Monday, September 26, 2011
In the new stage musical "Newsies," based on the 1992 big-screen Disney dud, scruffy ragamuffins go from downtrodden to triumphant.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, September 25, 2011
How to put butts in theater seats? That question has been around since the toga-clad days of Aristophanes, who, as it happens, is making a comeback in a larky new musical this fall.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:08PMA fall preview of what's to come on Broadway: Season brings reborn classics and a new "Bonnie & Clyde."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:28PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Yankees superstar shortstop is all over the lineup in a downtown theater festival leading off on Wednesday. "The Derek Jeter Plays," at the Algonquin Seaport Theater on Pier 17, features six…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:02PMDead bodies, or references to them, pop up regularly in "Perfect Crime," but judging from history, there's just no killing New York's currently longest-running play.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:50PMThe wicked wit behind "Forbidden Broadway" and Tony-nominated veterans of "Annie" and "Applause" are on tap at the eighth annual New York Musical Theater Festival, running Monday through Oct…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:12PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
The notion of starting again reverberates through Richard Nelson's "Sweet and Sad," at the Public Theater, an alternately sharp and tender meditation on loss, memory and life in a wounded po…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:48PMIf solving complex mathematical riddles and mysteries of micro-biology sounds daunting, try cracking the code of the human heart. Itamar Moses cannily threads those parallel strands in his e…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:39PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Laura Osnes will miss a lot of things about "Anything Goes" when she belts for the last time as Hope Harcourt on Sunday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:54PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
Anne Nelson's "The Guys" was one of the first theatrical responses to the attack. The play, about a fire captain and an editor who helps him write eulogies, opened Jan. 28, 2002, at the Flea…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:07PMBroadway greats like Matthew Broderick, Cheyenne Jackson and Julie White recall where they were, who they were with and what they were doing at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:42PMAfter the World Trade Center tragedy, Broadway reeled. Then it rallied. Two days after the towers fell, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani gave a press conference about rescue efforts at Ground Zero. …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:03PMFriday, September 2, 2011
There's no way George Clooney can avoid getting called out for being stiff in a show launching on Monday. It's not a nasty dis simply a fact. "A Night With George" tells the story of a work…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:17AMSince an introduction to Eugene O'Neill by way of "Desire Under the Elms," I've found his stage directions to be as eloquent and intriguing as his characters. Often, even more obsessive.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:11AMMonday, August 22, 2011
After trekking contentedly with British actor Simon Russell Beale through Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" and Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," I'll go anywhere he takes me.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:07PMFriday, August 19, 2011
For single-celled organisms, yeast can pack on the flab. Or, more to the point, "Yeast Nation," a musical about the stuff, does. It is larded with echoes of a past show and bloated by so-so …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:50AMBad marriages can make for good drama. And unions don't come more corroded than the one shared by the unhappy West Texas twosome in "Tricks the Devil Taught Me."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:28AMThursday, August 18, 2011
"One room. Two plays. An intimate experience of epic proportion." That's how the site-specific production "HotelMotel" hawks itself, and three-quarters of the pitch is true. Yes, it takes pl…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:44PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
With its horseradish-harsh heroine and a goofy haunted mirror, Charles Busch's new play, "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," had the potential to be dizzy good fun. Or provocative. Or, better yet,…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:15PMMonday, August 15, 2011
Like the weirdly statuesque family at the center of "The Talls," this terrific new play presented by Second Stage Uptown more than measures up. A coming-of-age comedy set in 1970 in Oakland …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:37PMThursday, August 11, 2011
"Blow out your candles, Laura and so good-bye." By the time this farewell provides a final stab of pain in "The Glass Menagerie," a fragile figurine and a shy young woman's shot at happines…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:27PMIt's good to see "Rent" again. Jonathan Larson's rock-musical riff on "La Boheme" remains as ambitious, beautiful and uneven as when it first wowed Broadway 15 years ago. After being away fo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:20PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Pole dancing gets more than respectable it ascends to dazzling heights in the sexy mindblower, "Traces," at the Union Square Theatre through early October. Effortless athleticism, balletic …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:41PMThursday, August 4, 2011
A soulful but slight "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" concludes the two-show inaugural season at New Haarlem Arts Theatre at City College of New York. In 1999 on Broadway, this musical surve…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:05PMThe delightful new Oz-themed kids musical, "The Yellow Brick Road," proves there's still lessons to be learned traveling down this popular pathway.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:58PMA celebratory gathering takes complicated turns in William S. YellowRobe Jr.'s play "Thieves," at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St.) through Aug. 14.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:37PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Tony winner Laura Benanti was said to be in the mix. And the talented comic actress Leslie Kritzer auditioned three times for the plum role.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:27PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Most of the plays presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company have tucked in modern touches clothes, for example primarily for contemporary resonance.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:47PMMonday, July 25, 2011
Othello is the guy you think of first when the topic of Shakespare and jealousy comes up. But the Moor isn't alone.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:40PMAfter a while I stopped jotting down lines that made me laugh in Zach Braff's play "All New People," which opened Monday night at Second Stage. When it comes to chuckles-to-running-time rati…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:25PMThursday, July 21, 2011
The Darkest of Souls is the brightest beacon of delight in the well-performed but disappointing new musical "Death Takes a Holiday."
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