Tuesday, June 13, 2017
There is one thing every theater pundit can agree on regarding Sunday night’s 71st Annual Tony Awards: The winner of Best Actress in a Musical is the only sure Bette. Outside of the divine…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:36PMThursday, January 15, 2015
It's a great surprise that the large-scale musical version of said property is a frothy delight, a pineapple-sweet warm-up in this most frigid season.
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:44PMFriday, April 11, 2014
You wept at the book, then wept at the Meryl Streep-Clint Eastwood film, but save some more tears for the achingly lovely new cast recording for the Broadway tuner The Bridges of Madison Cou…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:20PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
If you’ve ever had the burning desire to see one of the hottest film stars of the moment bray, “I am not an animal!” you’re in luck. Bradley Cooper, who just received his second Osca…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:03AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Who says there are no new Broadway shows in the summertime? Bucking that trend is the team behind the anticipated new musical First Date, which begins previews next month on Broadway and mar…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:40AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Okay, so you may have to imagine Patina Miller’s Leading Player swiveling circus-trained ensemble dangling from ropes and jumping through hoops. But there’s no doubt you can still groove…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:33PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Everybody say yeah! Get ready to dig your heels into a 15-track exclusive first listen of the original cast recording of Kinky Boots, the high-energy Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein musical cu…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:49PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella earned nine Tony nominations this morning, including one for Best Revival of a Musical and nods for its lead actors, Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana. Wit…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:28PMThursday, March 31, 2011
Robin Williams’s casting is one of the more astute choices for Moises Kaufman’s solidly crafted production of Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer finalist.
The post War Hoarse: <em>Bengal Ti…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, March 21, 2011
Okay, the gripes are gonna come out first.
The post There Ain’t No Shelley Long Here: Transport Group’s <em>Hello Again</em> appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMFriday, March 4, 2011
Any native of a downtrodden city will tell you that there’s an undeniably authentic quality to the work here.
The post Down and Out in Southie: <em>Good People</em> at the Frie…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMFriday, February 25, 2011
Nothing could have prepared me for Rapp’s chilling, unrelentingly committed glimpse into dystopia with Nursing.
The post Adam Rapp’s <em>The Hallway Trilogy</em> at Rattlesti…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMThursday, January 13, 2011
You can’t swing a cat in this town without hitting a theater with a dysfunctional family drama, and this one even has the kitty to prove it.
The post <em>Blood from a Stone</em>…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMFriday, January 7, 2011
Adam Bock’s plays need to be handled as delicately as someone balancing an egg on a spoon from room to room.
The post What’s That Smell?: <em>A Small Fire</em> and <em>…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:00AMWednesday, December 8, 2010
Haunted might have benefited from more claustrophobic surroundings.
The post <em>Haunted</em> at 59E59 Theaters appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:21PMWednesday, November 24, 2010
David Duchovny orchestrates Neil LaBute’s new play like a virtuoso.
The post Livin’ on a Prayer: <em>The Break of Noon</em> and <em>The Red Shoes</em> appeared fi…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:00PMMonday, November 15, 2010
Those who just can’t get enough of ace actor Michael Shannon can now get nothing but him.
The post Men Behaving Badly: <em>Mistakes Were Made</em>, <em>Devil Boys from Be…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:45PMMonday, October 25, 2010
Star wattage seems to be the new energy source powering Broadway.
The post Star Turns: Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in <em>Driving Miss Daisy</em> and Jan Maxwell in <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, October 11, 2010
How do you want it: long and slow or hard and fast?
The post Downtown Block Party: <em>Gatz</em> and <em>The Deep Throat Sex Scandal</em> appeared first on Slant Maga…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:49PMFriday, October 1, 2010
Another season, another round of Brit transfers
The post British Invasion: <em>Brief Encounter</em> and <em>The Pitmen Painters</em> appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:16AMTuesday, September 21, 2010
Perhaps the most shocking aspect of provocateur Ivo van Hove’s slick remounting of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes is that it really isn’t that shocking.
