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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
KEVIN SESSUMS Kevin Sessums is back in the theatre for Towleroad this season. He last reviewed Let Me Down Easy, Wishful Drinking, A Steady Rain, and Hamlet for Towleroad. Kevin is also a contributing editor at Parade and The Daily Beast. I would be remiss if I didn’t lament in this posting the premature closing of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs (to some old news by now) before I...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... by issues that made us feel alienated, rather than drawn-in. At the beginning, the show feels very Neil Simon-esque-dramedy. It’s 1963, and 12 year-old Billy is studying for - or rather, avoiding studying for - his upcoming Bar Mitzvah. His anxiety is only increased by his mother Essie’s, as she frets over his lack of preparation, the fact that her older son is coming...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Now, I’d be lying if I said I’m not blown over by our new cultural landmark-the National Academy for the Performing Arts. So there was I in my Sunday best, just as if I were on New York’s Broadway or in London’s West End about to enjoy a Neil Simon play or an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Trust me, it’s really up to world class standard. Then, the house lights dimmed and having scrambled...
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West End Whingers (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... to complain about their online booking system. But of course we will. Sweet Charity (book by Neil Simon; music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Dorothy Fields) happens to Andrew’s favourite movie musical, and it’s pretty high up on Phil’s list too so the Whingers were in high spirits when they entered the auditorium on Sunday afternoon for the second preview. But cheer gave way to despair...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... Migliaccio) and embraces a new political ideology. Destiny never sounded so good. Ragtime , at the Neil Simon, is a big production with big themes, and thanks to the streamlined efforts by Terrence McNally, who adapted the novel for the stage, and director Marcia Milgrom Dodge, whose snappy pace matches the nascent modern age it evokes, it's a winner. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty...
