Eddie Redmayne ‘Cabaret’ training is ‘torture’ on Broadway
Eddie Redmayne is doing all he can to keep in shape for his role as the Emcee in “Cabaret” — which includes weekly bouts of “torture.” “It’s quite full-on,” he …
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Revival with Eddie Redmayne is luxe — and bleak
Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” …
Alicia Keys’ musical fires up on Broadway
This girl is finally on fire. Theater review HELL’S KITCHEN Two hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission. At the Shubert Theatre, 225 West 44th Street. The Alicia Keys musical …
Broadway play goes behind the music
Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it. movie review STEREOPHONIC Three hours and five minutes, …
A moving musical march that’s not quite there yet
Theater review SUFFS 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th Street. The suffragist characters of the musical “Suffs,” which opened Thursday …
We’re off to see the cheap nat’l tour!
My apologies to Evilene, the wicked witch in “The Wiz,” who famously demands in song that her henchmen bring her “no bad news.” Theater review THE WIZ Two hours and …
Painter musical is an epic wreck
What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine. Theater review LEMPICKA Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. …
Warring teens tug at the heart in one of the season’s best new musicals
Theater review THE OUTSIDERS 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St. When I first learned that the musical “The …
Meghan McCain slams ‘Ghost of John McCain’ musical set inside ‘brain of Donald Trump’
It’s fair to say Meghan McCain won’t be seeing the upcoming musical comedy “Ghost of John McCain.” The 39-year-old outspoken daughter of the late Arizona senator took to X Tuesday …
4 stars for a rock revival
Theater review THE WHO’S TOMMY Two hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission. At the Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street. Little Tommy Walker, that “deaf, dumb and blind kid” …