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Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ tells a brutal Holocaust tale

September 26, 2022September 28, 2022 Rebecca Kurson 1 Comment Leopoldstadt, Longacre Theatre Tom Stoppard

British playwright’s wrenching discovery of his Jewish roots

The Last Supper, Reinvented as a Musical, Shoots for Broadway

August 5, 2022February 5, 2023 Ken Kurson 2 Comments Charlotte d’Amboise, Howard Kagan, Jeff Thomson, Jeremy Desmond, Lorin Latarro, Mark Evans, Megan Kane, Sheryl Kaller, The Last Supper

Timely, entertaining show about divided politics fails to even the score

Dear Evan Hansen

Oh Dear, ‘Evan Hansen’

September 13, 2021April 3, 2022 Sara Stewart 1 Comment amandla stenberg, Amy Adams, Ben Platt, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Stephen Chbosky, You Will Be Found

The film adaptation of the popular musical about teen anxiety is super awkward

Waiting For Godot

Waiting for a Better Godot

June 17, 2021March 15, 2022 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Robin Williams, Samuel Beckett, Steve Martin, Tariq Trotter, Waiting for Godot, Wallace Shawn

A wacky all-star online Zoom version of the play brings some laughs, but loses Beckett’s dark poetry

FILM Politics Theater

Update: We’re Still Destroying the Arts

March 2, 2021March 4, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments arts, Austin City Limits, COVID, Hootie and the Blowfish, James Bond, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Post Malone, Theater

For no rational reason

After Happily Ever After

After Happily Ever After

April 15, 2020April 18, 2020 Ayun Halliday 2 Comments After Happily Ever After, Coronavirus, COVID-19, fairy tales, Kaso Jogi

Fairy tales can’t come true, they can’t happen to you

CREATORS Theater

Theatre Needs You: Stream It Now!

April 9, 2020April 10, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments COVID-19, Live streaming, Theater, Theatre

Help save a living art form

Summertime

FILM MUSIC Theater

Wintertime, and the Livin’ is Easy

February 13, 2020February 19, 2020 Ayun Halliday 2 Comments Fathom Events, Porgy and Bess

At a “problematic” screening of Porgy and Bess

Welles on the March

September 9, 2019September 8, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Marching Song, Orson Welles, Roger Hill, Todd Tarbox

A Newly-Published Play Enriches the Legacy of an American Genius