Spring has sprung on Broadway: Every show to catch this season
nypost.com“Cabaret” (starts April 1). I caught Redmayne when he played the role in London, and found his Evil Clown turn menacing.
And months after poor Kendall Roy was painfully denied Waystar/Royco on HBO’s “Succession,” actor Jeremy Strong rebounds in Henrik Ibsen’s play “An Enemy of the People” (now playing.)It’s been a while since another TV star, Steve Carell, trod the boards — all the way back to his Second City days.
With some maturity under his belt, he’ll make his Broadway debut in the title role in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” (starts April 2).While “The Notebook” wrings out tears a few blocks away, that film’s star Rachel McAdams plays a mom with a chronically ill kid in Amy Herzog’s acclaimed drama “Mary Jane” (starts April 2).She’s still got “Doubt” (now playing).Amy Ryan’s stern 1960s nun tries to stop a priest (Liev Schreiber) she suspects of being a child molester, in John Patrick Shanley’s taut-as-ever drama.And here comes Jessica Lange in Paula Vogel’s new comedy “Mother Play” (starts April 2), in which the ferocious actress plays the mom of “Big Bang Theory” funnyman Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger.Longing for the good (or bad) old days?Remarkably, the R&B “Wizard of Oz” riff “The Wiz” (starts March 29) has not been back to Broadway for some 40 years, despite being enduringly popular thanks to the Michael Jackson movie.
This belated revival features Wayne Brady and cast performing favorite tunes such as “Ease On Down the Road” and “Home.”“The Who’s Tommy” (now playing) has had a slightly shorter absence — a mere 29 years away.
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