Friday, October 26, 2012
Londoners – or those willing to cross the pond – have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
It's likely that audiences exiting the Metropolitan Opera after Robert Lepage's eye-popping production of
The Tempest, based on Shakespeare's great drama, will be in a state of uncertainty …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
What is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cau…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:59AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Although I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, <em>Joseph Anton</em>, have I realized how some part of me continues to loo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AMThursday, October 11, 2012
No production of Cyrano de Bergerac is worth a minute of anyone's time unless the title character is portrayed by a top-drawer actor. Fortunately, "bravura" barely begins to describe Tony Aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
British playwright Simon Stephens has written several striking plays, but Harper Regan, now making its American debut at Atlantic Theater Company under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Although there are some troublesome aspects to Daisy Foote's
Him, now being presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, too much about the author's new work about a dysfunctional Tremont…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 5, 2012
Any piece of theater in which one human after another turns into a thundering African mammal inherently requires as much theatricality as a director can lavish, and that's exactly what Emman…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Craig Wright obviously has a potent thing against organized religion of any variety, but with Grace, now making its Broadway bow at the Cort Theatre under Dexter Bullard's committed directio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
In Jeffrey Hatcher's unruly, though not unrewarding, Ten Chimneys, now at Theatre at St. Clement's, the playwright examines an unconventional marriage for the glue holding it together. This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAlthough Hamlet still doesn't take revenge on his murdered father until the corpse-strewn final scene, nobody will ever accuse this title figure of being slow to act in the Shakespeare's Glo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMThursday, September 27, 2012
Brian Friel isn't completely convinced love is a forever thing. As proved by the entertaining revival of Lovers presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, Friel lets audiences know how uncert…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAn Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play-with-a-cause, isn't unfurled very often, which definitely makes Doug Hughes' thoroughly competent Manhattan Theatre Club revival at the Samue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
The singing was so strong and supple throughout the Metropolitan Opera 's opening night production of Gaetano Donizetti's
L'Elisir d'Amore that the traditional look of Tony Award-winning di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMMonday, September 17, 2012
At four-and-a-half-hours-long,
Einstein on the Beach — the famed Robert Wilson-Philip Glass project now being revived at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House —adds up to slightly less than the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMMonday, September 10, 2012
The intrigue and dark beauty of Mary Broome, Alan Monkhouse's 1911 drawing-room drama being revived under Jonathan Bank's astute direction at the Mint Theatre — stems from how creatively t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06PMMonday, September 3, 2012
Chad Begeulin's play about a gay couple at odds over adopting a baby is touching and well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PMMonday, August 27, 2012
Sam Shepard's obscure new play deals with five wacky people in a house in California.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, August 23, 2012
For Gore Vidal's memorial at the Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday, August 23, a photograph of the playwright-novelist-essayist was placed against the American flag. Not surprisingly, it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMMonday, August 20, 2012
Reports on An End to Dreaming, Antigone Unearthed, Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, and KRiEp.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Primary Stages offers an expertly acted trio of Horton Foote's affecting one-act plays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMReports on Tail! Spin!, Gay Camp, and The Importance of Doing Art.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Neil Simon's 1963 comedy gets a charming revival at the recently reopened Bucks County Playhouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PMReports on Pink Milk, The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children and Dark Hollow: An Appalachian Woyzeck
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Ron Cephas Jones leads an excellent cast in the Public Theater's speedily-performed and effective production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
This entertaining trio of short works by Paul Rudnick, Sean Hartley & Sam Davis, and Neil Labute have a high silliness quotient.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, August 5, 2012
Some starry new cast members, including John Stamos, Cybill Shepherd, and Kristin Davis, more-than-effectively step into this timely revival of Gore Vidal's political drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, August 3, 2012
The New Haarlem Arts Theatre offers up a Latin-tinged revival of the 1966 musical comedy about an overly optimistic dance-hall hostess.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
This trio of one-act plays by Wendy Kesselman, Nancy Giles, and James McLure are decidedly above-average.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMFriday, July 27, 2012
Reports on Living With Henry, Zapata! The Musical, A Letter to Harvey Milk, and The Groove Factory.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMThursday, July 26, 2012
Irish Rep presents an enticing revival of the Bob Merrill-George Abbot tuner, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 drama Anna Christie.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
