Thursday, February 6, 2014
Christian 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 04:29PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
The star of Broadway's "Jersey Boys" and its upcoming film delivered a 75-minute set filled with classics during a new cabaret show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:40AMSunday, February 2, 2014
The legendary nightspot Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe has been gloriously resurrected for this lavish and immersive theater experience.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMThursday, January 30, 2014
Bertolt Brecht's rarely performed 1926 play is revived in a new version featuring original music by Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening").read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:51PMLaura Esterman and Keith Randolph Smith in Intimacy
(©Monique Carboni)
For a play that features, among other things, masturbation, ejaculations, fellatio, anal sex, suggestions of inc…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMSunday, January 26, 2014
Billy Hayes is as charming a (former) drug smuggler as you’d ever hope to meet. And if his name isn’t familiar, his story is, thanks to the movie “Midnight Express.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:14AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Brian F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing in Outside Mulllingar
(©Joan Marcus)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley pours on the Irish blarney in Outside Mullingar, which strains mightily for Moo…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:09AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Frank Langella in King Lear
(©Richard Termine)
Following in Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s recent footsteps in playing King Lear at BAM’s Harvey Theater, Frank Langella p…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:10AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Rebecca Hall (foreground) with Jason Loughlin and Ryan Dinning (background) in Machinal
(©Joan Marcus)
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of Sophie Treadwell’…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:28AMSunday, January 12, 2014
Jessie Mueller and Jake Epstein in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
(©Joan Marcus)
Baby boomer musical nostalgists have a lot to choose from on Broadway these days. Th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 11:19PMMonday, December 30, 2013
Don’t even think of hibernating: What used to be the deadest month of the year is now a cultural cornucopia, thanks to two downtown theater festivals. What’s surprising is how...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:02PMSunday, December 29, 2013
The year 2013 had its high notes and its twerks — and Sandra Bernhard dishes about them all in “Sandyland,” her year-in-review revue at Joe’s Pub. Backed by her band,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:53AMSunday, December 15, 2013
You know him best as Big Pussy, who got wired and whacked in “The Sopranos.” But long before Vincent Pastore played wiseguys, he owned the Crazy Horse Cafe in New...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:38AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Kyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
(©Eric Ray Davidson)
Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:58AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Experienced theatergoers know that nearly every performer’s credits in the program inevitably list appearances on “Law and Order” and its myriad offshoots. But there are plenty of othe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:31PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMSaturday, November 16, 2013
We’re still hunting for Halloween candy between the couch cushions and have yet to order a turkey — but “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” just propelled us into the holidays…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:02AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
“How can I go on? I cannot.” And with those fateful words, we know we’re watching a Beckett play — in this case, “All That Fall.” That we’re seeing it...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:44PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night"
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:45PMFriday, November 8, 2013
No wonder Il Divo’s Broadway debut is subtitled “A Musical Affair”: That refers less to their concert of show-stoppers than to the steamy relationship between the hunky quartet and the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:04PMThursday, November 7, 2013
A friendly piece of advice: If you’re ever invited to play poker with Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio . . . pass. In the hands of these sleight-of-hand magicians, a simple deck...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:05AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight
(Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Wallace Shawn's sexually charged, dystopian drama concerns a doctor who solves the world's hunger problem by inventing a substance enabling animals to eat their own kind.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMDaniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:17AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Fireworks figure prominently in “Luce,” about parents who realize that the child they adopted from Africa a decade ago isn’t what he seems. Sadly, JC Lee’s new play fizzles out...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22AMSunday, October 13, 2013
The sounds of an Irish jig fill the theater before the action starts — our first tip-off that this Culture Project revival isn’t going to be your typical “Seagull.” And it’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Its title may be poetic — thank Robert Frost — but “And Miles To Go” begins with a profane tirade. From a NYC teacher, no less. After 40 years at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:05PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Theater Review: Honeymoon in Vegas, 3 stars, Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ; 973-376-4343. Through Oct. 27. Running time: 150 minutes, one intermission.
The fun begin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:57PMFriday, October 4, 2013
There’s no flying and not a treacly song to be heard in this Aussie take on J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” Here at the New Victory Theater, the title character isn’t played by a wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27PMDee Bridgewater plays the late, great Billie Holiday in this combined bio-musical/concert.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:17PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
A lot of ground is covered, to increasingly diminishing effect, in “Bike America,” Mike Lew’s play about a young woman’s search for identity on a cross-country bike trip. Although it…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:32PM 
