Monday, August 1, 2011
Lee Hall's play about a group of British miners who find success in the art world is the front-runner for the Tony Award.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reviews House of Games, Design For Living, Danton's Death, Blood and Gifts, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSimon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff are superb in Matthew Warchus' near-perfect revival of Ira Levin's marvelous thriller.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKenny Solms' comedy about a struggling screenwriter proves to be dismally unfunny.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale shine in the Westport Country Playhouse's revival of the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt tuner about a long-married couple.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story, Picking Palin, and A Matter of Choice.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWednesday, July 27, 2011
The valiant Galway-based Druid Theatre Company brings the rarely seen piece to the John Jay College's Gerald W. Lynch Theater as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:14PMSunday, July 24, 2011
Danny Aiello returns to the stage in Susan Charlotte's often manipulative play, which references both the Holocaust and 9/11.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, July 22, 2011
This stage version of Yukio Mishima's novel about a troubled young man is often enthralling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Jan Maxwell stars in Howard Barker's muddled political drama about 17th-century England.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, July 18, 2011
Kevin Spacey gives an indelible performance in the title role of Sam Mendes' brilliant production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Stephen Sykes' pair of one acts about men and women are annoyingly obscure.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Rupert Goold's production of the Bard's tragedy for the Royal Shakespeare Company contains many unforgettable elements.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMMonday, July 11, 2011
Veanne Cox gives a tour-de-force performance in Bay Street Theatre's hilarious production of Christopher Durang's comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
Peter Brook's stripped-down, 100-minute version of Mozart's great opera is indisputably refreshing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30PMFriday, July 8, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's gender-bending comedy gets most everything right.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Tyne Daly gives a superb performance as opera great Maria Callas in Manhattan Theatre Club's worthy revival of Terrence McNally's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAndrea Mauella and Mark Shanahan shine in the Irish Repertory Theatre's chilling revival of Karoline Leach's two-hander.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, June 30, 2011
The "problem plays" Shakespeare uncorked in the early 17th century contain enough problems that there's no call for directors and players to add new ones. That, however, is what's …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:15PMMonday, June 27, 2011
Falstaff is going global. Or you might say, Falstaff is going Globe-al. What's meant by that? Well, Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series begins tonight with 6:30 p. m. screenings in t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
Reports on six worthwhile British productions, including Dominic West in Butley, Kristin Scott Thomas in Betrayal, and Alex Kingston in Luise Miller.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMMonday, June 20, 2011
It's as if a huge state-of-the-art factory has been built to produce one small bells-and-whistles toy that awes children of some ages for a few minutes before they lose interest.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
This adaptation of Ken Ludwig's classic farce rarely improves on the original.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
The new London production of the Broadway musical shines much brighter than before.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMMonday, June 6, 2011
London audiences can take in two star-studded productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, May 31, 2011
John Doyle directs and designs the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Road Show, with other fare including Lend Me a Tenor The Musical, Ghost The Musical, Kevin Spacey in Richard III, Sim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMFriday, May 27, 2011
The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:45PMWednesday, May 25, 2011
Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller give spirited performances in Daniel Goldfarb's pair of one-acts about parenthood.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMBook lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:02PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
This observer believes the musicalized version of George Bernard Shaw is not only a sorrowful entertainment, but indicative of a much larger concern about how the musical, as a genre, is evo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:22PMThursday, May 19, 2011
Jonathan Marc Sherman's intermittently affecting new play concerns a 40-year-old man facing fatherhood for the first time.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
