A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But a woman playing the Bard’s besotted Romeo is bound to raise eyebrows — and questions.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMThe fitfully amusing but distractingly diffuse comedy “American Hero” follows three diverse people trying to earn their daily bread at a sandwich shop.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMBarrett Foa has a degree in Barbra Streisand, a B.A. in B.S. that goes with starring in “Buyer & Cellar” at the Barrow Street Theatre.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:42PMAnnette Bening, the Oscar-nominated big screen star, will flex her stage muscles in the Shakepeare in the Park production of “King Lear” led by John Lithgow this summer.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:00PMWe’re gonna need a bigger boat slip. Pop-culture piers are packed as “The Last Ship” — two of them, actually — sets sail in June.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMEstelle Parsons was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Obies on Monday, while Philip Seymour Hoffman was remembered for a life cut short.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMStage animals don’t come more magnetic than Linda Lavin. She’s a fierce star with the gift of grab. But her estimable gifts can’t put a shine on Nicky Silver’s murky tragico…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMThe theater community is expected to celebrate late great actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, but some of the most heartfelt salutes have come from people far from New York stages.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:19PMGardner McKay’s 1971 play “Sea Marks” reminds us that romance, like real estate, hangs on the almighty trinity — location, location, location.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:31PMFueled by “Freaky Friday” fantasy and actual health-insurance angst, “Under My Skin” is a body-swapping comedy with preexisting conditions — creaky bones and lameness.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:41PMLike the throwaway paper that gives “The Few” its title, the play’s three outcasts could be tossed aside and nobody’d notice — or care.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMThis 1950s musical fable about a Parisian prostitute with a heart of gold is supposed to be cheeky and frolicsome fun. But in a rare Encores! misfire, “Irma La Douce” is so leaden tha…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:28PMPolitics and personal lives are inextricably — and wrenchingly — tangled in the topical and fast-moving drama “The City of Conversation,” premiering at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00PMAmong the targets: “Matilda” and its murky lyrics; “Bullets Over Broadway” for its rehashed material; and the glut of jukebox musicals.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:07PMThe boldly hilarious button-pusher “An Octoroon” gets lots of lift by tearing things down. First to fall is the fourth wall, with actors talking directly to the audience about the making…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMDirector Carl Cofield says Amiri Baraka’s play, about a fatal meeting between a white woman and black man, is as relevant as ever.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:50PMMoms and dads must love all their children equally. But what about Broadway press agents and their productions?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:53AMHe pioneered detective fiction, but Edgar Allan Poe’s own death is a mystery 165 years later. The writer’s end is imagined in “Red Eye to Havre de Grace.” It’s a mashup of moody mu…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMNominations for the Tony Awards always make news. Here’s what the nominators got right — and wrong. Wrong number 1: Denzel gets snubbed!
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:58PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” made a killing at the Tony nominations. The show led the pack with 10 nods, — including Best Musical, Director and two noms for Best Actor.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51AMThe writer who sued Valerie Harper for bailing out of his play has expressed “love and admiration” for the cancer-stricken star he’s battling in court — and recast the villain in the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:06PMPublish or perish assumes unexpected meaning in "The Substance of Fire," an intriguing but frustrating drama.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMDespite a good cast, this environmentally themed mystery tour is an uneasy mix of fact, credulity-stretching fiction and songs that don't work with the rest of the show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMThough Michelle Williams is credible but not memorable in her Broadway debut as songstress Sally Bowles, her performance can’t mar the Roundabout’s redo (re-revival?) of its Tony-winning…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMDudes look like ladies in “Casa Valentina,” an intriguing but diffuse new drama about straight cross-dressers in 1962 New York.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMAs a pope, John Paul II was revered around the world. As a playwright, well, not so much. Before he was Christ’s vicar on Earth, John Paul II was a Polish writer named Karol Wojtyla.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:29PMTransformation is tricky, sometimes even painful. But Broadway’s sensational “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” starring a kick-ass Neil Patrick Harris is a reminder that change doesn’t hav…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMThere’s a compelling and worthwhile story out there about an age-addled woman’s battle to live out her life in her own home. “The Velocity of Autumn” isn’t it.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMIf you look under your seat at “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” now on Broadway, you might find one of the slyest jokes on the Great White Way: A Playbill for “Hurt Locker: The Musical.”…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:06PMDaniel Radcliffe has appeared naked on stage, but he’s never been as emotionally raw or as steady on his feet as he is now portraying Billy in “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMEarly in the exhilarating musical “Violet,” a backwoods young woman totes a tattered suitcase onto a bus.
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