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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Was Blind, But Now I See: “Amazing Grace” on Broadway by David Finkle

Is a gale-wind force of a closer enough to forgive what’s gone before?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:46PM
Friday, July 17, 2015

First Nighter: Andrew Lippa's "Wild Party" Not Nearly Wild Enough by David Finkle

Sure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:23PM
Monday, July 13, 2015

First Nighter: The Long and Short of the DruidShakespeare Takes On the History Plays by David Finkle

Hynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:15PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Turning Tricks: Penn and Teller Back on Broadway by David Finkle

Remember what John Boswell quoted Samuel Johnson as saying?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:24PM
Thursday, July 9, 2015

First Nighter: The Lobbyists' Wavy 'Seawife', HorizonTheatreRep's Mixed 'Araberlin', Pan-Asian's Weak 'Sayonara' by David Finkle

In this day of 90-minute productions, many of which might have been expanded to make their point(s) more effectively, there remain productions of greater length that could have stood judicio…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PM
Thursday, July 2, 2015

First Nighter: Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal in Lovable 'Little Shop of Horrors' Revival by David Finkle

What follows is an unadulterated rave for the Encores! Off-Center presentation, at City Center, of the beloved Howard-Ashman-Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors, as adapted from the 1960 Roge…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:00AM
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

First Nighter: Melissa Ross's Of Good Stock Stacks Up, Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub Enjoy Happy Days by David Finkle

Every so often a playwright has two plays or even more open almost simultaneously. The scheduling coincidence (?) tempts a more taut assessment of where the playwright is in his or her care…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PM
Sunday, June 28, 2015

5 More Must-See London Theater Productions by David Finkle

Gets you thinking about conventional limitations, doesn’t it?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:52PM
Friday, June 19, 2015

8 Must-See London Theater Productions by David Finkle

The next wave of Great Britain's domination of Broadway.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:24PM
Saturday, June 13, 2015

First Nighter: Rajiv Joseph's "Guards at the Taj" Shocks Admirably by David Finkle

A myth about the Taj Mahal goes that when it was completed as an Agra, India palace for Shah Jahan's wife--who didn't live to...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:02AM
Sunday, June 7, 2015

First Nighter: The Tonys As Experienced In the Press Room by David Finkle

TONY AWARDS PRESS ROOM--Although the space where we flacks are packed into rows is provided with a simulcast...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50PM
Friday, June 5, 2015

First Nighter: The Marcy Heisler-Zina Goldrich Musical 'Ever After' an Unlikely Ever After by David Finkle

Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with plot diversion…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PM

First Nighter: The Marcy Heisler-Zina Goldrich Musical 'Ever After' an Unlikely Ever After by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with pl…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:34AM
Thursday, June 4, 2015

First Nighter: Simon Stephens's "Heisenberg," Tom Jacobson's "The Twentieth-Century Way" by David Finkle

Whether two things appearing simultaneously can be called a trend seems premature. But when they appear one on...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

First Nighter: Jesse Eisenberg's Spoiled "The Spoils," David Greenspan Snappily Takes on Gertrude Stein by David Finkle

Sometimes the unforgettable characters populating your personal landscape are the ones you'd most like to forget. ...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:10PM
Monday, June 1, 2015

Book Exposition of America: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? by David Finkle

Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26AM

Book Exposition of America: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just held May 27-29 at the Jacob Javits center, seems t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:26AM
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Time for Plays That Play With Time by David Finkle

Time often takes its own sweet, or bitter, time.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:15PM

First Nighter: Emily Schwend's "The Other Thing," Melissa Ross's "Nice Girl" on Nice Women or Otherwise by David Finkle

Sometimes at the theater the women wrest it from the men--not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. ...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02AM

First Nighter: Emily Schwend's 'The Other Thing,' Melissa Ross' 'Nice Girl' on Nice Women or Otherwise by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Sometimes at the theater, the women wrest it from the men -- not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. I'm talking about <em>The Other Thing</em&g…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:02AM
Friday, May 29, 2015

First Nighter: Jim Parsons is God in An Act of God, Robert Creighton is James Cagney in Cagney by David Finkle

Jim Parsons, adored for his appearances as Sheldon Lee Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, is now appearing at Studio 54 (although it's not a Studio 54 production) as the Supreme Being, though th…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AM
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Off-Broadway “Permission” to Bottom by David Finkle

The playwright who smacks us in the face.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:33PM
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

First Nighter: Neil LaBute's "The Way We Get By" Doesn't Get By, Simon Callow Transgenders in "Tuesday at Tesco's" by David Finkle

The 36 Goldberg variations on the Bach harpsichord tune are copious, but apparently Neil LaBute wants to give those spins on...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02PM
Monday, May 18, 2015

Tony Noms for Best Score Then and Now, What’s Changed? by David Finkle

What does it mean when the best Broadway songs are almost all in the Tony-nominated revivals?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:28PM
Saturday, May 16, 2015

First Nighter: Edith Piaf Remembered in Pascal Rioult's Revue With Christine Andreas by David Finkle

If it's offbeat revues you're after, make a beeline to the short-run Street Singer: Celebrating the Life of Edith Piaf at 42West Nightclub, and make it fast. Tonight's performance (May 16) …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

First Nighter: Dan Lauria's "Dinner With the Boys" Undernourished by David Finkle

Dinner With the Boys, written by Dan Lauria and at the Acorn, is a harmless enough comedy about the Mafia today--not...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:57PM
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

First Nighter: Lemon Anderson's 'Toast' Looks at Attica Up Close and Personal by David Finkle

Lemon Anderson's Toast, printed some places as Toast, takes place in an Attica Correctional Facility cellblock during late summer 1971. The year isn't immediately specified, but it's mentio…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:49PM
Monday, May 4, 2015

First Nighter: Orlandersmith Impressively Goes on "Forever," "A Queen for Day" is Crowned by David Finkle

Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue Forever at the New York Theatre workshop--as a follow-up to,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42PM

First Nighter: Orlandersmith Impressively Goes on 'Forever,' 'A Queen for a Day' Is Crowned by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue <em>Forever</em> at the New York Theatre workshop -- as a follow-up to, among other writings, her acclaimed <em…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:42PM

Zoë Wanamaker Talks Theater Here and Abroad by David Finkle

The Anglo-American actress gabs about the Encores! "Zorba!" and much more.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:14AM
Sunday, May 3, 2015

First Nighter: Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress" Back at the Met by David Finkle

When you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:47AM

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Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
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Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
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