Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The current spate of Broadway musicalizations of hit movies hits another nadir with Ghost. This adaptation of the 1990 Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore film is mainly notable for its extravag…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:56AMMonday, April 23, 2012
‘I sense bad vibes,” someone says early on in “Festen (The Celebration),” and, boy, is she on target, as a 60th-birthday party turns into a maelstrom of horrific accusations and lite…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PMThe new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire presents a particular dilemma. Its multiracial cast could well attract new audiences for this seminal 20th century dra…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 02:54AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Its Pulitzer Prize not withstanding, Clybourne Park still seems to me a better idea for a play than it actually is. Bruce Norris’ dark comedy, which has now arrived on Broadway after h…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:32AMSo many plays seem arbitrary, as if the writer were rolling dice to decide what happens next. But “Die: Roll To Proceed” cuts out the middle-man. In Joe Kurtz’s endlessly variable, int…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMThursday, April 19, 2012
The opening line of “Ninth and Joanie” is “It’s dead out . . . there’s nobody nowhere” — and boy, is that the truth. The characters in Brett C. Leonard’s suffocating drama ar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:22AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
With the notable exception of Noises Off, theatrical farce is far more often labored than amusing. But One Man, Two Guvnors, newly arrived on Broadway from London’s West End, is…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 11:37PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Tennessee Williams certainly doesn’t make it easy to be generous.
The common perception about the legendary playwright’s later works is that they were sad reflections of …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:37AMSunday, April 15, 2012
The Civilians, the downtown documentary theater troupe, have tackled such socially and politically charged topics as the evangelical movement and Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards pr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PMFriday, April 13, 2012
“Tasteful” is not a word that springs to mind when thinking about Eva Peron, and it shouldn’t when it comes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical Evita either…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:14AMThursday, April 12, 2012
If you’re going to write a play about two legendary sports figures it would help if more than one of them was interesting. Such is the dilemma of Eric Simonson’s second attempt t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
The singer brilliantly juxtaposes and combines the work of Cole Porter and Paul Simon in his wonderful new show at the Cafe Carlyle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFriday, April 6, 2012
If this whole showbiz thing doesn’t work out, Simon Callow would make a great professor. The British performer, best known here for such films as “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” just br…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMThursday, April 5, 2012
One of the two characters in “The Morini Strad” is a violin restorer who loves what he does. Watching him painstakingly repair a damaged Stradivarius is to see a true craftsman at work. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMAt one point during “Out of Iceland,” Lea DeLaria, playing a male troll named Thor, steps onstage in a swan outfit and belts out “Bali Hai” in Icelandic.
And that’s one of the even…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
It may be time to let Judy Garland rest in peace. The beloved entertainer has been a never-ending subject of fascination since her untimely death. Since then, she’s been portrayed on s…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:14AMMonday, April 2, 2012
You may be wondering why Gore Vidal’s politically-themed drama The Best Man needed another revival a mere twelve years after its last Broadway outing. The better question is why hasn&#…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:37AMThere’s a surreal quality to Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour,” which played this weekend at Newark’s Prudential Center, and it’s not just because its…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AMFriday, March 30, 2012
It’s a hard knock life for the newsboys in Newsies, the stage adaptation of the flop 1992 Disney musical film that has become a cult favorite. When the ragtag group of orphans and runa…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:47AMThursday, March 29, 2012
Those impish wags from [title of show] are back to their meta-theatrical tricks in their new, similarly whimsically titled new musical. Starring Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenst…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:54AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Rising British playwright Matt Charman reveals a fascination with the darker aspects of ‘50s era American society in Regrets, now receiving its world premiere from the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:52AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Holocaust deniers are a reprehensible lot. But they can be transfixing.
That’s the uncomfortable message one takes away from “The Soap Myth,” presented by the National Jewish Theater.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMMonday, March 26, 2012
The last time I checked, incest between a brother and sister was still considered relatively abhorrent.
So it naturally comes as a surprise that the Cheek by Jowl production of John …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:11AMSunday, March 25, 2012
When Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” opened back in 1991, all three of its leads — Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey — won Tony Awards.
Now it’s the children’s hour.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMFriday, March 23, 2012
Jesus Christ Superstar, which began its life as a concept album, has always been more fun to listen to than actually watch. But the new Broadway revival--imported from the Stratford Shakespe…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:41AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
The spirit of Woody Guthrie is alive and well in the East Village, thanks to Ethan Lipton’s “No Place To Go,” a “musical ode to the unemployed.”
Stylistically, the 41-year-old hew…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PMThis tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson at Feinstein's at Loews Regency doesn't do justice to its subject matter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
It took no small amount of guts for the Pearl Theatre Company to mount “A Moon for the Misbegotten.”
This final masterpiece by Eugene O’Neill hasn’t exactly been underexposed here. B…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
HEY
, kids — remember that fairy tale by Hans Christian somebody, “Ugly Duckling,” about a duck that turns into a beautiful swan? Now you can see it live! It has music and dancing and …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMFriday, March 16, 2012
Whenever there’s a new revival of Death of a Salesman people marvel at the fact that it seems so newly relevant. But it’s not that society is changing but rather that Arthur Mill…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:10AMThursday, March 15, 2012
‘Teresa’s Ecstasy,” by the wonderfully named Spanish American playwright and actress Begonya Plaza, tries to combine the spiritual with the earthly in its story of a woman’s quest fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AM 
