Monday, November 24, 2014
Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea have collaborated on projects for 40 years, ever since Shepard directed Rea in a Royal...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:06AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Scrutinized closely, which it's easy to do during director Pam McKinnon's Delicate Balance revival, at the Golden, Tobias and Agnes are very much a George-Martha do-over.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:04PMAs they used to say in the '20s and '30s and often on the midway, "Nice try, but no cigar."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:47PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Not that this'll ease those still suffering the devastating Hurricane Sandy effects, but it turns out the monstrously...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:48PMMonday, November 17, 2014
Without an excessive amount of ballyhoo, Simon Stephens has become one of the most important contemporary English
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:34PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
What Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse, at Playwrights Horizons, is really about is only revealed in the final minute. So be assured the wonderfully eye-widening revelation won't be described …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Logan (John Hawkes) and Veronica (Tracie Thoms) don't exactly meet cute. They meet awkward. They meet uncertain. They...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PMWhen in 1934 Dmitri Shostakovich, not yet 30, composed Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, he provided music for all sorts of special occasions.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:59PMSunday, November 9, 2014
The list of delightful ingredients in the Encores! Series revival of The Band Wagon with its Arthur Schwartz-Howard...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:22PMFriday, November 7, 2014
You can't beat a combination of romance, humor, music and charm, and that's what Lee Hall has marvelously whipped together from the Marc Norman-Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love screenplay.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:34PMMonday, November 3, 2014
"On the Town" and "The Last Ship" start a hot tuner season.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:15PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
London--In all my theater-going days, I don't remember seeing a production that would likely give me nightmares. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:56AMThursday, October 30, 2014
This week we get the revivals of Tom Stoppard's somewhat autobiographical The Real Thing (1982), at the American Airlines Theatre, and Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:53PMSunday, October 26, 2014
Not to be foolishly subtle about it: If a better new musical than The Last Ship appears on the horizon this Broadway season, tuner lovers best consider themselves extravagantly lucky.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Since Tony Kushner could be considered to know best, why not quote what he says he admired after seeing Ivo van Hove's revival of the playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:22AMFriday, October 24, 2014
If you go by several adamant playwrights, it's a terrible idea for married couples to get together over an after-hours drink...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:22AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
White-hot controversy is dogging the opera's Metropolitan Opera House premier engagement after many productions elsewhere, only some of them protested. The circumstances have, not surprising…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:05PMThe Billy & Ray of the vague title Mike Bencivenga gives his play at the Vineyard are Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08AMSunday, October 19, 2014
Only occasionally does Engstrom include one of Parker's economic poems. She leaves out the one about men not making passes at girls who wear glasses and the suicidal one with the conclusion …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Leave it to Neal Goren. He's cherry-picked Bohuslav Martinu's comic one-acts Alexandre Bis and Comedy on the Bridge...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:41PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Yes, I was in Shea Stadium when the Beatles shook their moptops and played their instruments for 35 minutes while not...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:51PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Context is everything. At least that's the impression I had on leaving The Actors Company Theatre revival of Frank Marcus's 1965 multiple prize-winning play, The Killing of Sister George, at…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PMThursday, October 2, 2014
Curiously, one of the reasons the play falls short of Pulitzer Prize-winning Margulies's usual vaunted mark is that he's chosen, as many playwrights before him have, to make The Country Hous…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:35PMMonday, September 29, 2014
From start to finish Pendleton and Walsh give astoundingly natural performances that go some way, though not far enough, to justify the length of the sketch.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:41PMThe hot cabaret singer who could rest comfortably on her natural talents...doesn't.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:17PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Rarely have I seen such a large collection of scene-stealers on one stage. Check that. There's so much hilarity occurring that no one can steal a complete scene. What these thieving actor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:08PMFriday, September 26, 2014
The interest Oliver Sacks takes in the human brain fascinates Peter Brook. The Valley of Astonishment is another consequence of that fascination, and, as presented at the Young Vic, currentl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Discounting the rare scare flick, I've only once been tempted to look away from a movie screen--and succumbed to the urge. It...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:44PMThe Money Shot (title appropriated from porn-industry jargon, if you didn't already know) shouldn't be as consistently amusing as it is. LaBute get his laughs -- and he gets a carload of th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:33PMSunday, September 21, 2014
During the intermission after the first uneven two acts of the Pearl Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya revival, I remarked to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:38PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
There's no telling when Two Gentlemen of Verona will come around again. So if an incarnation this good is available, that's even more reason to tune right in.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PM 
