Monday, March 10, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
The first performance of the new Wozzeck production at the Metropolitan Opera House turned into one of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
Missing for deliberate reasons or reasons of chronology from All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's sure-fire hit at the Neil Simon, are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
London--If you're heading this way with theatergoing in mind, here's a short list of what's on offer in the next couple...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:56AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber rules Brittania's West End and, as will come as a surprise to few, has for just about 40 years. Right now, three of his musicals are at hand. The Phantom of the Opera is …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Because of the hell into which he was thrown with thousands, Flynn conjures moments reminiscent of Dante's Inferno. There are even echoes in his lines of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. And w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2014
I admire Margulies's nuanced understanding the dynamics of friendships. He's put "Dinner" is his title, and he plays with it by devoting two scenes to Karen and Gabe preparing food…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
Standing ovations are so prevalent they are meaningless. The consensus is that ticket buyers paying so much for a seat rise at curtain calls in order to convince themselves they've just gott…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
When Little Me opened in November 1962, its major pluses were Sid Caesar, the Carolyn Leigh-Cy Coleman score and the rarely-miss Neil Simon gags. Revived at City Center this weekend, it can…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
Eric Simonson, who gets his kicks writing plays about sports figures, is jumping the gun on Valentine's Day by sending a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
Brian Kulick certainly attempts to get around the inherent problems with all manner of theatrical notions in a new translation by Gerhard Nellhaus, with Duncan Sheik's music carrying Brecht'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Before I get to an outright pan of the immoderately irritating Stop Hitting Yourself -- created by Austin's Rude Mechs and now squatting in the Lincoln Center Theater at the Claire Tow -- I'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Depending on how the individual observer assesses Colin's choice, he can be considered either as declaring his independence or as self-destructively tossing it aside. Either way, Sillitoe's…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
The annual event -- this is the 10th year -- is supposed to focus on the new and experimental. Maybe yes, maybe no, but certainly there are helpful hints about whom and what to look for in …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
Frank Langella is doing a completely respectable King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. But wait. Better be more specific, s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
If it's true that great minds think alike, it may be equally true that minds a notch or two below great also think alike.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
Before we get to what's wrong with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim, let's establish what's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2014
Much of the intense charm of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (Opheus's Descent...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Die Fledermaus back again as the Metropolitan Opera's New Year's Eve gala confection? Directed by Jeremy Sams,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Okay, I admit it, I entered A Christmas Carol at St. Clement's thinking, Oh no, not another one! Which just goes to show...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2013
The one thing you can safely say about The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic at the Park Avenue Armory is that it is what...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Night Alive suspense then builds on whether Aimee will be able to extricate herself from Kenneth's sinister demands, which include stealing money Tommy has hidden beneath floorboards. W…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Some plays need to look as if they're being performed with absolutely no effort whatsoever. They must seem merely tossed off. That's the fun of them. Perhaps the most famous example is Priva…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Truth is, Tyrell's effortlessly infallible phrasing has the effect of making what he does appealingly conversational. The emotion he's experiencing is a component of his seemingly off-handed…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Daniel Kitson is not only a marvelous story-teller. He may be our foremost meta-storyteller, and possibly because...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
Theater and opera crazo Terrence McNally loves writing about his passions, especially anything to do with their...
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