Sunday, March 31, 2013
Despite its title song dropping more F-bombs than you'd think possible in a single number, "F#%king Up Everything" is actually a sweetly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl musical. Set in hipster-…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Not aimed at the typical-aged theater audience, "Piggy Nation: The Musical!" has a bouncy score and just enough bodily function jokes to keep the kid-crowd for which it's intended. As an add…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
The ominous feeling begins upon walking into the darkened theater, where three rusty claw-foot bathtubs are sitting on the stage. And it only gets spookier at the beginning of "The Drowning …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
'we're gonna have some fun, don't worry," Bello Nock assured a young boy's nervous parents as he gently escorted their son to the stage.
They had reason to worry: After all, they'd just see…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
You might say "For Love," about the tortured romantic lives of three 30-something women, is like "Sex and the City" " only the city is economically depressed Dublin, and the sex is more ofte…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Cirque du Soleil's new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth's gravity and reach the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
You'll definitely want to review those program notes before watching "Neva," the ponderous play by Chile's Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It's set in a St. Petersburg …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
It was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution " the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn. And it's treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall,"…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately ("O Jerusalem," "Mrs. Farnsworth") that it's easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foibles. The Kee…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
'The Wild Bride" is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it's grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughter's ha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Edie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]When the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He's the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontinent…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2013
Judging by his first commercially produced play, "On the Head of a Pin," Frank Winters is a promising playwright " especially for a 24-year-old.
All he really needs is a good editor.
This co…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The luridly poetic language is there, and so are some fine performances. But there's not much more to Mississippi Mud Productions' bare-bones revival of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Su…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
Ayn Rand-style self-interest runs amok in this drama, featuring Zosia Mamet and Matt Lauria, about the aftermath of a college party sex scandal.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:55PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
A young genius tangles with an older, respected rival in "Isaac's Eye." But while that notion sounds familiar, Lucas Hnath's new drama " about the tug of war between Isaac Newton and renowne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
Three performers, cardboard cutouts, tiny puppets and a pair of swords. That's all it takes for Scotland's Visible Fictions theater company to present "The Mark of Zorro," their charmingly l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Three monkeys pounding on typewriters, in the hope they'll eventually produce "Hamlet." Leon Trotsky going about his day with an assassin's ax in his head. A universal, nonsensical but famil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AM[SHARE]It's the 1950s, and a black family hopes to buy into an all-white neighborhood. No, the play this time isn't "A Raisin in the Sun" or its modern-day theatrical riff, "Clybourne Park." Rather…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Be careful next time you bring home a stray bunny rabbit, no matter how cute and fluffy he is. For if the new children's show "Bunnicula" is to be believed, he may be a . . . vampire bunny. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ethan Hawke directs and plays the title character in this modern-day update of Bertolt Brecht's "Baal." read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
'She's a real drama queen, that one," whispered a shady-looking guy. And I, sipping from the coffee cup a winking bartender had just poured some liquor into, had to agree.
Even as immersive …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
It took nearly three decades and countless therapy sessions, but I finally thought I was over the post-traumatic stress of having suffered through the original 1983 Broadway production of "M…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PM[SHARE]You'll think twice about taking advantage of the Missed Connections section on Craigslist after seeing "The Man Under." Paul Bomba's strained drama about a man who falls in love with a woman…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The veteran pop star and "Justin Bieber of the '70s" returns to Broadway in a hits-laden show. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
'Totally Tubular Time Machine" bills itself as "NYC's only interactive, intergalactic, pop music experience." That's true enough, but whether you'll want to go back in time to attend this "1…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
If the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Thea…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
A Brooklyn lug dreams of roller-skating to stardom in "The Jammer," a new comedy that strains so hard for laughs, it makes "Starlight Express" seem weighty by comparison.
It's the 1950s, an…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
That striking proverb comes to mind while watching "The Suit," the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord's haunting piece at t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
America Ferrera stars in this dark off-Broadway dark comedy about a young single mother struggling to survive in the depths of the financial crisis. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2013
There are plenty of fireworks in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but sadly they’re all offstage. For this production marking Scarlett Johan…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:59AM[SHARE] 
