Christian Lewis2020 Tony Nominations Full ListAlthough we don’t have a date for the 74th Annual Tony Awards, we do have a full list of nominees! Surprises here included the exclusion…·4 min read·Oct 15, 2020----
Christian LewisDrama Desk Nominations 2020The Drama Desk Awards celebrate achievements both Broadway and off-Broadway for a season — this year, of course, that season was cut off…·7 min read·Apr 21, 2020----
Christian LewisWe Need to Talk About “West Side Story”The problems of Ivo van Hove’s “West Side Story” are almost too numerous to fit into a single piece, but I am going to try. There has…·8 min read·Mar 2, 2020--1--1
Christian LewisRevivals, Revisals: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”A review of the newly revised production of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” in light of “Mack & Mabel” at City Center Encores! and Ivo van…·6 min read·Feb 27, 2020----
Christian LewisReview: Deirdre O’Connell Lip Syncs for Her Life in Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.”At this point it is hard to go more than a few months without a Lucas Hnath play. “The Thin Place” at Playwrights Horizons closed just a…·4 min read·Feb 26, 2020----
Christian LewisReview: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Put Murder and Marriage Center Stage in “Medea”“Medea” is one of the stories that you know going in what’s going to happen— no matter what, the tossed-aside wife is going to murder her…·5 min read·Feb 10, 2020----
Christian LewisReview: Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton”Elizabeth Strout’s novels are generally beloved, as is Laura Linney, so combining the two was a logical choice for adapter Rona Munro and…·4 min read·Feb 6, 2020----
Christian LewisOn Theatrical Terror: “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” and “The Thin Place”Works of drama have been traditionally classified into comedies or tragedies, (or if you are being generous, tragicomedies). Ever since…·7 min read·Jan 17, 2020----
Christian LewisReview: “one in two” Confronts What Stories We Tell About HIV, and How We Tell ThemIn “The Inheritance,” the current talk of the town gay play that claims to deal with the legacy of the AIDS crisis, all of the major…·5 min read·Dec 11, 2019----
Christian LewisReview: Is “The Inheritance” the Next Gay Epic?On the surface, it is easy to make a comparison between “Angels in America” and Matthew Lopez’s new play “The Inheritance”: both are…·5 min read·Nov 25, 2019----