Friday, 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 04:10PMMonday, March 31, 2014
Forget those big-budget, starry adaptations of beloved movies. If you want to relive a cult flick, head over to the ingenious, very funny “Heathers: The Musical,” which pulls off wonders…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:21PMSunday, March 30, 2014
New Broadway musical “If/Then” would be DOA without Idina Menzel. The star holds this ambitious but unwieldy show together. Actually, she does more than that: She gathers a bunch of mes…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMThursday, March 27, 2014
“King Lear” is the Everest of plays: It’s big, it’s daunting and a lot of people try to climb it. Frank Langella just did it in January, John Lithgow tackles...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:14PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
It sounds nuts, kids, but once upon a time serious writers appeared on talk shows, and their feuds were national news. One of those legendary disputes inspired the new play...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMMonday, March 24, 2014
Critics of “Les Misérables” call it bombastic. So what? Bitching that “Les Miz” is overwrought is like complaining a Dalmatian has too many spots: It’s the nature of the beast....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:37AMThursday, March 20, 2014
Disney’s new “Aladdin” doesn’t quite catch lightning in a bottle — but it lets a pretty nifty genie out of a lamp. That would be James Monroe Iglehart, in the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:09PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Nina Arianda’s career went from zero to 60 in 10 seconds flat — with a Tony nod for her Broadway debut in 2011’s “Born Yesterday” followed the next year by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Just because a story is familiar doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. So while there’s very little that’s fresh in “Appropriate,” the show’s still a fun ride. Hailed as a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:45AMThursday, March 13, 2014
Something electric happens at the end of “Rocky” that gets theatergoers on their feet and writers scuttling for exclamation points: A boxing ring descends from the rafters, then glides i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMMonday, March 10, 2014
‘Hand to God” boasts the kind of berserk, star-making performance you have to see to believe. Make that two performances — both by the same actor, Steven Boyer. In Robert...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:13PMJim Brochu made his off-Broadway debut back in 1968 and has worked steadily ever since. Never heard of him? No wonder: He’s what’s known as a “character man” — someone whose qu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:17AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Walter White, the drug-dealing anti-hero of “Breaking Bad,” was a fantastic gift to Bryan Cranston — it led to a memorable performance, a Golden Globe and three Emmys. But the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Yes, she can sing. For her New York stage debut, Emma Thompson is aiming high: She’s taking on the amoral Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:26AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Some consider Will Eno the Beckett of American suburbia. Others find him simply maddening. From “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” to “Title and Deed,” the playwright’s deadpan tone, l…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:23PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
“The Happiest Song Plays Last” is the kind of show in which people who look otherwise reasonable make big head-scratching decisions. And they don’t even seem to have consequences. …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:34AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Who are you and what have you done with Sarah Ruhl? Ruhl’s built a sterling reputation — Pulitzer and Tony nominations, a MacArthur “genius grant” — with works invariably described…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:46AMSunday, March 2, 2014
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Pulled from Peter Finch’s epic rant in 1974’s “Network,” this may be the single most famous line...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:29PMThursday, February 27, 2014
It takes only minutes for this outstanding production of “A Doll’s House” to grab you — and that’s before a word of Ibsen’s 1879 classic about an increasingly desperate housewife…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:27PM 
