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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived by David Finkle

★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber The post Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Sunday, April 22, 2018

The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic by David Finkle

★★★ Alexis Prion is the now-all-but-forgotten comic writer whose spoof is reworked The post The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PM
Thursday, April 19, 2018

My Fair Lady: Shaw Goes Ibsen in Sher’s Appealing Revival by David Finkle

★★★★ Bartlett Sher directs Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton and an impeccable cast The post My Fair Lady: Shaw Goes Ibsen in Sher’s Appealing Revival appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:44PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Seafarer: Conor McPherson’s Tense Drinking, Soul-Searching Tale by David Finkle

★★★★ Matthew Broderick heads an expert ensemble is this realistic-surrealistic drama The post The Seafarer: Conor McPherson’s Tense Drinking, Soul-Searching Tale appeared firs…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Monday, April 16, 2018

Children of a Lesser God: Mark Medoff Prize Winner Back Forthrightly by David Finkle

★★★ Joshua Jackson as speech teacher to the deaf and Sarah Ridloff as unwilling student The post Children of a Lesser God: Mark Medoff Prize Winner Back Forthrightly appeared first on …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:18PM

"Glee" on TV: Is It the Best, the Worst or Both? by David Finkle

Let's talk a minute about my idea of this season's best and the worst television series: <em>Glee</em>.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:12AM
Friday, April 13, 2018

The Sting: The Irresistible 1973 Oscar Flick as Irresistible Tuner by David Finkle

★★★★★ Harry Connick Jr. leads a cast directed by John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle. The post The Sting: The Irresistible 1973 Oscar Flick as Irresistible Tuner appea…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PM

King Lear: Antony Sher Makes Foolish Old Age Memorable by David Finkle

★★★★ Director Gregory Doran runs mostly hot and sometimes cold on the Shakespeare masterpiece The post King Lear: Antony Sher Makes Foolish Old Age Memorable appeared first on New Y…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:52AM
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Miss You Like Hell: Hudes and McKeown View Mothers and Daughters by David Finkle

★★★ Rubin-Vega and Jiménez as an estranged mother and daughter renewing their love to songs The post Miss You Like Hell: Hudes and McKeown View Mothers and Daughters appeared first on…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM
Monday, April 9, 2018

The Winter’s Tale: Arin Arbus’ Austere–Too Austere?–Revival by David Finkle

★★★ The stage direction that goes "Exit, pursued by bear" gets it best showing ever The post The Winter’s Tale: Arin Arbus’ Austere–Too Austere?–Revival appeare…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:57PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Feeding the Dragon: A Childhood Sometimes Charmed, Often Not by David Finkle

★★★ Writer-performer Sharon Washington remembers being the girl who lived in the library The post Feeding the Dragon: A Childhood Sometimes Charmed, Often Not appeared first on New Yor…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Rocktopia: Rock and Classical Fight to the Death, Both Lose by David Finkle

★ Classic rock warhorses meet classical warhorses, but the singers, orchestra, and choir reach no agreement The post Rocktopia: Rock and Classical Fight to the Death, Both Lose appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM

Pygmalion: Delightful Shaw, With Only Spoken Music by David Finkle

★★★★ Bedlam's Eric Tucker directs a six-member cast with Vaishnavii Sharma as Eliza and himself as Higgins The post Pygmalion: Delightful Shaw, With Only Spoken Music appeared first …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PM
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Escape to Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett Makes a Salted Musical by David Finkle

★★★★ Director Christopher Ashley lets bookwriters Greg Garcia and Mike O'Malley loose on Parrot Head faves.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Three Wise Guys: A New Runyon Guys and Dolls by David Finkle

★★★★ The Actors Company Theatre spends Christmas Eve 1923 by circuitously following an Eastern Star.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PM
Monday, January 15, 2018

Enda Walsh's "Disco Pigs" Cavorts to Static-y Inner Music by David Finkle

Pig (Colin Campbell) and Runt (Evanna Lynch) are heard before they’re seen in Enda Walsh’s 1996 Disco Pigs, now revived at

