All tagged Jez Butterworth
By my count, I’ve attended 246 performances of theatre, dance, music, opera, and cabaret during 2018. Out of a field that large, it’s hard to pick just ten, but nevertheless, here are my top ten favorite shows I saw in New York (including no new musicals and only three Broadway shows!).
Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” is an ecstatic and richly thrillingly new play about the intimate, domestic effects of “The Troubles” on one large, Irish family; a sprawling epic with a 22 person cast and running time over three hours, “The Ferryman” is a titanic dramatic achievement, and a must-see event of the season. In short: a masterpiece without present peer on Broadway.
"Hangmen" and "The Ferryman" are headed to Broadway; Al Pacino may return as Tennessee Williams in "God Looked Away"; Whoopi's eyeing "Dolly!"; "Wicked" is the 7th longest running show; Jan Maxwell dead at 61, John Mahoney dead at 77
With ever-increasing crosspollination between New York and London stages, this is a roundup of my recent visit across the pond, featuring: "42nd Street", "Amadeus", "Cinderella", "Everybody's Talking About Jamie", "The Ferryman", and "Titus Andronicus"
