The New York Times – Music:
A musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story has been in the works for nearly 10 years. Now it is making its U.S. debut at the Public Theater.
Category: Public Theater
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‘Girl, Interrupted’ Review: A Musical That’s a Little Too Tranquilized
The New York Times – Music:
While the 1999 movie went for melodrama, this stage adaptation with songs by Aimee Mann honors the memoir’s coolly clinical prose.
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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End
The New York Times – Music:
Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark
The New York Times – Music:
An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.
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How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.
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How John Leguizamo Spends a Day Before Taking the Stage
The New York Times – Film:
The actor fits in tennis with his son, a writing session and lots of dancing before performing his new show at the Public Theater.