Mary Lincer

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Get Access To Every Broadway StoryUnlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email:Existing user? Just click login. The American Library Association (ALA) has just posted its latest list of books that have been "challenged"; Round House Theatre's trenchant production of Sharyn Rothstein's Bad Books "celebrates" Library Week by revealing how censorship can negatively spiral and fake free speech has consequences.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Get Access To Every Broadway StoryUnlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Nowadays and in the near future, androids apparently dream of a great deal more than electric sheep, according to José Rivera's accomplished two-hander, Your Name Means Dream at Theater J through April 6.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence was published about a week before she was able to vote for the first time in 1920. The following year, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Now, playwright Karen Zacarías has adapted Wharton's complex tragedy of manners into Arena's elegant, 3 hour production ably directed by Hana S. Sharif.

2 months ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

In the late 1960s (in her late 60s), cabaret étoile Mabel Mercer added the utterly goofy "Wait 'til We're 65" (by Lerner & Lane) to her sets; when she was well past 50, Barbara Cook began including Harper & Zippel's wildly funny "The Ingenue" to her shows, simultaneously sending up her rivals and ageism.

Dec 9, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

With Ken Ludwig's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Arena Stage's new Artistic Director, Hana S. Sharif, debuts as Director. The sumptuousness of the production may not quite balance with the slightness of the script, but as amusement during the holiday season, Death on the Nile offers fine performances, the fun of puzzling out a mystery, and stunningly beautiful visual elements.