Reviewing the Drama: Broadway, Off-Broadway, Ballet, Movies, and TV Reviews

American Psycho Broadway Run Confirmed Broadway.com reports confirmation of a spring 2016 Broadway bow for American Psycho , the musical adaptation of the eponymous Bret Easton Ellis novel and subsequent flick. Previews are expected to being in February 2016, with opening night some time in March. (No theatre has been announced.) The adaptation is written by book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ( Spider-Man ) and songwriter and Tony winner Duncan Sheik ( Spring Awakening ), and will be directed by Rupert Goold . Though no casting has been confirmed, Benjamin Walker ( Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ) and Jennifer Damiano ( Next to Normal , Venice ) have been involved in developmental workshops. She Loves Me Update Additional casting, dates and a creative team have been announced for Roundabout's spring 2016 revival of She Loves Me . Joining the previously announced Laura Benanti ( Women on the Verge ... ) and Josh Radnor ( Disgraced ) are Gavin Cree...

Raunchy, bawdy, salacious—a potent but dangerous combination that can turn awful quickly. Or they can form something exciting and honest and wildly + wonderfully outrageous. Fortunately for audiences, Rock Bottom follows the second path. Bridget Everett 's one woman show (she does have a live band and back up singers—all terrific) comes on like a freight train, and keeps going and going, with Everett leaving everything on the stage. Typically, I'm turned off by raunchy humor and such colorful and vivid language. Yet I was completely enthralled with Everett as she shared herself with us. In trying to figure out why this night was different from all other nights, I have concluded that I was engaged because (1) I knew going in this wasn't going to be the kind of sweet cabaret I might expect from, say, Laura Osnes; and (2) Everett seems to come by her raunchiness and bold + brash sensibility honestly. Rather than seeming to employ vulgarities in order to shock the audi...