Thursday, February 19, 2015
Off-Broadway plays, in my humble opinion, will always be a more visceral, poignant, and biting experience than their bigger siblings on the Great White Way. Why? Because they can…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:57AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
When a play succeeds in telling a political and social history of another people, you leave the theater with a deeper appreciation of the world around you. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has pe…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:54AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
As its namesake suggests - Second Stage Theater has given a second chance to a first rate off-Broadway production, Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy, originally seen last sea…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:27AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
When I returned home from this play I was satiated. However, In order to not feel like an idiot, I had to something I almost never do - read the other reviews. Why you might ask?…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:25AMThursday, December 18, 2014
With a blockbuster holiday movie on the horizon in just a few days, I am once again bewildered by Roundabout Theater Company's decisions to put plays on the stage. But despite the…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:33PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
A rockin' live Jazz band on stage, cool-as-cats vocalists, and a wildly true story about the first un-segregated Jazz club in New York City are the ingredients in this impressive walk down m…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:39AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
For 80 minutes on a Broadway stage, Roland (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Marianne (Ruth Wilson) manage to thoroughly engage you in a pastiche of possibilities, multiple dimensions of the universe, u…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:12AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
There's a new play on at Playwrights Horizons and it has a little bit of sexy-star-sizzle. The always adorable and boyishly handsome T.R. Knight (Eddie) takes the helm of Samuel …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:49AMMonday, November 24, 2014
A force to be reckoned with, Ayad Akhtar has penned yet another powerful drama now playing out on the stage at New York Theatre Workshop. He's currently on Broadway representing his Pu…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:42AMThursday, November 20, 2014
A new play by Robert Callely had its debut over at 59E59 Theaters. I always enjoy seeing different things over on the east side in the intimate theaters. The productions that gra…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:34AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
A. R. Gurney admits it right up front in his script - "This is a play, or rather a sort-of-a-play, which needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:22AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's stale and dated play is currently exploding (literally) on stage at the Longacre Theatre in a 3rd Broadway revival since it was written in 1936. This …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:01AMThursday, October 30, 2014
Just when you thought all the original ideas have dried up and creativity has gone the way of the Ford Packard, along comes Hunter Bell & Lee Overtree (Book) and Eli Bolin (Music and Lyr…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:19AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
What we have here is one of the most realistic and naturally constructed plays I have seen in a long while. Heidi Schreck writes like people speak, and think, and wonder. Kip Fag…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:33AMThursday, October 23, 2014
Tom Stoppard is certainly on a roll. He, like his compadre Terrence McNally, has two plays running concurrently, in this case, both at the Roundabout Theatre Company. His la…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:10PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
I have to say I was a bit lost at Lost Lake. For it's first ever public performance, the actors were remarkable. They writing was as natural and fluid as possible. Wh…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:00AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
What a magical time on and off Broadway for Terrence McNally. Three of his shows - two now running concurrently (Lips, It's Only a Play) and one that just closed (Mothers & Sons) a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:02AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
The effect is jarring. The result is jarring. Nothing about Ivo Van Hove's re-imagination of Ingmar Bergman's already jolting TV mini-series and later screenplay involves bliss a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:41AMThursday, October 2, 2014
This play had good intentions. I wanted to like it. I really did. Especially starting the uber adorable Vincent Kartheiser (Billy Wilder). But it wasn't. And he wasn'…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:30PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
What's going on over at the Lyceum is nothing short of theatrical excellence. New, fresh, culturally relevant theatre is what Disgraced, a new Pulitzer prize winning drama by Ayad Akht…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:20PMThursday, September 25, 2014
The indomitable and erudite Tom Stoppard is making a big splash both on and off Broadway this season. The first installment of him is being presented at the Laura Pels Theater by Round…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:09AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
It may be just what Broadway needs right now - a lavish, classic, good-'ol song and dance show on the great white way. Betty Comden and Adolph Green's classic with music by the incompa…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:36AMThursday, September 11, 2014
A dazzling, innovate, and entirely engrossing production by Simon Stephens is making a splash on Broadway this fall while still running their award-winning production in London's West End. &…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:16PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
A new play just arrived on Broadway courtesy of Manhattan Theatre Club and award winning playwright Donald Margulies. It's a dash of classic play, a dash of naughty, and a dash of funny. &nb…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:07PMThursday, September 4, 2014
I get it. Cutting-edge theatre, young hot actors, minor (or not-so-minor) indiscretions, drugs and, of course, sex. What more could you ask for in a smart-off Broadway production…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:02AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
In full disclosure, I'm looking to recover my investment in this play. I don't see why I can't sing the praises of this double-over-with-laughter, pee-in-my-pants production at the sam…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:36AMTuesday, September 2, 2014
Fresh, provocative new American theater relevant to to the fabric of our society. That's just what you'll get with Robert O'Hara's new work on the Main Stage at Playwrights Horizons. B…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:16AMMonday, August 11, 2014
A benefit concert for Transport Group, The Music Man in Concert brought together some of the biggest and brightest stars on Broadway today at the Signature Theater.Conceived and directe…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:52AMMonday, July 21, 2014
With music and lyrics by Samuel Bernstein, this fantastic entrant into the New York Musical Theater Festival (NTMF) seems to be seriously rallying for a future off-Broadway run. I am i…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:32AMSunday, July 20, 2014
This might be referred to as a juke box musical and I will admit I usually don't go see these very often. However, someone so embedded in the musical fabric of a generation deserved a …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:51AMThursday, July 17, 2014
Playwright Laura Eason has penned a remarkably intelligent, thought-provoking, well-balanced, two-hander about writers and their plight in today's modern world.The talented and beautiful Ann…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:37AM 
