Thursday, 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."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
Emerald City, as we know, is the spot for finding a brain, a heart, courage and a sense of home. And story ideas. The new salsa-flavored kids musical "The Yellow Brick Road," launching on Tu…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Call it a comeback. Or a regrowth. Either way, the Tony-winning revival of "Hair" is back on Broadway. As someone who doesn't tire of hearing its great songs, including the joyful "Aquarius,…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
In the Royal Shakespeare Company's blazing but somewhat bloated "Romeo and Juliet," the amorous adolescents aren't just star-crossed. They're also wardrobe-impaired.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2011
Patti Mariano, a showbiz lifer, made her Broadway debut at age 12 in the original 1957 production of THE MUSIC MAN with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook..
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Cirque du Soleil's new show "Zarkana" promises a musical and acrobatic spectacle. It makes good on that vow: Now in residence at Radio City through early October, the production boasts brill…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:37PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2011
Points on a map provide "4,000 Miles" with a title, but this thoughtful small-scale play by Amy Herzog is really chasing after things that are unchartable.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
The image of a doomed figure dependent on the kindness of strangers looms large in the work of Tennessee Williams. Turns out Ollie Olsen could give Blanche DuBois a run for her money.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Proof that reality is weirder than fiction? See Exhibit A: Off-Broadway's "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Drawn with poetic license from true events of the '60s, it's one of the most …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
Solid acting goes so far in shoring up watery material. Case in point: Carey Mulligan's mesmerizing work in Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly," adapted from his 1961 Oscar-winning fil…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Babies you can't live with them and you can't live without them. There, in a nutshell, is Daniel Goldfarb's likable new comedy "Cradle and All," which follows two Brooklyn Heights couples f…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago for "Ruined," an intense drama set against the brutal war in the Congo.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Larry Kramer's drama "The Normal Heart" was presented last year in New York and Los Angeles as one-off staged readings timed to its 25th anniversary.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:46PM[SHARE]"Baby It's You!" is the Lawrence Welk of jukebox musicals. The show opened Wednesday night at the Broadhurst and boasts nearly three dozen hit songs. Among them, "I Met Him on a Sunday," "He…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:23PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
Fame is elusive. Chasing it is hard; doubly so if someone is holding you back. That theme rustles through "The House of Blue Leaves," which is back on Broadway in a revival starring Ben Stil…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:26PM[SHARE]That's what I call a rebirth. A new face has breathed fresh life into "Born Yesterday" at the Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2011
"Wonderland," which opened Sunday night at the Marquis Theatre, takes a cue from the film version of "The Wiz" and makes Alice (Janet Dacal) an unhappy grownup. There's potential to make the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Ambition is the fatal flaw in "Macbeth," but it's the key to the success of "Sleep No More," a sensational interactive theater piece inspired by imagery from the Scottish play and Alfred Hit…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
"This is kind of a weird play," announces the actor portraying Bernard, a dramatist, in "Go Back to Where You Are." The term "fantastical" also comes up. No wonder. The 70-minute one-act by …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:52PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2011
Wanna spend the evening with some intensely troubled but deeply funny substance abusers? Have I got a play for you "The Motherf- with the Hat," starring Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale as Ne…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2011
It's true that inside every chunky person is a slim one trying to bust out. Same goes for "Catch Me If You Can," a new Broadway musical that is tasty but buried under empty calories.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Watching spouses go at each other in public gets grating very quickly. Ditto seeing them do it on stage. Take that as a heads-up about "Marie and Bruce," Wallace Shawn's unpleasant squall of…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2011
Is Broadway big enough for two drag-queen musicals? You bet your sequined set of falsies.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2011
Three years ago, "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe came to Broadway for "Equus" and proved himself a solid dramatic actor. His current transformation into a song-and-dance man isn't quite…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2011
"The Book of Mormon" slipped quietly into town a few weeks ago without much hype or hoopla, just a lot of anticipation thanks to its creative DNA.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2011
Sexy. Classy. Gorgeous. That's the trio of traits the creators of "Catch Me If You Can" were chasing after as they cast chorus girls for the show. They got what they wanted.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:53AM[SHARE]It's a question that's asked constantly: Do Broadway critics matter when chat rooms, blogs and Twitter make everyone a critic? Well, it sure seems like they did when it came to "Spider-Man: …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2011
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