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3 weeks ago | 
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart
The filmed version of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along has been acquired for future distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
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3 weeks ago | 
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart
The filmed version of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along has been acquired for future distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. The musical will receive a theatrical, in-cinema release, but a timeline has not yet been announced.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
So many of us in the 21st century have become works of art, modifying our bodies to preserve youth well past a reasonable age, or to fabricate beauty that hitherto did not exist. In that regard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel about a gorgeous man who maintains the appearance of untarnished youth as his soul decays, can be read as a prophecy.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Has America, and the West in general, become that guy from your high school who peaked at 18 and now haunts a local bar, regaling all who will listen about his homecoming game glory? I wondered that as I watched The Trojans, playwright-composer Leegrid Stevens’s synth-pop musical adaptation of The Iliad, now playing at the cell.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Broadway’s high price of admission is a perennial topic of conversation, but the discussion has been kicked into high gear by the recent arrival of three celebrity-driven productions: the revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (starring Bill Burr, Bob Odenkirk, and newly minted Oscar winner Kieran Culkin), Good Night, and Good Luck (starring George Clooney), and Shakespeare’s Othello (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal).
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
The bathroom is my mother’s sanctuary. She spends hours there peering into the mirror, applying creams, and swishing water around in the sink. This was obviously a challenge when I was growing up in a house with four people and just one john. But her behavior now seems positively reasonable to me after viewing Max Mondi’s Maybe Tomorrow, which is making its off-Broadway premiere with Abingdon Theatre Company at A.R.T./New York Theatres. The play is about Gail (Elizabeth A.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
The band takes the final bow in Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway—and that’s as it should be. The music is so good, the performances so alive, and the band so sexy that I frequently found myself wondering: Couldn’t this just be a concert?
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s last play on Broadway, Appropriate, culminated in an extraordinary sequence depicting an Arkansas plantation house as it is reclaimed by nature over the course of years. A season later, his new play offers a similarly breathtaking view of a great house in decay. Originally produced at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and now at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater, Purpose has arrived as Americans contemplate the dissolution of all things that once seemed permanent.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Special ReportsTheaterMania’s chief critic offers his recommendations for March. 1. LiberationLast week I was astounded by the Roundabout Theatre Company world premiere of Bess Wohl’s Liberation, which was recently extended through April 6. Our narrator looks back on the women’s group her mother founded in 1970s Ohio and what became of their aspirations for freedom and equality.
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1 month ago | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Few conservationists have been more consequential than Jane Goodall, the 90-year-old primatologist whose up-close-and-personal observations of chimpanzees have given humanity vital insight into one of our closest evolutionary cousins. I have no doubt that her long and interesting life could be the source of a fascinating stage play. But it’s not Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?, the mediocre historical dramedy by Michael Walek now making its world premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre.
