by Richard Stellar, March 20, 2020 Posted at thewrap.com and Yahoo entertainment As I hunker down into my bunker and ride out the coronavirus scare, I find some comfort in re-visiting a film I saw a few years ago called “Azimuth,” Mike Burstyn’s 2017 opus to conflict during the final days of the

by Jerusalem Post With a career that’s spanned worlds as varied as Yiddish song and Broadway musical comedy, Mike Burstyn is as busy as ever. Mike Burstyn. (photo credit: Courtesy) It feels like Mike Burstyn has always been around. While the entertainment business, by definition,

"A Notorious Wiseguy Wants to Win You Over." The New York Times In the one-man show "Lansky," a subtly monstrous performance by Mike Burstyn brings Meyer Lansky to chilling life. Associated Press Burstyn gives a brilliantly fascinating performance as he struggles unsuccessfully to convince

"Mike Burstyn, Broadway's charmer from Tony Award show 'Barnum' made the audience go wild...we need more Tony Orlandoes, Sal Richardes, Scott Recordes & Mike Burstynes." Mr. Blackwell, The Tolucan Times

"The event hit pure gold with multitalented Mike Burstyn, who dazzled everyone with his brilliant, one-man show. A master showman with a resonant voice and mesmerizing personality, Burstyn's non-stop performance of Yiddish and Hebrew songs and Broadway show tunes, interspersed with hilarious imperso

L.A TIMES 10/28/99 "Burstyn is the whole show...Mike Burstyn's Jolson is very good. Especially when singing, Burstyn suggests something of Jolson's sociopathic intensity. He sounds eerily like Jolson on up-tempo rousers ('Toot, Toot, Tootsie!') as well as on April showers of sentimentality ('My Mamm

PRAISE FOR MIKE BURSTYN in "LANSKY" "A true master of the acting craft…the tour-de-force that is Mike Burstyn" Beverly Hills Courier "A superb storyteller and mimic." Variety "Burstyn makes the aging gangster smilingly gregarious." L.A. Times "A gripping one-man show." Jewish Journal

“You won’t have to walk a million miles for one of his smiles, when you experience Mike Burstyn as he brings Al Jolson back to life in this musical extravaganza.  Burstyn runs the gamut of emotions as he serenades the audience with hits such as ‘Swanee,’ ‘Rock A Bye Your Baby,’ and many others y

"This play is not only watchable, but riveting in the hands of the tour-de-force that is Mike Burstyn. Burstyn doesn’t just rise above the material, he floats above it. While the writers clearly went to great pains to excise anything that might reveal Lansky’s dark underbelly, Burstyn shows no f

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"Mike Burstyn is a master of understatement. Boy, does he make playing the straight man to a trio of comic women look easy. Burstyn's Ira is likable and loveable. Even as we wonder how someone that successful could also be that naive, we just want to hug him." Maryann Robertson, features@seacostonli

"Mike Todd is played with devious but irresistible charm by Mike Burstyn" Jacques Le Sourd, Gannet Newspapers, April 19, 1993

"Mike Burstyn, an acclaimed song and dance man, American/Israeli performer both on and off Broadway, is phenomenal in his portrayal of G." www.examiner.com "Mike Burstyn plays G and does a tremendous job. Burstyn is an amazing actor, his moments are carefully constructed, and there is a deligh

Move over, Iron Man. Step aside, Robin Hood. A new hero has come to town: Hershele. Hershele Ostropolyer, brought to mischievous life by Mike Burstyn. Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York TImes The ebullient Mike Burstyn, a veteran of both Broadway and Yiddish theater ("Barnum," "On Second Avenu

"...let me reiterate here that the inimitable Mike Burstyn is as fine an actor as he is an ebullient song-and-dance man and well deserving of his international acclaim." Cynthia Citron, ReviewPlays.com Showbiz vet Mike Burstyn, whose parents, Lillian Lux and Pesach'ke Burstein, were stars of th

"Of course, it helps to have a cast that knows how to find a balance between the comic and the serious – and Florida Stage has done that.  It’s Mike Burstyn’s natural, warmhearted turn as Howard that is the show’s most affecting performance. He could play the role just for its Neil Simon-esque laug

"LYRICS & LYRICISTS" THE SONGS OF CY COLEMAN, At the 92nd Street "Y" "Mike Burstyn is a favorite. For Heaven's sakes, somebody, somewhere, just create a show for this wonderful charismatic song and dance man to keep him here; he settled in Israel with his family in 1962, where they give him awards r

Reviews summary with Al Hirschfeld's drawing on the top left.