REVIEW: The Rink, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews Kander and Ebb’s The Rink starring Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton now playing at Southwark Playhouse.
Terence McNally
Anastasia – Broadhurst Theatre
Inspired by the beloved films, the romantic and adventure-filled new musical Anastasia comes to Broadway. From the Tony Award®-winning creators of the Broadway musical Ragtime, this dazzling show transports us from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920’s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing con man and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love and family. Anastasia features a book by celebrated playwright Terrence McNally and a lush, original score by Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics). Tony Award-winning director Darko Tresnjak directs.
REVIEW: The Visit, Lyceum Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
For 90 minutes of ecstatic storytelling, you are transported to a place where love, death and consequence are dancing together and where a victory for true love might just not be what you first think it will. Chita Rivera, an incandescent star of the Broadway stage in undiminished glory, is faultless. One of the best of Kander & Ebb’s musicals, The Visit is the best, most important, musical currently playing on Broadway.
REVIEW: It’s Only A Play, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ✭✭✭
The night belongs to Nathan Lane who is hilariously vicious as James Wicker, an actor who turned down the lead role in the play written by his best friend because he thought it was a dud. He drops comic gems and malicious slurs with relish; a human laughter grenade launcher.
REVIEW: Mothers and Sons, Golden Theatre ✭✭✭
Mothers and Sons is worth seeing, because it will provoke questions and discussion; not because it is a great play.
