‘Take Me Out’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams Hit It Out of the Ballpark
Despite winning the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play, Richard Greenberg’s deeply flawed “Take Me Out” did not seem a likely candidate for a major Broadway revival. Yet, under Scott Ellis’s insightful direction of a dream cast, this 2022 revival, which opened Monday at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theater, is deserved; the story of a star baseball player who comes out of the closet is suddenly anything but old news.
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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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