Thursday, 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 02:05PMAlfred Hitchcock is the only director who’s also a pop-culture icon — recent dueling biopics starred Anthony Hopkins and Toby Jones. Now it’s Martin Miller’s turn to portray the jowl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:13AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
The subject of the new comedy “Under My Skin” is very “now”: The sucky unfairness of health insurance. But the show’s cornball style is stuck in the ’80s or ’90s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:56PMPolitics can get pretty nasty — especially when family members pull for different parties. In “The City of Conversation,” Hester Ferris finds that out the hard way. As played by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:26PMSunday, May 4, 2014
If you thought Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was a provocative poke at race relations, wait till you see off-Broadway’s “An Octoroon.” A black actor puts on whiteface to…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his gothic tales, but his own life was mysterious, too. Or rather his own death: In October 1849 he disappeared while on a trip...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
An electrifying new show’s in town, starring the little dude from the “Harry Potter” movies. No, it’s not “The Cripple of Inishmaan” with Daniel Radcliffe, but “Peddling” wit…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PMWe know that saying “it’s an honor just to be nominated” is a way to make you feel better when you lose the actual prize. But in a Broadway season...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:03PMMonday, April 28, 2014
“The Substance of Fire” is two plays for the price of one: Each act is almost self-contained. Too bad the first is much better than the second — at least...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:21AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Broadway loves two things: arguing about the Tony nominations and arguing about the awards themselves. Fortunately it’s been an action-packed season since “Forever Tango” — remember …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:23PMThe Civilians troupe made its name with documentary, mosaic-like shows based on extensive interviews — “Gone Missing” about losing things, “In the Footprint” about the battle over …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22PMWhat do you call a revival of a revival? A re-revival? In the case of this “Cabaret,” you just call it fantastic. In 1998, directors Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:40AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
In the early 1960s, a secluded bungalow camp in the Catskills was paradise to a few men. It was where they could be themselves — that is, women. That real-life...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:08PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Sometimes you wonder if there’s anything Neil Patrick Harris can’t do: He switches from “How I Met Your Mother” to singing Sondheim on Broadway, directing a magic show to hosting...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:37PMMonday, April 21, 2014
Alexandra is 79 and angry — growing old is no picnic, plus she’s afraid of being kicked out of her Park Slope brownstone. So she barricades herself in her home,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:52PMGive it up for Sutton Foster: She’s using her superpowers for good, not evil. If the two-time Tony winner hadn’t taken the title role in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s “Violet,�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:51AMDaniel Radcliffe is doing his darndest to put Harry Potter way, way behind him. On Broadway alone, he’s played a mentally disturbed young man who strips naked and blinds horses...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:12AMSunday, April 20, 2014
You’d think that of all people, Harvey Fierstein would know about men in frocks. From his Tony-winning play “Torch Song Trilogy” in the 1980s through his books for the musicals...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58AMFriday, April 18, 2014
Campy humor was a big deal in the ’80s, and few did it better than the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. That troupe even scored an unlikely off-Broadway hit with Charles Ludlam’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:58AMThrow a rock around Broadway and you’ll hit someone obsessed with Moss Hart’s 1959 memoir, “Act One,” about his escape from a destitute Bronx childhood through a love for theater....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:52AMThursday, April 17, 2014
There may be no more strikingly different debuts than the ones James Franco and Chris O’Dowd are making in “Of Mice and Men.” As George, the wandering ranch hand in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:03AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
“The Library” isn’t a great play, but as staged by Steven Soderbergh, it’s a very good show. The prolific movie director may have little theater experience, but he sure knows...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:08PMMonday, April 14, 2014
On the one hand, we have Audra McDonald, poised and elegant — a classically trained soprano and five-time Tony winner. On the other, there’s the raspy-voiced Billie Holiday, who lifted...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:40AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Our musical options are deadly serious right now, from bloody barricades to forbidden love and heavy life choices. So thank God for “Bullets Over Broadway,” a giddy feast of silly...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:30AMThursday, April 10, 2014
They say comedy is hard, but if the actors are sweating, maybe it’s just too hard. The new farce “The Heir Apparent” strains so much to be funny, it’s exhausting...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:34AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Culture wars in the heartland are a big neon target, but “The Most Deserving” isn’t sure where to aim, or how. So playwright Catherine Trieschmann covers all the bases: slapstick,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:02AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Back in February Maggie Gyllenhaal announced she would star in this fall’s Broadway revival of “The Real Thing” opposite Ewan McGregor. Great for Gyllenhaal, not so great for MCC: The.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38PMFor a show about whores, beggars and thieves, this new revival of “The Threepenny Opera” is amazingly clean-cut. Oh sure, there’s a bit of tasteful nudity and a touch of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:03AMSunday, April 6, 2014
What powerhouse playwright could possibly lure Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts into a show? Tennessee Williams, maybe, or Arthur Miller. Try Will Eno. Until now,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:49PMFriday, April 4, 2014
‘A Raisin in the Sun” endures for good reason. Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play — the first by a black woman on Broadway — features several meaty roles and enough dramatic...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:55AMThursday, April 3, 2014
Fans of glorious singing should hustle to City Center, where the intoxicating Encores! revival of “The Most Happy Fella” runs through Sunday. After landing a hit with “Guys and Dolls,�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:10PM 
