Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A 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 09:56AMMonday, September 19, 2011
In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wis…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:35PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
Sharyn Rothstein's deliciously mean, smartly plotted play set in the financial world benefits from the work of a fine cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater cra…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Richard Nelson's new play is a cogent look at the nation's shared experience of life after 9/11.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSunday, September 11, 2011
Elevator Repair Service serves up an unconvincng adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel about American expatriates in 1920s Paris.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMFriday, September 9, 2011
Rehana Lew Mirza's heartfelt, but often clunky drama addresses prejudices that fomented with ugly repercussions in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist-attack.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, September 8, 2011
The Fiasco Theater's six-actor production of Shakespeare's crazy-quilt of a play is even pluckier and perkier than in its previous outing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, September 1, 2011
When it comes to typefaces, I've long been an Arial man. Still, I'm typing this on my aging Mac in Helvetica. Why? I've finished reading Simon Garfield's irresistible <em>Just My Ty…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29AMWednesday, August 31, 2011
This cabaret act at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room is a mixed bag of hits and misses.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThursday, August 25, 2011
Reports on You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Bongani, and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Sung Hwa Chung delivers a strong performance as Korean national hero An Chunggun in this musically derivative tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMReports on The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, Recovery, and Elysian Fields.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Simon Russell Beale delivers a must-see performance as a London taxi driver in Simon Stephens' skillfully crafted drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMReports on The Bardy Bunch, Leonard Cohen Koans, The Mountain Song, Paper Cut, and The Rubber Room.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMSunday, August 21, 2011
Gregory Lay and Sarah Manton do fine work in this less-than-persuasive drama about Albert Einstein's unhappy marriage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFriday, August 19, 2011
Julie Salamon's new biography, Wendy and the Lost Boys, examines the playwright's complex life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMReports on Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), Noir, and Sammy Gets Mugged!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThursday, August 11, 2011
Ty Jones does a bang-up job in the title role of the Classical Theatre of Harkem's creative production of Shakespeare's play
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMMonday, August 8, 2011
We need to thank director-adapter Michael Gieleta for the revival of Noel Coward's <em>Bitter Sweet</em> at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Corr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:40AMAnna Moench's play about a married couple facing pregnancy is calculatedly ambiguous and ultimately indecipherable.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:30AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
One person's problem can be another's quick solution, which brings me to the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of <em>The Winter's Tale</em>, currently on view during Lincoln C…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:16PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, and Kiefer Sutherland bring Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to urgent and abrasive life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMarch highlights include Joanna Riding in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Betty Blue Eyes, directed by Richard Eyre; Peter Brooks' production of Mozart's Magic Flute; The Hurly Burly Show; Matth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMF. Murray Abraham gives a strong performance as Shylock in Darko Tresnjak's cogent -- and remarkably timely -- revival of William Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMFrances McDormand delivers a Tony-worthy performance as a working-class mother desperate for a job in David Lindsay Abaire's comedy-laced drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTheaterMania reports on Frankenstein, The Heretic, Greenland, Season's Greetings, Company, and Clybourne Park.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMKeira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in Ian Rickson's utlimately effective revival of Lillian Hellman's quasi-tragedy about two women facing rumors of lesbianism.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis autobiographical tuner about a pair of songwriters trying to quickly write a musical is relentlessly unentertaining.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAnton Chekhov's classic play about a trio of unhappy Russian siblings gets an uneven production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMJohn Adams and Alice Goodman's remarkable historical opera makes a long-overdue debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Sellars' thrilling production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM 
