The Cuban Beat Meets The New York Streets!April 2, 2025
Es muy caliente when it comes to the rhythm, the pulse, and the romance within the carefully woven plot lines that give life to “Buena Vista Social Club,” a musical tale of glory and heartbreak that brings the soul of Cuba to the Broadway stage!
Here She Is Boys! Here She Is World! Here's AUDRA!!!February 20, 2025
How can you go wrong with one of Broadway’s bests in one of Broadway’s greatest stage roles of all time? You really can’t!
There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays! 'Cause That's Where The Drama Heats Up!February 6, 2025
It seems of late that we’ve been getting quite a renaissance in family dramas, andhas been the quite the mastermind in terms of pumping these specific stories out. After their recent successes with “Appropriate” and “Mother Play,” and it’ll likely happen again with their upcoming “Purpose,” it’s seems highly agreeable that their most recent offering shows there’s no signs of stopping.
Eureka Day, Eureka Mayday!February 6, 2025
Woke culture is all around us, especially among my generation, and there’s no denying that. There are times when it is absolutely necessary to listen to it, and there’s also times to simply just shut it out. And when you try to battle so many of these topics onstage while merely trying to highlight one specific wildly-debated topic, you begin to lose sight of the entire picture of what the heck this story’s all about.
The Youth Are F**ked. Confusingly F**ked If You Ask Me.December 2, 2024
“Wherefore Art Thou…?” is the question that was on my mind during this take on a Shakespearean classic.
Is Televangelism Worth The Broadway Stage?November 10, 2024
God is good, God is great, God loves EVERYONE. These are things I believe in every single day of my life even when I’m at my lowest. When it comes to “Tammy Faye” at the Palace, it isn’t really good, it isn’t really great, but its message of love EVERYONE is thriving.
Beauty, Death, and Camp At It's Finest!November 10, 2024
Glitz. Darkly Comical. Undeniably Campy! These are the descriptions I would use to describe the darkly magical splendor that is “Death Becomes Her.”
She's Come Home At Last!November 10, 2024
It always feels like a once in a lifetime in experience where your in a theatre and you feel like you’re truly, TRULY enamored with a show that you feel like you’re floating and never want to come down. I believe that sums up my experience of seeing the astonishing masterpiece that is The Jaime Lloyd Co.’s production of “Sunset Blvd.”
RDJ + AI = A Compelling-If-Slighlty-Gap-Filled Night At LCTNovember 10, 2024
It’s no secret that AI is both a beneficial tool and the bane of many human workers’ existence. Personally, it’s hard for even me to find a gray area on the subject, probably because I’ve never felt a need to use it. Yet many people use it for writing purposes, but how does it fully benefit a writer in terms of telling a compelling story? It can draw ideas, mostly from other texts, but it won’t exactly be truly original. Come to think of it, nothing in the world of storytelling is completely original anymore; many plot structures and character archetypes/arcs get reused time and time again (I should know; I’m a writer and I’ve probably gone through a plethora of stock whatever). But what if a writer began to depend quite heavily on other stories and AI, and used it to manufacture almost an entire career? That here is a question examined in LCT’s premiere of “McNeal,” by Ayad Akhtar.
An All-Too-Familiar-Yet-Performance-Driven TropeOctober 1, 2024
To say I was quite surprised by this one is an overstatement. I was quite content with it is more the phrasing I would use in describing Jen Silverman’s “The Roommate.” This is a play that could likely be pulled out of an everyday sitcom or even the plays of the golden days of the theatre. While nostalgia is nice, it’s also nice to see things that are fresh and add something entirely new to an existing format. I didn’t quite feel that was the case with this one.
