James Lapine’s revival has legs – and not one but two noteworthy Broadway debuts It was 36 seasons ago that a little show about a little orphan named Annie, adapted by the team of Martin Charnin, Thomas Meehan and Charles Strouse from Harold Gray’s long-running comic, took Broadway by storm and became an instant classic. 
What is it with writers and whales? Ever since Herman Melville’s magnum opus, Moby-Dick, was published 160 years ago, cetaceans have provided an interesting allegory for man’s quest to defeat others and understand himself in literary forms. Just last year, Melvillean influence permeated Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, arguably the best novel of the year. 
Never before has the musical clippity-clop of horse hooves sounded as petulant or mocking as they do in Moisés Kaufman’s newly opened production of The Heiress, the second Broadway revival of Augustus and Ruth Goetz’s play. When Catherine Sloper (Jessica Chastain) hears those hoof beats galloping right on by the opulent townhouse in which she 
For those people able to get out and around in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, here are a few worthy options to check out: The Other Josh Cohen This clever musical comedy, co-written by and co-starring performers David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, takes two differing looks at down-on-his luck New Yorker Josh Cohen. There is 
Right on time for Halloween arrives Lorraine Lévy’s The Other Son, involving that most nightmarish conceit of all time: children switched at birth and raised by the “wrong” parents.Though the film takes place in the Middle East, its strength lies in the emotional undercurrent of a story that could happen anywhere. Joseph Silberg (Jules Sitruk), 
Have you ever given the Paul McCartney song “Another Day” a second thought? I know I sure hadn’t – at least not until I had the privilege of witnessing Sherie Rene Scott’s unique show, “Piece of Meat,” at 54 Below last night. As anyone who caught Scott, famous for straddling commercial Broadway (Aida, Dirty 
As Halloween approaches, check out some thrilling theatrical options around the city: Warehouse of Horrors: Gowanus ’73: This interactive haunted warehouse experience, from UglyRhino Productions, explores purportedly true events from Brooklyn in the 1970s. This dynamic production envelops audience members into the scary stories of murders taking place at an underground rave party (with 
By Doug Strassler The Other Son, an Israeli film co-written (with Noam Fitoussi and Nathalie Saugeon) and directed by Lorraine Lévy, is a moving drama that hits on plenty of international hot-button issues. Joseph (Jules Sitruk) is an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service who lives at home 
From a Morningside Heights hostel all the way down to the West Village, there are plenty of October openings all the way down the West Side. Here is a sample of the diversity in a few reviews of recently opened shows: Bug Tracy Letts’ 2004 breakout hit Bug arrived low in budget but 
The title character of The Other Josh Cohen, the Steve Rosen-David Rossmer musical comedy running at SoHo Playhouse, is a clumsy romantic male who tries to rewind time to see the road not taken. But there are plenty of other characters in Josh Cohen as well, including a slew played by two women: Hannah Elless 
