Christian Lewis·Oct 15, 20202020 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…
Christian Lewis·Apr 21, 2020Drama 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…
Christian Lewis·Mar 2, 2020We 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Christian Lewis·Feb 27, 2020Revivals, 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…
Christian Lewis·Feb 26, 2020Review: 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…
Christian Lewis·Feb 10, 2020Review: 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…
Christian Lewis·Feb 6, 2020Review: 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…
Christian Lewis·Jan 17, 2020On 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…
Christian Lewis·Dec 11, 2019Review: “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…
Christian Lewis·Nov 25, 2019Review: 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…
