Monday, May 25, 2015
Since 1932, it's been impossible to think of the holidays in New York without the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular." The show is now a local tradition -- and, Lord knows, there are fewer a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Before taking off for fantasyland, you're often told to close your eyes. At "The Pee-wee Herman Show," now on Broadway, you need to open them wide. As soon as you catch your first glance of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]You come to see Al Pacino, but you stay for Lily Rabe. As the Jewish moneylender Shylock, one of theater's most complex, reviled roles, Pacino has made the Public Theater "Merchant of Venic…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]There's a reason candy canes have a twist of peppermint -- to cut the sugar. That's why the best Christmas classics, from "It's a Wonderful Life" to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," are so…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Fraught reunions, marital discord, Russia, a supernatu ral allusion or two: Heidi Schreck's new show, "There Are No More Big Secrets," is built from promising blocks. It all starts when Gab…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]I've had it with Sondheim -- or rather with Sondheimania. There's been so many events celebrating his 80th birthday this year that the cumulative effect is now the opposite of the desired on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A spectacular folly has just crash-landed at Lincoln Cen ter Theater. Eight years in the making, John Guare's latest play, "A Free Man of Color," is an ambitious, awkward, fascinating, lumb…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Save for a precious few exceptions, the fall theater season has been disappointingly bland. And so Thomas Ostermeier's cold, cerebral “The Marriage of Maria Braun” comes as a rel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Though it boasts a golden pedigree — a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne — “Bells Are Ringing,” from 1956, is often considered a d…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]I for one would love to see the production move to Broadway, if only so I can see it again. It's certainly superior to "The Apple Tree" and "Finian's Rainbow," two befuddling Encores! transf…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]There's nothing quite like "Elling" on Broadway. Based on the Norwegian book and film of the same name, this Oslo-set play is about a pair of socially impaired men who learn to live on thei…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]It's a good time for pe riod pieces -- espe cially wacky ones. On the Great White Way, the rambunctious "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is a bio-musical that's part Looney Tunes, part emo ro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The head writer for "SpongeBob SquarePants," Steven Banks also moonlights as the dark and twisted Billy the Mime. Now, he tries to reconcile his sugar-and-spice sides in a new play, "Lookin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sausage, anybody? Actually, John Kelly's "Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte" has nothing to do with meat products and everything to do with Austrian painter Egon Schiele. A skilled chameleon, write…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Central Asia is a hair-pulling mess. And as we see in "The Great Game: Afghanistan," it's been a mess for a long time. Covering the years 1842 to the present, this London import tracks a si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Irish novelist Edna O'Brien wrote a plum part for Brenda Blethyn in "Haunted," an oblique, wordy play about a waning marriage. The actress returned the favor by grounding the piece with rea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A waitress silently prepares for work. Her black-and-white uniform in place, she counts her teeth. No. 31 is AWOL, but she finds it somewhere behind her neck, and slides it back in place. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]You can take Donny and Marie Osmond out of Vegas, but you can't take Vegas out of them. Or is that Branson, Mo.? No matter: The siblings' holiday concert at the Marquis delivers everything …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]It's not often that you hear Schubert's melan choly song cycle "Win terreise" ("Winter Journey") in a down town theater. And not with classical musicians, either, but with three scruffy dud…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]How tepid was Broadway this year? The most talked-about show didn't even open. While waiting -- and waiting, and waiting -- for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" to take flight, we watched a …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Just when Broadway and off- Broadway go into their post- holiday hibernation, Performance Space 122 steps in with out-there productions aimed at the head, the guts and the heart. No wonder …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The woefully inept drama "Dracula," which opened off- Broadway last night, is as close as we get to dinner theater in New York. There's no prime rib, but plenty of grating cheese. While it …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Location, location, location: That motto applies not only to real estate but to theater. Tennessee Williams' one-act play "Green Eyes" may be slight, but staging it in an actual hotel room -…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A lot of energy is spent setting up an explo sive situation in the family drama "Blood From a Stone." But despite the efforts of a strong cast led by Ethan Hawke -- giving his best performa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Misery springs eternal. We've seen dozens of fictional families clash be cause of a Big Traumatic Past Event, but that didn't deter Jon Robin Baitz ("The Substance of Fire," TV's "Brothers …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Ibsen's "John Gabriel Bork man" is nowhere near as popu lar as his "Hedda Gabler" and "A Doll's House." Yet crowds are flocking to this obscure 1896 play at BAM. What gives? One reason is t…
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