The post <em>The Litt…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:24PMWednesday, August 11, 2010
The production is far from a party and more akin to a long soiree in which the cool people haven’t arrived yet.
The post <em>Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party</em> at the…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMTuesday, June 8, 2010
This has to be the toughest prediction year since Avenue Q shockingly walked away with the Best Musical prize six years ago.
The post Tony Awards 2010 Winner Predictions appeared first on Sl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:18PMTuesday, May 25, 2010
If The Burnt Part Boys is good-natured Wonder bread, then Oliver Parker! is burnt toast that’s been peed on.
The post All The Young Dudes: <em>The Burnt Part Boys</em> and <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, May 24, 2010
To paraphrase possibly its greatest tune: It’s still got life, brother.
The post One Year Revisited: <em>Hair</em> on Broadway appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:37AMWednesday, May 12, 2010
Faith or no faith, whatever denomination you wish to call yourself, Passion Play more than lives up to its title.
The post <em>Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play</em> at the Irondale Ce…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMThursday, May 6, 2010
Brian Kulick’s herky-jerky production is never quite sure what to do with the great Dianne Wiest.
The post <em>The Forest</em> at Classic Stage Company appeared first on Slant …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMTuesday, May 4, 2010
Somehow a fully-cast sextet sloppily became a quartet in Beth Henley’s logy, often risible play Family Week.
The post <em>Family Week</em> at the Lucille Lortel Theatre appeare…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMFriday, April 30, 2010
Sometimes an actor just has to come home to roost to rediscover just what they were put out there for in the first place.
The post Review: <em>Fences</em>, Starring Denzel Washin…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:40PMThursday, April 22, 2010
Signal the thunderclaps: Stephen Sondheim turned 80 this year, and everyone is partyin’ like it’s 1999 for the man.
The post Master Class: <em>Sondheim on Sondheim</em> and &…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMTuesday, April 6, 2010
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is historical revisionism for the late-term SNL era.
The post Am I Too Old for This Shit?: <em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em> at the Public Theate…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMMonday, April 5, 2010
If you’re ready to have a gay old time, the funny flurries are showering New York these days.
The post Silly Boys and Girls (and Puppets): <em>Lend Me a Tenor</em> and <em&g…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:03PMMonday, March 29, 2010
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick feels woefully under-rehearsed when not just plain amateurish.
The post Strangers in a Strange Land: <em>A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick&l…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:06PMMonday, March 22, 2010
There’s a lot going on in its 75 minutes, and it’s great to see someone truly using the vast entirety of the wonderful Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa.
The post Sex and Violence in Down…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:50PMFriday, March 19, 2010
Dylan Baker, always a reliable assist in stage and film, does work that is nothing short of transformative.
The post One Year Revisited: <em>God of Carnage</em> on Broadway appea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:00PMThursday, March 18, 2010
Suzan-Lori Parks’s blackly comic Southern gothic is sprinkled with poetic assertions on postwar distress and home-life abuses.
The post Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’s <em>The Book of G…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:00PMMonday, March 15, 2010
Next Fall isn’t about “old” times per se, but its content seems firmly rooted in the seriocomic patterns of seasoned old pros.
The post Gay Old Times, Part Deux: <em>Next Fall<…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:00PMFriday, March 5, 2010
Despite its historical nature, The Temperamentals is anything but a dry history lesson.
The post Great Performances: <em>The Temperamentals</em> and <em>Venus in Fur</em…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:44PMThursday, March 4, 2010
It’s awfully hard not to feel like you’re missing something throughout this Miracle Worker.
The post <em>The Miracle Worker</em> at Circle in the Square appeared first on Sla…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AMFriday, February 26, 2010
Here is a tragedy told with absolutely no momentum.
The post <em>Blind</em> at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AM 
