Review: Stick Fly on Broadway

Stick Fly the award winning play by Lydia R. Diamond is having its first Broadway run after successful engagements in Boston and Washington D.C. at The Cort Theater on West 48th Street. Directed by Kenny Leon, the play puts a spotlight on the upper class Black-American experience. Martha’s Vineyard is the setting for a play that confronts issues of race, class and paternal responsibility. The play is that rare thing a successful dramedy that mixes tragedy and comedy sometimes within the same scene. Read more

Review: “Catch Me If You Can” on Broadway

Rushing to the Neil Simon Theatre to see Catch Me If You Can before it closes on Broadway next month is a quintessential must!!!! As I sat counting down the minutes to the start of this performance, an anxious build kept escalating till the moment the curtains rise. I was eager to compare the movie to this adaption and get a firsthand account of why Norbert Leo Butz won the Tony Award. I also wanted to know what the fuss was about Aaron Tveit’s delivery while being transported through this story by the music and the lights. Read more

“When Joey Married Bobby” aka “We <3 Sarah"

What do a stuntwoman, a baseball player and a drag queen have in common? They’re all stars in William Wyatts play “When Joey Married Bobby”.  This work by the writing Duo WW is a campy sitcom dream ripe with political satire. Fresh but somehow familiar this little play serves up some huge laughs. Read more