Lauren Jeanne Thomas

Off-Broadway Review: “Girl, Interrupted” at the Public’s Martinson Hall (Through Sunday, July 12, 2026)

June 26, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“The Public Theater’s latest offering, “Girl, Interrupted,” transcends the conventional musical. It is based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kayson, chronicling her eighteen-month stay in a psychiatric hospital after a failed attempt at suicide. The book gathered widespread attention when made into a film in 1999, which starred Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, winning several awards. This new incarnation…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Beau the Musical” at 154 Christopher Street (Through Sunday, July 27, 2025.

June 26, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Music, Off-Broadway, Queer > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Flowing in the same vein as the triumphant off-Broadway show “Dead Outlaw,” which made a move to Broadway last season, is the wonderful “Beau the Musical,” now playing at Theatre 154. Produced by Out of the Box Theatrics, the musical follows somewhat the same structure where an onstage band provides the musical force but also serve double duty by taking…

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Off-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at Stage 42

March 8, 2019 | awards, broadway grapples, dance nation, evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, last five, Off-Broadway, the collaboration, transl > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

One father longing to be wealthy enough to adequately care for his family – and letting the Creator know he feels overlooked – and three “adult” daughters dodging the craft of the local matchmaker are the grist for an epic challenge to the traditions held dear by the members of Tevye’s Shtetlekh and its “on-the-fence” Der Rov (a confident yet…

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Off-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

July 21, 2018 | history, Off-Broadway, the collaboration, transl > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

There is considerable Jewish culture captured in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” the iconic musical that has won a respectable reputation in theater history. Since it first opened on Broadway in 1964 to win nine TONY awards, “Fiddler” went on to become the longest running Broadway musical. Since that original production, there have been five Broadway revivals. The collaboration…

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