Thursday, December 6, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
At the Jan. 24, 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini’s final opera, “I Puritani,” the air was thick with cutthroat competition, a mangled marriage proposal and a killer cough. Such drama!…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Out-of-towners keep the lights burning on the Great White Way. Tourists accounted for 63% of the 12.3 million people who attended Broadway productions, according to the Broadway League's 15t…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:42PMDavid Mamet’s new Broadway play “The Anarchist” is a prison duet about two women on opposite sides of the law out to seduce each other one last time.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, December 2, 2012
1. “The Anarchist” (Golden Theatre) Six words for intriguing: Patti LuPone, Debra Winger, David Mamet.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, November 30, 2012
Carrie Underwood can add landing the lead in “The Sound of Music” to the list of of her favorite things. The Season four “American Idol” winner will star as Maria von Trapp in a live…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:18PMEverybody’s multitasking these days. Three busy performers are juggling as fast as they can.
That includes the terrific Judith Ivey, whose Betty Rubble giggle as Aunt Lavinia brig…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThere’s nothing abstract about the title “My Name Is Asher Lev.” It’s a straight-up declaration.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMIf the visuals in “Circus Oz: From the Ground Up,” starting Friday at the New Victory Theater in advance of a U.S. tour, look familiar, there’s a good reason.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, November 29, 2012
For Katie Holmes, “Dead Accounts” had the potential to be a post-divorce pick-me-up. She throws herself gamely into her second Broadway show (her first was “All My Sons” in 2008) and…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Honest, Abe, nice comeback.
One hundred and 47 years after he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln is pop culture’s Commander-in-Chief.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, November 25, 2012
In David Mamet’s prison drama “The Anarchist,” Patti LuPone adds the role of political radical to an expansive roster of Broadway credits — 26 and counting — rife with extreme wome…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM1. “The Piano Lesson” (Signature Center) August Wilson’s lyrical drama of a family legacy strikes a chord.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMPatti LuPone’s current Broadway star turn as a Weather Underground-like radical is the latest in a 40-plus-year career. She’s never been shy about characters who don’t play by the rule…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, November 23, 2012
“Elf.” Through Jan. 6 at Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 W. 45th St. Tickets: $49-$160; (212) 239-6200.
Thanks to recasting, the North Pole’s nutti…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Signature Theatre Company’s revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” strikes a major chord.
Credit the note-perfect staging by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who’s got a knac…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:22PMMonday, November 19, 2012
Another season of tinsel and holly, another holiday movie warmed over as a Broadway musical that tries but fails to summon the quirky magic of the big-screen original.
This year, it…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, November 18, 2012
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“Giant”
(Public Theater)
Epic Texas tale told as musical spr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMIn the Broadway musical “Annie,” the plucky red-headed orphan sings “Maybe.” She imagines what it would be like to have a home and parents of her own. Then she finds out for real aft…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, November 15, 2012
“Giant.” 4 stars. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Through Dec. 2. Tickets: $85-$95; (212) 967-7555.
Gazing out at their vast Texas spread, cat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe reality about love triangles is that there’s always more three people involved. Kids and spouses are often collateral damage.
One…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWhere’s the real Aimee Semple McPherson — the subject of the musical “Scandalous” — when you need her?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
There are huge boobs in the porn-themed play “The Performers,” which opened Wednesday at the Longacre.
That’s not only a reference to one character’s Double-G fake jugs, but…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMChange doesn’t come easy — or without pain and a price. It’s true for individuals. And nations.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Girls act like boys. Relatives double-cross kin. And a deadly puzzle stays unsolved until the audience gets in on the act.
So it goes in Rupert Holmes’ Tony-winning 1986 musical, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMonday, November 12, 2012
3 stars
‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’
Through Jan. 13, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65th St.)
Tickets: $75-$85; (212) 239-6200
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMLeave me alone! The increasingly glum Russian at the center of Chekhov‘s “Ivanov” is constantly telling people to back off.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:24PMSunday, November 11, 2012
1. “Sorry”
(Public Theater)
On Election Day, a family takes stock and makes hard choices.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
It’s been nearly three years — too long — since Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (“Finian’s Rainbow”) has woven her silky voice around a new musical role in New York.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM‘I
can only imagine what we must sound like,” says one of the Apple siblings after a heated exchange in “Sorry.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AMThursday, November 8, 2012
New York can always use a dose of optimism. Considering current events, that goes double now.
In that sense, the enjoyable new production of “Annie” at the Palace Theatre arrive…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM 
