Wednesday, January 11, 2012
How to say “deja vu” in Mandarin? Who knows.
But watching Zayd Dohrn’s thoughtful but underdone play “Outside People” downtown, you’re apt to feel it if you’ve seen D…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:38PMSunday, January 8, 2012
“Tell them we are busy.” That’s what two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey snarled when a theatergoer’s cell phone went off during a performance of “Richard III” in Sydney. No matte…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, January 6, 2012
Lucie Arnaz chased away Old Man Winter Thursday night at Feinstein’s at the packed premiere of her joyfully warm and superbly sung “Latin Roots.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:28PMThursday, January 5, 2012
“Billy Elliot,” Broadway’s 2009 Best Musical Tony Award winner, dances its last leaps and pirouettes on Sunday.
The movie-turned-musical about an English miner’s son born f…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:18PMJane Lynch starring in “Mame”?
No, it hasn’t been announced.
And for all I know it’s never even crossed anyone else’s mind that the Emmy-winning actress now known…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:07AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
How hot is Darren Criss?
Hot enough to freeze for — or at least shiver for. And for 10 hours.
Criss, a "Glee" breakout, makes his Broadway debut tonight in "How To Succe…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:05AMFriday, December 30, 2011
Think globally, watch locally — supertitles included.
In January, that’s the name of the game Off-Broadway thanks to a number of international theater samplers.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWednesday, December 28, 2011
In April, when I first spoke to middle school theater teacher Evan Behlivanis, he was putting finishing touches on his production of “Guys and Dolls” at IS 119, in Glendale, Queens. “I…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, December 25, 2011
Where to find the best theater in New York? In 2011, the answers came from on and Off-Broadway, and even the Park Avenue Armory. That’s where the Royal Shakespeare Company set up shop and …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMonday, December 19, 2011
“Close Up Space” is the story of an editor and, brother, this unamusing absurdist comedy could have used one.
Maybe two. Not even the deep charms of David Hyde Pierce, who stars…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMCATCHING UP WITH BROOKLYN’S BEST
Last spring, Lynn Nottage’s smart and insightful comedy about racial identity “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” got critical kisses Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, December 16, 2011
“What’d I miss?” That line from “Seminar,” the new Broadway comedy about wannabe writers and their ego-bruising teacher gets big laughs when the dim Douglas (Jerry O’Connell) as…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWednesday, December 14, 2011
“Lysistrata Jones” is a little musical with big energy that slam-dunks a mythic saga into a current-day college basketball setting.
Led by the titular take-charge cheerleader, p…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, December 11, 2011
Harry Connick Jr. is the biggest star of Broadway’s new production of 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.'
He’s also the biggest problem.
The popular crooner and 'Pa…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
How far would you go to change a life that has become desensitized and traumatized?
How about back to 1955 — or, more accurately, a faithfully detailed facsimile?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
“You have a romantic streak,” a bright young woman tells a sad songwriter in “Once,” which runs through Jan. 15 in the East Village.
The same goes for the creators of this r…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Global warming? Yeah, right.
You’ll find scant radiant heat in the grimly — and flickeringly — funny interpersonal worlds Ethan Coen creates in “Happy Hour.”
That…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, December 4, 2011
At just two hours, the Classic Stage Company’s presentation of “The Cherry Orchard” clocks in as the shortest revival of the tragicomedy in memory.
You’d think the glorious …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThursday, December 1, 2011
They did it all for love and fame.
That’s about as deep as it gets in “Bonnie and Clyde,” the nicely performed but overly tame and unsurprising musical about notorious Depres…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM“Let the gore begin,” says director Michael Sexton.
That’s just going with the flow when you take on “Titus Andronicus.”
His staging of Shakepeare’s notorious …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:14PMA guide to performances of the classic Christmas story all around New York City.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:13PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
It takes more than everyday oats to make a war horse like “Faust” canter with a fresh kick.
It takes an original idea.
And “Jersey Boys” director Des McAnuff, in hi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:55PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
He’s famous for playing a pining architect on TV’s “How I Met Your Mother” and for writing, directing and starring in the film “happythankyoumoreplease,” but Josh Radnor, 37, is …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:14AMMonday, November 21, 2011
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Everybody knows that.
But how does Radio City’s 79th annual “Christmas Spectacular” look from the $45 budget seats?
…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:35PMThe motto of the Boy Scouts of America is Be Prepared.
And anyone who sees “Wild Animals You Should Know” should be prepared to be intrigued and a bit disappointed by the under…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:51PMWith his patented blend of velvety nastiness, Alan Rickman is ideally cast as a noxious instructor savaging young writers in Theresa Rebeck’s tangy but sometimes contrived comedy “Semina…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:56AMThursday, November 17, 2011
In “Horsedreams,” a play about addiction and race at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through Dec. 11, a long strand of white fluorescent tubes cuts across the cracked gray set. It lo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:10PMKim Cattrall gazes out in character as Amanda on the Playbill for Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” her head cocked back, nose pitched at a high angle, her face softly kissed in a glamoro…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:50PMAt the 10th annual “24 Hour Plays” on Monday, one of the six shorts in this always entertaining celebration of on-the-fly theater works are written, rehearsed and performed within a day…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:21AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
The theater fan on your list can always get tickets for the holidays — and some are suggested here — but there’s more to the New York theater community, and more ways to play Santa to …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:22PMFitting for a show about a cannibal and a serial killer, “Silence!” isn’t golden. Much of the time, it’s dimly lit.
But even in shadows, this lewd, lyrical and laugh-your-butt-off m…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:48PM 
