Alan Bowne News Today

We've been out of the theater for so long and so thinking about going back to see a Broadway show is an emotional thing.

Wed Jan 27, 2021 at 12:12pm ET Star War’s Oscar Isaac’s virtual performance in Beirut will re-broadcast on January 28. Pic credit: MCC The one-act play, which stars Issac as well as Marisa Tomei and Patrick Breen, was originally performed in April 2020 as a fundraiser for the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater. Eerie echoes Beirut, written by Alan Bowne and introduced in 1987, has eerie echoes for 2020-2021 life. It concerns a man named Torch, who is quarantined in his Lower East Side apartment i...

For the first 50 minutes of “Gloria,” my stomach was in knots. Again. I had already seen the play, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, at its Vineyard Theater premiere in 2015. Despite its amusing opening dialogue — the sour-witty banter of editorial assistants at an upscale magazine — I was convinced by subtle quirks in its tone and pacing that something bad was going to happen. When it did, at the end of Act I, the staging was so vicious and efficient, involving lights, sound, movement and all...

Theater to Stream: Jerry Herman’s Tunes; Marisa Tomei, Twice The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” Nicholas Christopher, left, and Ashley Blanchet in “You I Like: A Celebration of Jerry Herman.”Credit...Jeff Lorch Jan. 20, 2021 One of the benefits of streaming theater — come on, we must think of that glass as half-full — is that we can now mix and ma...