Friday, August 9, 2019
Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical is a rock concert for rock lovers repelled by rock concerts.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:47AMFriday, July 26, 2019
Excerpt: 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…
SOURCE: at 09:10AMFriday, June 28, 2019
Michael R. Jackson's semi-autobiographical musical transforms oversharing into high art.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:25PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
nberg's new melodrama presented by The New Group, Susan Sarandon is making a meal on an unappetizing character.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:13AMMonday, March 11, 2019
a musical for Millennialsm that has the brassy, old-Broadway sound of Burt Bacharach's Promises, Promises and the 1971 revisal of No, No, Nanette.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:15AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
a play that depicts vividly and with humor the toxic effects of racism. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMFriday, October 26, 2018
This second play in an ambitious trilogy is a gifted young writer’s reflection on the civil rights movement.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:01AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
This high-velocity, three-character play is an ideal boulevard comedy for the Trump era.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:54AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
a theatrical reflection on how the fantasies of present day autocratic leaders rely on their so-called "base" to maintain their hold on power. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
An impressive cast revives a long forgotten idiosyncratic comedy from the late 1950s
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:37AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Director 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 …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:04AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
According 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…
SOURCE: at 09:28AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
The 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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:02PMFriday, April 27, 2018
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With Denzel Washington at its center, this production qualifies as a star revival. But the star is supported by 18 unusually able actors
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:11AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Theater 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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:28PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Hammaad Chaudry's timely family drama at New York Theatre Workshop
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:08AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Adrienne 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
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:41PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
The Civilians Investigative Theater's artistic director Steve Cosson's two-hande is, primarily, a reflection on the dread of d
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:00PMMonday, December 4, 2017
d Ethan Slater, Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants joins a long list of cartoon characters who have gravitated to the Broadway stage.
SOURCE: at 09:51PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Macmillan'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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:18AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Though 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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
a talented cast conjures the figures from playwright Philip Dawkins' fertile imagination, creating a group portrait that's vivid, credible, and heartbreaking. Read
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:18AMMonday, September 11, 2017
this 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
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:47PMSunday, July 23, 2017
Potomac pairs Howard Barker's Pity In History and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:42AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Mitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:37AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Soulpepper's musical tribute to Edgar Lee Masters
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:11AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Playwright 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.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:25PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Dianne Wiest joins a roster of distinguished stage performers who have undertaken the role over the 56 years since its premiere
SOURCE: at 09:12AMThursday, April 27, 2017
The 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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:53PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
our review now covers a report on both Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon's performances.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AMFriday, March 17, 2017
- 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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