Articles for Joan Marcus

The Best Broadway Shows of 2024
3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Best Broadway Shows of 2024

Huff Post  

Scenes from "Hell's Kitchen," "Prayer from the French Republic," Doubt" and "The Wiz" Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: Joan Marcus, Marc J Franklin, Jeremy Daniel, Getty With the world perpetually on fire and all, audiences can sometimes gravitate more toward escapist entertainment on Broadway than the type of fare that more honestly reflects our bleak reality. Joan Marcus “Mother Play” You know …

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Gavin Creel's New Musical Is A Riveting Look At Art, Sex And Queer Identity
1 year ago

Gavin Creel's New Musical Is A Riveting Look At Art, Sex And Queer Identity

Huff Post  

Gavin Creel stars in "Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice," now playing in New York. Though Creel has two albums of original music to his credit ― 2006’s “Goodtimenation” and 2012’s “Get Out” ― the show afforded him a full-fledged opportunity for personal catharsis. I feel like the young adult who’s exploring New York City for the first …

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Review: Although more like C-SPAN than ‘Hamilton,’ ‘1776’ at Ahmanson is still a solid ride
1 year, 8 months ago

Review: Although more like C-SPAN than ‘Hamilton,’ ‘1776’ at Ahmanson is still a solid ride

LA Times  

The white men of history have left the building. Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus’ nontraditional, ethnically diverse revival of the Tony-winning musical “1776” — now at the Ahmanson — offers one last glimpse of the pale, powdered Founding Fathers of U.S. textbooks before banishing them completely from the proceedings. The national tour cast of the nontraditional, ethnically diverse revival …

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical makes key changes to the movie
2 years, 4 months ago

‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical makes key changes to the movie

LA Times  

It’s common knowledge that the coveted, cutthroat magazine depicted in the novel “The Devil Wears Prada” is a thinly veiled Vogue, where author Lauren Weisberger briefly worked as an assistant to longtime editor Anna Wintour. “Everything is life or death, your day is never done.” Megan Masako Haley and Taylor Iman Jones in “The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical.” Unlike …

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The Best Broadway Shows Of 2021
3 years ago

The Best Broadway Shows Of 2021

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING At a time when a new coronavirus variant threatens to undo any modicum of progress that New York City made during the pandemic, it seems almost preposterous that live theater ever even happened this year. Joan Marcus “Merry Wives” OK, this one wasn’t exactly on Broadway, but “Merry Wives” helped welcome the return of live theater farther …

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Staging A Debate Over 'What The Constitution Means To Me'
5 years, 9 months ago

Staging A Debate Over 'What The Constitution Means To Me'

NPR  

Staging A Debate Over 'What The Constitution Means To Me' Enlarge this image toggle caption Joan Marcus/Matt Ross Public Relations Joan Marcus/Matt Ross Public Relations Actor and playwright Heidi Schreck says her new play — What the Constitution Means to Me — is a love letter to her mother. The Broadway play — part personal memoir, part civics town hall …

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