Friday, February 21, 2014
Irish Rep's new musical, about convicts bound for Australia, has a book by Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan (the group Black 47) and direction and design …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:01PMChances are you've formed an opinion of The Bridges of Madison County, whether you're familiar with Robert James Waller's story in one or more of its forms (novella, feature film and now Bro…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:04AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
I wasn't sure I was in the mood for two and a half hours of Tom Stoppard on the chilly night that I caught the Acting Company's production of his Rosencrantz abd Guildenstern Are Dead, but m…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:33PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Lincoln Center Theater has turned Shakespeare’s dark supernatural tragedy into a gothic horror show.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 01:41AMMonday, December 2, 2013
The plucky little Pearl Theatre Company has survived 30 years in the Off Broadway trenches, an amazing feat. To mark the occasion, Terrence McNally was commissioned to write a play that pays…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:01PMMonday, November 4, 2013
Ninety minutes of pure joy, After Midnight is a most welcome addition to the Broadway season.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:02AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
That dustiest of play settings, the English drawing room, becomes the center of a compelling work that’s part mystery, family saga, love story and legal drama in Terence Rattigan’s The W…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:21AMFriday, October 18, 2013
CSC's nervy, nontraditional Romeo & Juliet, which I caught at a Sunday matinee a month after I saw the current Broadway revival, is a welcome surprise. I didn't expect it to be universally e…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:46PMFriday, September 27, 2013
The scion of a wealthy family moves to New York to become a playwright. That's the premise of George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth, as well as the dramatist's own biography. But while things wen…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:36PMThursday, September 19, 2013
He may be 36, but in looks Orlando Bloom is an inspired choice to play Romeo. His youthful appearance, soft features and adorably floppy hair still scream teen heartthrob...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:29PMMonday, September 16, 2013
How can a play that features a 9/11 terrorist fucking a Ponzi-scheme master in ass be as tame and trite as Lee Blessing's A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoof? Given the current …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:47PMThursday, September 5, 2013
Should I ever be lucky enough to get on the TARDIS, time-travel back to early-20th-century Vienna, and meet Freud, Mahler and others of their ilk, I would hope they wouldn't be as dull as th…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 09:08AMThursday, August 22, 2013
Soul Doctor comes to Broadway, but is it worth the price of admission?
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:52PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Broadway still hasn’t recovered from Beatles mania. But after Let It Be, the second Fab Four tribute musical to arrive on the Great White Way in the last couple of years (only two years af…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:36AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Forever Tango...whether you see that as a promise or a threat all depends on your affinity for the hot Latin dance and those who perform it. Mine wasn't strong enough to be sustained by this…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:13PMThursday, June 20, 2013
That film and television now fulfill a role that theater once played is not such a bad thing. Case in point: There's no longer a need for playwrights like Sidney Howard to be quite so overt …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:55PMFriday, June 14, 2013
Lots of theaters (though certainly not enough of them) introduce their audiences to new playwrights, but not many can say they introduce their audiences to "new" playwrights who died 40 year…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:07PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
"Crowd-pleasing" isn't a word often used to describe Horton Foote’s CV. And that’s actually not meant as a negative. His plays are delicate dissections of the quiet and frequently unfulf…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:20PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Am I the only one who didn't see why Bob Glaudini's Jack Goes Boating received the all the praise that it did when it played Off Broadway several years ago? It seemed like Steppenwolf-lite: …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:24PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Douglas Carter Beane's profile of a gay burlesque star in 1930s New York has a case of dramaturgical bipolarity.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:29PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Motown's ambitions are as grand as those of the record label's founder...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:12PMI almost never tire of dry, quirky, understated Canadian humor, and when that is the main thrust of The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey's play is a delight. But this tale of two farmers with a my…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:54PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Think formalizing your final will is one of life's more soporific labors. I'm afraid it's not much more interesting watching Shakespeare accomplish the task in The Last Will, Robert Brustein…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:11PMMonday, April 22, 2013
When I heard this morning that Arthur Darvill was stepping into one of the lead roles in the Broadway production of Once, I was sure I missed a press release or three. Surely producers knew …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:36PMThursday, April 18, 2013
It sounds gimmicky, but I was really impressed with the creepy, evocative Macbeth now on Broadway, in which Alan Cumming gets to stretch his Shakespeare muscles by playing all of the major c…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:38PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
The puckish Broadway star returns to New York theater in a (nearly) one-man version of the Scottish Play.
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:49PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Until I saw Zero Hour, a solo biodrama about the brilliant, difficult Zero Mostel, a few years back, I wasn't aware that Jerome Robbins had given names of suspected communists to the House U…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:10AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Even though he’s a Broadway newbie, Tom Hanks gives the kind of meticulous, multilayered performance in Lucky Guy that we’ve come to expect from the two-time Oscar winner.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PMMonday, April 8, 2013
Amid all the big spring Broadway openings, don't overlook David Harrower's Good with People. I was reading a book of Pinter plays (how pretentious does that sound!) when I caught this thorny…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:52PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Not every story needs to be a Broadway extravaganza. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Cinderella, which began life as lovely little 90-minute TV special in 1957, has been stretched …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 05:49PMThursday, March 21, 2013
She may be iconic, but Holly Golightly is just one of many beautiful young women who come to New York seeking self-reinvention. Scores of TV and film stars arrive on Broadway each season, ho…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:04AM 
