Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Warren Leight found a nifty way to sum up 20 years’ worth of Knicks agony: In “Sec. 310, Row D, Seats 5 and 6,” the Tony-winning writer of “Side Man”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:03PMStories that pop on the big screen can fizzle when they hit the stage. For every hit like “Once” there are a dozen misfires like “Bullets Over Broadway,” the latest...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:08PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Encores! Off-Center has done a bang-up job reviving obscurish off-Broadway musicals, some of which, on the strength of these productions, later made it to Broadway. “Pump Boys and Dinettes…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Randy Newman’s only musical, “Faust,” is an odd bird: It’s never been staged in New York, yet it’s spawned a couple of famous-ish songs. You may have heard Bonnie Raitt’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PMMonday, June 30, 2014
No matter what Benjamin Scheuer talks or sings about in his solo musical, “The Lion,” he sticks to a monotone that’s polite at best, bland at worst. Which is pretty...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:20PMThursday, June 26, 2014
Jonathan Larson’s legacy usually boils down to “Rent.” But the Encores! Off-Center series is making a strong case for his lesser-known “tick, tick…BOOM!” with a high-energy p…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:31PMThe thing with reunions is that they always boil down to the same big ideas: Nobody’s the way they used to be, friendship is treacherous, and you can’t go home...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, June 23, 2014
‘The Old Woman” is pretty much a live-action version of “The Itchy & Scratchy Show” starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe. This new theatrical piece has all the vaudevill…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:33PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Rap on Broadway? Purists, relax — “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” the Tupac Shakur musical that opened Thursday night, is endearingly traditional. Yes, there’s gangsta anger and lots of prof…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:56PMTh3 strapping Jane Lynch came up short in only one way Wednesday night: Her cabaret debut — “my maiden voyage,” she quipped — ended too soon. Even with two encores,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:53PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
No wonder more and more members of the casts of the eight “Harry Potter” films are turning up onstage: After all, most of Hogwarts’ teaching staff seems to have been...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:36AMTwo generations face off in off-Broadway’s “When We Were Young and Unafraid.” The older, wiser woman is Agnes (Cherry Jones), a former military nurse who runs a B&B that doubles...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:06AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Ron Weasley’s coming to Broadway! Rupert Grint — the ginger-haired Hogwarts kid from all eight Harry Potter movies — will make his New York stage debut in the revival of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:51PMShakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is the original romantic comedy — its leads are very vocal about how much they can’t stand each other. In other words, they’re destined…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:39AMMonday, June 16, 2014
A couple of years ago, Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for “Disgraced” — which is headed to Broadway this fall, with “How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMWednesday, June 11, 2014
The new musical “Fly by Night” is off-Broadway’s answer to “The Fault in Our Stars” — earnest, enthusiastic and possibly requiring a tissue or two by the end. Romance doesn’t...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:06PMIn a shocker of an opening scene, Daniel takes a large knife from the kitchen and prepares to slice off his ear. Blackout. It’s a heart-stopping way to begin a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:30PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Greta Gerwig could have found a much easier vehicle than “The Village Bike.” But no, the blond star of “Frances Ha” and other indie films picked a doozy of a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:20PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
Mary Bridget Davies Stars as: Janis Joplin in “A Night with Janis Joplin” “I based my dressing room on [photos from Janis’ life]: tapestries, candles, 1930s lamps, two of my...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:05PMFriday, June 6, 2014
Two epically awkward dates make a satisfying finale to the off-Broadway comedy “When January Feels Like Summer” — they’re a long time coming, though. Playwright Cori Thomas enjoys he…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:01PMFor his New York stage debut, Kenneth Branagh could have gotten away with anything. A solo reading of takeout menus? It’s a hit! Instead, the Shakespeare expert brought over a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:37AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Forget about California Chrome and the Triple Crown: For many New Yorkers, the handicapping race this week is all about the Tonys. Ahead of Sunday’s telecast, we balance out who...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Back in the day, Broadway songs often became million-selling hits that wormed their way into America’s subconsciousness (remember “Tonight,” from “West Side Story”?) Now this happe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:48PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Either Jim Dale has led an uneventful life, or he’s keeping the juicy stuff to himself. Either way, his new autobiographical show, “Just Jim Dale,” is easygoing but not especially...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:55PMMonday, June 2, 2014
You’d expect Michael Shannon to play the title role in “The Killer.” Broody and intense, he’s best known for tortured, often villainous characters — think General Zod in “Man…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:03AMFriday, May 30, 2014
Once in a blue moon comes a show so laughably bad, it’s almost enjoyable — almost. Enter “The Anthem.” Loosely based on Ayn Rand’s 1938 sci-fi novella “Anthem,” this inept...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38AMFriday, May 23, 2014
There are no costumed dudes battling evil in “American Hero” — just subs and hoagies. Though, come to think of it, the three leads in Bess Wohl’s bittersweet, terrifically acted...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:05AMThursday, May 22, 2014
Once the temperature rises, the entire city becomes Shakespeare Central. The Bard is as inevitable as a superhero movie on Memorial Day weekend — and most of the productions are...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:09AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
If the Amish are famous for their beards and buggies, the Shakers are reputed for their elegant, minimalist furniture. But that second religious group — its formal name is the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:41PMFriday, May 9, 2014
Trucking is a great subject for a play — “breaker breaker,” colorful personalities, the lure of the road and all that. Yet “The Few” is strangely uninvolving, its intriguing potent…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMThursday, May 8, 2014
Encores! has presented plenty of odd ducks in the past two decades, but it’s still hard to beat “Irma la Douce” and its ballet for bearded penguins. Marguerite Monnot’s delightful...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:05PM 
