Monday, April 21, 2014
Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan
(©Johan Persson)
His face may be prominently displayed on the Playbill cover and theater marquee, but Daniel Radcliffe melts seamlessly i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:37AMThursday, April 17, 2014
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in Of Mice and Men
(©Richard Phibbs)
Review: Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a beloved classic that is a staple in high scho…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:30AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Audra McDonald doesn’t look or sound anything like Billie Holiday. So it’s a credit to t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Marin Mazzie in Bullets Over Broadway
(©Paul Kolnik)
Imagine a splashy Broadway musical comedy based on a beloved film, written by its original creator who once toiled for Sid Caesar …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:30AMThursday, April 10, 2014
You’ll mingle with ghosts in the new “Speakeasy Dollhouse,” an immersive show about the Booth brothers, actor Edwin and his notorious brother, Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:07PMFriday, April 4, 2014
David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaYTanya Richardson Jackson,
Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo
in A Raisin in the Sun
(©Brigitte Lacombe)
If director…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:05AMThursday, April 3, 2014
In the Transport Group’s new revival of “I Remember Mama,” 10 time-tested actresses — ages 67 to 82 — play all 23 characters, including the men and small boys. But...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:06AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Stephen Sondheim’s spirit hangs heavy over “A Second Chance.” One character calls the composer “one of my heroes.” And a program note from playwright Ted Shen even thanks him. An...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PMMonday, March 31, 2014
Idina Menzel in If/Then
(©Joan Marcus)
When a performer’s mere opening utterance of “Hello, it’s me” garners huge sustained applause, you know you’re in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:26AMFriday, March 28, 2014
Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” is a mash-up of the Latin words “mother” and “moon.” But it’s really about girl power, a female-centric production loosely inspired by “The Tem…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:20PMThursday, March 27, 2014
This world premiere play by Beau Willimon ("House of Cards") concerns four ordinary people whose lives become intertwined by fateful circumstances.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:05PMOff-Braodway’s “Beauty and the Beast” — a critically acclaimed, adults-only affair with explicit sex and nudity — is a fairy-tale love story both onstage and off. Chalk it up t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:22AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller, Grayson Taylor, and Tyne Daly in Mothers and Sons
(©Joan Marcus)
There’s a distressing air of familiarity about Terrence McNally’s Mother…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:00AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Ramin Karimloo in Les Miserables
(©Matthew Murphy)
Les Miserables could well refer to more than a few theater critics, this one included, faced with the prospect of yet again seeing …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
(©Deen van Meer)
When James Monroe Iglehart sings “Friend Like Me” in Disney’s new Broadway musical adaptation of its classi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:19AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Andy Karl in Rocky
(©Matthew Murphy)
You’ll leave the new Broadway musical Rocky humming the score. Unfortunately, it won’t be the wholly unmemorable one by veteran compos…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:27AMThursday, March 13, 2014
The sexy young couple in “Stockholm” seem made for each other. Attractive and fit, they dance joyously and indulge in torrid (offstage) sex before he whips up dinner. As they...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:41AMSunday, March 9, 2014
In Robert Askins’ “Hand to God,” a devout Christian teenager is led astray by a demonic hand puppet named Tyrone. At off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the MCC Theater prod…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Michael McKean, Bryan Cranston, and Brandon J. Dirden in All the Way
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Playing Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s ambitious historical drama All the Way, …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMIt’s sold 100 million copies — and, thanks to its lurid prose, spurred sales of God knows how many electronic readers. Yes, it’s E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Gimmicks trump coherence in a new production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that would probably have Shakespeare suing for copyright infringement. Jonathan Cake and Joaquina Kalukango play th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:54AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The Oscar-winning singer-actress performs songs from her classic movie-musicals "Oklahoma," "The Music Man" and "Carousel" in her cabaret show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:01PMAs depicted in “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” Louis Armstrong seems to suffer from multiple-personality disorder: Not only does John Douglas Thompson play the legendary jazz great, but he als…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:46AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Watching Craig Lucas’ new drama is like listening to the confessionals at a 12-step meeting: What’s deeply meaningful to the speakers may be tedious for everyone else. Lucas (“Prelude …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:16PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Frances Jue and Cole Horibe in Kung Fu
(©Joan Marcus)
The title of David Henry Hwang’s bio-play about Bruce Lee is ironic in a way that the screen icon would surely have appreci…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in The Bridges of MadisonCounty
(©Joan Marcus)
Is it too much to ask of a show called The Bridges of Madison County that we actually see one of the co…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:46AMThursday, February 20, 2014
A scene from Love and Information
(©Joan Marcus)
Caryl Churchill’s new play Love and Information features more than a hundred characters in some fifty short scenes ranging in le…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:56AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the complexities of marriage and friendship.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:50PMMonday, February 10, 2014
He was a femme fatale in “Die Mommie, Die!” and a schizoid teenager in “Psycho Beach Party.” But Charles Busch’s new character is more demure: This time he plays Jimmy,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:38AMThursday, February 6, 2014
Yankee legends past and present are the main characters of Eric Simonson's baseball-themed drama read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PMChristian Borle did a lot of scenery chewing as the villainous Black Stache in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” but that doesn’t compare to the fun he’s having in “Little Me.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:29PM 
