Monday, April 29, 2013
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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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
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[SHARE]Does "The Flick," Annie Baker's 3-Hour work, really need an artistic director's apologia?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
"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[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
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Friday, October 26, 2012
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 and mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
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[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
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[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
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[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
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[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
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[SHARE]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[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
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 sum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
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 the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06PM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2012
Chad Begeulin's play about a gay couple at odds over adopting a baby is touching and well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2012
Sam Shepard's obscure new play deals with five wacky people in a house in California.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE] 
