Thursday, 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 10:00PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Kushner has produced a play also reminiscent of Arthur Miller at the top of his form, a play about which many ticket buyers will conclude he's equaled Miller's best.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:57PMRonan Noone's new play about a dysfunctional family in Kansas is often ludicrous.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThe 2011 Tony Award nominations were announced early Tuesday morning, which can only mean that the annual press meet-and-greet erupted -- or something like that -- not quite so early Wednesd…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32PMWednesday, May 4, 2011
The popular cabaret singer's appealing new show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room celebrates women songwriters.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, May 1, 2011
The Irish Repertory Theatre serves up a worthwhile production of Dion Boucicault's rarely-seen 19th-century melocomedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
London's starry May includes Penelope Wilton and Imelda Staunton in A Delicate Balance; Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg in Pygmalion; Kristen Scott Thomas in Betrayal; Zoe Wanamaker and Conlet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMMonday, April 25, 2011
David Cromer's revival of John Guare's visionary tragicomedy is only partially successful.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, April 24, 2011
Nina Arianda, Jim Belushi, and Robert Sean Leonard do stellar work in Doug Hughes' smartly directed revival of Garson Kanin's timeless comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSaturday, April 23, 2011
Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's beloved opera proves to be spellbinding.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFriday, April 22, 2011
Well before British actor Simon Callow decided to become an actor, he determined he wanted to be a writer. Now he's combined both talents to write a truly outstanding book about the theater.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:38PMThursday, April 21, 2011
Mark Rylance offers a mind-blowing, must-see performance as a former daredevil in Jez Butterworth's often mesmerizing new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
Lauren Flanigan gives an impressive performance in New York City Opera's production of Steven Schwartz's new work about a medium's descent into madness.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
Gregory Burke's mesmerizing theatrical piece about the Iraq War returns to St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThe reality talent show -- which under Simon Cowell searched relentlessly for the next big pop star, according to the man's definition -- is no longer blindered to other musical genres.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AMThursday, April 14, 2011
This harshly beautiful British play about a boy's love for his horse is one of the most moving theatrical experiences in recent memory.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, April 12, 2011
Language has failed -- that's Guirgis's story and he's gallantly sticking to it. This modern rom-com is to be greatly admired, enjoyed and seriously pondered after the final fade-out.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:42PMSunday, April 10, 2011
This new Broadway musical about a young con man being pursued by an FBI agent is only intermittently involving.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, April 7, 2011
Sutton Foster is simply scintillating in Kathleen Marshall's rousing revival of the classic Cole Porter musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThose <em>Upstairs Downstairs</em> purveyors have woven their now chilling, now heart-warming, now belly-laughs-inducing intrigues into a tapestry worthy of hanging next to the f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:39PMTuesday, April 5, 2011
The Keen Company serves up a Grade-A revival of Michael Frayn's searing domestic drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMThursday, March 31, 2011
April highlights include Janie Dee in All's Well That Ends Well; Rory Kinnear, Clare Higgins and Patrick Malahide in Hamlet; Rufus Norris directing London Road; Polly Pen's Bed and Sofa; and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMRobin Williams has made his Broadway debut at last. This is a very good thing. The very bad thing is that he arrives in <em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>, a decidedly th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
The York Theatre Company offers a well-acted production of this remarkably trite new musical about marriage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, March 29, 2011
Renee Fleming gives an engaging performance in the Metropolitan Opera's rewarding revival of Richard Strauss' opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, March 28, 2011
Harvey Fierstein proves irresistible and Christopher Sieber is completely likable in the Tony Award-winning revival of the classic musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, March 27, 2011
Daniel Radcliffe gives a masterful performance in Rob Ashford's sleek revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMFriday, March 25, 2011
Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato shine in Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher's Metropolitan Opera staging of Rossini's little-known comic opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThursday, March 24, 2011
The production is hardly a surprise attack by the nose-thumbing partners. It could be said they're going after Christianity as a whole with the appearance of a slang-spouting Jesus in a lust…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMSaturday, March 19, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
<em>Spider-Man</em> exemplifies a larger story -- the transformation of the Great White Way from a collection of buildings dedicated to advancing the art of theater to nothing le…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:36PM 
