Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Since Laura Eason calls her tense romantic comedy Sex With Strangers, audiences can be forgiven for jumping to the correct conclusion that these strangers -- they're both writers -- won't wa…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:04PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
Before he began writing as well as directing his celebrated movies, Preston Sturges uncorked Strictly Dishonorable, a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
Among the ground-shifting 1960s music and music-biz developments was the emergence of the singer-songwriter. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
Yes. Absolutely. No question. If you can get to City Center anytime through this weekend to see Pump Boys and Dinettes, which is the third and last of Encores! Off-Center summer series, g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:51PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
The last 10 minutes or so of Robert Boswell's play The Long Shrift, at the Rattlestick, are richly dramatic. During them Richard (Scott Haze) and Beth (Ahna O'Reilly) finally get to the conf…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
Atomic, at the Acorn, is the show that asks the musical question: Once the A-bomb was realized, was it wise to use it? Coming...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2014
William Shakespeare historians have tried and failed to find a figure during the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V who might have been the inspiration for Sir John Falstaff, whom many of the pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
Hilary Mantel persuasively presents the case for his preeminence at this relentless need in Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and then again in Bring Up the Bodies, which won t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
When Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy) drops in on Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) totally unannounced in the revival of David Hare's 1995 play Skylight, at Wyndham's, he's clearly there to fan the emb…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:11AM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
LONDON--Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, which Brian Friel adapted for the stage under the same title in 1987 is just revived...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2014
LONDON, THE GLOBE--Scholars aren't certain when William Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, although they favor 1593. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
Fly By Night, the Will Connolly-Michael Mitnick-Kim Rosenstock (who also conceived the enterprise) musical at Playwrights...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:14AM[SHARE]The big fact about 75-year-old Alan Ayckbourn is that he's written 78--count 'em, 78--plays during his long career,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Alan Ayckbourn is the chronicler of the middle class. Up in Scarborough, England, where he turns his plays out and puts...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The cast members -- despite their now-you-hear-them-now-you-don't accents -- are up to their character's challenges.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:33PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
If you like great songs -- not necessarily great songs you already know -- and you like women delivering them, here are CDs that you'd be extremely foolish to think you can live without:
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:04PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
Guess it's blowin' in the zeitgeist, but two adaptations involving rhymed classics are available in Manhattan this weekend only...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PM[SHARE]Turns out that AJ Taudevin, who wrote Chalk Farm with Kieran Hurley, and Julia Taudevin, who appears in the 55-minute...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
When Chandra (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) slips happily through an upstage door to smell the trellis roses at the start of A Fable, David Van Asselt's new play at the Cherry Lane, it's the extremely …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:50PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
Usually the devil gets the best lines, but since there's no devil in Under My Skin, the comedy (?) by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser at the Little Shubert, it's the angel (charismatic Di…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
It seems to me there's more than one reason for staging a revival. The first one that springs to mind, because it's the most obvious, is that a well-written and successful play is always a …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
What Irma La Douce really is is rampant idiocy, for which there may be no excuse but for which there may be a wacky rationale having to do with national tastes.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
In Samuel D. Hunter's outstanding play, The Whale, presented at Playwrights Horizons in the 2012-13 season, obese and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:13PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
When you look over the plays Noel Coward trumpeted during his fabulous career, few give the impression of being in any direct way autobiographical.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2014
When Forbidden Broadway comes out swinging, not everything receives a knockout punch, which is more or less Alessandrini's usual result. Enough does, however, and after the kind of season we…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
It's not too often that great passion doomed--make that Great Passion Doomed--hits the boards. There's Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra and Cyrano de Bergerac and West Side Story wi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Before Red-Eye to Havre de Grace supposedly begins, a pleasant fellow in a Philadelphia Park Ranger's uniform...
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