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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

First Nighter: The Royal Shakespeare Company Turns Four Shakespeare History Plays into Solid Gold by David Finkle

Anyone devoted to William Shakespeare and, specifically, to his history plays had better make plans instantly to see The Royal Shakespeare Company's King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cyc…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:14PM

First Nighter: The Royal Shakespeare Company Turns Four Shakespeare History Plays into Solid Gold by David Finkle

Anyone devoted to William Shakespeare and, specifically, to his history plays had better make plans instantly to see The Royal Shakespeare Company's <em>King and Country: Shakespeare's…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:25PM
Monday, April 4, 2016

First Nighter: A. Rey Pamatmat's Two-Families Drama "House Rules," Peter Mills Teams With Long-Gone Carlo Gesualdo in "Death for Five V by David Finkle

Pamatmat clearly believes the family that fights intramurally together eventually comes right together and demonstrates the

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00AM

First Nighter: A. Rey Pamatmat's Two-Families Drama "House Rules," Peter Mills Teams With Long-Gone Carlo Gesualdo in "Death for Five V by David Finkle

Why deal with one dysfunctional family when you can handle two? A. Rey Pamatmat apparently considered the question...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00AM
Friday, April 1, 2016

First Nighter: Ivo van Hove Skews Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" by David Finkle

It's only a few months since Ivo van Hove brought his startlingly strong production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge from London to Broadway.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:22AM

First Nighter: Ivo van Hove Skews Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" by David Finkle

It's only a few months since Ivo van Hove brought his startlingly strong production of Arthur Miller's <em>A View From the Bridge</em> from London to Broadway.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:22AM
Monday, March 28, 2016

First Nighter: Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' Is the Play of the Year, With Phylicia Rashad Giving the Performance of the Year by David Finkle

If superlative acting interests you -- and you probably wouldn't be reading this if it didn't -- you're well advised to make every effort you can to see Phylicia Rashad as Shelah in Tarell A…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PM

First Nighter: Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' Is the Play of the Year, With Phylicia Rashad Giving the Performance of the Year by David Finkle

If superlative acting interests you -- and you probably wouldn't be reading this if it didn't -- you're well advised to make every effort you can to see Phylicia Rashad as Shelah in Tarell A…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PM
Thursday, March 24, 2016

First Nighter: Patrick Wilson in Nassim Soleimanpour's "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," Andrew Schneider in "Youarenowhere" by David Finkle

The thin program for Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, at the Westside Theatre, includes a prominently...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:42PM
Monday, March 21, 2016

First Nighter: Lucy Prebble's "The Effect" Smartly Questions Scientific Experimentation by David Finkle

Lucy Prebble, who fiercely took on big business in the rousing Enron, is now grappling with science and scientific experimentation. She targets it in The Effect, an impressive, if not entire…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:46PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016

First Nighter: Timothy Olyphant in Kenneth Lonergan's "Hold On to Me Darling," Marin Ireland in Martyna Majok's "Ironbound" by David Finkle

With his new Hold On to Me Darling, at the Atlantic, Kenneth Lonergan has written one of the season's most head-scratching plays. That's if it's not the most head-scratching entry, as direct…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:57AM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

First Nighter: George Bernard Shaw's Little-Seen "Widowers' House" Viewed Smartly Now by David Finkle

When George Bernard Shaw, who had strong opinions about what constituted potent theater, wrote his first play,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:34PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016

First Nighter: Anna Ziegler's 'Boy' Is a Smart, Fresh Transgender-Play Twist by David Finkle

The current trend towards transgender plays gets a heart-jolting spin by way of Anna Ziegler's Boy, another of her Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan-backed plays and now under Keen Com…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PM
Friday, March 4, 2016

First Nighter: 8 Plays Worth Seeing in London Now by David Finkle

Like New York City there are good productions and bad productions. The rambling I've done this trip has ranged broadly, as the following round-up of offerings outside the National Theatre an…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:08PM
Thursday, March 3, 2016

First Nighter: Shakespeare Globe Smartly Does the Bard's Jacobean Works by David Finkle

LONDON--During the winter months the Shakespeare's Globe crowd--as the current artistic director Dominic Dromgoole...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:14AM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

