Sunday, January 13, 2013
1. “The Suit” (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Peter Brook directs this adaptation of South African writer Can Themba’s tragic tale.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, January 11, 2013
“Spirits of Exit Eleven.” Through Feb. 2 at the Lion Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St.
Pepperoni and pasties, anyone?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, January 10, 2013
In Sharr White’s curvy and compelling drama, “The Other Place,” Laurie Metcalf plays an addled neuroresearcher — and never leaves the stage.
That’s worth noting, since the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Nothing like winning a 2012 Pulitzer to boost expectations for a play.
So it goes for Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water by the Spoonful,” a sobering saga that follows a returning …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMonday, January 7, 2013
The Divine Miss M back on Broadway? You Bette!
In the spring, Midler will play famed Tinseltown agent Sue Mengers in a one-character drama by John Logan, who won a Tony for “Red,�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:24PMSunday, January 6, 2013
1. “The Other Place” (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre) Laurie Metcalf plays a researcher coming undone.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, January 4, 2013
Karel Capk’s 1922 Broadway drama “R.U.R,” adapted by Lee Eric Shackleford, is credited with originating the word “robot.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMCall it the January jones.
Folks with out-of-the-box tastes in theater have reasons to be fired up about this time of year, even if they’re shivering.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWhat happens when all the wrong people meet at exactly the right time?
Intriguing question.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMonday, December 31, 2012
Midwinter theater blahs? Not in 2012 on Broadway, where the new year takes off like a shot. Three days in, “Glee” dreamboat Darren Criss piques interest when he temporarily takes over Da…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, December 30, 2012
What had the New York theater scene buzzing last year? Plenty. “Once” wowed. David Mamet went both ways — “Glengarry Glen Ross” flew; “The Anarchist” flopped.
…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, December 23, 2012
1. “The Great God Pan” (Playwrights Horizons) A Brooklyn man confronts his past.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMA neighbor caught my ear as he locked his bike to a lamppost on our block two weeks ago. He was humming while he was at it, and I recognized a melody from “Les Miserables” immediately. I…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Sequins, high heels and show tunes can take a toll on a guy. Ask Christopher Sieber, who criss-crossed the U.S. for over a year playing drag queen Albin opposite George Hamilton as his lover…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:27PMThe Jewish immigrant experience — from arrival at Ellis Island to acculturation — comes to life in a tapestry threaded with period songs and a klezmer-inflected score.
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Forty years after she broke through singing “The Morning After,” the theme to the disaster flick “The Poseidon Adventure,” Maureen McGovern’s supple voice still has the warm and in…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:50PMGrandma Moses meets the Grim Reaper in an interesting surround-sound production of Samuel Beckett’s first radio play, “All That Fall.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:28PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Amy Herzog’s tightly wound and intensely emotional play, “The Great God Pan,” concerns a man’s reckoning with his past and his memories.
The story riffs on the common conund…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, December 16, 2012
1.. “Golden Boy” (Belasco Theatre) One of the champs of the fall season.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Setting the holiday table is dramatically more involved this year at the home of Pulitzer-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and his actress-wife, Chris.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMPlaying creeps in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and “9 to 5,” Marc Kudisch scored Tony nominations. But he was banished to Santa’s naughty list.
…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Hank, an unemployed economist adrift in “What Rhymes With America,” is on a steady downward trend.
But Melissa James Gibson’s offbeat and beautiful new comedy-dramedy purrs al…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:35PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Producers of “Orphans” announced Tuesday that LaBeouf will join Alec Baldwin in Lyle Kessler’s 1983 drama about a pair of parentless siblings.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:30PMMonday, December 10, 2012
IN THE pop-rock musical “Bare,” it’s not skin that gets exposed but coming-out angst and teenage melodrama.
Plus plenty of clichés in this story of sensitive boys and mean gi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:38PMSunday, December 9, 2012
On Tuesday, a day after getting creamed by critics, David Mamet’s prison drama “The Anarchist” got an unceremonious death sentence from producers.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSaturday, December 8, 2012
David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner “Glengarry Glen Ross,” about ruthless salesmen, can grab you by the throat and punch you in the gut.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Two stocking-stuffer-sized kids are making giant impressions in their Broadway debuts.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Back on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, where it premiered 75 years ago, Clifford Odets’ boxing saga “Golden Boy” is a knockout, thanks to its 24-karat cast.
The 19 actors in…
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