Thursday, March 19, 2015
When Paint Your Wagon was first done and record companies still actively scoured upcoming scores for chart-topping possibilities, the ones selected were "I Talk to the Trees" and &…
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As writer and director, O'Neil is so intent on keeping Lonesome Traveler at a good-time hootenanny level (remember hootenannies?) that though he brings in some of the harder crises and their…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:37PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Louise (Carrie Coon) spends her time at the lab working on a study of female desire--with desire-depleted Mary (Florencia...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:47PMDoug Wright loves to wrangle with deceased figures of greater or lesser fame, and in Posterity, at the Atlantic's Linda Gross Theatre, he comes up with a humdinger.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:53PMSunday, March 15, 2015
During the On the Twentieth Century revival -- a musical comedy vehicle about a vehicle -- any number of Broadway veterans, including Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher, are working at th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:46PMThursday, March 12, 2015
Nervous-as-a-tomcat-on-a-hot-tin-roof Charles (Bryce Ryness) and in-control-if-slightly-confused Hope (Pearl Sun) have just met perhaps...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:25PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Pauline Kael once wrote -- and probably said many times -- that "it takes a star to play a star." I thought of the quote while watching Cush Jumbo performing her Josephine and I, a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:25PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
London--George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman isn't produced very often, in part because of its length. To be more precise,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:15AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Since William Congreve wrote that "music hath charm to soothe a savage breast," people have assumed he was right. The composer Claire van Kampen has decided to demonstrate its tru…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:19AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
London--What can ordinarily be objectionable about Ivo van Hove's too often juvenile look-at-me directing is that he thinks it's innovative to play up a script's subtext. That, of course, i…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:04PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Lin-Manuel MIranda's new musical has extra-special potential.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:15PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Almost immediately after Tom Stoppard's new and intellectually thrilling play, The Hard Problem, at the National Theatre's Dorfman, begins, the just-about-peerless playwright has his charact…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:47PMFriday, February 20, 2015
When Peter Barnes decided the ruling English class was nutty, he created Jack Gurney and wrote The Ruling Class, a hellzapoppin satire during most of which Gurney (James McAvoy) contends he'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:22PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Nick Jones could have fooled me. And did with Verité, his new comedy(?) at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow. But he didn't fool...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:42PMSunday, February 15, 2015
When I was at college, a favorite pastime of mine was sitting around with a bunch of other procrastinators keen on determining the most important person of the 20th century. I maintained it…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Can a great play also be not entirely good? And before you answer that, please put aside any objections about the adjective...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27PMIn the program for The Events, now at the New York Theatre Workshop, is a note about the production's provenance that goes in...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:02PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Joel Drake Johnson is a sly one. At first, his Rasheeda Speaks -- directed by Cynthia Nixon with her own sly touch in a very impressive directing debut -- looks as if it's going to be a str…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:59PMBeauty and humor aren't so common a combination that a theatergoer can afford to get blasé about it. That's what Christina Bianco dispenses in large quantities throughout the Greg Edwards-A…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:12PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Sometimes playwright John Cariani looks at the world -- actually the worlds of love and relationships -- through rose-colored glasses. Just as often he views those worlds through lenses tint…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:06PMSunday, February 8, 2015
If forgiveness is divine, what is the inability to forgive? Joe Pintauro's hard-nosed Snow Orchid, at the Lion, doesn't provide an answer. Instead, through the up-close-and-extremely-perso…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:23PMThursday, February 5, 2015
For some time Broadway has been the place for swellegant black revues, the most recent being last season's superlative...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PMWhat's happening at City Center this weekend is what frequently happens when the Encores! series is in swing: The most entrancing musical number to be seen anywhere in Manhattan is right the…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:16PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Diana Ross -- Miss Ross to you, Diane to family and (Motown) friends -- heart-stoppingly opened Brooklyn's restored King's Theatre last night (February 3) by entering from the back of the va…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PMFriday, January 30, 2015
If you go by Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, revived at Classic Stage Company, you might conclude the revered...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:43AMSunday, January 25, 2015
If you ask me, the prolific John Tiffany and the prolific Steven Hoggett are responsible for the best play ever presented about the Iraq War. So when I learned they were bringing Let the Ri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:18PMFriday, January 23, 2015
In Da, now revived by the Irish Repertory Theatre during its DR2 season, Hugh Leonard deals with a couple of irrefutable
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Although we may loathe the very suggestion, it's undoubtedly true that to some extent, we all eventually become our parents. Halley Feiffer believes we do to the most extreme extent.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:43PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Tony Danza on stage -- or anywhere, for that matter -- is just about impossible to dislike. This show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas, the genuinely entertainin…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:59AMThursday, January 15, 2015
One of the Broadway season's very highest lights, the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart You Can't Take It With You remains brightly illuminated now that replacements Richard Thomas and Anna Chlums…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:49PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Nick Payne's Constellations arrives at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman after winning the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and receiving a clutch of rave revi…
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