Thursday, January 14, 2016
Explaining why a thing is funny is hard enough. Trying to account for something you know is hilarious—but then isn’t—is tougher still. Case in point: The Roundabout Theatre Company has…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:53PMSunday, December 20, 2015
Although the titans Zero Mostel, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince are reflexively linked to this 1964 classic, there’s another, uncredited, father of Fiddler on the Roof. It’s Marc Chaga…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:47PMThursday, December 17, 2015
Mamet and Pacino hand over an ungainly and pretentious monologue.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:32PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Despite the built-in obsession with gadgets, science fiction always orbits back to a familiar subject: human psychology. All those robots, rockets and aliens are just shiny metaphors for our…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:50PMMonday, December 7, 2015
New York Theatre Workshop’s sold-out, buzzy Lazarus is hard to describe. Blame the holiday season, but I feel it’s like one of those old-timey TV Christmas specials, in which an isolated…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:07PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Ever see the pitch-perfect 2003 Jack Black comedy School of Rock? Then you know what to expect from the musical version: fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn frenetically inspiring his charges…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:47PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
At-risk, education-deprived teens in one of Africa’s poorest nations. Frustrated musical-theater creators living in Queens. You wouldn’t expect these demographics to meet, much less impr…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:45PMSunday, November 15, 2015
Early in Misery, ex-nurse Annie Wilkes (Laurie Metcalf) informs novelist Paul Sheldon (Bruce Willis) that after a horrible car accident, he’s been in a coma for four days. Make that four d…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:19PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Shatteringly tough revivals such as A View from the Bridge can inspire dueling emotions. First, obviously, there’s immense satisfaction and gratitude that Belgian director Ivo van Hove dig…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:10AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Sweetly traditional grandfather Ojii-chan (George Takei) practices Japanese customs, such as hanging wind chimes, tending his garden and origami. As an example of the last, he folds a page f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:27AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Mike Bartlett s audacious verse drama appropriates the style of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:39PMMonday, November 2, 2015
For the living playwright working in English, William Shakespeare vexes. Whether you think his global stature oppressive or admire the works as antique phenomena with little bearing on today…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:43AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
“Never work with animals or children,” W.C. Fields famously warned, but no one told Matthew Broderick. As midlife-crisis-stricken Greg in the urban fable Sylvia, the actor must keep a st…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:59PMInspired by Oregon Shakespeare Festival's radical Shakespeare translation project, a theater critic updates classic passages of the Bard
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:17AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
In this retro-utopian concert turned musical, Civil War solider Julian (César Alvarez) and British mathematician Ada (Sammmy Tunis) muse rapturously on brain mechanics and consciousness c…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:13PMThursday, October 8, 2015
Since her star-making turn in 2010’s Venus in Fur, Nina Arianda has established a reputation for being irresistibly sexy on stage. Emotional intensity and comic agility only burnish her pa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:56PMHarold Pinter’s gripping 1971 drama still cuts with force, drawing new blood.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:33AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The first word spoken in Harold Pinter’s gripping 1971 drama about a man, his wife and the wife’s visiting friend is “dark.” Deeley (Clive Owen) was presumably curious about the hair…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:10PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
If we handed out stars based solely on scenes that were probably awkward to stage in rehearsal, Thomas Bradshaw’s new play might rate four (lots of ultra-realistic sexy time). Alas, there�…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:39AMFriday, September 18, 2015
A segment of the American population seems to believe that Christianity is under attack from godless socialists, gay-marriage supporters and rival creeds trying to impose theocracy on our fa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:14AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
The Acting Company’s evening of adaptations is satisfying in small, intense doses.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:37PMThursday, September 10, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber v Stephen Sondheim, We Will Rock You v American Idiot – the West End's offerings pale beside Broadway's glorious historyBroadway habitués are looking ahead to a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda has built a monument by combing hip-hop with American history.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:32AMFriday, August 14, 2015
We rank the 30 top musicals that made the leap from movie screens to Broadway and Off Broadway stages
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:50PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Annie Baker’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick (also now playing) is built on a similar scale: John runs three hours and 15 minutes over three acts and two intermissions. …
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:48PMThursday, August 6, 2015
What is left to say? After Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s prodigious quill scratched out 12 volumes of nation-building fiscal and military policy; after Lin-Manuel Miranda turned tha…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:24PMFriday, July 24, 2015
It’s not exactly a golden age for ethnic jokes: gags about how black people are like this or Jewish folks always do that…and don’t get me started on Asians! With homicidal cops and whi…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:03AMThursday, July 16, 2015
In 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:34PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Master illusionists Penn and Teller (whose act turns 40 this week!) do better than pull a rabbit out of a hat: They reach deep into our collective need to believe and extract skepticism. It�…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:40PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Bruce Norris’s new play is set at a swingers’ party, which rather complicates the playwriting dictum: show, don’t tell. Unless you have a game cast and an open-minded audience, it’s …
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:18AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Playwright Anne Washburn is America’s bard of the peripherally glimpsed, the half-eavesdropped, the shakily grasped. Her plays immerse characters in baffling subcultures, and the audience …
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:09PM 
