‘American Buffalo’ Review: Starry but Flat Broadway Revival Doesn’t Make the Case for David Mamet
But canonical playwrights, if they are to remain central to our culture, deserve to see their work altered, changed, presented as vivid and vital. This production, laden with reputation, demonstrates the way we stage the works of the unquestioned greats, without quite convincing us why Mamet is among their league.
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A Diluted ‘Little Prince’ Leads to Disenchantment
There was a child seated behind me at the Broadway Theatre the evening I attended The Little Prince. The boy was roughly the age I was when I first learned of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s exceedingly charming, poignant, heartbreaking tale. The child was getting excited, asking questions, enthralled by the pretty rainbow lights filling the space, […]
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A Recipe for Love is Served in ‘Birthday Candles’
Familiarity often breeds contempt but in Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, it also serves as the ingredient of love. Over the course of the 90 minutes of this tightly calibrated Broadway debut, that love transforms Ernestine (Debra Messing) from a rebellious 17-year-old on the cusp of greatness into a 107-year-old great-grandmother who holds her family together. […]
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