Review

NYTIMES: Underneath Pajamas, Naked Depression

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD | March 14, 2013 Did you hear there’s been an outbreak of mugging in a certain bucolic neighborhood of Bucks County, Pa., where many a moneyed Manhattanite has a summer retreat? I guess you’re not safe anywhere these days. Kidding! The mugging I refer to is not in the actual Bucks County, […]

Mar 14 2013

NYTIMES REVIEW: Effortless Flights of Fancy – PETER

BEN BRANTLEY | April 15, 2012 They’re surfing the clouds at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, where “Peter and the Starcatcher” opened on Sunday night. And even inveterate fearers of flying are likely to find themselves following the folks onstage into altitudes where eagles get nosebleeds. “So what’s new about that?” you may ask. These days, […]

Apr 15 2012

REVIEW: Play about a famous lost boy – PETER

By Joe Dziemianowicz | April 15, 2012 Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic, Broadway’s “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a big dipperful of fun. The “Peter Pan” precursor seen downtown a year ago is based on the 2004 book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Set in the Victorian era, the adventure yarn […]

Apr 15 2012

The Herald UK: Fast farce Hits Every Hilarious High Note

by Bill Stone September 30, 2010 WHAT a show! It’s got the lot. Well, nearly everything — there’s no line-up of leggy chorines. But you can’t have it all. What you do get is an absorbing plot (admittedly closely related to typical end-of-the-pier farces), compelling characters, some witty lines, lots of laughs, and some very […]

Sep 30 2011

What’s On Stage UK: Lend Me A Tenor Review

by Karen Bussell 29 September 2010 WOS Rating: 4 Stars A STANDING ovation was something of a foregone conclusion as the musical comedy Lend Me A Tenor opened at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal under Ian Talbot’s tight direction. Ken Ludwig’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning 1989 farce is given a musical reworking by Peter Sham and Brad […]

Sep 29 2011

NYTimes: Older, but No More Mature

November 11, 2010 Theater Review | ‘The Pee-wee Herman Show’ By CHARLES ISHERWOOD The sounds filling the Stephen SondheimTheater on 43rd Street are not the Broadway melodies you might expect to hear in a house recently renamed for the revered master of the American musical. They are, instead, the happy gurglings and raucous cheers of […]

Nov 11 2010