Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Fitting 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 12:48PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Patti LuPone is posing for me and my BlackBerry.
Yes, that Patti LuPone — the Broadway superstar who recently has become the queen of “Stop Taking Pictures Right Now!”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:30AMMonday, November 14, 2011
Thomas Bradshaw’s new drama, “Burning,” fails to catch fire or to cohere. But you can’t accuse the practiced downtown provocateur, now represented in midtown at the New Group through…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:04PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Renee Fleming revisits her triumphant take on Handel’s “Rodelinda” Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera, where she’s sung 21 roles in 20 years.
That’s one busy diva.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:04PMThursday, November 10, 2011
A giddy love-in has taken over the Broadhurst Theatre, where “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” opened last night for a limited run through Jan. 1.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:14AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
For 16 years as a brilliant and ruthless litigator on “Law & Order,” Sam Waterston ranted in the interest of justice.
Now, on stage at the Public Theater, he’s the aged mad monarch …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:46PMOh, lordy. It takes real effort to drain the joy from “Godspell,” the buoyant 1971 musical celebration of the life and teachings of Christ.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:35PMWhoever said lightning doesn’t strike twice hasn’t seen Nina Arianda reprise her breakout role in David Ives’ clever but repetitive comedy “Venus in Fur.”
Playing Vanda, a seemi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:49AMMonday, November 7, 2011
In the likable and well-acted dramedy “All-American,” a former NFL star quotes his own self-help book.
It’s called “Football Is Life,” and the title is a tidy metaphor fo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:04PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Ashlin Halfnight is known for dark and stylized plays, including the Southern gothic “Mud Blossom” and “Artifacts of Consequence,” set after an environmental meltdown.
Like …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:03PM‘Milk Like Sugar,” Kirsten Greenidge’s play about displaced dreams and misplaced values, finds the inspiration for its title in a powdered dairy substitute that’s less wholesome and …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:05PMFriday, October 28, 2011
Eisenberg has made his name acting up as hapless nerds in films like "The Social Network" and "The Squid and the Whale." The 28-year-old star from Queens is in his comfort zone in the role h…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AMIn the boardroom or the bedroom, if you get mixed messages or don't translate everything just right, you're sunk. And when you turn that into a cross-cultural bilingual scenario, you amplify…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AMThursday, October 27, 2011
In the boardroom or the bedroom, if you get mixed messages or don’t translate everything just right, you’re sunk.
And when you turn that into a cross-cultural bilingual scenari…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:46PM“Where are we?” In Jesse Eisenberg’s sly but slight debut play, “Asuncion,” that question looms large — banner-sized, even.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:35PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
The Big Apple Circus has pitched its tent at Lincoln Center for its 34th season of family-friendly treats. One of the special features of this single-ring spectacle is that the performances …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AMThursday, October 20, 2011
All pain, no gain. For the ill-fated Lebanese-American family in Stephen Karam's darkly funny and deeply touching play, "Sons of the Prophet," that's the way it is. In this multigenerational…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:14PMIf laughter is the best medicine, the all-star authors responsible for "Relatively Speaking," three one-act comedies about family foibles, might be sued for malpractice.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:07PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Apple iPhones don't grow on trees, despite the fruity name. But where do they come from? Who makes them? And how? You've probably never even wondered about that as you've tapped away and tex…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:03PMThursday, October 13, 2011
"Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord." Thursday night, "Godspell" returned to Broadway (at Circle in the Square), so we'll be hearing Stephen Schwartz's exhilarating song heralding the arrival of…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:49PMWhat was Martin Luther King Jr.'s final night on Earth like in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis? Katori Hall offers a dramatic response to that question with her irreverent fantasy …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:26PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Don't judge a book by its cover or a play by its scenery. Zoe Kazan's "We Live Here," at Manhattan Theatre Club, is a forceful reminder of that advice. The production's big House Beautiful-w…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:28PMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Nicky Silver's sharp-tongued and cold-hearted farce "The Lyons" follows an American family doused in dysfunction - a theme covered so thoroughly that just typing the words makes my eyelids h…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:16PMThursday, October 6, 2011
The French novella "The Little Prince" has been translated into more than 220 languages. That includes Puppet-speak. Okay, that's not a real language. But life-size puppets are an all-import…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:10PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
"It's art, it's not nice." That comment, made by someone in "The Threepenny Opera," could also be said of Robert Wilson's vision of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 1928 satiric musical. As a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:08PMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Randy Graff is such a good actress she could probably make reciting Mother's Day cards sound fascinating. As it happens, Graff and three other fine actors are required to do something simila…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:44PMMonday, October 3, 2011
The rich are different. Deadly, too. They're the sort of people who prey on others, their children and each other. The prolific Adam Rapp ("Red Light Winter," "The Hallway Trilogy") says as …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:40PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Drag diva Joey Arias (above) boasts credits spanning from dim downtown clubs to the bright Las Vegas Strip, a voice that scales octaves like a surefooted Sherpa and a bod that can rock a Thi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:56PMConnection and comfort don't come easily in works by Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Talley's Folly," who died in March at age 73.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:32PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
It takes more than a juicy setup and tangy talking points to make a great play. Obviously. But it's easy to be reminded of that during "The Submission," a dramedy about a struggling New York…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:52PMMonday, September 26, 2011
In the new stage musical "Newsies," based on the 1992 big-screen Disney dud, scruffy ragamuffins go from downtrodden to triumphant.
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