Thursday, 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 10:22AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
As director and choreographer, Kathleen Marshall helms this delicious and tuneful musical comedy at the Imperial Theatre this spring. The concept - cobble together some of the best George an…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:42AMSunday, April 1, 2012
Creators Tom Salamon and Betsy Salamon-Sufott are going strong after many seasons - sending their agents (that's you, the audience) out on the street to deliver tickets to a network of "asso…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:52AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
This is quite possibly the worst show to debut on Broadway that I have ever seen. Let me be clear, it is not because the actors didn't know their lines - on the contrary - they were qu…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:23PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Quite possibly the most star-studded success story ever to grace the Broadway stage. Gore Vidal's The Best Man has been resurrected once again in an election year where it seems that, …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:12PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Currently running its national tour, I caught Bring It On during its stop in Chicago. Part gymnastic cheerleading spectacle, part disney-esque youthful heartwarming story, the show is …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:08AMThursday, March 8, 2012
A delicious meal is being served up at Playwrights Horizons upstairs in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Dan LeFranc's new play is about life, or more appropriately life - fast forward - &…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:47AMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Choreography. Nice work if you can get it. Even nicer if you are Geoffrey Doig-Marx and your brush has been selected to paint the dance-canvas on stage for the Department of Thea…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:06PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
As it seems is customary, egomaniac, Edward Albee has not only placed his name in the title of his play but also put his picture on the playbill cover. He's like the Donald Trump of th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:40AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Playwright LeslyeHeadland is likely good at a minimumof four things: grammar, being anassistant, reading people, and writing plays. Each of these traits is quite obvious from a br…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:52AMThursday, February 9, 2012
John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, has been staged in London on the West End and subsequently on Broadway - both to a rather cool, if not frigid reception. Movie versio…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:15AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Paula Vogel's award-winning 1997 play is receiving its first professional production since it premiered 15 years ago at the Vineyard Theater. Second Stage Theatre …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:38AMSunday, February 5, 2012
It's hard to describe this amazing work - it's part film, part live performance art, part experimental theatre. It harkens back to the days of Andy Warhol and one of his avant-ga…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:10PMThursday, February 2, 2012
Re-imagined. Re-invented. Resurrected. Remarkable!OK, so i have never seen the cult movie (shame on me, i know). I also didn't get to see the prior incarnation on Bro…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:46PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
A power-packed, "Ripped From The Headlines" new play by emerging playwright, Gabe McKinley, is now playing at the Peter Norton Space on way-West 42nd Street. This i…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:35PMSunday, January 29, 2012
The Animus Theatre Company is presenting a fantastic stylized work, Where's My Money, by playwright John Patrick Shanley. An homage to the Film-Noir style in the cinema, this stage pro…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:40PMSaturday, January 28, 2012
A play about cancer and dying is probably not something that is first on your uplifting winter "must see" list. But don't click the back button on your browser just yet. Attentio…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:44PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Maybe Naked Angels has the idea first? But in a Broadway season that already contains a very funny Chinese-culture play, I'm not sure why the Vineyard chose this time to mount Outside …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:53PMSunday, January 15, 2012
What a delightful and entertaining way to start off the new year - and it wasn't a big budget Broadway musical with 17 stars flying around the theatre! LEO, the brain-child of To…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:27PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
To the delight of every audience member, the orchestra at the Richard Rogers Theatre roars to life from the first bar of the George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's luxuriou…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:35AMThursday, December 22, 2011
An old fashioned play and a top-notch actress take center stage at the American Airlines Theatre at the Roundabout Theatre Company this winter. Athol Fugard's The Road To Mecca i…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:49AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Molly Smith Metzler is an award winning playwright from Brooklyn and she's written a charmer that is now being presented at Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) on the small stage at NY City Center.…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:22AMMonday, December 12, 2011
Everything about Burning, Thomas Bradshaw's new play, is less like a flaming tinderbox and much more like the wet smoldering ashes of a rained out campfire. The painful 3 hours in the …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:58AMSunday, December 11, 2011
Andrew Hinderaker, a fresh, young playwright is having his moment in the spotlight. Specifically, the spotlight several times a week in the Roundabout Theater Company's New Play …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:30PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
It began with $6,000 from a Kickstarter campaign this past summer, raised to bring this new musical parody to the stage at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). Sold-out and ex…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:01AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
What's that sound? I think it's Walter Kerr turning over in his grave. I've been disappointed on Broadway before and I'm sure I will again.Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn ha…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:24AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Jordan Harrison's fantastic new play, Maple and Vine, being produced at Playwrights Horizons this season is storytelling at its absolute best! Are you a tired, stressed-out, overworked…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:34AMSunday, December 4, 2011
Just because the seats are a little uncomfortable or the location is slightly off the beaten path, don't miss a wonderful opportunity to see the re-imagination of 5 classic fairy tales unfol…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:29PMFriday, December 2, 2011
I can't say I'm a huge fan of "the classics". But occasionally, I do know it's good to see some of them to expand one's horizons. And there's one theatre, aptly named, in town th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:33AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Anyone can put money into a Broadway show. I won't begrudge them that. I did. So what? Well, the difference is that my name is not obnoxiously pushed in everyone's f…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:43AMSunday, November 27, 2011
Part of the annual Brits Off-Broadway Festival that runs at 59E59 Theaters each year, The Door, by Tony Earnshaw, is a quick-paced, 50-minute, mystery and tension filled play about two men a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:38AM 
