Friday, January 17, 2014
For ambitious actors of a certain age, “King Lear” is a rite of passage. The hair’s going, the beard’s graying — and suddenly they feel the urge to sink their...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:06PMOne of the most thrilling shows on Broadway is about a woman who kills her husband in cold blood. That would pack in the tourists . . . if we were talking...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, January 16, 2014
There’s a famous movie called “Rear Window.” Now there’s an infamous play that should be titled “Rear Entry.” Based on Toni Bentley’s “erotic memoir,” the new solo “T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:53AMMonday, January 13, 2014
The hero of the new play “Year of the Rooster” is one angry bird. “I think I could kill a cow if I put my mind to it,” Odysseus Rex...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:43PMThursday, January 9, 2014
Some movie stars fill seats in the theater and then can’t deliver — but Cate Blanchett does both. From “Hedda Gabler” to “A Streetcar Named Desire” to 2012’s “Uncle Vanya,”…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:18AMA dozen years ago, we saw an explosion of music mashups — in which two different songs were combined to create a catchy Frankenhit. The COIL festival’s “Tyson vs. Ali”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:59AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Think taking your brood to restaurants can get expensive? You may have to borrow against your 401(k) for a night out on Broadway. But from Feb. 24 to March 2,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:29PMSunday, December 29, 2013
You’d have a hard time finding a more cultured New Yorker than Ven. He’s a regular at the Met, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He’s game for Baroque opera...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:54AMThursday, December 26, 2013
Five TV and movie stars who didn’t fare well on the New York stage in 2013.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:48PMMonday, December 23, 2013
A terrible play is worse than a terrible movie. Not only are you watching something bad, but you’re just a few feet away from live actors embarrassing themselves. Because it’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49PMThursday, December 19, 2013
There’s the circus, and then there’s Cirque Éloize. Unlike the Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros., the Montreal-based Éloize has no animals, and it favors theaters rather than big top…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PMSunday, December 15, 2013
The cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden — a soulless hangar with awful acoustics — is a terrible place to see a show. And yet “A Christmas Story — The...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31PMMost performance artists are completely unknown outside of museum and gallery circles. And then there’s Marina Abramovic. The glamorous 67-year-old Serbian has reached such a level of hips…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:57PMThursday, December 12, 2013
If all you knew of Ireland came from plays, you’d think it was a nation of underemployed eccentrics who loved spinning tales — and arguing — in florid language. Also,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:15PMIt’s easy to see why Fiona Shaw was a witch on “True Blood” and nasty Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies: The tall, strong-featured Irish actress can do intense...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:23PMMonday, December 9, 2013
The action in “The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence” jumps around time periods and settings, the transitions between them smoothed by a large curtain that glides around on a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:19PMThe hottest new musical in town doesn’t technically exist. But anybody who saw the exhilarating concert version of “Hit List” Sunday night will hope it soon becomes a reality. Haven’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:39PMSince 1893, only 12 dancers have been designated “prima ballerina assoluta,” which is like being crowned empress of the ballet galaxy. So it’s a big deal that the last one...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:58AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Burt Bacharach may be a pop genius with a host of Grammys, Oscars and chart-toppers under his belt, but his theatrical record is spotty. His 1968 musical, “Promises, Promises,” did well…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PMDaniel Kitson’s done pretty well for a prickly Englishman who eschews TV. Often described as a comedian, he doesn’t fire off jokes but mulls over things like identity and death....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:50AMThe last time Frances McDormand appeared on a New York stage, she won a Tony for portraying a working-class mom in the gritty 2011 drama “Good People.” Her new project...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:47AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
It didn’t take long for theater lovers to suggest that Disney’s “Frozen” — with its Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez score — was a natural for the stage. The Disney...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:49PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Terrence McNally loves peeking behind the scenes, and he’s made arcane subjects widely accessible. His best-known play, 1995’s “Master Class,” is about the prickly relationship betwe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:38PMMonday, November 25, 2013
When a family gathering gets boring, you can either turn on the TV or split. Not so at the intermissionless “Regular Singing,” which unfolds as members of the Apple clan...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:39PMRight now Broadway exists in an alternate reality where bleak existentialism is trending. But there’s a simple explanation for Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Beckett’s “Waiting f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:03AMSaturday, November 23, 2013
‘Why am I a hero if I die, and a nuisance if I live?” It’s a question that haunts many veterans. In Charles Fuller’s heavy-handed new drama, “One Night . . . ,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:11AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Does Amanda Peet have something on Manhattan Theatre Club? It’s hard to imagine why else this powerful nonprofit put up the actress’ feeble first play, “The Commons of Pensacola” —…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:10AMEthan Hawke has picked the worst possible time to show restraint. In this new “Macbeth,” the star famous for throwing himself into every role with full-throttle enthusiasm mysteriously r…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:33AMThursday, November 21, 2013
The new comic thriller “Small Engine Repair” isn’t subtle, but it more than makes up for it by being tawdry, nasty and fun. It’s proud pulp fiction, something we don’t...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42AMMonday, November 18, 2013
The big hook of the new musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” is Jefferson Mays. He doesn’t just give a performance — he gives eight of them, impersonating...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Most of the beloved movie “Little Miss Sunshine” takes place during a road trip: The hapless Hoover family drives from New Mexico to California so daughter Olive can compete in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:26PM 
