Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Lauren Zakrin in “Cruel Intentions Photo credit: Jenny Anderson Sometimes the experience of being with an audience that is largely half your age and that knows not on…
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A stirring concept concert with narrative segues
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:51PMThis musical may be small in its scope but when compared to some it achieves its own sense of grandness by being both magical and seductive— an unbeatable combination
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the characters in Betts’s play deploy their idiosyncrasies as well as defend their ideologies cleverly, and often ruefully.
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The cast photo credit: Joan Marcus
Luis Alfaro’s “Oedipus El Rey” is one of the more exciting of the new plays to open Off Broadway so far this season. A collaboration between Th…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 12:04PMSunday, November 12, 2017
Nia Vardalos (photo: Joan Marcus)
Sincere but why? That is how I responded to the dramatic form given to a stream of popular inter-active on-line advice columns originally written by Cher…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 05:51PMThursday, November 9, 2017
William Nicholson's 1990 award winner revived off-Broadway
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a show in which group participation means more than any anticipation as to what to expect next
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Clive Owen and Jin HaPhoro Credit: Matthew Murphy
Playwright David Henry Hwang made an auspicious Broadway debut in 1988 with M. Butterfly. The play and its original two stars - John Lithgow…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:20PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Alison Fraser in solo show that delves into dark behavior
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMMercedes Ruehl and Micharel UriePhoto: Joan Marcus
Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein is making a sentimental if not quite a sensational return to its Off-Broadway roots. This time uptown. Ori…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 07:07AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Weiner's score is conventionally melodic giving a bright frame for Mill's pleasantly facile and flippant lyrics
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a thoroughly worthwhile and memorable experience
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worthy revival of George Kelly comedy
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a tantalizing and entertaining intrusion into the lives of old buddies and former partners with a past as scam artists
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:15PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
The Royal George Theatre on Queens Parade About the Festival. Grab your passport and head for …
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:57AMMonday, August 28, 2017
Tony Yazbeck in solo dance segment from "Follies."
In my youth, I recall going with my parents to the Jewish Y in New Jersey to an annual entertainment called “Bits of Hits.” A wonder…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 09:52PMMonday, August 14, 2017
Grab your passport and head for the Shaw Festival's fifty-fifth year in Niagara-on-the-Lake
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:33AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Oscar IsaacPhoto credit: Carol Rosegg
Plenty of characters die in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” but plenty of them live long enough to make us laugh at their misfortunes, smile at t…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 09:57AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Claire Lizzimore's play may be providing a heavy dose of the psychotic. But who will complain when its being doled out by the terrific Rebecca Hall.
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Claire Lizzimore's play may be providing a heavy dose of the psychotic. But who will complain when its being doled out by the terrific Rebecca Hall
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Mary Poppins at the Paper Mill Playhouse
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this killer of a play is with verifiable certainty perversely comical
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Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's beautiful play gets a lovely revival
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This little known J.B. Priestly 1932 comedy belongs within the once revered "drawing room" genre wherein trifling but also unsettling issues, both romantic and familial, got their due with l…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:51AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
The exceptionally talented Christian Borle plays Willie Wonka with exhilarating ferocity. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AMSunday, April 16, 2017
A recollection triggered by the latest Hello, Dolly on Broadwa
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entertaining and terrifically cast Paper Mill Playhouse production.
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this British farce glows with antic performances
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John Leguizamo turns history professor in his latest solo show Read More
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delightfully silly concoction of murder, mystery and mayhem Read More
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