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:55PM
Friday, January 12, 2018

Big-Hearted John Lithgow Tells Swell Stories by David Finkle

There are actors whom audiences admire for their consistent good work, and that suffices. Then there are actors whom audiences

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:32AM
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Robert O'Hara's "Mankind" a Spotty Gift to Humankind by David Finkle

You can say this for Robert O’Hara, whose uneven, though acclaimed, Bootycandy prompted Playwrights Horizons folks to commission

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:49AM
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Make Room for Ariane Mnouchkine's Big, Bold, Beautiful "A Room in India" by David Finkle

If you know Ariane Mnouchkine’s Theatre du Soleil, you know how big she likes to think. The space, situated in Paris’s Bois

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:59AM
Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Public's Mobile Unit "Winter's Tale," Music Works by Allan Harris and The Bengsons, Jimmie Fowlie Upends "La La Land" by David Finkle

After touring schools, community centers, prisons and other other-than-theater venues, the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit is

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:55AM
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty "Once on This Island" Floats High Again, Only Higher This Time by David Finkle

When Once on This Island debuted at Playwright Horizons in 1990, several tropical-bird feathers were added to the caps of

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:56PM
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Is the New "Norma" Cast--Angela Meade-Jamie Barton--at the Met Better Heard Than Seen Under David McVicar's Loose Direction? by David Finkle

The final cast for Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma, the 2017-18 Metropolitan Opera House season opener, has checked in, and were

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:07AM
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Lesli Margherita Gets Sexy in "Who's Holiday," Max Crumm and Lucy DeVito Warm "Hot Mess" by David Finkle

In a few short years, Lesli Margherita has turned herself into a local favorite. She’s one of those performers who firmly

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:13PM
Monday, November 27, 2017

Bedlam's "Peter Pan"-ned, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk's "The Mad Ones" Not Mad Enough, Miller's "20th Century Blues" Fades by David Finkle

One definition of a classic should be that no matter how it’s assailed over the decades it remains proudly intact. I bring

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:44AM
Thursday, November 16, 2017

More London Hot Clicks From Agatha Christie, Mel Brooks, Paddy Chayevsky via Ivo van Hove, and Mike Bartlett by David Finkle

London—Important theater continues holding blazingly forth on local stages: Witness for the Prosecution – London County Hall

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

London's National Makes Eye-Popping Fanfare of the Prince-Sondheim-Goldman "Follies" by David Finkle

In 1960 director-producer Harold Prince, always struck by the visual (perhaps more than the auditory?), spotted a Life magazine

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:34PM
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Four London Theater Worthies From Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, Rory Mullarkey, Oscar Wilde and David Mamet by David Finkle

London—Perhaps it’s the luck of the draw. Perhaps it isn’t. But just about everything on offer at theaters here that this

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:15AM
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Julia Cho Tackles the Incipient Mass Murderer Issue in "Office Hour" With Only Partial Success by David Finkle

One of the largest conundrums with which Americans—no, with which populations everywhere—grapple today is recognizing serial

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:27PM
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Teresa Rebeck's Pushy "Office Hour," The Grateful Dead Re-Covered in Lively "Red Roses Green Gold" by David Finkle

The year 1992 is mentioned in Teresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against, now at the Women’s Project Theater. If you didn’t know

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:44PM
Friday, November 3, 2017

Must-Sees Duncan Macmillan's "People, Places, Things" and William Nicholson's "Shadowlands"; Maybe-See Zoe Kazan's "After the by David Finkle

New York City—The following quick reviews of new theater entries you ought to know about: People, Places, Things at St. Ann’s

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Must-Sees Duncan Macmillan's "People, Places, Things" and William Nicholson's "Shadowlands"; Maybe-See Zoe Kazan's "After the by David Finkle

New York City—The following quick reviews of new theater entries you ought to know about: People, Places, Things at St. Ann’s

SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 06:54PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime