Burn This Returns to Broadway
By Robert Heide The new Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play Burn This, which was originally produced in 1987 also on the Great White Way, […]
A New Book of Dogs, Cats, Horses and Other Animals
By Robert Heide A new book arrived in my mailbox entitled Love Can Be with a color cover photograph of a big dog staring out […]
Theater Book Review: The Transcendent Years
By Robert Heide The title of Marshall W. Mason’s remarkable new book entitled The Transcendent Years—The Circle Repertory Company & The 1960s for which he […]
The Michael Smith Book
By Robert Heide Michael Smith, who for many years wrote a column for the Village Voice called Theatre Journal and was chief drama critic at […]
Mickey: The True Original Exhibition—An Immersive Experience
By Robert Heide As you approach the building at 60 Tenth Avenue between West 14th and 15th Streets in the Northwest corner of Greenwich Village […]
The Great Whitney Warhol Show
By Robert Heide The title for the spectacular new Whitney art show is simply Andy Warhol From A to B and Back Again. The chief curator of […]
Andy Warhol: Endangered Species (At the Ukrainian Museum)
By Robert Heide At 222 East 6th Street (just off the Bowery) the ultra-modernistic Ukrainian Museum—which features multiplex galleries and a charming gift shop selling […]
Mickey Mouse Turns 90
By Robert Heide MICKEY FOR PRESIDENT: On November 18, 1928, the black and white Walt Disney “talking” cartoon Steamboat Willie opened at the Colony Theater […]
The Play That Goes Wrong – A Gut-Busting Broadway Laugh Riot
By Robert Heide When I first arrived at the historic Lyceum Theatre for a Thursday evening performance, I headed straight to the box office to […]
Missing Caffe Cino Plaque on Cornelia Street
Pó Restaurant, at 31 Cornelia Street (near Bleecker Street) for 24 years, closed suddenly, and the bronze Caffe Cino plaque that was on the outside […]
The Broadway Musical Trail—So-So Shows with One Exception
By Robert Heide Two shows which recently opened on Broadway, Bandstand at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 242 West 45th Street and Anastasia at […]
Glenn Close Stars in Sunset Boulevard
By Robert Heide Sunset Boulevard—the musical revival—originally and recently staged in London by the English National Opera Production Company to rave reviews, had a mega-New […]