at Roundabout’s Studio 54 (Closed Sunday January 9, 2022)

Racism, sexism, economic disparity, and stagnation roil beneath the surface Caroline Thibodeaux’s (an embattled yet resilient Sharon B Clarke) deep unhappiness, disappointment, and resistance to change in Tony Kushner’s “Caroline, or Change.” Currently enjoying a successful revival at Roundabout’s Studio 54, the Kushner/Tesori musical focuses on Caroline’s long days in the Louisiana “under water” basement of the Gellman family. “Sixteen…

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Broadway Review: “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Nederlander Theatre (Closed Sunday January 2, 2022)

November 3, 2021 | a man of, Broadway, lehman, the lehman, the piano > | "The Lehman Trilogy", Adam Godley, Adrian Lester, Candida Caldicot, Dominic Bilkey, Es Devlin, Jon Clark, Julieta Cervantes, Katrina Lindsay, Luke Halls, Nederlander Theatre, Nick Powell, Polly Bennett, Sam Mendes, Simon Russell Beale, Zoé Ford Burnett.

If you were to sit in the dark in the Nederlander Theatre at the appointed hour, with the security screen lowered, you would eventually hear Candida Caldicot begin to play the stage-left piano. Soon after, voices are heard, and what easily could be the most engaging radio play begins. And you immediately become entranced, captured by what you hear: the…

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