Monday, June 15, 2015
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...
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Party time! There’s tenderloin on the grill and artichoke dip on the coffee table. The guests gab about real estate, traffic and overextending your neck at Pilates. You know —...
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Since Season 2 of “Orange Is the New Black” premiered in June 2014, several cast members have really stepped it up in terms of visibility. Before Netflix unleashes Season 3...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:28AMThursday, June 11, 2015
“Guards at the Taj” may take place in 17th century India, but it has a very “Harold & Kumar” vibe. The play has lofty ambitions, but in reality it boils...
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Chaos, delays, back-stabbing: With everything that happens behind the scenes, it’s a miracle theater ever makes it to an audience. At least that’s the impression we get from the new...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThe vampire story has been done to death — but “Cuddles” puts a fantastic spin on it. So fresh does the blood flow that this creepily inventive British import makes...
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Two American grunts in their early 20s are holed up in a wrecked bunker in an unnamed desert. They’re bored out of their minds, fruitlessly trying to get a signal...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:07PMForget the Tony Awards — Monday night’s “Bombshell” wiped them off our brains. The one-night-only concert benefit, which sold out the huge Minskoff Theatre in minutes, raised $800,00…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:07PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Not many choreographers have worked with Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Jean Paul Gaultier and Pedro Almodóvar — and been produced in opera houses and culture temples around the globe. Enter Blanca…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PMAt the 2015 Tony Awards, it paid to be either a woman or British. Or a British woman like Dame Helen Mirren, who won the night’s first award — and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:16AMSunday, June 7, 2015
It was the best of times…and the worst of times. Broadway had a record-breaking 2014-’15 season, with a whopping $1.365 billion in ticket sales. Too bad everything that glittered was…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:19PMThursday, June 4, 2015
As Steve Guttenberg learned, not every theater company wants to do Shakespeare with the star of “Police Academy.” Having been AWOL from Broadway since 1990’s “Prelude to a Kiss,” G…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37PMShakespeare’s the undisputed king when it comes to summer theater in New York. Along with Steve Guttenberg’s “Henry IV, Part 1” in Riverside Park, here’s where else you’ll find t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:16PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Mary-Louise Parker is the only reason to see “Heisenberg.” The play’s flimsy and contrived, but it provides the chance to experience her peculiar pull. Not everybody enjoys Parker’s …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThere’s no “Cabaret” in Alan Cumming’s cabaret. But then you can’t blame him for skipping those ultra-familiar tunes in his Café Carlyle debut, “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Son…
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Probably no one does tense, awkward nerd better than Jesse Eisenberg. We’ve seen him play that type in the movies “The Social Network” and “Adventureland,” and in the off-Broadway …
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When one of the two characters in a play is nicknamed Prime Evil, things are bound to get tense. And so they do in the quietly gripping show “A Human...
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Geneva Carr is really good at playing moms. She can do nice ones, as in the AT&T ads where she fretted about rollover minutes. But she’s even better in Robert...
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If “Chaplin” could make it to Broadway, so could “Cagney.” Both musicals profile Hollywood icons, but while “Chaplin” was clunky and bloated, the light-footed “Cagney” at lea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:33PMIf you’re going to spend an hour and a half listening to a mildly irreverent riff on the Bible, it might as well be with Jim Parsons. Who better to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:33PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Nice girls finish last. OK, maybe not dead last, but not far from the bottom. At least that’s the case in Melissa Ross’ new play “Nice Girl,” whose title character,...
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The Thrilla from Wasilla is nowhere to be seen in "Picking Palin." But she weighs heavily on the minds of the characters in this Fringe Fest production -- a quartet of high-ranking Republic…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMI like "Gypsy" and "Anything Goes" and "Mame" as much as the next theater critic, but sometimes I miss the volatile energy of a rock show on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM"Wife to James Whelan" has just been extended. If you like an old-fashioned, well-crafted story, this is the show to see right now.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMEdward Albee is an undisputed titan of American theater: This is the man, after all, who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Three Tall Women" and "The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?" So it's…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNothing is too outré for the theater these days. Wall-to- wall profanity? Strictly for amateurs. Onstage vomiting? So yesterday. Lucy Thurber isn't afraid to up the ante: In her plays, peo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMB'Way bound Some prime old-school thespians are hitting Broadway for fireworks of acting this fall. Cherry Jones sexes up as an entrepreneurial madam in G.B. Shaw's “Mrs. Warren's Prof…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhat's less surprising: that Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” is proving remarkably resilient — or that “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks can't act? Ove…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWHATTHEHELLWASTHAT?!?Forget that stretches of Florencia Lozano's "underneathmybed" are in Spanish. While those who don't speak that language are at a slight disadvantage, it's relatively ea…
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