Saturday, 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 03:19PMFriday, December 28, 2012
Roma, once again, was right! Rob McClure is the shining centerpiece of this charming and delightful new bio-musical by Christopher Curtis & Thomas Meehan. Chaplin is an audac…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:15AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Roma was right. This play stinks. And when I say "this play", I mean the actual script itself. Theresa Rebeck got thrown off SMASH after the first season and someone should…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:53AMThursday, December 13, 2012
OK, take a deep breath. Ready? This one is a mouthful. A delightful, delicious, and audaciously entertaining mouthful. Charles Dickens started a novel and died before it wa…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:00PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Paula Vogel has penned a historical perspective on an age-old tradition - Christmas. Her version is a dramatic triptych on the holiday which takes place during the civil war. Eac…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:30PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
A brutally honest, raw, and sad tale told by Samuel D. Hunter over on 42nd Street at Playwrights Horizons. What do you get when you combine a morbidly obese man, an estranged daughter,…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:45AMThursday, November 1, 2012
Pretty much a 'Debbie Downer' over at Roundabout's Laura Pels. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out who was related to whom and why we were all here. As the vague plot unfo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:22AMSaturday, October 13, 2012
A great book by Harvey Fierstein, knock-out music & lyrics by Cindi Lauper and some fresh direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell will surely turn this out-of-town tryout into an in…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:54PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Stephen Belber's new play, Don't Go Gentle, is a powerful and moving family and human drama. And with Michael Cristofer (Lawrence) at the helm, it's a bona-fide tour-de-force. Dav…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:36PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
I'm not one of those people who attends sporting or political events and chants "U-S-A. U-S-A". But neither am I some bleeding-heart liberal who thinks a terrorist is an unavoidable pr…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Alexander Dinelaris' new play has taken a few years to make it to New York and it's pretty clear why you won't be seeing this one any time soon again. It's wordy, over-indulgent, a bit…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:56PMThursday, September 6, 2012
I'm frankly a bit confused by Lisa D'Amour's new play being presented over at Playwrights Horizons. It's seemingly missing a soul or at least one that director, Anne Kauffman failed to…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:44PMThursday, August 30, 2012
Chad Beguelin's new play is delightful. A gay couple unexpectedly come upon a turning point in their relationship. Which road will they choose? It may not be the one you th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:25PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Summer is the perfect time for a silly romp on Broadway. Although I always regret not seeing things early in their run when they are more fresh and the audience is more of a "Broadway …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:08PMThursday, July 12, 2012
A coming of age story (that's what we used to call bullying) of both boys and girls. Tough. Brutal. Honest. Powerful. Joe Mantello and Christopher Gattelli brin…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:45PMFriday, June 15, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
John Patrick Shanley's new work is a powder-keg. The third and final work in his trilogy that started with Doubt, continued with Defiance, now ends with Storefront Church. (One w…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:02PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Sometimes a play off-off Broadway is a powerhouse production, a tour-de-force, a watershed event. Tiffany Antone's In the Company of Jane Doe is not one of those events.It's not that t…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:09PMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Off-off Broadway can be one of the best grounds for exciting, ground-breaking, and intellectually stimulating new works and Mark Ravenhill's new work, pool (no water), is no exception. …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:32PMThursday, May 24, 2012
A rare revival of Mary Chase's delightful and humorous Harvey is just beginning in the summer-slot at the Roundabout Theatre Company over at Studio 54. The adorable and perfectly talent…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:32AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Amy Herzog's play is receiving an extended chance at capturing hearts 8 times every week downstairs at the Mitzi Newhouse E.Theatre at Lincoln Center. A tender and pensive work, the pla…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:51AMSunday, May 20, 2012
Quite possibly one of the most engrossing, unique, emotionally charged plays of the season. Throw away all your theatrical pretense and spend 90 minutes immersed in a battle over John.…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:50PMSaturday, May 19, 2012
I went for another peak inside the development lab of a new work over at the Vineyard Theatre. Rule #1 - Thou shalt not blog about a work in process. Rule #2 - Enjoy yourself. &n…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:50AMThursday, May 17, 2012
What could have been a riveting barn-burner and some fierce competition for the much-hyped Cock over The Duke turns out to be a brush-fire that smolders about 25-30 minutes longer than it sh…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:24AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Sometimes it takes just one diamond to make a musical sparkle - and Encores! final installment of the 2012 season has several. With a cornball book by Loos and Fields, silly lyrics by …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:58PMSaturday, May 5, 2012
Do not adjust your browser. This is indeed my site. I'm doing something a little different on Sunday night. I will be blogging LIVE from The 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awar…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:28PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
You'll certainly not be lonely in the cozy Theatre @ 43rd Street watching Paul Weitz' world premier comedy at Second Stage but you may be tad bored after about an hour or so. The strik…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:08PMSunday, April 22, 2012
The City Club has great potential. Of the five major factors that go into that statement - it lacks in only one area - and that one area is one that can easily be fixed. Music &…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:37PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
John Lithgow was born to play roles such as this one in David Auburn's new play, The Columnist, having its world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Lithgow, along a cast of superb…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:38PMSaturday, April 14, 2012
In opening this review, I take note that I cannot find a show banner icon that does not have Raul Esparza's name atop the title. Clearly the producers are hanging t…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:38AMThursday, April 12, 2012
What a romp over at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre! Penned as the sequel to Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti has extended the comical farce of his original story a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:22AM 
