Deborah Blumenthal

Broadway’s Forceful Mama Takes on Gypsy and Comes Out Smelling Like a Rose

Soccer mom’s got nothing on Mama Rose.

By Laura Hedli and Deborah Blumenthal | Apr 9 11:54 pm ET

Despite Nostalgic Value, Mermaid Flounders

For a generation that grew up during the gilded renaissance of Disney animated films, Disney Theatrical Productions had big flippers to fill when it decided to bring The Little Mermaid to the Broad

By Laura Hedli and Deborah Blumenthal | Feb 1 02:44 am ET

Kander and Ebb Ask: Curtains for the Traditional Musical?

Curtains, the last musical by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 22.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Apr 2 12:00 am ET

Audiences Find Themselves in Good Company

About a year ago, John Doyle's radical, Tony-winning reinvention of Sweeney Todd shocked skeptics with its minimalist staging and actors who doubled as their own orchestra.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Dec 11 12:00 am ET

Able Actors Can't Save a Limp Louie

Losing Louie, now showing at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theater, is typical MTC fare, minus the rave-worthy quality: a fairly nimble, well-acted, nicely written dark comedy about dysfunction

By Deborah Blumenthal | Oct 18 12:00 am ET

Musician Felciano Blurs Line Between B'way and Pop

Performing a Stephen Sondheim classic-or any Broadway musical, for that matter-eight times a week certainly isn't the obvious way to embark on a pop career.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Sep 25 12:00 am ET

Year in Review: Who Won? Who Lost?

Last year's knockout Broadway season had to be hard to beat. Of course, like any other season, it had its shortcomings and fair share of failures.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Apr 26 12:00 am ET

A Gut-Wrenching Near Miss

Prolific young playwright Adam Rapp's new play, Red Light Winter, begins looking like an ordinary sort of story about prostitution mixed with dangerous love.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Mar 1 12:00 am ET

Loudly Mismatching on Broadway

Before the curtain even rises, Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park sets itself up to be some sort of bizarre-perhaps too much so-blast from the past.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Mar 1 12:00 am ET

Bringing Rent to the Big Screen

There's always a risk in turning a musical into a film. So what happens when dealing with Rent-a musical beloved to a huge, almost rabid legion of fans? The stakes heighten infinitely.

By Deborah Blumenthal | Dec 2 12:00 am ET

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