First Nighter: Hot Times Right Now at London's National Theatre by David Finkle

LONDON--For whatever reason--recent artistic director Rufus Norris's enthusiastic approach?--things at the National...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:28AM
Saturday, February 13, 2016

First Nighter: Mike Birbiglia Thanks God for Jokes, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs by David Finkle

Mike Birbiglia is an immensely likable guy, the sort you think would make a great friend. Anyway, that's what I was considering throughout his current--and third--stint at the Lynn Redgrave …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04AM
Friday, February 12, 2016

First Nighter: Frank Basloe's Please Continue a Top-Drawer Examination of the Primacy of Order-Giving, Guilt and Little Remorse by David Finkle

In the early 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of preliminary experiments with Yale undergraduates prior to a more elaborate version, the results of which are now…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:32PM
Thursday, February 4, 2016

First Nighter: Len Cariou Grandly Celebrates 'Broadway & The Bard' by David Finkle

Cariou no longer has his second- or third-age voice. The sixth-age one, however, is well worth hearing. The veteran performer continues to exert masterful control over the lines in Shakespea…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

First Nighter: Llewellyn Casey's Misguided "O, Earth," Nandita Shenoy's Misled "Washer/Dryer" by David Finkle

Although you need to know that Casey Llewellyn's O, Earth, directed by Dustin Wills at HERE in a Foundry...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:51PM
Saturday, January 30, 2016

First Nighter: Mfoniso Udofia's "Sojourners" Deserves a Welcome Stay by David Finkle

In Sojourners, the stimulating new Playwrights Realm production at Peter Sharp, the first-generation Nigerian-American author Mfoniso Udofia never directly explains the title, but implicitly…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01AM
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

First Nighter: Dominique Morisseau's "Skeleton Crew" a Full-Bodied Achievement by David Finkle

When Rui Rita's lights go up--but not too brightly--on Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau's excellent drama, at the...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:14PM
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

First Nighter: CSC's "Mother Courage and Her Children" Fighting a Tough Battle by David Finkle

Anyone these days even casually interested in theater news has to be aware of the recent developments with the Classic Stage...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PM

Now on Broadway: The Funniest Second Act Ever Written by David Finkle

Reading the script, the play's original director had to “go lie down at once." The post Now on Broadway: The Funniest Second Act Ever Written appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:44PM
Monday, January 11, 2016

First Nighter: Maurice Hines's 'Tappin' Thru Life' Is Tops, Mac Wellman's 'The Offending Gesture' Has Its Moments by David Finkle

No sooner than the Broadway revival of A. R. Gurney's Sylvia closes, in which an actress plays a dog, than Mac Wellman's The Offending Gesture, opens, at the Connelly, in which not one but t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PM
Monday, December 28, 2015

First Nighter: The American Dance Machine at the Joyce Recalls Great Musical Comedy Dances Greatly by David Finkle

As Americans, we're lucky to have an abundance of national treasures. Some treasures, however, are more prominent than others. One less regularly ballyhooed is The American Dance Machine.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29AM
Monday, December 21, 2015

First Nighter: Vincent Amelio's "How Alfo Learned to Love" Could Have Audiences Moonstruck by David Finkle

The relatively new comedy -- it played the Sanford Meisner Theatre in 2005 and the New York Fringe Festival in 2010 -- tells the tale of an earnest, likable blue-collar Italian man advancing…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:11PM
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

First Nighter: The Rolin Jones-Billie Joe Armstrong 'These Paper Bullets!' Makes Much Ado Over The Beatles by David Finkle

Since April 23, 2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, it shouldn't be surprising that homages to the great playwright will be popping up right, left and center.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:17AM
Monday, December 14, 2015

First Nighter: DiDonato, Brownlee Lift Heavy 'La Donna del Lago' at the Met by David Finkle

Since opera is first and foremost about the music -- and that certainly applies to Gioachino Rossini as much as or more than many composers -- it frequently means that the quality of any giv…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PM
Sunday, December 13, 2015

First Nighter: Hoffman, Epperson Make Merry in "Once Upon a Mattress" by David Finkle

Bah humbug! to anyone who goes to the Transport Group Theatre Company's Once Upon a Mattress, at the Abrons Arts Center,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PM
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Al Pacino Thrashes a “China Doll” by David Finkle

David Mamet has something here. But what?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:40PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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