Friday, April 15, 2011
The Wild West gets even wilder in "Boom Town," the new children's show by the clever Cirque Mechanics troupe.
It's set in an 1860s mining town that's literally a springboard for circus ac…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PMStage wonders of the most magisterial sort are delivered in War Horse, the hit London production that has been remounted by the Lincoln Center Theater. This epic drama about the bond between…
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There are puppets, and then there's Joey -- the tail-flicking, snorting, galloping star of "War Horse."
It's almost impossible to believe he's just cane and cloth and metal.
"It's up-t…
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The Motherf**ker With the Hat has at least two things going for it right off the bat. The first is that marvelously profane--albeit generally unprintable--title. The second is the coup of ha…
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You'll never hear "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" the same way again after seeing "Born Bad." The traditional gospel hymn takes on ominous overtones in this frustratingly abstract drama abo…
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Basuto Road. That South London address is con stantly invoked like a mystical chant in Michael Frayn's "Benefactors," now receiving a sterling revival by the Keen Company. This bleak 1984 co…
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Tony Award winner Lonette McKee's new cabaret show at the Oak Room offers both lustrous singing and awkward patter.
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'I made her a promise, I will not speak," the central character repeatedly vows in Douglas Maxwell's play "The Promise."
But speak she does -- and for 90 engrossing minutes, Joanna Tope d…
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With all the relationship dramas and mu sicals playing out on city stages, it's a wonder couples' therapists have anything left to do.
New case in point: the York Theatre Company's "Tomor…
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That Shakespeare describes the three witches in "Macbeth" as "hirsute" wasn't lost on the Theatre for a New Audience, since the meddlesome crones in its new revival are played by shaggily be…
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Considering its main characters are Martin Luther, Doctor Faustus and Hamlet, "Wittenberg" seems about as exciting a prospect as audi ting a graduate school lecture. But the Pearl Theatre's …
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There's a fascinating mystery unfurling onstage at the Classic Stage Company, and it has little to do with the play itself.
The issue is whether "Double Falsehood" is really a long-lost w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PMIt’s hard not to be excited about the return of “Marie and Bruce,” particularly with Marisa Tomei and Frank Whaley in the title roles.
Wallace Shawn’s scathing comedy about a failing…
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No matter how much ten der loving care's been lavished upon it, the 1951 musical "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" stubbornly refuses to bear fruit. The Peccadillo Theater Company's new revival has…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMThere aren't many plays that can simul taneously pull off rau cous comedy, poignant emotion -- and the most memorable encounter with a bear since "The Winter's Tale."
But "Kin," which ope…
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Roger Rees is on a roll. The Welsh actor, writer and director will slip into Gomez Addams’ spooky shoes in Broadway’s “The Addams Family” starting on Tuesday. It’s a high-profile r…
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It's not often that a produc tion of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" begins with a Purim party. But that's the case in "A Doll House," presented by 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company. Transplant…
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The terror suspect is considered a threat to society -- "the mastermind of a global conspiracy" responsible for thousands of crimes, including bombings and mass murder.
He also happens to…
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There's not much to do in limbo except talk. And talk. And talk. And that's exactly what the three historical characters in "Spy Garbo" do. By the end of this long-winded evening of philosop…
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'Let's talk about the 'Real House wives,' " says Kathy Griffin, con spiratorially. And for the rest of her shamelessly titled "Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony," which opened its very brief run on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PM“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” may never get around to officially opening on Broadway. But no fewer than three new Spider-Man musicals opening this week are willing to go where that $65…
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Any doubts that the Irish are in love with words are quickly dispelled by "Mimic." The sheer torrent of language that Raymond Scannell spews out in his one-man show will leave you numb and b…
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The swashbuckling pirates of "Treasure Island" burst into song often enough to make it feel like a musical. But despite repeated choruses of "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum," this new adaptati…
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Having a baby? You might want to avoid "40 Weeks," the Debbie Downer of pregnancy plays.
The couple are Angie (Megan Hart) and Mark (Jorge Cordova), who are having a tough go of it financ…
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The name "Abulkasem" may not mean anything to you now, but it will mean much after you've seen "Invasion!"
Maybe too much, because this satirical Swedish import packs a whole lot of ideas…
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If there's one thing we can learn from "A Perfect Fu ture," it's that politics and heavy drinking don't mix.
Nor does it make for particularly interesting theater.
David Hay's new play…
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If "The Body Politic" is to be believed, political op eratives engage in some pretty kinky foreplay.
Republican Spencer Davis and Democrat Trish Rubenstein like to play a game of "politic…
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No one plays intense, irascible char acters better than Mandy Patinkin. The former "Criminal Minds" actor is perfectly cast in Rinne Groff's "Compulsion," inspired by writer Meyer Levin's ob…
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As Leo Tolstoy famously ob served, "Every unhappy fam ily is unhappy in its own way." For the three siblings in Melissa Ross' "Thinner Than Water," unhappiness takes the form of constant arg…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PMA sheet of paper, a chair, some rubber balls, fruit and a suitcase. That's about all the props Jamie Adkins needs to create theatrical magic in his family-friendly "Circus Incognitus."
A …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:39AMHe was the man Oscar Wilde went to prison for: his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, the handsome, overprivileged son of the Marquess of Queensbury whom Wilde and others affectionately called Bosi…
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