J.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" was a surprise hit when it was revived on Broadway nine years ago. Now comes Priestley's "Cornelius," which vanished after its 1935 West End run and has…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM[SHARE]It's best known as the place where the Titanic was built. But Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard where "The Boat Factory" is set, was much more than that " a place where generations of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AM[SHARE]We get not one but two Susan Sontags in Moe Angelos' "Sontag: Reborn." The first is the younger version, beginning in the late intellectual's teenage years, as she begins a search for self-i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]Reality Tv seems almost too easy a target for satire, but "Good Television" mostly avoids the pitfalls. This debut work by veteran Atlantic Theater Company actor Rod McLachlan offers disturb…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AM[SHARE]What does it take to go "Around the World in 80 Days?" Just two hours, five actors and some highly inventive theatricality. Jules Verne's 1873 classic about the globe-trotting adventures of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PM[SHARE]Christopher Lloyd stars in this off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's modern classic. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PM[SHARE]Love lost and found is at the heart of the best works in Ensemble Studio Theatre's "34th Marathon of One-Act Plays." The first in its annual three-part series is a better-than-usual bill, de…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]Perhaps you thought you could get away with secretly reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" on your Kindles and iPads. But your naughty literary predilections will be exposed should you see "Cuff Me…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PM[SHARE]The veteran comedian delivers riffs on the U.S. Constitution in his new solo show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Talk about setting the scene: For "Core Values," Lauren Helpern's vividly realistic set design depicts the cramped, dreary conference room of a small Manhattan travel agency. Lit by fluores…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Now that she's 73, Christina Crawford might want to resolve her mommy issues. That's the main feeling evoked by "Surviving Mommie Dearest," a bizarre show in which Crawford rehashes the abus…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM[SHARE]For "This Side of Neverland" " two one-act plays by "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie " the Pearl Theatre leaves this side of the Atlantic for the starchy shores of Edwardian England. The atmos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PM[SHARE]A few minutes into his new show, Mark Nadler orders the theater doors to be locked. "You will stay for ze entire show und you vill like it!" he announces in a comical German accent he drops …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PM[SHARE]Manhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes. Good luck with that in this town. And good luck to audiences at "Love Thera…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM[SHARE]Purim came and went, but the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is celebrating it now with "The Megile of Itzik Manger," a freewheeling musical adaptation of the Book of Esther that's as ta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AM[SHARE]You may not think a play set in rural Ontario, Canada, is worth a New York minute, let alone two hours " but if you pass up "The Drawer Boy," it's your loss. Michael Healey's drama, set in …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Immigration is a hot-button issue " and you can literally feel the heat at "La Ruta." The Working Theater's new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the border …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:47PM[SHARE]Leaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway's "Brief Encounter," Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it's shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able to do th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PM[SHARE]Who would have thought a play titled "The Dance of Death" would be one of the funniest shows in town? August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater's revival…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PM[SHARE]Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Right now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown's Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals " the real one…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Ancient Rome doesn't seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company's new "Julius Caesar": Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensemble millin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AM[SHARE]It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:17PM[SHARE]It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AM[SHARE]'Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?" Rob Drummond asks in "Bullet Catch." Whether you do or not, you'll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing solo show, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AM[SHARE]Radio drama is alive and well and playing at a theater near you. So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies " replete with a game audience providing sound effects " have…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM[SHARE]It's hard to figure out exactly where to look while watching "The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth." Geared for kids ages 7 and older, this new "live-action graphic novel" is lit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AM[SHARE]'Finks" feels personal. And with good reason: This drama about Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford's struggles during the show-business blacklist of the '50s was written by their son Joe Gilford. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 01:16AM[SHARE]'it's not like a cabaret," gushed Elaine Stritch. "It's like all my friends in New York got together!" And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her Café Carlyle…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
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