Wednesday, April 24, 2013
For her first Broadway appearance since "Clams on the Half Shell" 38 years ago, Bette Midler split the difference between playing it safe and taking a risk.
Instead of trotting out her hits …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]David Byrne and big-beat master Fatboy Slim's new musical, "Here Lies Love," owes less to the Great American Songbook than to the disco. With their booming bass and propulsive rhythms, the s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AM[SHARE]Few shows are as deceptively simple as "The Trip to Bountiful." Horton Foote's play is about an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, who's dead set on seeing her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
The narrator in Broadway's "The Testament of Mary" didn't have the easiest relationship with her late son " she can't even bring herself to call him by his name.
He tended to ignore her and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
A word of warning before you sit down for this latest version of "Macbeth" on Broadway: read or reread Shakespeare's tragedy, or at least the playbill's synopsis. Because if you're not famil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
The climax of "Jekyll & Hyde " The Musical" is the infamous "Confrontation" scene, the peak of the evening-long battle between good Dr. Henry Jekyll and evil Edward Hyde.
The trick, of cour…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PM[SHARE]Considering its agitated gestation, it's amazing how smooth "Orphans" is. During rehearsals, actor Shia LaBeouf had well-publicized " by himself " arguments with co-star Alec Baldwin and dir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The downtown actress Hannah Cabell is a whiz at physical comedy, especially when it's driven by manic desperation. This comes in handy in Allison Moore's new play, "Collapse," in which her c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you may see Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties" as warmly catering to the Manhattan Theatre Club's audience.
If your glass is half-empty,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:02PM[SHARE]Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is about disillusion and compromise, but it's not a pity party. Fueled by Odets' loathing for Hollywood, this hard-boiled 1949 play packs a wallop.
At least i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
If your public personality is the same as your personal one, you can safely be yourself, right?
Not so for Nathan Lane's character in Broadway's "The Nance."
His Chauncey Miles, a burlesque …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
The premise of "The Call" is ripped from the headlines " or rather from the parenting chat rooms where some white middle-class couples share their thoughts about adopting kids from Africa.
I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Here's what a $150 orchestra seat gets you at "Motown: The Musical": bargain-basement sets, basic choreography performed merely adequately, and laughable dialogue.
But then there are the son…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
'Sleeping Rough" has just three characters, but none of them makes much of an impression. By the end of the show, the first thing that comes to mind is, "Bye. It was dull not knowing you."
…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Once in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in Broadway. "Matilda The Musical" is that show.
"Matilda" landed at the Shubert Theatre with daunting advance word from…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
This season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy "Trevor," a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives' newly revived "All in the Timing," three primates armed…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
In David Harrower's intense 2007 drama "Blackbird," Alison Pill played a grown woman seeking out the man (Jeff Daniels) she slept with back when she was 12 to his 40.The past also catches up…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]When shows are inspired by stars, they tend to be either fawning tributes or studies in self-destruction. With Judy Garland alone, just think of Rufus Wainwright's enamored cover of her Carn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
If you judge a show's popularity by how many productions it's had, then "The Last Five Years" is a "Wicked"-size blockbuster.
In the 11 years since its brief off-Broadway run, this intimate…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" is a eulogy. A really fun, really entertaining eulogy.
You may have heard that Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, is the star of the show " and he is, his Every…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
Fittingly for a show about art, "Three Trees" has the speed and intensity of drying paint.
Alvin Eng's new play centers on the intense bond between the painter/sculptor Alberto Giacometti (…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
When August Strindberg wrote "A Dream Play," in 1901, he was mentally shaky, having just emerged from a bout of paranoid psychosis. This may explain why the plotless work is a lot more freef…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Broadway draws the stars and the attention, but theater fans know there's gold in them downtown hills " and this spring, off-Broadway is going to see plenty of action.
A lot of it is the mu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]Watching the sluggish revival of "Happy Birthday," you start fantasizing about what 10 drag queens could do to the play. They probably would be a better match for Anita Loos' comedy than the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
There's a reason "It's a Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's Superman" hasn't had a major revival since its 1966 Broadway premiere: That musical isn't very good. Yet the concert version prese…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PM[SHARE]You can't help but root for the likable people on the Brooks Atkinson Theatre's stage " both the actors and their characters.
It's harder to muster similar enthusiasm for "Hands on a Hardbo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PM[SHARE]With Holly Golightly, Truman Capote created a carefree, impish sprite " who happens to make money from gentlemen callers. Is it any wonder she's become one of America's most beloved heroines…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Making your Broadway debut is nerve-wracking enough. Add a bit of cat-wrangling and a nude scene in a bathtub, and even seasoned pros would have the jitters.
Did we mention the role is Holl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
W.C. Fields reputedly warned actors to "never work with children or animals." He should have added ". . . especially cats."
Look no further than the Broadway production of "Breakfast at Tif…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
The archaeologists in "The Mound Builders" spend a lot of time talking about their work. You can't blame them: The Illinois field hosting their important dig is about to be submerged by a ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Few Chekhov-inspired shows make you laugh out loud, and repeatedly at that. In fact there's probably just one such rare bird on the planet: Christopher Durang's riotous "Vanya and Sonia and …
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