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Friday, February 21, 2014

Sailing for Redemption by Diane Snyder

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 05:01PM

The Bridges of Madison County by Diane Snyder

Chances 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 07:04AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Rosencrnatz and Guildenstern Are...Very Much Alive by Diane Snyder

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 05:33PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Macbeth by Diane Snyder

Lincoln Center Theater has turned Shakespeare’s dark supernatural tragedy into a gothic horror show.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 01:41AM
Monday, December 2, 2013

And Away We Go...But Not Quickly Enough by Diane Snyder

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 04:01PM
Monday, November 4, 2013

Review: After Midnight by Diane Snyder

Ninety minutes of pure joy, After Midnight is a most welcome addition to the Broadway season.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:02AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Review: The Winslow Boy by Diane Snyder

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 11:21AM
Friday, October 18, 2013

Romeo the Right Way by Diane Snyder

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 05:46PM
Friday, September 27, 2013

Don't Go to New York, Young Playwright by Diane Snyder

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 03:36PM
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Review: Romeo and Juliet by Diane Snyder

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 11:29PM
Monday, September 16, 2013

A Hell of Blessing's Making by Diane Snyder

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 02:47PM
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Past Doesn't Come Alive by Diane Snyder

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 09:08AM
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Review: Soul Doctor by Diane Snyder

Soul Doctor comes to Broadway, but is it worth the price of admission?

SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:52PM
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Review: Let It Be by Diane Snyder

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 08:36AM
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Burning up the Tango Floor by Diane Snyder

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 05:13PM
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Cutting the Cord—Or Not by Diane Snyder

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 02:55PM
Friday, June 14, 2013

The Great Fall by Diane Snyder

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 05:07PM
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Review: The Trip to Bountiful by Diane Snyder

"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 06:20PM
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Dysfunctional Family by Diane Snyder

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 10:24PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Review: The Nance by Diane Snyder

Douglas Carter Beane's profile of a gay burlesque star in 1930s New York has a case of dramaturgical bipolarity.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:29PM
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Review - Motown: The Musical by Diane Snyder

Motown's ambitions are as grand as those of the record label's founder...

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:12PM

It's a Draw by Diane Snyder

I 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 12:54PM
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Not Much Will Power by Diane Snyder

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 04:11PM
Monday, April 22, 2013

Who's in Once by Diane Snyder

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 04:36PM
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Remaking Macbeth by Diane Snyder

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 02:38PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Alan Cumming on why he was born to play Macbeth on Broadway by Diane Snyder

The puckish Broadway star returns to New York theater in a (nearly) one-man version of the Scottish Play.

SOURCE: Time Out at 10:49PM
Friday, April 12, 2013

Name-Namers by Diane Snyder

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 11:10AM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Review: Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks by Diane Snyder

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 10:54PM
Monday, April 8, 2013

Great with Two-Handers by Diane Snyder

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 10:52PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Cinderella by Diane Snyder

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 05:49PM
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Review: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Diane Snyder

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

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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 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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