Monday, May 13, 2013
Our annual Shaw Festival report's first reviews: The Breadwinner, Major Barbara, Guys and Dolls . . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:34PMSunday, May 12, 2013
The Fiasco troupe's concept certainly casts it own unique spell on Sondheim's Grimmsian musica
Linked From CurtainUp at 04:05PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The Folkbiene's Purim show arrives after this year's holiday, but when a show is as much fun as this, even without a holiday, it's cause for celebration
Linked From CurtainUp at 05:27PMThursday, April 25, 2013
he Divine Miss M is back on Broadway, looking and sounding like super agent Mengers, but that twinkle in the eyes is pure Midler.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:23AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
It's hard to know just how much this emotionally affecting revival rests in the masterly hands of director Wilson or in the instinctively magical moments created by Cecily Tyson. What's cert…
Linked From CurtainUp at 06:48AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Colm Toibin's novella adapted as a star vehicle for Fiona Shaw.
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:28AMSunday, April 21, 2013
Mike Poulton's adaptation of the 1900 play streamlines the original by nearly omitting all of Part 2. What it retains, however, is a complex portrait of a marriage, where love is a bruising …
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:43AMFriday, April 19, 2013
The over-dosing Dr. Jekyll and his demented alter ego Mr. Hyde are back for the first time since they created their share of havoc on Broadway in 1997
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:08AMThe cliche "better late than never" certainly applies to the belated Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's much produced play, especially with its three orphans outstandingly portrayed by Alec Ba…
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:07AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
athan Lane allows us to see into the heart-breaking core of a disconsolate man who is compelled to endure the slings and arrows of an unforgiving society, .
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:56AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Despite its rambling dramatic arc the great music is certain to bring back memories for many of the decades as well being a reminder of how apropos was the nickname given to Motown's first h…
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:37AMSunday, April 14, 2013
After reviewing the overview, our critic decided to take the complete journey. No regrets
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:54PMThe film that turned into a Broadway hit, is now in London
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:09PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
originally produced during the 2010 New York Fringe Festival, this more elaborate and polished production should have a prosperous afterlife in regional theaters.
Linked From CurtainUp at 01:54PMSunday, April 7, 2013
oe Gilford's play about his parents is often funny, generally moving and has an ending that leaves the audience feeling satisfied and just a bit nervous
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:47AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
Kinky Boots
Lucky Guy Consider yourself a lucky guy or gal if you nab a ticket for Nora Ephron 's new (and sad to say, last) play which gives Tom a good chance to put a Tony next to his O…
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:06AMGood With People - David Harrower's play launches the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters. It isn't enough of an elephant to merit its weigh
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:48AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Jonathan Tolins'solo play is a hilarious and often poignant fiction exploring the role icons like Barbra Streisand play for a new generation of gaysJonathan Tolins'solo play is a hilarious a…
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Whatever it is, we end up feeling for Cathy and Jamie, it won't be for their lack of musical and dramatic commitment to Brown's ambitious score.. . Read More
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:38AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris's third play at the London Court is an epic, sprawling "fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism" . . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:37PMWritten in the late 1940s by Rodney Ackland, but based on an ealier short story by Somerset Maugham. It was a hit in London's West End and is revived by Matthew Dunster at the Almeida in a w…
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John Logan's new play stars the actors from the Bond film, Skyfall for which he wrote the screenplay. Judi Dench who plays Alice is James Bond's 'M', and Ben Whishaw is 'Q' . . . Read More
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-London and New York were not the end of the rainbow for Tracie Bennett-- she's now Judy-ing up applause in LA ..
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Lindsay Posner's excellent production uses as the stage curtainaa a facsimile of the first page of the Bill of Rights which signposts the audience towards the search for justice as the main …
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:14PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Sean Mathias's second attempt to stage Truman Capote's novella doesn't work on Broadway any more than it did in London
Linked From CurtainUp at 05:39PMFriday, March 22, 2013
There is the aura of a very old B movie in listening to the endlessly pontificating science-saturated characters in Lanford Wilson's 1975 play.
Linked From CurtainUp at 04:07PMMonday, March 18, 2013
This play makes it appear that the economic bridge that spans between 1880 and 2013 is distanced enough now so that a rich girl can make the right choices for the wrong reasons, or is it the…
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:45AMI would name this as the number one must-see play on in London but research it before you go, so you know what to expect
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:45AMSunday, March 17, 2013
Target Margin's production of Peretz Hirschbein's play may leave even those familiar with Yiddish theater baffled.
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a rather facetious fabrication, or as Lucas call it on the first page of the script, "a damn lie." And since it's a sin to tell a lie, let me say that Craig Lucas's two-hander is not a very …
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Annie Baker, whose other plays have also been lauded for their informally structured, protracted naturalistic style, may be demanding a lot, especially from one segment of the audience, with…
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