Thursday, 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…
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In “The Whale,” Charlie’s days are numbered because his weight is off the charts.
He tips the scale at 600 pounds in Samuel D. Hunter’s deeply affecting and piercingly…
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Boxers or briefs? Odd as it sounds, that nosy question resonates in not one but two politically and religiously charged new Off-Broadway plays that opened in the last week and a half.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTheater director Ruben Santiago-Hudson looked to a local sculptor versed in the intricacies of clay, bronze and black history to fine-tune his revival of “The Piano Lesson.” “Ruben cal…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM1. “The Performers” (Longacre Theatre) A new comedy about fantasies, friendship and, well, porn.
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Faye Dunaway’s 1966 face, projected as big as a billboard, stares out, frozen, at the moment just before she’s killed in “Bonnie and Clyde” as part of the scenery in “House for Sal…
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“The Tempest” blew into the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday. From the get-go, it reminded us that a challenge of staging Shakespeare’s tale of revenge and reconciliation is conjuring the…
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Mourning becomes electric — and curiously amusing — in the small-scale comedy “Wild With Happy” at the Public Theater.
Written by and starring Colman Domingo, the play conce…
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Pakistani-American author Ayad Akhtar follows his acclaimed novel “American Dervish” with “Disgraced,” an intense and intelligent but inherently flawed drama.
Spanning six m…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMYesterday her life was filled with rain. Now Sunny — an irresistible shelter mutt who went from Death Row to a starring role on Broadway in “Annie” — is living it up in her airy Wash…
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1. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Booth Theatre) Scenes from a marriage, Albee-style, in a first-class revival.
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Man up! That’s Stephanie J. Block’s job in playing a male impersonator and the title character in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” starting previews tonight at Studio 54.
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It takes steel you-know-whats to write a comedy about terrorists determined to blow up the Empire State Building and NASDAQ.
So give Jon Kern some credit for his intriguing but inco…
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What do I hang on to? What do I let go of? And when?
Sherie Rene Scott chews on juicy personal dilemmas in her gorgeously sung cabaret show “Piece of Meat.”
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3 stars
Don’t Go Gentle
Through Nov. 4 Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St.
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Fifty years after warring spouses George and Martha first waged battle, Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” still packs a wallop that leaves you shaken.
Origina…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM1. “Glengarry Glen Ross” (Schoenfeld Theatre) Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale star and spar in the David Mamet drama.
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He’s got the soul of a poet, the nose of a monster and an express pass to Broadway.
The hero of Edmond Rostand’s swashbuckling romance, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” has paraded his…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMGrowing up in Toledo, Ohio, Katie Holmes was the baby of the brood with three older sisters and one older brother.
“Sibling relationships are so intense — and in the best way,�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:35PMQueens actor Ryan Barry starts performances tonight in the Off-Broadway play “In the Summer Pavilion” — and comes a step closer to making a name for himself.
That’s tricky f…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThe always intriguing Sherie Rene Scott follows her Tony-nominated, semi-autobiographical show, “Everyday Rapture,” with a new cabaret evening drawing on the stories and songs of her lif…
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Picture this: Mary (Annette O’Toole) and Joseph (Steve Mellor) hightail it to Homeland Security to save their son, Chris, who’s been arrested.
Get it? Of course.
It ta…
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Deep into the play “Harper Regan,” the title character observes, “It’s been a strange day. A strange couple of days.”
That’s an understatement.
And this 2008 dr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe famously bitter and ballistic Lewis Black hit the stage gunning at the Tuesday night premiere of his new Broadway show, “Running on Empty.”
He aimed his first shot at himse…
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In her new play “Him,” Daisy Foote trains her gaze on an ordinary American family — and all that comes with it.
In that regard, she’s like her late father, Horton Foote, a …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, October 7, 2012
1.
“Glengarry Glen Ross”
(Schoenfeld Theatre)
David Mamet is ba…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTickets to the Sept. 30 autism-friendly performance of “The Lion King” sold out in a day.
Cheryl Squires, a refreshingly no-nonsense Queens school teacher whose 10-year-old son Geoffrey…
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The green-eyed monster rages Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera’s “Otello” premiere and Michael Fabiano will be collateral damage.
The 28-year-old tenor from Montclair, N.J., …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:54AMSince his New York stage debut in 2003 in “Henry V” at the Delacorte Theatre, the talented Colman Domingo has shown he likes to mix things up — acting and writing, stage and film.
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Religious devotion and the unpredictability of life clash calamitously in “Grace,” a new Broadway play about faith — a popular topic there of late.
Despite a starry cast, nume…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:38PMMayor Bloomberg brushed up his Shakespeare with stage stars Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber and Mandy Patinkin at Thursday’s rededication of the Public Theater after a $40 million facelif…
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