Monday, May 25, 2015
In The Punishing Blow, a one-man show by Randy Cohen, a professor gives a lecture, with personal digressions, on a Jewish boxer in 18th-century Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]'I've been preparing for this role for a long time,' says the actress, who is bringing her performance as Amanda Wingfield to the Mark Taper Forum.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]David Foley's stodgy nondrama is about the relationship between the notorious Lizzie Borden and Nance O'Neil, an otherwise little-remembered stage and screen actress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A cheerleader vibe permeates the New York Musical Theater Festival, an annual developmental showcase that has propelled shows like “Next to Normal.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Vacant ethics and global economic woes provide the background of “Microcrisis,” a dynamic but sometimes painful-to-watch show at Here Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kelly Younger’s “Banished Children of Eve,” a stage adaptation of Peter Quinn’s 1994 novel of about New York during the Civil War era, is at the Irish Repertory T…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]With its high-energy ensemble and dynamic direction and choreography, this darkly provocative musical makes a fitting swan song for the duo behind "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]Some of Broadway's finest performers and top-tier craftsmen take a valiant stab, but they can't give this misconceived musicalization of the 1988 Pedro Almodovar film a life of its own.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]The History Channel meets Comedy Central in "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Colin Quinn's whip-smart dissertation on the rise and fall of the world's great empires.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]Pee-wee nostalgists impatient for next year’s Judd Apatow-produced feature will get their fix in this giddy return to the Playhouse.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally complicated times.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Personal Enemy,” the play John Osborne wrote in 1953 with Anthony Creighton, deals with anti-Communist paranoia and homosexual persecution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]While the thematic expansiveness of John Guare's first new Broadway play in 18 years is audacious, George C. Wolfe's extravagant staging and Jeffrey Wright's mannered lead performance make a…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]Jacking up the comic volume on intimate material, this stage treatment smothers the off-kilter appeal and tender character observation of the movie.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]Neil LaBute seems to be barely trying in this wisp of a play, kinda-sorta about spiritual redemption.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PM[SHARE]An adaptation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been conceived with visual imagination and startling physical power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“THE only thing that matters is the theater!” That passionate declaration was made not by Katharine Cornell, Ethel Barrymore or some other grande dame of the stage. It was spit o…
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