Tuesday, November 12, 2013
It's a grand party in a glamorous pop-up cabaret tent right here on Broadway, freshly moved uptown from the Meatpacking district. One would think the edgy, avant-garde performance styl…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:46PMFriday, November 8, 2013
Neil Patrick Harris directs this brief wonder now running at the Signature Theatre on W42nd Street. (Did you know that in addition to being an uber-handsome actor and award show host h…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:44AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Joshua Harmon's new play just got promoted upstairs! Roundabout moved the bitingly funny play from the black-box theater downstairs to the Laura Pels stage for a run during their 2013-2014 s…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:22AMSunday, November 3, 2013
It's like a walk down musical memory lane. Four crooners peddling delicious melodies, tight harmonies, and a songbook packed with hits. The affable Bill Daugherty, the incredibly…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:42AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Stunning. Enchanting. Emotional. Potent. Transformative. All these words resonate when it comes to John Tiffany's direction of this new production of Tennessee Willia…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:24PMMonday, October 28, 2013
Hysterical. Absolutely delicious. Non-stop, zany, top-notch talent and entertainment. These and other similar tags have been associated with Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:41PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
Brilliantly crafted, cleverly executed, delightful from beginning to end! Finally, an old fashioned original musical has come to Broadway. The indomitable duo of Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pin…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:04PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Living its second life, reincarnated and redesigned since its debut at La Jolla, the curtain now rises on Little Miss Sunshine at Second Stage Theater. If you've seen the movie (like s…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:27PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
I kind of expected more once I got the gist that this was a Bernie Madoff kind of story. Wife who may or may not have known what her convicted criminal (we're to assume financial fraud…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:24AMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Rupert Holmes has adapted a classic best seller and movie for the stage. John Grisham's first book and now his first play for the stage is a remarkable work that needs just a bit more …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:34AMSunday, October 13, 2013
An entrant in the All for One Theater Festival, which specializes in developing and showcasing one-person shows, Kelly Carlin shows us a behind-the-curtain look at her life growing up with h…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:33PMThursday, October 10, 2013
Terence Rattigan's new play, The Winslow Boy, took it's second spin at Roundabout's MainStage this season after its production at the Old Vic in London. It's a play for playgoers. &nb…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:15AMSunday, October 6, 2013
They are indeed the Kings of New York. Given their tender ages one might instead use the term Prince to describe them. Whatever you choose, there's no doubt they power thro…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:24PMSaturday, October 5, 2013
This the tale of two reviews. First Date was amusing. First Date was cute. First Date was everything a delightful, off-Broadway show for $40 a ticket should be. Trou…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:50PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Headliner, Mary Louise-Parker, may be listed first in the cast due to her star-power, but this one's got a true ensemble cast - every single one of them superb actors from start to fini…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:40AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Norbert Leo Butz (Edward Bloom) is the very definition of a leading man in Big Fish. His voice, his stage presence, and chemistry with the rest of his cast has a depth beyond imaginati…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:58AMSunday, September 22, 2013
This is the first of many more evenings to come. Musical composer and performer extraordinaire - Bobby Cronin who is cute as a button - is hosting a bi-monthly (that's every two m…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:29PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
I sense a conspiracy here. In a season that promises Rocky, The Musical, we seem to be getting a sister-preview in Fetch Clay, Make Man - the (abridged) story of Muhammad Ali. Go…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:45AMSunday, September 15, 2013
A delightful evening in the company of my theatre-loving friend, Adam. What was equally lovely was the thoughtful and tender memoir performed by Lane Bradbury - whom I knew nothing abo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:14AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
Pippn emerges fresh and refreshed after a long sleep. Director, Diane Paulus, has breathed some new life into a mid-70's classic. It's a modern mix of part Cirque du Soleil, part…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:58AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Reality TV meets Broadway... sort of. Itmar Moses jumps into the reality TV cesspool by penning a funny, yet predictable, rom-com now playing over at Second Stage. Heath Calvert (Byron…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:18AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
A top notch cast. And Judith Light still all but stole the show. Set over 20 years, this family drama reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a Jewish family who celebrates Ch…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:06PMFriday, March 22, 2013
A delicious romp way downtown on the east side at the Richmond Shepard Theatre (huh? where?) - yes the former Vineyard theatre space, i presume - on East 26th almost in the river!Let's…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
A powerhouse. Packs a punch. Profound. These are some of the words used to describe Jason Robert Brown's musical tour de force, The Last Five Years. Jamie and Cathy both si…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:25AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
What a dichotomy of emotions this play elicited. Superb acting and what I suspect is superb direction in what just might be the most self-indulgent, childish, selfish play I've ever pa…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:34AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Not a lot of 'happy' going on in this play. Amy Herzog, a fresh, young playwright takes us on a tour of two slightly 'off' individuals currently living in Paris. Why are they the…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:15AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
"Tough as nails, Funny as hell." That just about sums it all up. Ann, a touching, heart-felt one-woman memoir of a classy and brassy southern belle makes it debut this spri…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:05AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Paul Downs Colaizzo takes a dull pencil-to-paper with his new work, Really Really. New take on an old issue? Rape. But as we come to learn, there are always three or four…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:18PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
A play about addiction, redemption, hope, and family. It's a Pulitzer prize winning work by Quiara Alegria Hudes that reminds us of the absolute fragility of sobriety. The second in a …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:37AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Amy Herzog, last dazzled us with 4000 Miles at Lincoln Center Theater. Once again, in a magical and emotional journey into memory, identity, and truth, Ms. Herzog assisted by a fine ca…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:10PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
The proverbial gun is not so proverbial in this 90-minute stinger over at the Cort Theater. The play opens at the literal and figurative end - loaded gun included. We're instant…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:19PM 
