Saturday, August 24, 2013
A site-specific slice of nostalgia and bitterness about immigrants in the mid 20s
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:47PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2013
Mark St. Germain's latest play about an imagined meeting between two famous men, in this case F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2013
Shakespeare & company's outstanding revival of Martin McDonagh's first Leenane play, with a stellar cast headed by company founder Tina Packer
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Our first Fringe review has been posted-- check back daily for more . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
the Unicorn Theater is transfomed into a creepy mansion by Yale Drama School talent
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2013
Olympia Dukakis is at her most compelling in the non-verbal scenes that epitomize the tragedy of a woman whose willingness to profit from war goes counter to her determination to keep her ch…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2013
The first of Annie Baker's Shirley, Vermont plays is being given a lovely production at the Chester Theatre.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2013
Bernard Slade's crowd-pleasing comedy gets its latest revival, starring a real married cou;le .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:42AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
despite the provocative subject of transgender life, this isn't a show sizzling with sex. Instead the sizzle comes from the tenderness and warmth of the various one on one relationships; als…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Though set in a narrow Brooklyn community between 1944 and 1948, the divide between different beliefs and life styles is more than ever far reaching and pertinent in this stage adaptation of…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2013
if you're a music lover, and especially fond of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Trio in A Minor," rejoice. You're going to hear it all, plus several other of the Maestro's works, performed by live musi…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:24PM[SHARE]The exceptionally well cast and staged revival of Shaw's most popular play is closing next week. If you don't want to miss having a genuinely " loverly" time, get thee to the main stage of t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Thrills and chills and emotional and legal quandaries! Be prepared for plenty of all in this revival of William Mastrosimone's extremely violent and tense 1980 drama about a rape that turns …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
A bio-drama that's uniquely site specific in one of the Berkshires' Gilded Age mansions
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:31PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
The sophisticated musicals we've become accustomed to in recent years have made the corn-fed story less worthy of Hammerstein's poetic lyrics and Rodgers' ever easy on the ears melodies. So,…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
The response at the opening night performance of James Goldman's 1966 play proves that the appeal of an evening providing a cross between a dramatic history lesson and a Spamalot-like comedy…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:21AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2013
t's quite a coup for the theater company that calls the Chester Town Hall home to be presenting the world premiere of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's latest collaboration . But, while the pl…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
The monologue which raises the curtain on John Guare's exploration of three Eastern Europeans' immigrant experiences is less a play than an anecdote. Martin Moran is a fine anecdotist. The s…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36PM[SHARE]I've seen my share of Shakespeare plays at the Public Theater. But but never as a rap and hip hop driven musical. This very loose take on Othello now at the Public's Anspacher is a far cry f…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Reviews of all th winners and losers in Curtainup's archives. . . Pippin - The Big Tony Winner, with Best Musical Revival just one of its awards . Kinky Boot…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:23AM[SHARE]Reasons to Be Happy - Neil LaBute devotees will find plenty of reasons to be happy that he's re-visiting the messy lives of two working class couples in an anywhere USA suburb. …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:09AM[SHARE]J.B. Priestley's play about a British import company's obsolescence in the face of a changing business practices and the Great Depression, is a highlight of this year's Brits Off-Broadway Fe…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:03AM[SHARE]Neil LaBute devotees will find plenty of reasons to be happy that he's re-visiting the messy lives of two working class couples in an anywhere USA suburb
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:01AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
We are in proccess of moving our site to a new host -- and are temporarily posting rviewes at th Annex...A CurtainUp London ReviewRutherford and Son…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
- a terrific cast, smart production, lots of word play but ultimately disappointing .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The much anticipated Far From Heaven musical while not heavenly, has a lot to makeit worth seeing, including a radiant Kelli O'Hara. &nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
The changes between the show's trial run at Williamstown and its arrival at Playwrights Horizon while not enormous, are substantial enough to make my second viewing a more emotionally compel…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
-This production's new translation, songs and merger of the ancient and Kremlin revolutions have not prevented director BrianKulick and his actors from clearly taking us into Brecht's world …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
Bashir Lazhar - The utter purity and poetry of this play that was the basis for an 84th Academy Award-nominated movie, Monsieur Lazhar. will linger long after the performance. . . ReaThough…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
I completed my Russian Week -- first(Encores! revival of On the Town; then , Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and and finally Richard Nelson's slow…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:35AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
No contest when it comes to my most unusual theater experience of the week. . .the expanded version of the popoper Natasha, Pierre…
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