Friday, February 14, 2014
The characters of "Dinner With Friends" may have a privileged, Williams-Sonoma lifestyle, but their woes may be familiar, no matter your tax bracket. Donald Margulies' dramedy examines what …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
There's a reason sports shows are rare: Not only are they tough to stage, but theater and jocks rarely share the same playing field. Yet writer Eric Simonson has found...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Looking for a crowd-pleasing blockbuster? Forget Broadway " it's all happening at the tiny Gym at Judson, which is hosting the mega-hit "Almost, Maine." Haven't heard of it? You can't...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
Amor is a laid-back dude. He likes dancing, is handy around the house, and, like most guys in their 20s, he crushes out on girls. There's just one problem: Amor's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman may have made his name in movies, but he made his reputation at the theater. And the theater made him what he was: That's where he forged...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:04PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
There's a reason we don't see Brecht's "A Man's a Man" very often: It's not all that good. To come alive, it needs a brilliant production " and this clunky...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
Before we can even begin discussing "Intimacy" and what it means, be forewarned: If the theater had ratings, as movies do, this show would earn an X. It features full-frontal...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Celebrity children lunging into the limelight are nothing new. But rarely are they known for bold, risky moves " except for Ella Dershowitz. The 23-year-old didn't follow in the footsteps...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:13PM[SHARE]Is this a joke? A "Saturday Night Live" spoof? A trailer for Harlequin's Superromance line? No, those cheesetastic 30 seconds are the trailer for the new "Bridges of Madison County"...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:52PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
One look at the decadent '30s mansion where "Stop Hitting Yourself" is set, and it's hard not to gasp. A giant dollar sign flashes in the background, melted cheese is...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:12PM[SHARE]The colorful world of historical re-enactment is tailor-made for the stage. Adults dressing up to re-create past events? That's like theater where the actors would also be the audience "...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Part of what makes romantic comedies so satisfying is that we know the mismatched, bickering pair will end up together. The fun is in watching them get there. Except, that...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Its only 90 minutes long, but by the time "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" ends, its athletic lead is in a sweat, panting. And no wonder: As Alan...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:46AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Few things age as badly as provocation. Joe Orton's black comedy "Loot" raised hackles when it opened in England in 1965. The show has all the trappings of farce "...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2014
In her live show "Green Porno," Isabella Rossellini talks about the birds and the bees . . . and the snails, the whales, the spiders and the dragonflies. Based on Rossellini's …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:01AM[SHARE]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 02:06PM[SHARE]One 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 "The Surrender" deta…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:53AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:18AM[SHARE]A 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 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2013
Monday, 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 06:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:31PM[SHARE]Most 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 hipste…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:15PM[SHARE]It'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 09:23PM[SHARE]Monday, 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...
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