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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

First Nighter: Tom Hanks, Other Talkative Tony 2013 Nominees Spark Their Press Brunch by David Finkle

Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet." Yes,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:29PM
Monday, April 29, 2013

Elaine Stritch Took Advantage of Me and Vice Versa by David Finkle

When she goes--if she goes--she goes as one of the irreplaceables.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:18AM
Thursday, April 25, 2013

First Nighter: Diane Paulus's Pippin Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease by David Finkle

In Chicago, Fosse had Fred Ebb and John Kander explain the power of giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle, and Diane Paulus has taken that dictum to heart with her American Repertory Theater prod…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:26PM

First Nighter: Bette Midler Divine in I'll Eat You Last, Cicely Tyson's Beautiful Bountiful, Tristan Sturrock's Mayday Mayday by David Finkle

Tuning into the gossip the Divine Miss M spews jubilantly as another Divine Miss M is such fun it hardly matters that five minutes after the romp ends, much of the dirt dished with such five…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:23AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

First Nighter: Fiona Shaw's Miraculous Testament of Mary William Christie's Marvelous David et Jonathas by David Finkle

What Nikos Kazantzakis did to de-sanctify Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, Colm Toibin has done for the Madonna in The Testament of Mary -- with, predictably, the some outraged respon…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:39PM
Friday, April 19, 2013

First Nighter: Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties Well Assembled by Manhattan Theatre Club by David Finkle

It's a strongly recommended drama that takes place on Manhattan's Central Park West in a beautifully furnished 14-room apartment, the confusing layout of which eventually becomes a metaphor …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:33PM

First Nighter: Jekyll & Hyde, Orphans, Collapse Bow to Mixed Results by David Finkle

If someone grabbed you on the street and yelled in your face for the next two and a half hours, what would you do? Well, the cast of the Jekyll & Hyde revival at the Marquis scream until…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AM
Monday, April 15, 2013

First Nighter: Nathan Lane First-Rate, as Usual, in Douglas Carter Beane's New Play, The Nance by David Finkle

Plays conjuring Manhattan in the 1930s often take on the look of a live-action Edward Hopper painting. Not a bad thing. Actually, the effect is stunning when the curtain rises on The Nance.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:01PM

Playwrights Horizons’ Sanford Writes a Lengthy Letter on Length by David Finkle

Does "The Flick," Annie Baker's 3-Hour work, really need an artistic director's apologia?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:31AM
Monday, April 1, 2013

Let’s Talk Theater About Politics, Not Political Theater by David Finkle

"The Audience" with Helen Mirren and "This House" at the National show the English how they're governed.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AM
Monday, March 18, 2013

Rupert Everett and The Sheridan Morley Prize by David Finkle

"Vanished Years" wins valuable 2013 theater biography prize.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:28AM
Monday, March 4, 2013

Will Richard’s Bones Rattle Juicy Play? by David Finkle

How will William Shakespeare history get over new (pun intended) hump?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:40AM
Monday, February 18, 2013

Marquee or Not Marquee?: That is the Question by David Finkle

Are star names above the title above the title absolutely necessary?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:29PM
Monday, January 21, 2013

Depending on the Kindness of Critics by David Finkle

I’ve been accused of kindness many more times than I care to enumerate.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:41AM
Friday, October 26, 2012

Special Report: Timon of Athens and Five More Must-See London Plays by David Finkle

Londoners – or those willing to cross the pond – have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors an…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Reviews: The Tempest by David Finkle

It's likely that audiences exiting the Metropolitan Opera after Robert Lepage's eye-popping production of The Tempest, based on Shakespeare's great drama, will be in a state of uncertainty …

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PM
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

First Nighter: The Crazy Coqs, London's New Nitery, Opens Hot With Clive Rowe by David Finkle

What is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cau…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:59AM
Monday, October 15, 2012

Easy Reader: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton a Hitman-Target Hit by David Finkle

Although I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, <em>Joseph Anton</em>, have I realized how some part of me continues to loo…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AM
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Reviews: Cyrano de Bergerac by David Finkle

No production of Cyrano de Bergerac is worth a minute of anyone's time unless the title character is portrayed by a top-drawer actor. Fortunately, "bravura" barely begins to describe Tony Aw…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Reviews: Harper Regan by David Finkle

British playwright Simon Stephens has written several striking plays, but Harper Regan, now making its American debut at Atlantic Theater Company under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurc…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Reviews: Him by David Finkle

Although there are some troublesome aspects to Daisy Foote's Him, now being presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, too much about the author's new work about a dysfunctional Tremont…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Friday, October 5, 2012

Reviews: Rhinoceros by David Finkle

Any piece of theater in which one human after another turns into a thundering African mammal inherently requires as much theatricality as a director can lavish, and that's exactly what Emman…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PM
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Reviews: Grace by David Finkle

Craig Wright obviously has a potent thing against organized religion of any variety, but with Grace, now making its Broadway bow at the Cort Theatre under Dexter Bullard's committed directio…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Reviews: Ten Chimneys by David Finkle

In Jeffrey Hatcher's unruly, though not unrewarding, Ten Chimneys, now at Theatre at St. Clement's, the playwright examines an unconventional marriage for the glue holding it together. This…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM

Reviews: Hamlet by David Finkle

Although Hamlet still doesn't take revenge on his murdered father until the corpse-strewn final scene, nobody will ever accuse this title figure of being slow to act in the Shakespeare's Glo…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AM
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Reviews: Lovers by David Finkle

Brian Friel isn't completely convinced love is a forever thing. As proved by the entertaining revival of Lovers presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, Friel lets audiences know how uncert…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM

Reviews: An Enemy of the People by David Finkle

An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play-with-a-cause, isn't unfurled very often, which definitely makes Doug Hughes' thoroughly competent Manhattan Theatre Club revival at the Samue…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Reviews: L'Elisir d'Amore by David Finkle

The singing was so strong and supple throughout the Metropolitan Opera 's opening night production of Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore that the traditional look of Tony Award-winning di…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PM
Monday, September 17, 2012

Reviews: Einstein on the Beach by David Finkle

At four-and-a-half-hours-long, Einstein on the Beach — the famed Robert Wilson-Philip Glass project now being revived at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House —adds up to slightly less than the…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PM
Monday, September 10, 2012

Reviews: Mary Broome by David Finkle

The intrigue and dark beauty of Mary Broome, Alan Monkhouse's 1911 drawing-room drama being revived under Jonathan Bank's astute direction at the Mint Theatre — stems from how creatively t…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06PM
Monday, September 3, 2012

Review: Harbor by David Finkle

Chad Begeulin's play about a gay couple at odds over adopting a baby is touching and well-acted.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM

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