Wednesday, 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 11:00PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Long on gams and short on stage chops, Christie Brinkley is a Roxie without much moxie in the Broadway hit “Chicago.”
The Uptown Girl avoids embarrassing herself in the long-run…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMMonday, April 9, 2012
Politics and the oldest profession are on tap at the Public Theater.
Leading off the 2012-13 season announced on April 9 is “Wild With Happy,” a comedy written by and starring …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:47PMSunday, April 8, 2012
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“Evita”
(Marquis Theatre)
Watch it fly to giddy heights duri…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMStroll through the theater district and the question is bound to hit you: When did Broadway become the highway to heaven?
Witness the spiky spiritual satire “The Book of Mormon”…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, April 6, 2012
Ricky Martin gives a great big touch of star quality to the seductive revival of “Evita” at the Marquis. He also gives an appealing performance in the role of Che, which, like the show, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThursday, April 5, 2012
3 stars
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
Through April 21, Duke on 42nd St., 229 W. 42nd St.
Tickets: $75; (6…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:09PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his role as the host of the Tony Awards — again. Producers of Broadway’s grand prize night announced that the “How I Met Your Mother” star will emcee…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:45AMTribute and trash collide uneasily in “End of the Rainbow,” a jacked-up portrait of Judy Garland that captures the legend at the end of her rope near the end of her life.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMonday, April 2, 2012
Politics is a dirty business. No shock there. Just read or watch the news. So if in 1960 the candidates were different, the game was the same — smear or be smeared.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMSunday, April 1, 2012
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“Newsies” chorus guys
(Nederlander Theatre)
Everyone in the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThursday, March 29, 2012
An exhilaring jolt of youthful energy has hit Broadway. It arrives with 30 dazzling dancing feet, a bright rising star, buoyant songs and — whoops, I buried the lead — something meaningf…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFor a show that drills the importance of seizing the day, “Now. Here. This.” is fixed on sizing up days gone by.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:32PMOne good thing to take away from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ragtag 57-year-old musical “Pipe Dream” is that your cramped apartment won’t seem so bad.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:30PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Matt Charman has been called Britain’s “fastest-rising” young playwright
But in his likable, low-impact new drama “Regrets,” the Off-Broadway rookie takes it slow. Very slo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, March 25, 2012
1. “Lost in Yonkers” (Beckett Theatre) Neil Simon revival finds an Off-Broadway home.
(Venues at FathomEvents.com)
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Corbin Bleu will join the Broadway cast of “Godspell” as Jesus beginning April 17 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:57PM“The Capitol Steps.” 8 p.m. Friday at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. The acclaimed equal-opportunity political satirists celebrate 30 years of lampooning in this musical revue and perform fr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThursday, March 22, 2012
I don’t know how to love this.
The most passion I can muster for the flashy and mechanical new Broadway resurrection of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is qualified like.
D…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn the new production of Neil Simon’s 1991 Pulitzer-winning “Lost in Yonkers,” clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room. Those mists are gray, threatening and unmoving, just lik…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWhat’s fitting foreplay for some forbidden sex? What else — a forbidden dance.
So begins the U.K.-based Cheek by Jowl’s lively take on John Ford’s 17th-century tragedy “�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:59PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Dan LeFranc’s tasty and energetically acted little comedy The Big Meal” is being served through April 8 at Playwrights Horizons.
Although it runs a short 85 minutes, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
What becomes a Broadway hunk?
Two musicals figure it’s the perennial, popular, humble white Henley, sparking a Shubert Alley version of “Who wore it better?”
Steve K…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMonday, March 19, 2012
"Smash” gets a jolt of bona fide Broadway star power on Monday when Bernadette Peters appears as a famous actress and spotlight-hogging stage mom (is there any other kind?) on the show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:05PMIt’s hard to imagine a time before electronic media co-opted the news business. But the Broadway productions of “Newsies,” opening March 29, and “The Columnist,” beginning previews…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMSunday, March 18, 2012
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The Broadway Beauty Pageant
(Symphony Space)
Chorus guys throw d…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, March 15, 2012
In Jesse Berger’s canny staging of Jean Genet’s “The Maids,” the domestics don’t do windows.
The audience does — at least in a way. Seated on four sides of an enclosed b…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn Barcelona to finalize her divorce and research an article on the mystical experiences of St. Teresa of Avila, Carlotta, a New York writer, is rocked by her own surprising awakenings.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:00PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Don’t rain on me Argentina. Producers of “Evita” were forced to cancel performances for Tuesday night due to a fire-safety system malfunction that left the stage soggy and the eager-to…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:52PM 
