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]Thursday, August 23, 2012
For Gore Vidal's memorial at the Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday, August 23, a photograph of the playwright-novelist-essayist was placed against the American flag. Not surprisingly, it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2012
Reports on An End to Dreaming, Antigone Unearthed, Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, and KRiEp.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Primary Stages offers an expertly acted trio of Horton Foote's affecting one-act plays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Reports on Tail! Spin!, Gay Camp, and The Importance of Doing Art.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
Neil Simon's 1963 comedy gets a charming revival at the recently reopened Bucks County Playhouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PM[SHARE]Reports on Pink Milk, The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children and Dark Hollow: An Appalachian Woyzeck
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
Ron Cephas Jones leads an excellent cast in the Public Theater's speedily-performed and effective production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
This entertaining trio of short works by Paul Rudnick, Sean Hartley & Sam Davis, and Neil Labute have a high silliness quotient.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
Some starry new cast members, including John Stamos, Cybill Shepherd, and Kristin Davis, more-than-effectively step into this timely revival of Gore Vidal's political drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
The New Haarlem Arts Theatre offers up a Latin-tinged revival of the 1966 musical comedy about an overly optimistic dance-hall hostess.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
This trio of one-act plays by Wendy Kesselman, Nancy Giles, and James McLure are decidedly above-average.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
Reports on Living With Henry, Zapata! The Musical, A Letter to Harvey Milk, and The Groove Factory.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
Irish Rep presents an enticing revival of the Bob Merrill-George Abbot tuner, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 drama Anna Christie.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev's New York premiere is an over-long exercise in gratuitous violence and scatological language.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
Marc Kudisch imbues the title character of Moliere's play with a whopping quantity of theatrical delight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
This trio of plays by Ireland's Tom Murphy vividly displays the troubles his countrymen have endured over the past 125 years.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Alan Cumming gives a brilliant, often surprising performance in this unusual version of Shakespeare's tragedy at the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
Ali Ahn and William Jackson Harper make an attractive and passionate pair in the title roles of Joanna Settle's contemporary Shakespeare on the Sound production of the Bard's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PM[SHARE]Reports on Fear, Henry V, The Last of the Haussmans, Posh, and Twelfth Night
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Jim Parsons and Jessica Hecht give brilliant performances in the Roundabout Theatre Company's winning revival of Mary Chase's comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Gina Gionfiddo's examination of contemporary feminism is full of witty lines that mask the play's seminar-like feeling.
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This new play about a Palestinian family living under Israeli rule is only mildly effective.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Chad Kimball gives a breakout performance as a murderer facing the death penalty in this intensely exciting courtroom drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
Six fine actors shine in Moises Kaufman's production of Simon Gray's play about a group of longtime friends.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2012
This rollicking revue at the Westside Theatre has patrons chortling at some familiar, but still hilarious material.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
Paul Gross stars in the world premiere of John Guare's overly convoluted if promising new play at the McCarter Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]New York City Opera offers up an admirable production of Telemann's opera based on the famed Greek myth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
This adaptation of H. Leivick's 1920's dysfunctional family drama about Jewish immigrants proves to be only intermittently effective.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
The Irish Repertory Theatre offers a thoroughly engaging production of George Bernard Shaw's weighty play.
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