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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 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 Forever 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

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

<![CDATA[Jonathan Miller's 1997 production of The Rake's Progress, revived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 2003, and around for only two addi…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:47AM

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

First Nighter: Trash Cuisine Scrutinizes Man's Inhumanity to Man by David Finkle

It's been said that theater emanating from repressed societies is the most pungent. You certainly believe it's the god's honest truth at Trash Cuisine, which the Belarus Free Theatre -- free…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:18PM

Monday, April 27, 2015

First Nighter: "The Merry Widow" at the Met With New Cast Trying by David Finkle

If there's one thing Susan Stroman's new production of The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera House isn't,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:02PM

Sunday, April 26, 2015

First Nighter: Anne Hathaway in "Grounded," Irish Troubles in "The Belle of Belfast," Red Bull Theater's "'Tis Pity She's a W by David Finkle

Synchronicity can be a scary, shocking and ominously timely thing. Only days after Barack Obama apologizes for a drone killing hostages held by al Qaeda in Pakistan, George Brant's Grounded…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:04PM

Friday, April 24, 2015

First Nighter: Lisa D'Amour's "Airline Highway" Traffic Jam by David Finkle

Everybody knows about gang comedies, most often as television series. Something less talked about, if ever talked about, are...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:05AM

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

First Nighter: 'Doctor Zhivago' Caught at Musical Malpractice by David Finkle

Before the lights go down at the Doctor Zhivago start, the tall, dark Broadway Theatre curtains are parted maybe six or eight feet. Filling the space between them is a compilation of grey c…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:02PM

Monday, April 20, 2015

First Nighter: 'Living on Love' Proves Insufficient, Even With Renée Fleming by David Finkle

What do you get when you cross Noel Coward's Private Lives with the Cole Porter-Samuel Spewack-Bella Spewack Kiss Me, Kate? You get cross. That's what you get.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:39PM

Overreaching Revisions of Broadway Revivals by David Finkle

"Gigi" and "An American in Paris" underline a disturbing trend.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:25PM

Thursday, April 16, 2015

First Nighter: Peter Sarsgaard in Shakespeare's and Austin Pendleton's "Hamlet" by David Finkle

It's surprising how many actors appearing as William Shakespeare's Hamlet don't take heed of the young Dane's advice to the players about speaking trippingly on the tongue and not sawing the…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:06AM

Wednesday, April 15, 2015