Thursday, 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 11:04AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Thanks to the Mint Theater Company I've had a lovely time getting acquainted with Irish playwright Teresa Deevy over the last three seasons. Their current offering, Katie Roche, isn't my fav…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:10PMMonday, February 18, 2013
Still jolly good fun after all these years...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:00PMMonday, February 11, 2013
It's quite delightful conducting an interview when your subjects are Danny Bursetin, who was equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking in the Broadway revivals of South Pacific, and Sarah Paul…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:27PMFriday, December 21, 2012
As long as big-name actors yearn to inhabit the bodies and souls of the colorfully crass, ethically compromised salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross, it seems producers will be happy to put up th…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:05PMThursday, December 13, 2012
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular was once the only major family holiday show in town. Now there’s a flurry of them, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf and, new to the New Yo…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:07PMSometimes the plays and films and TV shows that best fill me with the Christmas spirit aren't the ones that directly relate to the holiday. Take, for example, Red Bull Theater's jaunty, frol…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:51PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Think Annie is just for kids, do you? Then you might be surprised to know that the 1977 Tony-winning musical has a dark side, which is never more apparent than in this sterling-silver reviva…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 05:39PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Yep, there actually was an episode of This Is Your Life that featured a Hiroshima survivor meeting one of the pilots who dropped the bomb. Now there's even a play about it, written by Cusi C…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:33PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
The Heiress isn't widely regarded as a 20th-century classic. But director Moises Kaufman and the starry cast of this Broadway revival will have you reconsidering its merits.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:45PMMonday, November 5, 2012
Douglas Hodge embodies a larger-than-life persona to exquisite heights.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:58PMFriday, October 26, 2012
One's relationship with God is a very personal matter. So it's only fitting that the best moments in Craig Wright's majorly misguided new play Grace occur in monologues. Karl, a German exter…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 12:41AMMonday, October 22, 2012
There's a Pinter lovefest going on over at the Irish Rep, with British actor Julian Sands of A Room With a View fame performing Pinter's poetry and prose--interspersed with reminiscences fro…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:00PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Never one of Ibsen's more revered works, An Enemy of the People won't win any converts with Manhattan Theatre Club's shrill, hopped-up revival.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:17PMMonday, October 8, 2012
Having appreciated the stage work of Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings, who are married in real life, for many years (not to mention the former's appearances on Law & Order, I was pleased…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 01:49PMFriday, October 5, 2012
One of the great things about writing features for the Theater section of Time Out New York is getting to do in-person interviews. Filmmakers are already finished with their product, so who …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:54PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Chaplin—played with understatement and comic artistry by the relatively unknown Rob McClure—conjures up childhood memories to create his most famous character...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:35PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Interesting fact I learned when I interviewed Obie-winning experimental artist Lisa D'Amour for Time Out New York: She'd never been to the city of Detroit at the time that she wrote the play…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:56PMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Very pleased to have had the chance to review a couple of worthwhile shows at this year's New York International Fringe Festival, especially ones in which women play such prominent roles ons…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:14PMSunday, August 12, 2012
The creators of Bring It On: The Musical have invented a completely new story and characters. Making the show their own, however, doesn't mean that they've brought great depth or intricacy t…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:25PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Caught the terrific BBC Proms My Fair Lady concert on Saturday, thanks to the wonders of Internet radio and the BBC. I planned to listen just for a bit at the beginning, but three and a half…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:52PMSunday, July 15, 2012
That six-foot-three-and-a-half-inch white rabbit from the 1944 comedy Harvey still has a lot to say some 70 years later. Not literally, because of course we never see or hear from the title …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 03:13PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
I can't wait to see where Lily Rabe's career takes her, but I hope it won't be too far away from the New York and the theater world she's become so much a part of. Her Portia in the Shakespe…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:15AMMonday, June 4, 2012
You never know who you'll run into at the Signature Center. Tuesday night John Guare was there, to see either Title and Deed or Medieval Play, I imagine. He wasn't in the audience of My Chil…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Lions aren't known for eating their young, but try telling that to the mama Lyons at the center of Nicky Silver's dark new comedy.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:50PMFriday, May 18, 2012
Here's nifty way to enjoy two men and four guvnors. On Sunday May 20, BAM is showing the NT Live broadcast of One Man, Two Guvnors, which was taped in London last fall, at 11am. If one real…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:01PMMonday, May 14, 2012
Until I started looking into Jonathan Pryce's theatrical past for this Time Out New York feature, I hadn't realized that the last time he did a nonmusical play in New York was 1984, or that …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:41PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Anyone else notice that the New Group had a solid sleeper season in 2011-12? Maybe I'm the only one who thought so. Neither Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport nor D…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:13PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Forget what you think you know (and probably hate) about British farce or slapstick. One Man, Two Guvnors, the latest theatrical import from London, defies expectations on many levels. It's …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:49PMSunday, April 29, 2012
It's good to know I have at least one thing in common with Her Majesty the Queen--we both laughed our asses off at One Man, Two Guvnors. I caught the NT Live broadcast last year, and she saw…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 06:18PMMonday, April 23, 2012
Jesus certainly isn't underrepresented on Broadway right now. A revival of Godspell, an early Stephen Schwartz musical, came to town in the fall, and now spring brings Jesus Christ Superstar…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:34PM 
