Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Cellphones ring incessantly during “Milk Like Sugar,” but don’t bother to check whether you’ve left yours on. They belong to the teenage girls at the heart of Kirsten Greenidge’s e…
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John Cheever was exploring the mores of the American WASP long before A.R. Gurney wrote his first play. So it’s fitting that the playwright’s debut effort, 1974’s “Children,” now b…
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Miscommunication—of the linguistic, cultural and relationship kind—is the subject of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish. Receiving its Broadway premiere after an acclaimed run e…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:23AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has managed to distill and find the funny in Shakespeare, the Bible and the history of America. But it seems to have fumbled with “The Complete World of Spo…
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There have been plays about ambitious interns scheming their way to the top ever since there’ve been interns. But John Morogiello’s comedy “Blame It on Beckett” puts a knowing theatr…
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Relatively Speaking, the new evening of comic one-acts by Woody Allen, Elaine May and Ethan Coen, has just opened on Broadway, and all I can say is…oy! That this level of writing talen…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:26AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
The recent death of Steve Jobs provides a fascinating conundrum for Mike Daisey, the writer/performer of the solo piece The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. On the one hand, it provides an a…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:39AMMonday, October 17, 2011
It’s hard to get anything done when the Internet beckons -- with yet another friend request, Twitter updates and the latest YouTube video of a dancing cat. It’s even harder when your com…
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For the next month at Ars Nova, every night is opening night.
That’s because the Upper West Side theater is outdoing itself with its showcase for emerging artists. ANT Fest 2011 -- it sta…
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One of history’s greatest ironies is that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his soaring “I’ve have been to the mountaintop” speech on the very night before his death.…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 12:37AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
‘Any Given Monday” is a dark comedy so offensive, so amoral and so generally unpleasant that you’ll hate yourself for laughing at it.
The problem is, you’ll hate yourself a lot.
The …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PMThe popular singer's new show at the Cafe Carlyle proves to be a fitting and extremely entertaining tribute to the late, great performer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMContemporary playwrights seem forever bent on proving Tolstoy’s line that “all families are unhappy in their own way.” The latest example is Nicky Silvers, who has mined su…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:51AMMonday, October 10, 2011
For a mime, Bill Bowers has a lot to say.
And that’s all to the good. In his new one-man show “Bill Bowers Beyond Words” -- a mix of mime and spoken vignettes -- he presents a portrai…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PMTerence Rattigan’s Man and Boy was written in the 1960s and is set in the 1930s, but it would unfortunately resonate in any decade. This portrait of a desperate business tycoon was ins…
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As touching as it is idiosyncratic, “Southern Comfort” effectively redefines the term “family musical.” Based on a 2001 Sundance award-winning documentary about transgender people in…
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Even the most ardent musical-theater lovers would be hard-pressed to catch all 25 shows at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, running though Oct. 16. Here are a few of the more intriguin…
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Playwright Jeff Talbott clearly knows the territory that he explores in The Submission. Having had his previous efforts presented at numerous theater festivals, he’s well in a position…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:52AMThursday, September 29, 2011
New York’s streets teem with such chaotic vitality that stepping into a theater can seem anticlimactic. So it’s exciting to enter 3LD and encounter floor-to-ceiling windows exposing lowe…
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With some exceptions, absurdism doesn’t age particularly well. The impact of what was shocking and avant-garde decades ago is reduced by the endless mediocre imitations that have follo…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:58AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Last season, the Play Company’s production of Invasion! at Soho Rep left made quite an impact, garnering an OBIE award for playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri, in his debut as a playwright…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMMonday, September 26, 2011
It’s a hard-knock life for the newsboys in “Newsies,” the stage adaptation of the flop 1992 Disney musical film that’s become a cult favorite. When this ragtag group of orphans and r…
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When it comes to pressure, panic and pain, no one said it better than Larry Gelbart: "If Hitler's alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical." The pressure's even worse for those who dare…
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Female playwrights are woe fully underrepresented on our stages -- women of color particularly. Helping to correct that sorry state of affairs is the Ensemble Studio Theatre's "The River Cro…
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Imagine being able to see Eugene O'Neill's obscure one-acts, minus all those long monologues. Now you can.
Enter "The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 1: Ea…
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Try as I might, I find it impossible to appreciate the Elevator Repair Service’s aesthetic. This enterprising downtown troupe has made a significant name for themselves in recent years…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:02AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
They say that in Hollywood, everybody wants to direct. Apparently, in the theater, what everybody wants to do is write.
Exhibit A: Jesse Eisenberg, whose play, “Asuncion,” previews Oct. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMIt’s been a mere ten years since the last Broadway incarnation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies, but that ill-conceived version was lamentable enough to warrant an…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:10AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Theater rarely gets more intimate -- or more immediate -- than Richard Nelson's follow-up to last year's "That Hopey Changey Thing," set on the eve of the last presidential election.
Once…
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There are plenty of one-liners in "A Night With George," and they're even more hilarious if you can un derstand them.
Donna O'Connor's one-woman show, part of the1st Irish Festival, featu…
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In case you wondered what role balloons played in the US military during World War I, there's an off-Broadway show that's only too happy to tell you all about it.
Enroll in "Captain Fergu…
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