Sunday, February 15, 2015
When I was at college, a favorite pastime of mine was sitting around with a bunch of other procrastinators keen on determining the most important person of the 20th century. I maintained it…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Can a great play also be not entirely good? And before you answer that, please put aside any objections about the adjective...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27PMIn the program for The Events, now at the New York Theatre Workshop, is a note about the production's provenance that goes in...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:02PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Joel Drake Johnson is a sly one. At first, his Rasheeda Speaks -- directed by Cynthia Nixon with her own sly touch in a very impressive directing debut -- looks as if it's going to be a str…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:59PMBeauty and humor aren't so common a combination that a theatergoer can afford to get blasé about it. That's what Christina Bianco dispenses in large quantities throughout the Greg Edwards-A…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:12PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Sometimes playwright John Cariani looks at the world -- actually the worlds of love and relationships -- through rose-colored glasses. Just as often he views those worlds through lenses tint…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:06PMSunday, February 8, 2015
If forgiveness is divine, what is the inability to forgive? Joe Pintauro's hard-nosed Snow Orchid, at the Lion, doesn't provide an answer. Instead, through the up-close-and-extremely-perso…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:23PMThursday, February 5, 2015
For some time Broadway has been the place for swellegant black revues, the most recent being last season's superlative...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PMWhat's happening at City Center this weekend is what frequently happens when the Encores! series is in swing: The most entrancing musical number to be seen anywhere in Manhattan is right the…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:16PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Diana Ross -- Miss Ross to you, Diane to family and (Motown) friends -- heart-stoppingly opened Brooklyn's restored King's Theatre last night (February 3) by entering from the back of the va…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PMFriday, January 30, 2015
If you go by Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, revived at Classic Stage Company, you might conclude the revered...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:43AMSunday, January 25, 2015
If you ask me, the prolific John Tiffany and the prolific Steven Hoggett are responsible for the best play ever presented about the Iraq War. So when I learned they were bringing Let the Ri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:18PMFriday, January 23, 2015
In Da, now revived by the Irish Repertory Theatre during its DR2 season, Hugh Leonard deals with a couple of irrefutable
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Although we may loathe the very suggestion, it's undoubtedly true that to some extent, we all eventually become our parents. Halley Feiffer believes we do to the most extreme extent.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:43PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Tony Danza on stage -- or anywhere, for that matter -- is just about impossible to dislike. This show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas, the genuinely entertainin…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:59AMThursday, January 15, 2015
One of the Broadway season's very highest lights, the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart You Can't Take It With You remains brightly illuminated now that replacements Richard Thomas and Anna Chlums…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:49PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Nick Payne's Constellations arrives at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman after winning the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and receiving a clutch of rave revi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:07PMMonday, January 12, 2015
If you were to ask me who the best male pop singer in the country is, I would immediately say Sam Harris. After seeing Ham, the adaptation of his beautifully written and often humorous memoi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:40PMSunday, December 21, 2014
In his first-rate autobiographical musical The Last Ship, Sting--also Gordon Sumner, son of a ship builder--has come...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Throughout Samuel D. Hunter's play The Whale, at Playwrights Horizons in 2012, the main character is a gay man isolating himself by virtue of his obesity. Now back at PH with Pocatello, Hunt…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Even before Every Brilliant Thing began I realized the spunky, balding fellow racing about the in-the-round Barrow Street Theatre to hand out sheets of paper and chat with audience members w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:57PMThursday, December 11, 2014
By dint of calling his play The Elephant Man, Pomerance irrevocably establishes that Merrick is his focal figure and for much of the two acts deftly presents the character study of an unforg…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:31PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Since perfect things come along infrequently, it's absolutely required that when they do, a whole lot of carrying on attends them. The perfect thing about which I'm now holding forth is the …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:20PMThe 90-minute undertaking is a call for justice when it's become shockingly clear that injustice looks to be a national scourge no less potent now than it was nine decades ago.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:25AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Mary Testa and Michael Starobin offer "Have Faith," a superlative concept album.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:49AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Come Christmas every year, new offerings are presented with the hope they'll become holiday perennials.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:52PMSunday, November 30, 2014
Throughout The Seagull, the characters talk about happiness and of what it's constituted. They all want to be happy. Not one of them is. At this revival, I was in their unhappy number.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:08PMFriday, November 28, 2014
The blood in Kneehigh's Tristan & Yseult is less than what's in Tamburlaine Parts I and II and is stylized. Emma Rice, the company founder and adapter here of the Cornish myth has someth…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:45PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
More specifically, these five are all psychologically and physically damaged. What Smart is up to is constructing a play -- it's another intermissionless 90-minuter -- in which the impaired …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:29PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Endless reasons to mourn the superb director-actor-comedian.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:34PMSam Shepard and Stephen Rea have collaborated on projects for 40 years, ever since Shepard directed Rea in a Royal...
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