Two triumphs: Time Stands Still and This
February 1, 2010 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
Broadway vet Richard Seff declares Margolies’ Time Stands Still “richly rewarding . a winner” and Gibson’s This “a finely wrought play and production.”
Starry Messenger, So Help Me God, Race and Ragtime
January 5, 2010 by lorraine treanor
Filed under NY Theatre Buzz
Richard Seff has the last word on Starry Messenger, So Help Me God!, Race and Ragtime.
Hamlet, Bye Bye Birdie and Girl Crazy
December 9, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under NY Theatre Buzz
Richard Seff caught Hamlet at the end of the run, found much to like in the Encores’ Girl Crazy and compares the original Birdie to the musical now running on Broadway.
Travels in Alabama and Claude Rains
December 7, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under NY Theatre Buzz
Richard Seff leaves his Broadway beat to perform at a tribute to Claude Rains in Alabama.
Ruhl’s In the Next Room and Love Child
November 23, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
Broadway’s Richard Seff take a look at the new Sara Ruhl play, and finds much to like in the 2 actor, 22 character Love Child.
Nightingale and Finian’s Rainbow
November 18, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
Richard Seff reviews Nightingale, Lynn Redgrave’s monologue on her grandmother, and the astonishing, tuneful revival of Finian’s Rainbow
The Understudy, Emperor Jones, and Brighton Beach Memoirs
November 11, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under NY Theatre Buzz
Brief reviews by Broadway’s Richard Seff for the new Theresa Rebeck Understudy, O’Neill’s classic and Simon’s unfortunate one week Brighton Beach.
Superior Donuts, After Miss Julie and return to the Irvington Theater
October 29, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
Superior Donuts would seem to be playwright Tracy Letts’ Ah, Wilderness! After showing us the seamy side of the human condition in Bug, Killer Joe and August: Osage County, he’s dug back into the happy
Inventing Avi, the new Mary Poppins and God of Carnage
October 21, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
The new New York season has begun, where fall is spring, and buds are budding all over the place. In the tiny June Havoc Theatre, a saucy new comedy has arrived,
The Night Watcher, Vigil and The Royal Family
October 14, 2009 by Richard Seff
Filed under Features, NY Theatre Buzz
I blush to admit that I knew little about Charlayne Woodard before I caught a preview of her one-woman play The Night Watcher. Ms. Woodard has written several solo plays, starting with Pretty Fire,







