Monday, 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 09:56AMMonday, 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 10:40AM 
