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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

People are dressing like slobs, so it’s time to bring back dress codes by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Kylie Jenner may have been wearing a classy “Eat Me Out” T-shirt, but at least she wasn’t at the theater. Small blessings, right? Tell that to the slobs who turn...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:12AM
Monday, July 27, 2015

Where to see one man play a cop, mob widow and teen gamer by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Aside from a fuzzy photo, we never see the title character of “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey” — and yet he’s in every scene of James Lecesne’s moving solo...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Why Fox should let ‘Wayward Pines’ die after one season by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Wayward Pines” ended its 10-episode run in such a way that we never want to see the mysterious Idaho town of the title again. Don’t get us wrong: Thursday’s finale...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:09AM
Friday, July 24, 2015

Stage version of Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’ starts off great before running aground by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Haruki Murakami’s best-selling novels — “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” and more — often involve flights of fancy that make…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:52PM
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Colin Quinn’s solo ‘New York Story’ is his best work yet by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Colin Quinn is having a moment: His supporting turns on “Girls” and “Inside Amy Schumer” have been delish, and he has a substantial part in Schumer’s hit movie “Trainwreck.” No…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:04PM

‘Ubu Roi’ is an awesome punk play you didn’t know you needed by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Ubu Roi” may have been written in 1896, but make no mistake: It’s a punk play. This surreal satire about a malevolent couple that betrays, steals and kills for money...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:02PM
Monday, July 20, 2015

What we know about ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ — so far by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Forget Hollywood blockbusters: The summer’s most eagerly anticipated project is “Fear the Walking Dead” — the “Walking Dead” companion show. When the first full-length trailer wa…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:49PM
Friday, July 17, 2015

Jan Maxwell serves up her usual intense performance in ‘Scenes From an Execution’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Never say never: Bands break up, then reunite. Joaquin Phoenix quits acting, then says that was a prank. Heck, even Harper Lee has a new book out! So excuse us...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:04PM
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Impassive ‘Amazing Grace’ tells the story of the world-famous hymn by Elisabeth Vincentelli

With its clean-cut heroes and villains and its earnest Christianity, the musical “Amazing Grace” is an outlier on Broadway — where the new normal is the bold, hip-hop-flavored “Hamil…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:44PM

Broadway star Sutton Foster isn’t the life of ‘The Wild Party’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The last time Sutton Foster appeared at Encores!, in “Violet,” the show went on to Broadway. That probably won’t be the case with Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” which started...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:50PM
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

HBO’s reliance on brooding male stars is a misguided bromance by Elisabeth Vincentelli

TV is moving on, but HBO didn’t get the memo. In the 1990s, the premium cable channel changed the game with two iconic series, “Sex and the City” and “The...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:01AM
Monday, July 13, 2015

Wobbly, campy satire ‘Ruthless!’ takes aim at child actors by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Talk about a claim to fame: Two key reasons why “Ruthless!” became a cult hit in 1992 were Britney Spears and Natalie Portman, who understudied the original lead, Laura Bell...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Marathon production ‘DruidShakespeare’ falls short of memorable by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“DruidShakespeare” goes from zero to 60 in seconds. Then it slows down for hours and hours. Your own fondness for the Bard’s history plays will determine whether or not you...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:47PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Beloved magicians return in uneven ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

PENN & Teller made illusions and sleights of hand cool years before the likes of David Copperfield made them flashy. For 40 years now, the pair have been the instantly...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM
Thursday, July 9, 2015

‘Skippyjon Jones Snow What’ is zany fun for everyone by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Let’s face it: Any review is irrelevant to the target audience for “Skippyjon Jones Snow What,” which is unlikely to read one. But then, that audience is unlikely to read...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:18AM
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Rihanna dissed me, so I wrote her a hit song by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Bebe Rexha co-wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s 2013 smash “The Monster” — yet she’s never even met them. Well, the singer did have a pre-“Monster” encounter with Rihanna when the pop…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00AM
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Jake Gyllenhaal can sing – and sell a joke – in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Never mind whether he can sing: Can Jake sell a joke? To everybody’s surprise, including maybe his own, Jake Gyllenhaal is appealingly funny and sweet in Encores’ semi-staged concert of.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:04AM
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Even Alicia Silverstone can’t save a clueless ‘Of Good Stock’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Three sisters gather for a weekend in Cape Cod, Mass. One has a possibly terminal illness, another is a hysterical bride to be, the third reveals a surprise pregnancy. They...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Finally, all three ‘Decline of Western Civilization’ music docs are on DVD by Elisabeth Vincentelli

It took for frickin’ ever, but here they are at last: All three “Decline of Western Civilization” movies are out on DVD! Why the excitement, you may ask? Well, the...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:58AM
Monday, June 29, 2015

Patti LuPone rules as a theatrical diva in ‘Shows for Days’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

You say typecasting, I say playing to an actor’s strengths. And the new comedy “Shows for Days” plays to Patti LuPone’s strengths to the power of a gazillion. The role...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Saturday, June 27, 2015

AIDS activist Larry Kramer still fired up in HBO doc by Elisabeth Vincentelli

When Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart” premiered on Broadway in 2011 — 26 years after its creation — its author was outside the theater, distributing leaflets about AIDS. The.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:06AM
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Jonathan Groff is the soul of William Finn’s ‘A New Brain’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Three weeks after winning Tonys for the book and score of “Falsettos” in 1992, William Finn collapsed on the street — felled by a congenital brain malformation. Not only did...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:56PM

‘Wayward Pines’ is back — and creepy as ever! by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Come for the stars — stay for the crazy plot! It’s safe to say that the initial lure for “Wayward Pines” was the kind of deluxe cast you tend to...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:10AM
Monday, June 22, 2015

Who needs Jon Snow when we have Poldark? by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Who cares about Jon Snow? Five minutes into “Poldark,” the dark, broody and very much dead Jon Snow had been replaced in our hearts by the dark, broody and very...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:22PM
Friday, June 19, 2015

French music doesn’t suck anymore, and here’s proof by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Remember when French music stopped sucking? OK, so good stuff came out before Daft Punk — it’s just that nobody outside France knew it. It took the masked duo and...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:32AM
Thursday, June 18, 2015

‘Significant Other’ is a modern, non-musical spin on ‘Company’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“It feels like all my friends are dying,” Jordan complains in the new comedy “Significant Other.” Well, technically they aren’t: They’re getting married, one after another, a…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PM

Chris Noth doesn’t deliver in ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

What’s Chris Noth thinking in “Doctor Faustus”? Hard to tell. As the ambitious magician of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play — who trades his soul to Lucifer in exchange …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

‘Gloria’ is one of the fiercest plays you’ll see this year by Elisabeth Vincentelli

It’s not just “Game of Thrones” that boasts jaw-dropping shockers — the new play “Gloria” has such a fantastic moment, it’s killing me that I can’t spill the beans. All...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Sam Waterston is tepid in ‘The Tempest’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Shakespeare in the Park is nothing if not wildly uneven. So it goes with the Public Theater’s latest, “The Tempest,” in which some of the acting is inventive and unexpected,...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Spy games intensify in ‘Deutschland 83’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Sundance TV’s “Deutschland 83” is hyped as the first German-language series to be picked up by an American network. Now that’s going to lure the viewing masses! And it’s also...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:15AM
Monday, June 15, 2015

Daring musical ‘Preludes’ goes inside Rachmanioff’s head by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Early in the new Lincoln Center musical “Preludes,” the lead character admits to liking Gordon Lightfoot: “I know he’s not cool, but he brings back a fond feeling.” The surprise...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

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