Patrick Pacheco
“I’m sorry but we’re going to have to ask you to leave,” was the first line that David Hyde Pierce ever uttered on a Broadway stage. It was thirty years ago in “Beyond Therapy,” a black comedy by Christopher Durang, in which he played the small role of...
Forget Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, or Indiana Jones. As far as director Chen Shi-Zheng is concerned, the greatest adventurer of them all is Tripitaka, a monk who journeys from China to India in search of Buddha’s Great Scriptures. He is...
Forgiveness has been one of the dominant themes of the recently concluded Broadway season. “I think I’ve had enough of revenge,” says the little heroine of “Matilda” when given the opportunity to push back against her tormentors. And the protagonists of “...
At one point in the development of “Matilda, the Musical,” the new Broadway smash hit, Bertie Carvel, who plays the villainous headmistress of Crunchem Hall, asked the show’s director, Matthew Warchus, if he might have a hammer and chisel to play with. While...
“If a totalitarian regime was going to have a sound, it would be club music,” says Alex Timbers. “All presided over by a DJ on high, one man controlling everything you did.” The hot young director (“Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “Rocky, Das Musical”) has...
Blouin ARTINFO's Patrick Pacheco and NY1 theater reporter Frank DiLella give us their take on how the spring season is progressing on Broadway.
“Buyer and Cellar,” the new off-Broadway hit starring Michael Urie and written by Jonathan Tolins, begins with a caveat. A big caveat. “This is a work of fiction,” says the protagonist, a struggling actor named Alex More. “The premise is preposterous. What I’...
“Lucky Guy,” the new play starring Tom Hanks which opens April 1 on Broadway, begins with a group of hard-boiled New York City reporters singing an old Irish song in a bar. “It’s a boy thing,” says George C. Wolfe, who is directing the drama about the trials...
Since his Broadway debut as an enfant terrible with 1978’s “A History of the American Film,” Christopher Durang has unceasingly toiled in New York theater with his darkly funny sensibility often unappreciated. Until now. After opening to solid reviews at...
ARTINFO's Patrick Pacheco and contributor Frank DiLella sit down with up-and-coming playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo. After premiering last season at Washington, D.C.'s Signature Theater, "Really Really" marks Colaizzo's playwrighting debut in New York, at...
