This well-deserved extension is well worth a trip to Brooklyn.
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMThe Irish-born actor appeared in numerous plays at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, acting alongside such talents as Burgess Meredith. When the producers of the hit Broadway musical "Finian's Ra…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThis year, local theater companies found creative ways to shore up their bottom lines as theatergoers thought longer and harder about where to spend their money.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMFor young New Yorkers who perform, trying out for one of the many competitive arts schools has become a consuming, nail-biting effort.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMBetween the squeeze of the recession and the annual appetite for holiday entertainment, the hunt for a good, cheap evening out has reached new heights.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe actors Chad Kimball and Montego Glover have brought "Memphis" to Broadway the old-fashioned way: they stuck with the show.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMAnnie Potts, now starring in God of Carnage, trained in the stage arts, but she never got much chance to use it. A little thing called episodic television got in the way.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMJackie Mason, who used to play standing-room-only crowds on Broadway, is planning a more intimate gig in March.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMCatherine Zeta-Jones and Alexander Hanson discuss starring in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AM"Widow Claire" is an exquisite short play in the second part of Horton Foote's ever more engrossing "Orphans' Home Cycle."
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AM"Intense" is not a word typically associated with the plays of Horton Foote. But when discussing the second chapter of the Signature Theatre Company's production of The Orphans' Home Cycle, none other will do.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMAs with Part One, three hours fly by as this utterly engaging and deeply compelling work unfolds.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMHorton Foote's epic tale of small-town Texas life in the early part of the twentieth century continues to impress.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe plays are superbly acted by a large cast, and have been directed by Michael Wilson with uncommon sensitivity.
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 12:00AMIt's hard to turn one of Stephen Sondheim's greatest achievements, "A Little Night Music," into something glib and garish-but director Trevor Nunn does just that, says Terry Teachout.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMPart 3, in which Horace moves into the role of family patriarch, opens Jan. 26. We can't wait.
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMThe entire cast is superb, especially Bill Heck as the forlorn but resilient Horace. But it is the playwright's daughter Hallie Foote, often considered the foremost interpreter of his work, …
Linked From On Off Broadway at 12:00AMHorton Foote's epic continues and things are looking up for Homer Robedeaux.
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMObviously some of the anecdotal charm of the original plays has been sacrificed for narrative speed, which is understandable but still a pity since the magic of Foote's writing lies in the a…
Linked From New Jersey Newsroom at 12:00AMSophisticated, sexy and stylishly decked out, Rob Marshall's disciplined, tightly focused film impresses and amuses.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMMarshall has come a long way from his popular screen adaptation of the musical "Chicago." Unlike that film, "Nine" is better than the Broadway show from which it has been cunningly adapted b…
Linked From Bloomberg at 12:00AMDaniel Day-Lewis gives an intensely committed performance in the film version of the Tony Award-winning musical.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMOscar, Tony and Grammy winners fail to turn the Rob Marshall musical into something as engaging as 'Chicago.'
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMOverall, except from a few good musical numbers, there's just not a lot of fun to be had here.
Linked From ny1.com at 12:00AMNine's knowingly tawdry fantasy of Sixties style is let down by Maury Yeston's score.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMLet's not dance around it: Nine-the film adaptation of the stage musical based on Federico Fellini's 81/2-is a dud.
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMEarlier this decade, watching choreographer turned director Rob Marshall make an incoherent, Oscar-annointed shambles out of Bob Fosse's Chicago, I wondered if Marshall had ever seen a screen musical before he got the assignment. Watching Nine, I began to wonder if Marshall has ever seen a movie other than his own.
Linked From Village Voice at 12:00AM"I can't make this movie," he sings. Substitute "watch" for "make" and provide your own music.
Linked From movies.nytimes.com at 12:00AMThe two best shows of 2009 had two things in common: both shared the same director, and both opened away from Broadway. Terry Teachout looks back at the year in review.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMDifficult to categorize but a privilege to absorb, the show is Shelley meets Beckett meets Rauschenberg, and it's all new again.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThese three spirited women serve up a remarkably sophisticated topical revue.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AM"Misalliance" may have been written 100 years ago, but it feels as relevant as ever in this endlessly entertaining rendition.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMRevival's veterans add acting skills to vocal ability
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