Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Put two hard-up characters in one play, add tension, and chances are they’ll overcome their differences to share a valuable lesson of some kind. It’s the law of dramatic catharsis....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Noises about a Broadway transfer were buzzing around before the Encores! production of “The Band Wagon” even opened. The show that just bowed at City Center is a hoot, but...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PMFriday, November 7, 2014
Bill Pullman and Holly Hunter are so intense, so scarily good in “Sticks and Bones” that at times it’s painful to watch them — but it’s impossible to forget them....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, November 6, 2014
If you love Broadway’s classic scores, there’s no missing the New York Philharmonic’s semi-staged versions. So while the new “Show Boat” doesn’t always land, there are plenty of …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Broadway has a spotty history when it comes to TV commercials — remember the howler for “The Bridges of Madison County”? It doesn’t help that live theater can look awkward...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:06AMMonday, November 3, 2014
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare — to have a child taken away. Yet the American mom in “The Oldest Boy” is kind of OK with the situation, once she’s past...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTo paraphrase Taylor Swift, haters gonna hate hate hate . . . and everybody else gonna buy buy buy. Surfing on a tsunami-size wave of hype, social-media hustle and product placement —.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:05PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Marissa, the sassy daughter of Alan Cumming’s Eli Gold, hasn’t been on “The Good Wife” all that much, yet she’s become a beloved supporting character. Happily, the curly-hair…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Tom Stoppard plays like “The Coast of Utopia” and “Arcadia” are reliably smart and witty, with intricate structures — parallel stories, jumps in time and place — that flatter au…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
While “It’s Only a Play” is breaking box-office records on Broadway — a textbook example of starry headliners trumping mediocre material — you may want to check out author Terrence…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The lead character in the drama “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” is facing a tough choice: Should he join the Confederate Army or not?...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMSunday, October 26, 2014
You want to love Sting’s “The Last Ship.” It’s a serious-minded show with a new score, not a jukebox of musty hits. It even offers an original story, inspired by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:05PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Fans of “The Good Wife” have a special fondness for the show’s judges. Almost every Sunday night, the popular CBS series features a judge — and they’re usually played by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:28PMThursday, October 23, 2014
“Disgraced” was far from perfect when it opened off-Broadway two years ago, but it worked up to a point. Aasif Mandvi, of “The Daily Show,” was astringently effective as a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
“The Fortress of Solitude” relies so much on musical pastiche that at times it feels like an old K-Tel commercial, this one pitching “The Super Hits of ’80s New York.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMUnlikely as it may seem, off-Broadway’s “Deliverance” is indeed a stage version of the original “Men vs. Wild” story, where four city slickers on a canoe trip end up battling...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PMMonday, October 20, 2014
For a textbook example of how to botch a great subject, see “Billy & Ray.” It’s not that the show’s terrible. Rather it’s dull. Dishwater dull. Stare-into-space-while-the-clock…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMQuick: Who’s one of the most produced contemporary playwrights in Europe? The answer is Sarah Kane, whose small output belies her iconic status in her native England and especially on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThe return of FBI Agent Lana Delaney (Jill Flint) on “The Good Wife” Sunday night brought out the best in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), as everybody’s favorite investigator was back to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43PMIn addition to its superb plotting and characterization, “The Good Wife” is justly famous for an exquisite wardrobe that helps tell the story. The Post continues to explore this side...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Chances are, the prospect of a two-hour-long, one-woman show about Emily Dickinson won’t send your pulse racing. Nor, for that matter, would seeing “The Belle of Amherst” performed by …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Three excitable sailors enjoy a 24-hour leave in the beloved 1944 classic “On the Town.” You know the score, literally: “The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down,” our seadogs...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Forget texting and Tumblr: The ebullient new musical “Found” is a throwback to the good old days when reminders were scribbled on scraps of paper, kiss-offs on Post-Its, excuses on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMMonday, October 13, 2014
Dave Malloy’s pop-rock musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” was an unlikely hit, an adaptation of “War and Peace” that started in a tiny theater, attracted a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:46PMSometimes a set overshadows its show. That’s the case with “Generations” at Soho Rep. The tiny Tribeca company is known for radically reconfiguring its space for every production, and …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:51PMThe male lawyers on “The Good Wife” may be aces on the stand, but none of them qualifies as hot. Seriously, who’d want to peel off any of those milquetoasts’...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMSunday, October 12, 2014
“I’ve been waiting all my life for somebody to see me.” “When you know better, you do better.” “I needed to get connected to me.” Lines like these belong on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:59PMFriday, October 10, 2014
The Walking Dead” is feeling pretty darn good: Ratings are through the roof, and after announcing a spin-off this summer, AMC just renewed the series. No wonder Sunday’s fifth-season pre…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:10PM“The Good Wife” is the rare TV series that got better, not worse, in its sixth season — and among the reasons the show stays way above the float line...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PMThank heaven for Nathan Lane, an alchemist who turns comic lead into gold. And he’s been handed a lot of lead in “It’s Only a Play.” Terrence McNally’s 1980s backstage...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49AMThursday, October 9, 2014
“The Walking Dead” is feeling pretty darn good: Ratings are through the roof, and after announcing a spin-off this summer, AMC just renewed the series. No wonder Sunday’s fifth-sea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PM 
