‘Take Me Out’ Returns to Bring Baseball, Masculinity, and Nudity Center Stage on Broadway
Take Me Out may have been written twenty years ago—when people were already buzzing about the possible comings-out of players in traditionally macho sporting bastions—but it cleverly eschews the most conventional narratives about LGBTQ people in sport and public life more generally.
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‘Paradise Square’ Packs Valuable Lessons in Old-Fashioned, Familiar Wrapping
Ensembles of Black and immigrant communities sing about the difficulties of living in a changing America. A group of people stand in a triangle formation and protest. Black and white people compete against each other in a racially and politically charged dance contest. No this isn’t Ragtime, Les Mis, or Hairspray. It’s Paradise Square, a […]
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An Evening Spent at Home Beats a Night at this “Plaza Suite”
What does it say about our society that Plaza Suite, the first Neil Simon play to return to Broadway in over 11 years, and the first since his death in 2018, is a middling affair buried in milquetoast acting with inept direction? During his heyday, Simon defined what Broadway comedy meant. Nicknamed “Doc,” for his […]
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