Tuesday, October 16, 2012
For a play about sexually confused, 19th-century German teens — one involving masturbation, homosexuality, masochism, rape, abortion and suicide — Frank Wedekind’s “Spring’s Awaken…
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The young audiences gasping at “Urban” probably have no idea they’re watching a depiction of life on the mean streets of Cali, Colombia. No matter: As Circolombia’s show at the New V…
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Did Broadway really need another revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1987 romantic classic Cyrano de Bergerac a mere five years after the highly successful production starring Kevin Kline and …
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The years haven’t exactly mellowed Lewis Black. But why would they? If they had, he wouldn’t have an act. He gets angry so we don’t have to.
In “Running on Empty,” which kicked off…
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You’ll discover what it feels like to disappear down a rabbit hole at “Then She Fell,” the fiendishly clever immersive theater piece inspired by the life and writings of “Alice in Wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PM‘the Old Man and the Old Moon” is a hauntingly beautiful production, filled with ingenious lighting effects, lovely shadow puppetry and an accomplished and original folk music score.So w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMAs the title suggests, there’s a gimmick behind “AdA (Author Directing Author),” an evening of one-acts by rising Italian playwright Marco Calvani and the ubiquitous Neil LaBute: Each …
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A fine cast acts their hearts out in Grace, Craig Wright’s drama now receiving its Broadway premiere. While this play about the collision between an Evangelical Christian couple and a …
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‘Whenever we talk about the theater, we’re talking about love,” Lynn Fontanne declares in Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Ten Chimneys,” about the actress and her onstage and offstage love, A…
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Irish playwright Brian Friel has never been at a loss for words. And neither is Mag (Justine Salata), the 17-year-old who chatters on and on in “Lovers,” now getting its first major prod…
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Ibsen's classic about a small town doctor who attempts to warn the citizenry about the local spa's contaminated waters. read more
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‘hard Times” is that rare musical where you walk in humming the tunes. In fact, it’s got to be the most tuneful show you’ll ever see about the 1863 Civil War draft riots, thanks to i…
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The raucous teenagers onstage seem perfectly normal at first. They’re playing an exuberant game of soccer, laughing and joking and at one point stopping to dance to a Beyoncé song. One is…
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Look up “acquired taste” in the dictionary and you’ll probably find a picture of Dina Martina. The drag-queen performer and Provincetown, Mass., fixture returned to New York recently f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMUneasily blending an examination into the global effects of climate change with dysfunctional family drama, British playwright Nick Payne’s dark comedy If There Is I Haven’t Foun…
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‘Why do the righteous suffer?” That question’s at the heart of the Old Testament’s Book of Job — one that will feel newly relevant to theatergoers who sit through “Job,” Thomas…
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The Anderson Twins don’t really play the fabulous Dor-seys in “The Anderson Twins Play the Fabulous Dorseys!,” but never mind. This musical tribute from one pair of swinging musical si…
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If press releases are to be believed, no Bulgarian play has ever received a major New York City production until now.
And if the Bug Company’s “The Eyes of Others” is any indication, …
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You can’t throw a rock in this town without hitting a solo performer.
But this hasn’t stopped the All for One Theater Festival from showcasing even more. Kicking off tomorrow, the festiv…
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Watching “The Why Overhead,” it’s hard not to imagine its playwright in some actual, dead-end office job, taking notes about his co-workers with the hope of one day putting it all onst…
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The ambitious new Broadway bio-musical depicts the life and career of the legendary screen star. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:13PMNO, the women pictured above won’t be strutting the runways this Fashion Week.
They’re the subjects of “Sicks,” a play by Clay Edmonds —whose day job is director of merchandising f…
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Imagine a Narcotics Anonymous meeting at which the speaker suddenly breaks into song and dance. This should give you a pretty good feel for “Methtacular!” — a confessional solo show ab…
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‘i could squeeze a bullet between those lips.” “I could get a spoon and prise it in your eye sockets.” “I could squeeze a grenade up there.”
Such are among the not-so-tender decl…
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Sam Shepard clearly hasn’t mellowed with age. The 68-year-old playwright’s newest work, “Heartless,” which the Signature Theatre’s giving a world premiere, reveals a writer still r…
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One of the more depressing moments in a man’s life comes with the realization that he’s no longer young enough to be cougar bait.
That was one of the random thoughts prompted by “Couga…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM‘the Book of Mormon” isn’t the only show in town to poke fun of Mitt Romney’s faith. Enter “Missionary in Manhattan” which is pretty amusing, if a lot less profane — and just $…
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Broadway’s long sigh of relief is over: Gerard Alessandrini’s skewer-fest, “Forbidden Broadway,” is back with “Alive & Kicking!” Opening Sept. 6, it once again makes comic mincem…
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Club kids are familiar with the strange goings-on at The Box, the intimate Lower East Side venue that specializes in modern-day burlesque and risqué vaudeville acts. But the hot spot’s cu…
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It may advance the cause of Arab-Israeli relations, but the new play “Dogs” doesn’t do much to help theater. This new work by the Israeli company TheaterCan at the Fringe Festival conc…
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Ever wonder what happened to the singing Von Trapp family after they escaped the Nazis by climbing the Alps at the end of “The Sound of Music”?
Probably not, especially since in real lif…
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