Mary Lincer

5 days ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Andy Warhol really did go to Iran. In 1976, the Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, arranged to sit for Polaroid photos which Warhol would then use as a basecoat for a series of prints, and Andrew Cohen reproduces Warhol's image of her as a permanently present part of his set design. Warhol also could really order reasonably priced caviar from his hotel's room service. But playwright Brent Askari has not written a documentary.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Late in Julia Izumi's play, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!), one of the characters asks, "Is that what the whole yogurt thing is about because I'm not getting it?" It's one of several goofball/meta moments in this very theatrical play and marks the spot where Izumi acknowledges that her chosen title may not make sense. But the play itself very much makes sense.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

A superb troupe of five actors and a great trumpet player (Michael A. Thomas) do everything in their toolkit to realize Dominique Morisseau's significant play, Paradise Blue, about a Detroit jazz club caught in the post-World War II "urban renewal" which tampered with Black neighborhoods and lifestyles in American cities nationwide. They are substantially upstaged and undermined by director Raymond O. Caldwell's "concept" that a play about a jazz club ought to be set in a jazz club.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Mario Font has directed a lively production of the 2015 jukebox/autobiographical musical On Your Feet!. It's the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan's lives and careers as they evolved from local Miami, Cubano musicians in the 1970s and 80s into crossover artists, and then into internationally recognized, Grammy-winning superstars.

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. 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.