Monday, May 25, 2015
Gritty, tough-talking, blue- collar characters are hardly a rarity onstage. But most of the time their low cash balance is part of the background: It provides color and gives set designers …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe most exciting mo ment in "That Championship Season" comes when Jason Patric's character, Tom, falls down a flight of stairs. For a couple of seconds, you're involved in what's happening…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMethod acting, famously adopted by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, involves actors digging deep within themselves to find their character's emotional truth. Though the technique's lost …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou know a movie's a bona fide phenome non when it spawns a spoof or a stage version. "Black Swan" delivers on both counts with "SWAN!!!," which the irreverent troupe QWAN (Quality Without …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn the right hands, old-fash ioned farce can still kill, as the 2008 revival of "Boeing-Boeing" proved. The return of "Cactus Flower" -- another French comedy from the mid-'60s, this one ad…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA clunker of a Broadway show, “Mothers and Sons” asks us to endure the vacuous chit-chat of deeply unpleasant people. The worst part is, there isn’t even a good reason...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMMany ’80s artifacts are best gone for good: Fond memories of REO Speedwagon, shoulder pads and “ALF” are better than the reality. The same is true of Christopher Durang’s “Beyond...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMHappy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it's the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day's Journey…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSunday, May 24, 2015
https://youtu.be/5sGOwFVUU0I If it’s late May, it means it’s time for the annual Pop Apocalypse, aka the Eurovision Song Contest. Because when it comes to over-the-top, cray-cray musical…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:47AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Ghosts, violence, gore: Where do we sign up?! We don’t see this stuff a lot at the theater, so “The Other Thing” at least has novelty on its side. Sadly...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:26PMThursday, May 21, 2015
You could expect “The Sound and the Fury” to be a tedious slog. And yet, strangely, it’s not. This fearful anticipation comes from the fact that the show is a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMPauline is a good daughter. Every Tuesday, she visits her newly widowed father, tidies up his house, does his laundry and shops with him at the local supermarket. Dad’s response:...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:52PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Eric (Justin Bartha) and Cynthia (Elizabeth Reaser) are in trouble. He teaches computer science at a Texas college but is too much of a weenie to go for department chair....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
"The Way We Get By” is off-Broadway’s answer to a Hollywood rom-com — the kind where a young, attractive couple overcomes obstacles and disputes about “Star Wars” to sail off...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMShe hasn’t had a Broadway show yet, but Annie Baker is the It playwright of the moment. Ever since her breakthrough show, 2009’s “Circle Mirror Transformation," Baker has steadily clim…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:38PMMonday, May 18, 2015
With the premiere of David Guetta and Nicki Minaj’s “Hey Mama” video — on upstart subscription service Vessel, natch — it’s hard not to wonder who hasn’t worked with the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:40PMSunday, May 17, 2015
The Valuable Lesson play tends be predictable: Somebody somehow ends up learning a heartwarming thing or two about life and one’ s self. This is exactly what happens in “What...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, May 11, 2015
South African playwright Athol Fugard has spent nearly six decades exploring his country’s bitter divides. It’s not that everybody suddenly reconciles in his new play, “The Painted Roc…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM"The more you see, the less anything makes sense in this town.” By the time friendly barkeep Beverly (Juliette Lewis) says that to Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon),...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:17PMhttps://youtu.be/UHj8TMTq8fA So that’s where Kalinda has been hiding: the frozen-food aisle! A lot happened on season 6 of “The Good Wife,” but Archie Panjabi’s announcement of her e…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:51AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Now that’s a test of ingenuity: How do you translate “Cool Hand Luke,” which takes place on a Florida chain gang, to the stage with no set or props? This...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:30PMThursday, May 7, 2015
When Encores! announced that John Turturro would star in its concert version of “Zorba!,” the big question was: “But can he sing?!?” Um, not really. But to his credit, Turturro...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:53PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
The events leading up to the explosive Attica Prison riot of 1971 promise to be the stuff of compelling drama. It’s too bad, then, that “ToasT” is so undercooked. Though...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, May 4, 2015
At last, the crypto-gay, cannibal mafia comedy we haven’t been waiting for! “Dinner With the Boys” is all that and less: Ineptly written, directed and acted, this is one hell...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PMAt times, “Forever” — Dael Orlandersmith’s new solo piece about growing up with a violent drunk of a mother — is like the film “Precious,” only with songs by Patti...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:05PMSaturday, May 2, 2015
When people get what they want on a TV series, it’s bad news for the show. Just look at what’s happened on “House of Cards,” and is currently unraveling on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:25AMThursday, April 30, 2015
We've seen our share of canines onstage, but few can compete with Crab, a cheeky mutt who makes off with “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Crab gleefully attacks a ball...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMOne of the most dreaded sights on Broadway is the white insert in the playbill letting you know that the show’s star is out that night. Yet theatergoers at new...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:59PMMonday, April 27, 2015
Back in October, Archie Panjabi announced she’d leave “The Good Wife” at the end of the season. The news knocked the wind out of the CBS drama’s sails. Panjabi’s character,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:42PMGiovanni and Annabella are made for each other: “One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all,” he swoons. Never mind that they’re also brother and sister — passion...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:11PMSunday, April 26, 2015
You could be forgiven for missing “Grounded” when it premiered off-Broadway last year — it was, after all, a play by an unknown writer with a relatively unknown actress at...
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