Early in the exhilarating musical “Violet,” a backwoods young woman totes a tattered suitcase onto a bus.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMIt’s a Broadway win-win I didn’t expect: Loved the show — adore the T-shirt.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMThere’s no riddle about the aim of “The Mystery of Irma Vep.” The goal is to crack you up.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:32PMThe new Moss Hart bioplay, “Act One,” is affectionate, handsome and overstuffed.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWith his recent frat-boy antics and Renaissance-man boasts, James Franco earns eye rolls. But he deserves an appreciative nod for his Broadway debut in “Of Mice and Men.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMOn paper, “The Library” had everything going for it. But on stage, the drama about the aftershocks of a fatal school shooting lacks insight.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMBillie Holiday hallmarks — a gardenia (for her hair), elbow-length gloves (for hiding needle marks) and “God Bless the Child” (for her mother, always) — are bound to be included in a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMHogwarts wonder boy Daniel Radcliffe can’t contain his love — or F-bombs — when he talks about the Great White Way, where he’s just begun previews of “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMRising Irish star Sarah Greene is a beauty and a beast in the jagged comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” That’s the job when you play Slippy Helen, a fiery teenaged redhead who seductiv…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:03PMWoody Allen’s musical works its tail off to tickle and delight. It’s too bad that the comedy about a playwriting hit man is a bit of a miss.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMIt’s not a good sign when a show’s most memorable and colorful performance comes from the four-legged cast member.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMIt’s funny how trying to connect with neighbors, spouses, God, whomever, can lead you nowhere.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMDenzel Washington’s popularity makes the revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” a hot ticket, but there’s a better reason: He and the show are flat-out excellent.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:45PMLike a great bottle of wine, the vineyard-set musical “The Most Happy Fella” is robust, complex and palate-pleasing.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:50PMSally Bowles drinks gin like water in “Cabaret.” And, natch, that’s exactly what actress Michelle Williams actually guzzles when she’s apparently boozing on stage at Studio 54. She�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM“Heathers: The Musical” is such a fun and satisfying Off-Broadway treat, you might be tempted to express amazement by quoting the show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM“If/Then” raked in about a $1 million at the box office last week. Much of that Broadway booty owes to the name (or wrong name!) of its star, Idina Menzel.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe Transport Group’s take on John Van Druten’s “I Remember Mama,” opening Sunday, promises to be one that sticks in the brain. Then again, memorably adventurous and innovat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMMeet Violet, the soulful, doleful pit bull co-starring with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in the John Steinbeck classic.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMAs the addled monarch in “King Lear,” Michael Pennington wears a fur-collared coat that’s rich in texture and plummy in tone — just like his voice.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe revival of Christopher Durang's 1981 comedy starts well, but about halfway in, things sag.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThere’s grist for a provocative and touching drama as a mom takes stock of the life her son might have had. But the script doesn’t go there.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMIt’s the 1980s megamusical famous for its sprawling 19th-century French canvas, big cast of characters and huge anthems made even more max with massive choral accompaniments.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe Great White Way has come down with a severe case of jukeboxitis. The syndrome is caused when many shows are woven together with recycled popular songs.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMThe day before James Dolan took out the knees of the leggy production of “Hearts and Lights,” Weinstein sat beside him in Radio City Music Hall, taking in a rehearsal that would seal its…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:06PMThree-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams makes her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret," an encore of the Tony-winning 1998 revival of the Kander-and-Ebb musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMIf you’re granted three wishes to make during Disney’s “Aladdin” you’ll definitely want to use one to discover how the musical’s creative genies pull off the magic-carpet ride in…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFor a play about survival, David Grimm’s “Tales From Red Vienna,” barely registers a pulse.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThere’s probably a worthwhile, if well-worn, story of unwanted and inescapable family legacies lurking in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play “Appropriate.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe Broadway musical “Rocky” is big-hearted, quick-fisted and predictable — but it saves its biggest punch for the last 15 minutes.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM“50 Shades! The Musical” comes in only two basic tones — filthy and funny.
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