Sunday, 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 10:38AMSaturday, November 26, 2011
Short plays about gay marriage playing in the West Village in NYC. The moment I heard about it I thought, "Not likely to have an un-sympathetic ear in the audience". Truth be to…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:35AMFriday, November 25, 2011
The latest installment in the category of new musicals is taking aim Broadway this month. Bonnie & Clyde takes up residence at the Schoenfeld Theatre and is aiming for a bulls-eye …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:48AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
If there's an off-Broadway play you should see this season, add Thomas Higgins' thought provoking, contemporary new work, Wild Animals You Should Know, to your list. The play is not an…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:50PMSunday, November 20, 2011
I tend to agree with Roma a lot. When I say Roma, I assume you all know that I mean Roma Torre of NY1. She's a bell-weather theater critic who tells it like it is and avoids most…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:16AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Theresa Rebeck's new play on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, Seminar, is a witty, sharp, and intelligent comedy about writers - specifically 4 up-and-coming fiction writers who hire a world-…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:16AMThursday, November 10, 2011
Stephen Karam got his start in the deep dark chambers of the Roundabout Underground at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (i love saying that m…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:55PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Noel Coward is back on Broadway with his delightfully light and fun, Private Lives. Despite its length (3 full old-fashioned acts for those of you who want to catch the 10:45 train to …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:39PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
I originally reviewed the December 2010 Lincoln Center Theatre production at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and my review can be found here. An instantly popular commodity, the play, by J…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:48AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Architects and designers will tell you this all the time - not everything that looks good on paper translates well when actually constructed. 2ST has tried to breathe new and ma…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:24AMThursday, October 27, 2011
If anyone had told me a year ago that I'd be going to see a play half in Chinese on Broadway I might have fallen off my chair laughing. Broadway doesn't do foreign language plays, does…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:58PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
An intellectual, interesting, and engaging play, Venus in Fur, by David Ives is now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Featured just last se…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:21PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
A potent new play, Milk like Sugar, by Kirsten Greenidge is now running at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons thru November 20th. Sharp, honest dialogue, a stinging an…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:58AMThursday, October 6, 2011
Quite possibly the worst play of the season on Broadway. Quite possibly the best cast of the season on Broadway. Katori Hall's new play is imaginative and entertaining, but not B…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:59AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
A new play by Nicky Silver, The Lyons, strikes a bitter and bitingly funny tone that all too many dysfunctional families will likely recognize. Never known for his innocuous dialogue o…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:49PMSunday, October 2, 2011
The Adaptations Project is presenting a powerful work based on the poem of the same name, Kaddish, by Allen Ginsberg in the small theatre attached to the main stage at the New York Theatre W…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:30PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Some quick research tells me that these three one-act gems came together around the one that Woody Allen wrote. The umbrella title, Relatively Speaking, refers to the concept of famil…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:32AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Nothing like a great big group of talented, energetic and uber-adorable 20-somethings from Texas on a New York stage having the time of their collective lives to make you feel really old. &n…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:11AMFriday, September 23, 2011
Ironic that just two days ago I saw a another off-Broadway play in which a wealthy wall-street type was driven to self-destruction. The plot was certainly a different time and place bu…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:43AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
As I was leaving Adam Rapp's new play being presented by the Atlantic Theater Company at the Classic Stage Company's stage while they undergo a major renovation project on their own stage in…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:54PMFriday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Itamar Moses strikes gold again. This time, on 42nd Street at Playwrights Horizons with his latest contemporary work, Completeness. Mr. Moses has demonstrated his contemporary ta…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:44PMThursday, August 11, 2011
The Roundabout Theatre Company has done it again. A powerhouse cast, a delightful and lightly operatic score atop a simple and enchanting book are just a few of the rewards that are aw…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:00AMMonday, July 18, 2011
The sub-headline for this post should be "Between Follies". That's because Jan Maxwell helms this heady, intelligent, no-small-undertaking of a play - in-between her Follies DC run and…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:23AMThursday, July 14, 2011
I wanted it to be great. I really did. I wanted to walk away from the theater soaking wet - like someone opened a musical theatre fire hydrant all over me in the audience on a ho…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:18PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Spaceship crashes on Earth. Voca People emerge. They need Ener-gia to power up to get back home. Moo-see-ca is Ener-gia. Get it? Lior Kalfo and Shai Fishman, creators…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:21AMThursday, June 30, 2011
Tyne Daly? I don't know what you are talking about. I saw a show with Maria Callas in the flesh. No? I could have sworn....Tyne Daly takes command of the stage at 8:07pm an…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:32AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Zarkana - It's what Jack Murphy and Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland dreamed [but couldn't afford] of being on Broadway. It's what Julie Taymor and Bono wished their musically-boring, lackl…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:46AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Zack Braff's new play, All New People, feels more like an episode of Scrubs than an evening in the theatre. Don't get me wrong - it was pretty good - certainly well acted - but …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:43AMFriday, June 24, 2011
Down Payment Productions' play, Yes We Can, a new New York Play, by Daniella Shoshaun, is indeed chock full of issues. Perhaps, dare I say, even too many. Ten actors enthusiastic…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:52AMThursday, June 23, 2011
"Fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. Prepare to be mezmerized, electrified, and transported to another time and place for the next two hours" is what the pre-show announcement…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:01PM 
