Monday, May 7, 2012
Harold Pinter is famous for deliberately enigmatic works, and that includes his 1960 breakthrough play, “The Caretaker,” now at Brooklyn Academy of Music starring Tony winner Jonathan Pr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, May 6, 2012
1.
“Once”
(Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre)
Eleven Tony noms and each…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThe Tony Awards race is on — like clockwork. But this year’s Broadway prizefight is shaping up as one of the most fiercely competitive in a long while.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, May 4, 2012
The first thing you notice is the husky brown bear hunched over on all fours, as if he (or maybe it’s a she) is sniffing out something about 2 feet off the ground.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThursday, May 3, 2012
“She’s so crazy,” said a woman in a hushed but audible voice on Tuesday night at the Cafe Carlyle.
The stage whisperer, an actress, was referring to the evening’s entertaine…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:20PMPrestigious schools tend to play a part in shows by composers-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe.
“Legally Blonde,” their 2007 Tony-nominated musical, takes place at…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:30PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
"Once,” A charming romance based on an Oscar-winning indie film, led the pack Tuesday in Tony nominations with 11 nods — including best musical, director, lead actor and actress.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:09AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
“Once,” a charming romance based on an Oscar-winning indie film, led the pack in Tony nominations announced Tuesday with 11 nods — including best musical, director, lead actor and actr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51AMMonday, April 30, 2012
No heat. No point. No thanks. “An Early History of Fire” is a dramatic fizzle. That’s especially disheartening since it’s the first new play in a decade by David Rabe, the author of …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, April 29, 2012
1. “One Man, Two Guvnors” (Music Box Theatre) James Corden and company are living laughing gas.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, April 27, 2012
Leapin’ Lilla!
Actress Lilla Crawford has jumped into the title role of the fall 2012 revival of “Annie,” producers announced on April 27.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:22AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Jeez, even the climactic thunderstorm is a letdown in “Leap of Faith.” You can see the water jets — where’s the fun in that?
Sorry if that’s a spoiler, but nothing happens…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMHidden identities, Freudian slips and splatting pratfalls are on the all-you-can-eat menu of the silly 1960s-style sex farce “Don’t Dress for Dinner.”
In foodie terms, this mo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Swirling with bootleggers and bathtub gin, the Prohibition-era musical comedy cocktail “Nice Work If You Can Get It” is a light-hearted romp, but unfortunately, it’s not as intoxicatin…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMonday, April 23, 2012
During “Ghost the Musical” last Thursday, one of the enormous sliding LED panels used to create scenic and special effects slipped off its track and crashed, leading to a 20-minute delay.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMDeath looms large in Nicky Silver’s Broadway play, “The Lyons,” a caustic and canny comedy about family dysfunction packed with surprises that are alternately hilarious, tragic and abs…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFree theater in New York City is almost as abundant as mosquitoes come warm weather.
This season that includes a new take on a Shakespeare tragedy about a dour Dane that could be c…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:51PMBlack actors playing Blanche DuBois and
Stanley Kowalski
make “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Broadhurst Theatre automatically stand out.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMSunday, April 22, 2012
1.
“Clybourne Park”
(Walter Kerr Theatre)
. A zinging, stinging …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Michael Esper is on a roll. In the span of two weeks in March the homegrown actor wrapped the Off-Broadway play “Assistance,” shot an NBC pilot for a medical drama called “Do No Harm�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Jake Gyllenhaal will make his American stage debut this summer Off-Broadway in “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” the Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Thursday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:21PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Can we keep James Corden in New York for good? The young British actor headlining the London import “One Man, Two Guvnors” at the Music Box is so mad talented, adorable and hilarious tha…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
What’s in a name? When one of them is Meryl Streep and the other is Kevin Kline it’s the summer’s hottest ticket. Priciest, too — $1,500 a pop and up.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:41PMMonday, April 16, 2012
A kidnapped billionairess and her bisexual husband. Three gay centurions. A mystery woman who keeps her dimwitted son on a leash. And a blazing fire on the beach. They’re all part of the c…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMQuiara Alegria Hudes’s play “Water by the Spoonful” has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:42PMSunday, April 15, 2012
Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic, Broadway’s “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a big dipperful of fun. The “Peter Pan” precursor seen downtown a year ago is based o…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Barbara Corcoran is a badass businesswoman who’s at home in a “Shark Tank.”
But that doesn’t make it okay to suggest that bosses at her former real-estate company that stil…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThursday, April 12, 2012
Dueling monologues don’t usually add up to my favorite kind of play. But David Harrower’s vividly detailed and deeply affecting drama of estranged siblings, “A Slow Air,” has made me…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMessy stuff, morality. And José Rivera’s untidy allegory of life and death, “Massacre (Sing to Your Children),” comes awash in blood, bile, tears, other body fluids, blinding lights a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
The hoops-themed Broadway bio “Magic/Bird” doesn’t technically foul out, but it’s not exactly a winner either.
Ironically, Eric Simonson’s by-the-numbers and stiffly acted account…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM 
