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Review: “A Man’s A Man” at Classic Stage Company
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler gets lost in the jungle at Classic Stage Company’s A Man’s A Man. Jason Babinsky, Allan K. Washington, Martin Moran, Gibson Frazier, Steven Skybell in “A Man’s A...
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Review: It’s Apparent… Go See “The Heir Apparent”
Contributor Melissa Firlit gets a belly full of laughs at Classic Stage Company’s production of The Heir Apparent. The cast of “The Heir Apparent” at Classic Stage Company (photo: Richard Termine) via...
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Casting Announced for Classic Stage Company’s “Allegro”
Classic Stage Company has announced casting for its production of the rarely performed Allegro by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle (who directed CSC’s production of...
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Review: Allegro at Classic Stage Company
By Samuel L. Leiter In 1947, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were the newly anointed kings of Broadway musicals, having created two remarkable blockbusters, Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel...
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Three to See: January
Hollywood continues to infiltrate Broadway as 2015 kicks off with the opening of another screen-to-stage adaptation as well as a number of notable Los Angeles transplants making their way to the stage....
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Review: A Month in the Country
Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage in “A Month in the Country” (photo: Joan Marcus via The Broadway Blog.) Love is in the air this Valentine’s Day and there may be no better theatrical exploration on...
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Review: Hamlet at Classic Stage Company
by Samuel L. Leiter Penelope Allen and Peter Sarsgaard in “Hamlet” (photo: Carol Rosegg via The Broadway Blog.) In 1989, when he was forty-nine, Austin Pendleton tackled the title role in Hamlet in an...
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Review: Doctor Faustus
by Samuel L. Leiter Last autumn, New York theatergoers had the rare opportunity to witness Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine; now, another of that infrequently revived Elizabethan playwright’s dramas...
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Breaking: John Doyle Named as New Artistic Director at CSC
The cast of “The Heir Apparent” at Classic Stage Company (photo: Richard Termine) via The Broadway Blog. Changes are in store for one of New York City’s preeminent classical theater companies. Brian...
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‘Nathan the Wise’: A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew Walk into a Play
by Samuel L. Leiter F. Murray Abraham and Caroline Lagerfelt in ‘Nathan the Wise.’ (Photo: Richard Termine via The Broadway Blog.) One of the most important works of its time, Gotthold Ephraim...
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A Life Worth Living? ‘Peer Gynt’ at CSC
‘Peer Gynt’ at Classic Stage Company. (Photo: Joan Marcus via The Broadway Blog.) Fans of classical theater are probably most familiar with Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House — and if...
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Jason Sudeikis to Star in CSC’s ‘Dead Poets Society’
Classic Stage Company has announced that Jason Sudeikis will star as John Keating in the world premiere of Dead Poets Society, a new play based on the beloved 1989 film. Written by Academy...
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Three to See: November
Big or small, the theater scene is getting a major wake-up call this November with three production that deliver award-winning stars, Broadway transfers, and film-to-stage adaptations. Here are our...
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Incomplete Assignment: CSC’s ‘Dead Poets Society’
By Jon L Jensen ‘Dead Poets Society’ at Classic Stage Company. (Photo: Joan Marcus via The Broadway Blog.) You’d be hard-pressed to find an American who does not recall seeing Dead Poets Society for...
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Pants Smoking But Not on Fire: Classic Stage Company’s ‘The Liar’
by Samuel L. Leiter 1. Tony Roach, Christian Conn, and Carson Elrod in ‘The Liar’ (Photo: Richard Termine via The Broadway Blog.) The gods of irony must have been smiling as I left the Women’s March in...
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Murky Waters: ‘Pacific Overtures’
‘Pacific Overtures’ at Classic Stage Company. (Photo: Joan Marcus via The Broadway Blog.) Is less more, or is less simply less? John Doyle (Broadway’s The Color Purple and Sweeney Todd)—who has made a...
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Bard Du Jour: ‘As You Like It’
Bob Stillman and Ellen Burstyn in ‘As You Like It.’ (Photo: Richard Termine via The Broadway Blog.) By Samuel. L. Leiter Some Shakespeare plays seem to arrive in waves of revivals entitling them to be...
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The Bard for All Ages: ‘The Stowaway’
‘The Stowaway’ (Photo: Trusty Sidekick Theater Company; Buatti-Ramos Photography) By April Stamm Start ‘em young. Maybe not what the masses consider when the thinking about Shakespeare, but it’s...
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Lost at Sea: Fiasco Theater’s ‘Twelfth Night’
Fiasco Theater’s ‘Twelfth Night’ at Classic Stage Company. (Photo: Joan Marcus via The Broadway Blog.) By Matthew Wexler A shipwreck. Separated twins. A romantic triangle. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night...
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Smoke But No Flame: CSC’s ‘Fire and Air’
James Cusati Moyer in ‘Fire and Air.’ (Photo: Joan Marcus) By Matthew Wexler Making art is a tumultuous thing. Creatives have been known to cut off ears, overdose in a plethora of manners, and/or...
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