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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Julie Taymor paints chilling portrait of modern warfare in ‘Grounded’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

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...

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

Steve Coogan fails in pursuit of ‘Happyish’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Extra! Extra! Well-off middle-aged white guy undergoes midlife crisis! Let’s make a TV show about it! Sorry to break it you, “Happyish,” but if you’re going to be a comedy...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:28AM
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Chita Rivera gets her diva Broadway return in ‘The Visit’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

It’s Chita Rivera’s world: We just live in it. This works out very well for the Kander and Ebb musical “The Visit,” in which the charismatic star plays a billionairess...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

‘Airline Highway’ collects New Orleans clichés like Mardi Gras beads by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Hungry for clichés? “Airline Highway” is chock full of them. A hooker with a heart of gold, a gruff handyman, a sassy gender-bending African-American, a lonely stripper: Every character…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

‘Something Rotten!’ deserves to be Broadway’s new big, fat hit by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Broadway hits have a kind of white-hot energy: Everything from story to song clicks into place, the actors are firing on all cylinders — and the audience knows it’s watching...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:45AM
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Epic musical ‘Doctor Zhivago’ plays like third-rate Russian take on ‘Les Miz’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Fiery revolutionaries, overheated passions, power ballads belted to the balconies, an upstanding hero and a fanatical villain — hey, if it worked for “Les Misérables,” it could work f…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Monday, April 20, 2015

Renée Fleming and Douglas Sills play vain divas in guilty pleasure ‘Living on Love’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The new Broadway comedy “Living on Love” isn’t just filled with clichés — it revels in them. This is a show that has its cake, eats it, and then rubs...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

‘Castle,’ ‘Penny Dreadful’ and TV’s other under-appreciated shows by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Enough already with “Game of Thrones,” “Empire,” “True Detective” and all those attention-grabbing shows! It’s time to give props to the sturdy series that don’t pretend to r…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015

‘Fun Home’ isn’t perfect, but immensely likable by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Don’t let its perky title and the cute children in its cast fool you: “Fun Home” isn’t a show for tourists. Based on Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, Lisa Kron.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Friday, April 17, 2015

‘Orphan Black’ should stop cloning around by Elisabeth Vincentelli

At the very beginning of “Orphan Black,” it felt as if its appeal was in its concept. One word: clones. Really, how cool is that? But it quickly became obvious...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Kelli O’Hara leads a lavish revival of ‘King and I,’ even if Ken Watanabe’s monarch falls short by Elisabeth Vincentelli

You can’t overstate how stunningly beautiful, how achingly well sung this new revival of “The King and I” is. A lifesize ship gracefully moves over the orchestra, and a Siamese...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

The kings of ‘The King and I’ who ruled the stage and screen by Elisabeth Vincentelli

You’d think the role of the titular ruler of Siam in the musical “The King and I” wouldn’t have much leeway in terms of casting, but consider that it’s been...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:17PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Peter Sarsgaard’s paranoid ‘Hamlet’ saves the modern retelling by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Psycho Hamlet, qu’est-ce que c’est? The least you can say about Peter Sarsgaard’s performance as Shakespeare’s vengeful prince is that it’s fully committed — in every sense of th…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

‘Glee’ star Matthew Morrison works tirelessly to drive overbearing ‘Finding Neverland’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Forget that “Finding Neverland” is set in 1904 London and that Kelsey Grammer plays a theater producer rather than a pedantic shrink: The show muscles in a “Cheers” joke. Surprisingl…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

‘It Shoulda Been You’ lacks laughs at a wedding gone wrong by Elisabeth Vincentelli

As far as comedy goes, the most rewarding wedding is the one that goes off the rails. And so Broadway’s new musical “It Shoulda Been You” piles on the mishaps...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM

Off-Broadway’s ‘Iowa’ is nothing but a flyover play by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“I thought I had something to say, but I don’t,” says a character in “Iowa.” The same could be said of Jenny Schwartz’s new play with music, which strains so...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:48PM
Monday, April 13, 2015

Meet the hunky Dutch actor heating up ‘Game of Thrones’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

If you watched Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones” season premiere, you may have noticed the camera lingering on Daario Naharis after some naked exertions with Daenerys. But a shapely beh…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53PM

Lesley Manville is a revelation in gripping ‘Ghosts’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Ghosts” packs an astounding amount of drama into just over an hour and a half — cheating and lying, bitterness and hypocrisy, venereal disease and crushed hopes, and that staple...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:17PM
Sunday, April 12, 2015

‘Veep’ star Anna Chlumsky: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is ‘relentless’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Anna Chlumsky displays serious comic chops on HBO’s “Veep,” in which she plays Amy Brookheimer, the title character’s perpetually harried chief of staff. Yet the actress sounds a lit…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:02AM
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Ken Starr steals the show in otherwise mediocre ‘Clinton — The Musical’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Turns out the dominant character in the Clinton administration wasn’t President Bill or First Lady Hillary, but Kenneth Starr. At least that’s how it seems in “Clinton — The Musical,…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Broadway’s ‘Wolf Hall’ is beautiful but boring by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The bad news is that the two plays that make up “Wolf Hall” will set you back six hours. Even worse is that they feel even longer. It’s amazing that...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Gentrification goes terribly wrong in new drama ‘Buzzer’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jackson is a Harvard-educated African-American lawyer who just bought a home in a rough, Brownsville-type neighborhood. He has a reason, though: He grew up there. “In 10 years, this whole.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Vanessa Hudgens is at ease in a girl-power revival of ‘Gigi’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

How do you solve a problem like “Gigi”? At first glance the Lerner and Loewe musical seemed ripe for a revival: The movie won a whopping nine Oscars in 1959,...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Foul-mouthed puppet is Tony gold in raunchy ‘Hand to God’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Don’t let his big eyes, tuft of red hair and argyle sweater fool you: Tyrone is a profane, horny, violent little psycho — and funny as hell, too. He’s found...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy are a mismatched couple in ‘Skylight’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Watching a couple duke it out works only if you also understand what drew them to each other in the first place. But in the new Broadway revival of David...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM

Rock ’n’ roll play ‘Undeniable Sound’ is a little too quiet by Elisabeth Vincentelli

For a show about rock ’n’ roll, “The Undeniable Sound of Right Now” is a little too well-behaved. Admittedly, this new play by Laura Eason (“Sex With Strangers,” TV’s “House.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Faded diva remembers life on the road in mesmerizing ‘Music Hall’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Showbiz isn’t all glamour and glitz. In the sharply written, beautifully acted “Music Hall,” an aging diva reminisces about her days touring her song-and-dance act. Sometimes the stage…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Saturday, March 28, 2015

How to see dinner and a show for less than $50 by Elisabeth Vincentelli

People always complain that theater is too expensive. And it is — if you’re referring to Broadway, with its $150 orchestra seats and its overpriced Theater District restaurants. But the.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:21AM
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Rockettes spring show with Derek Hough isn’t so spectacular by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Radio City Music Hall’s “New York Spring Spectacular” is a lot of show — all for something that feels like the most expensive visitors bureau commercial ever made. For starters,...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

William Puck’s guerilla posters bring ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to the subway by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Today, New York celebrates the Fall of the Dark Lord Sauron. What, you didn’t know about the anniversary of the demise of the big baddie from “The Lord of the...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22PM

6 celebs we’d like to see in Bradley Cooper’s ‘A Star Is Born’ by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Like Batman reboots, but not quite as often as Dracula, “A Star Is Born” returns to movie screens with regularity. Now Bradley Cooper is meant to make his directorial debut...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PM

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