PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Dec. 10-16: Clear Day Is Cloudy, Lysistrata Jones Scores With the Times
16 Dec 2011
The best thing to happen to the beleaguered basketball world this year was, arguably, Lysistrata Jones, which opened this past summer in a gymnasium downtown to surprisingly positive reviews. The Douglas Carter Beane-Lewis Flinn musical, based on a 2,500-year-old Greek comedy, was called great fun. Duly complimented, it promptly hopped the "1" train uptown and opened this week on Broadway at the Walter Kerr, with the same cast.
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Dec. 3-9: Stick Fly Opens; Once Is Broadway-Bound; Follies Goes West
09 Dec 2011 --
Broadway newbee Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly opened on Broadway on Dec. 8 at the Cort Theatre. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Dule Hill, Condola Rashad and Mekhi Phifer starred in the comedy about a less-than-peaceful, three-day summer weekend that the LeVay family spends in its generations-owned summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Songwriter Alicia Keys did not star, but you'd be forgiven for thinking she did; the name of the celebrity producer is the biggest thing on the posters for Stick Fly.
