Monday, January 12, 2015
If you were to ask me who the best male pop singer in the country is, I would immediately say Sam Harris. After seeing Ham, the adaptation of his beautifully written and often humorous memoi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 21, 2014
In his first-rate autobiographical musical The Last Ship, Sting--also Gordon Sumner, son of a ship builder--has come...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Throughout Samuel D. Hunter's play The Whale, at Playwrights Horizons in 2012, the main character is a gay man isolating himself by virtue of his obesity. Now back at PH with Pocatello, Hunt…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 14, 2014
Even before Every Brilliant Thing began I realized the spunky, balding fellow racing about the in-the-round Barrow Street Theatre to hand out sheets of paper and chat with audience members w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
By dint of calling his play The Elephant Man, Pomerance irrevocably establishes that Merrick is his focal figure and for much of the two acts deftly presents the character study of an unforg…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Since perfect things come along infrequently, it's absolutely required that when they do, a whole lot of carrying on attends them. The perfect thing about which I'm now holding forth is the …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:20PM[SHARE]The 90-minute undertaking is a call for justice when it's become shockingly clear that injustice looks to be a national scourge no less potent now than it was nine decades ago.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Come Christmas every year, new offerings are presented with the hope they'll become holiday perennials.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2014
Throughout The Seagull, the characters talk about happiness and of what it's constituted. They all want to be happy. Not one of them is. At this revival, I was in their unhappy number.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:08PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
The blood in Kneehigh's Tristan & Yseult is less than what's in Tamburlaine Parts I and II and is stylized. Emma Rice, the company founder and adapter here of the Cornish myth has someth…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
More specifically, these five are all psychologically and physically damaged. What Smart is up to is constructing a play -- it's another intermissionless 90-minuter -- in which the impaired …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea have collaborated on projects for 40 years, ever since Shepard directed Rea in a Royal...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Scrutinized closely, which it's easy to do during director Pam McKinnon's Delicate Balance revival, at the Golden, Tobias and Agnes are very much a George-Martha do-over.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:04PM[SHARE]As they used to say in the '20s and '30s and often on the midway, "Nice try, but no cigar."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Not that this'll ease those still suffering the devastating Hurricane Sandy effects, but it turns out the monstrously...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
Without an excessive amount of ballyhoo, Simon Stephens has become one of the most important contemporary English
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
What Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse, at Playwrights Horizons, is really about is only revealed in the final minute. So be assured the wonderfully eye-widening revelation won't be described …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Logan (John Hawkes) and Veronica (Tracie Thoms) don't exactly meet cute. They meet awkward. They meet uncertain. They...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PM[SHARE]When in 1934 Dmitri Shostakovich, not yet 30, composed Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, he provided music for all sorts of special occasions.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2014
The list of delightful ingredients in the Encores! Series revival of The Band Wagon with its Arthur Schwartz-Howard...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:22PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
You can't beat a combination of romance, humor, music and charm, and that's what Lee Hall has marvelously whipped together from the Marc Norman-Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love screenplay.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:34PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
London--In all my theater-going days, I don't remember seeing a production that would likely give me nightmares. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
This week we get the revivals of Tom Stoppard's somewhat autobiographical The Real Thing (1982), at the American Airlines Theatre, and Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Not to be foolishly subtle about it: If a better new musical than The Last Ship appears on the horizon this Broadway season, tuner lovers best consider themselves extravagantly lucky.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2014
Since Tony Kushner could be considered to know best, why not quote what he says he admired after seeing Ivo van Hove's revival of the playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:22AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
If you go by several adamant playwrights, it's a terrible idea for married couples to get together over an after-hours drink...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
White-hot controversy is dogging the opera's Metropolitan Opera House premier engagement after many productions elsewhere, only some of them protested. The circumstances have, not surprising…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:05PM[SHARE]The Billy & Ray of the vague title Mike Bencivenga gives his play at the Vineyard are Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. ...
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