Thursday, 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 08:01PMSaturday, June 18, 2011
A wholesale waste of time at the Union Square Theatre. The house was virtually empty. I knew this wasn't going to be a good sign. It only got worse from there.Written as a …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:59PMThursday, June 16, 2011
Too Cliche? Maybe. Another installment in the "thou shalt never forget" series? Perhaps. Delightfully entertaining? Absolutely. In any other season, I th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:46PMThursday, June 9, 2011
Michael Weller wrote two plays back to back in 2007. I saw Fifty Words at the Lortel then and just this week, the follow-up play, Side Effects, in the same (dumpy) theater. …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:37AMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham take a walk down Twenty-Something Lane with their fresh, new gen-X musical. Well, of course they do, the are twenty-something themselves and if I had…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:50AMSunday, June 5, 2011
Tony Kusher's much anticipated new work is fantastically engrossing, scintillatingly intellectual, and mentally exhausting - all at the same time. From minute 1 to minute 210 (that's …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:03PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
Lab productions don't and shouldn't get reviews. What they should get is encouragement and word of mouth. Here are some words and they came out of my mouth.Genuine.Personal.Hones…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:09PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
When I first googled this show to see what the heck it was all about, I came across a few articles that listed the cast and creatives - nothing unusual. Then I noticed the name Philip…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:27AMFriday, May 27, 2011
Let's get one thing perfectly clear - the music of the real-life group, The Shaggs, is confoundedly awful. Yes, awful. If you don't believe me, take a listen. The other thing tha…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:28AMSunday, May 22, 2011
OK, so we won't call this theatre, exactly. It's one of those delicious treats that visits a stage every now and again - a musical review, an homage to a great one, a thoroughly entert…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:06PMFriday, May 20, 2011
The 2011 Patrick Lee ITBA Award Winners: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICALBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonOUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAYJerusalemOUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL REVIVALAnything GoesOU…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:57AMThursday, May 19, 2011
An evening of sheer musical hilarity and pure naughty fun! Andrew Byrne has penned a new and fresh (and I'd say better) version of a prior musical parody, Forbidden Broadway. Unl…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18AMSaturday, May 7, 2011
Although a fully staged production, it appeared to me to be nothing more than an enhanced concert version of Stephen Sondheim's luxurious score at the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:52AMSaturday, April 30, 2011
One thing that is not a lie is that this show is one of the best off-Broadway productions that I have seen in a very long time. I'm not very high-brow, so I went in thinking Moliere +…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:38PMSaturday, April 23, 2011
The life-story of Larry Kramer, AIDS activist, author and playwright, finally makes it to Broadway - a late, but welcome addition to the spring season. Having had several off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:29AMTuesday, April 19, 2011
John Guare just had a grand Broadway run with latest work, A Free Man of Color. Now he's back on Broadway with one if his his first works, The House of Blue Leaves. Despite the …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:18AMThursday, April 14, 2011
Upfront I will recognize the fine performances by all the actors - Mark Blum, Tom Lipinski, Michael Stahl-David, Liz Stauber, and even Donna Hanover too! The fine acting notwithstandi…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:47PMTuesday, April 12, 2011
Lynn Nottage has penned a unique and clever work now being performed at Second Stage Theatre. The play takes place in two distinct parts - Act I in 1933 and Act II 1973/2003 involving…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:22PMThursday, April 7, 2011
If you're in the mood for a night of good, clean, innocent fun - Sister Act at the Broadway Theatre has just what you've been looking for. By the way, don't run out and rent the movie.…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:12AMSunday, April 3, 2011
Michael Frayn's play, Benefactors, is a gripping, poignant, and dramatic new work now playing off-Broadway at Theatre Row on 42nd Street. You might recognize another of his hit-plays, …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:30AM 
