Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical is a rock concert for rock lovers repelled by rock concerts.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:47AMExcerpt: a brightly wrapped, intricately decorated package with little inside. It's racy, sometimes vulgar, and always indifferent to historical context and narrative logic. This makes it…
Linked From at 09:10AMMichael R. Jackson's semi-autobiographical musical transforms oversharing into high art.
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:25PMnberg's new melodrama presented by The New Group, Susan Sarandon is making a meal on an unappetizing character.
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:13AMa musical for Millennialsm that has the brassy, old-Broadway sound of Burt Bacharach's Promises, Promises and the 1971 revisal of No, No, Nanette.
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:15AMa play that depicts vividly and with humor the toxic effects of racism. . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:48AMThis second play in an ambitious trilogy is a gifted young writer’s reflection on the civil rights movement.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:01AMThis high-velocity, three-character play is an ideal boulevard comedy for the Trump era.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:54AMa theatrical reflection on how the fantasies of present day autocratic leaders rely on their so-called "base" to maintain their hold on power. . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:30AMAn impressive cast revives a long forgotten idiosyncratic comedy from the late 1950s
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:37AMDirector Ali steers this production along a narrow path that runs between the realistic and the fanciful, ensuring that the five fine actors do justice both to what's straightforward and to …
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:04AMAccording to this high concept production, love and passion are the only available counterweight to all the evil in Friedrich Schiller's fictional universe -- and, presumably, in our grim mo…
Linked From at 09:28AMThe Bristol Old Vic has brought New York a creditable staging of O'Neill's masterpiece. Lesley Manville is giving a performance that's damn near definitive. How fitting that these British Ty…
Linked From CurtainUp at 11:02PMl With Denzel Washington at its center, this production qualifies as a star revival. But the star is supported by 18 unusually able actors
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:11AMTheater aficionados will savor the actors' ability to conjure the feast with a few props and Dinesen's words. Those attending on the strength of the movie's reputation may find the lack of r…
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:28PMHammaad Chaudry's timely family drama at New York Theatre Workshop
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:08AMAdrienne Kennedy is renowned for a style of dramatic writing that's all her own. And this new play is as poetic, mysterious, and intricately structured as one might expect from her past work
Linked From CurtainUp at 04:41PMThe Civilians Investigative Theater's artistic director Steve Cosson's two-hande is, primarily, a reflection on the dread of d
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:00PMd Ethan Slater, Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants joins a long list of cartoon characters who have gravitated to the Broadway stage.
Linked From at 09:51PMMacmillan's play is a timely depiction of the physical, psychological, and social impact of addiction. It's hard to imagine the sundry crafts of theater being brought together more expertl…
Linked From CurtainUp at 11:18AMThough popular in O'Neill's day, the Freudian asides and marathon running time have proved stumbling blocks for later audiences. But Greenspan's marathon approach may have found the sec…
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:42AMa talented cast conjures the figures from playwright Philip Dawkins' fertile imagination, creating a group portrait that's vivid, credible, and heartbreaking. Read
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:18AMthis tale of obsession fabricated from odds and ends of the historical record isn't likely to send playgoers in search of Isak Dinesen's literary works
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:47PMPotomac pairs Howard Barker's Pity In History and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:42AMMitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama. . .
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:37AMSoulpepper's musical tribute to Edgar Lee Masters
Linked From CurtainUp at 09:11AMPlaywright Chisa Hutchinson proves herself a sharp-eyed observer of character with an up-to-the minute ear for how Americans of differing ages and backgrounds speak and interact.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:25PMDianne Wiest joins a roster of distinguished stage performers who have undertaken the role over the 56 years since its premiere
Linked From at 09:12AMThe masterful choreographer of Hamilton and a first-class musical theater team have concocted a show that mixes music inspired by the swing era with an overall sensibility that's up-to-the-m…
Linked From CurtainUp at 01:53PMour review now covers a report on both Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon's performances.
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:42AM- Author Rachel Bonds calls it a "Nighttime Play with Songs," and much of its dramatic struggles do take place in the dark . . .
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