Thursday, December 15, 2011
This delightful musical adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's classic story receives a first-rate revival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, December 11, 2011
Harry Connick Jr. and Jessie Mueller shine in this improved revisal of the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Gerard Mannix Flynn's powerfully acted, darkly poetic monologue details the abuse of Irish schoolchildren.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Brian Dennehy and John Hurt offer different interpretations of Samuel Beckett's legendary solo piece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSunday, December 4, 2011
Jim Brochu gives an ebullient portrayal of Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman and Hart's immaculately structured comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDes McAnuff's updated production of Goethe's opera is very well-sung but suffers from too many unhelpful directorial notions.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
This new Broadway musical about the legendary 1930s bank robbers rarely rises above mediocrity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's dance-theater piece takes a questionable view of life among the Shakers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, November 21, 2011
The two Broadway stars haven't fully lost their mannerisms in this often exciting show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 20, 2011
The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's history play is extremely well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross give splendidly sleek performances in this near-perfect production of Noel Coward's classic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
George Orwell's early novel gets an earnest story-theater adaptation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam's opera, centering on a Mormon community in the wake of a scandal, receives a moodily stunning production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Sam Waterston gives a disappointing performance in the title role of James Macdonald's misguided production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Mary Testa proves her greatness in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about Mary Edson Taylor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Wendy Beckett's well-acted drama concerns an adolescent girl torn between her birth mother and adoptive mother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Joel Rooks stars in this welcome revival of Rupert Holmes' smoothly entertaining play about the lives of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 28, 2011
Jay Hunter Morris distinguishes himself in the title role of Richard Wagner's third installment of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMThursday, October 27, 2011
A.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Alan Lester Brooks' thoughtful drama about the Holocaust is worth taking seriously.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Michael Grandage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's classic opera is mostly well-sung, but crudely directed.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Katori Hall's play about an encounter between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel chambermaid on the night before his death boasts award-worthy performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Bruce Graham's troubling play examines the pragmatics of morality.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 10, 2011
Sylvan Oswald's pretentious drama centers on an interracial lesbian affair in the 1960s.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, October 9, 2011
Frank Langella gives an astonishing performance as a corrupt financier in the Roundabout's fine production of Terrence Rattigan's highly effective 1963 melodrama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMThursday, October 6, 2011
As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cab…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Reports on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Man of Rock, and Madame X.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMSunday, October 2, 2011
Reports on Crazy, Just Like Me, The Big Bank, and Ghostlight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Danielle Skrasstad gives a superb performance in this powerful if far-fetched drama about a woman who worked as an interrogator at Guantanamo.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Anna Nebtreko gives her utmost as the doomed queen in the Metropolitan Opera's handsome production of Donizetti's 1830 opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMA woman who scoured stores and the Internet for every type of utensil, Molly was unflaggingly eager to gather friends around her not only to feed them but -- as the devoted Sweets emphasizes…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56AM 
