Culver City, Calif. Following last year’s American premiere production of the musical The Braille Legacy, about the inventor of the Braille alphabet, the nation’s only all-blind theater company has now seen fit to stage the “jukebox musical” Romeo Rocks the 80’s, a version of Shakespea.
“New York, New York” should have worked. The musical features songs from the brilliant team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb ("Chicago"), and from Lin-Manuel Miranda ("Hamilton"). But none of the ingenuity and edge that made those musicals era-defining hits comes through this time.
David Auburn's Broadway play “Summer, 1976,” which opened Tuesday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, allows us to spend an afternoon on a sun-bathed, screened-in porch with two fabulous actresses Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht.
In Doug Wright’s mostly unsatisfying dramedy, which opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre, Sean Hayes takes on the role of Oscar Levant, the virtuoso piano player and humorist who became popular and controversial during the early days of TV.
“Prima Facie,” which played London’s West End last year, somehow marks Jodie Comer’s professional stage debut. The actress, who won an Emmy Award for playing Villanelle on TV’s “Killing Eve,” is every bit as good nay, even better live and on Broadway.