Monday, May 25, 2015
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando" poses daunting challenges to stage adapters. The title character starts off as a boy, then becomes a woman. And not only does Orlando live through the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe brilliant production of "Brief Encounter" that opened on Broadway last night should make all but the sourest puss believe in romance again. It's a spirited charm offensive that's just i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Freckleface Strawberry" may be based on the kids book by the ac tress Julianne Moore, but it feels more like a version of "Free To Be . . . You and Me." Like that 1972 album and subsequent…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe last time Cherry Jones teamed with director Doug Hughes on Broadway was for "Doubt," in 2005. The result was Tonys for both, boffo box office, a national tour and a movie (starring Mery…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAt times, "Gatz" casts such a strong spell that it feels as if the world outside the Public Theater has ceased to exist.And then there are the deadly boring stretches. Very long ones, consi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe last time Belgium's Jan Lauwers and his Needcompany were in town, it was six years ago with the remarkable "Isabella's Room." This visually beautiful, deeply moving evocation of grief an…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSomeone's slipped Sarah Goodwin a chill pill . . . or 10. When we first met the prickly photojournalist heroine of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still" -- during the play's first run, in J…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhen characters be come popular on a sitcom, they're sometimes spun off into their own series.That's what should happen to Sherry and Grace, the mismatched sisters in Kim Rosenstock's new o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHardships, petty humiliations, financial strain, crushed hopes: That's what you can expect as an actor. At least that's how it is in David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre" -- and it's a come…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhile many downtown shows lose their edge when they move to Broadway, the new musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" has actually gained both scope and focus in the transfer.At the Public Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHigh- and low-brow collide in "La Bete," an American play about art vs. commerce that's set in 1654 France. It's entirely in rhyming couplets, but it also gets laughs from farting and burpi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA linguist speaks several languages, including Esperanto -- but he can't communicate with his estranged wife. Oh, the irony! Said wife leaves her marriage and becomes a baker -- after a kin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMOver the years, "Driving Miss Daisy" has gained a reputation as an expansive period weepie that shamelessly goes for the tear ducts. Except this applies more to the movie: Alfred Uhry's sem…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe story of Persephone, ab ducted queen of the under world, is one of the most potent in Greek mythology -- so much so that it's inspired a steady stream of writers and artists over the ce…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Spirit Control" gets off to a nail- biting start. Air-traffic controller Adam Wyatt (Jeremy Sisto) is helping a passenger land a small plane after the pilot passes out. Problem is, the pan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNearly two decades after it opened on Broadway -- and seven years after the HBO miniseries with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep -- Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" is considered a modern Ameri…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb have given American musical theater a pair of un disputable, stone- cold classics, "Cabaret" and "Chicago." Now they've added a third one to the list: "The Scottsbo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou can't accuse Lisa Kron's new play at the Public Theater, "In the Wake," of lacking ambition. Set mostly during George W. Bush's first term, it touches on conservative and liberal politi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn his new play, "Middletown," Will Eno looks at a small Ameri can city whose most distinctive quality is that it has no distinctive qualities."There's a meadow you could walk to," a guide …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMRichard Nelson's new play, "That Hopey Changey Thing," couldn't be more topical. It's set from 7 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 2, 2010, and within the first two minutes, we get jokes about Cuomo, Gilli…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThere's a giant pileup at the Belasco Theatre, where "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" opened last night. The show is flashy, breathless, busy. It's a mess, but it's a big, fun Te…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMOf all the "Saturday Night Live" alums, Colin Quinn isn't the one you'd picture doing a solo show on Broadway. Will Ferrell, sure. But Quinn? He anchored "Weekend Update" for a couple of ye…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAnd the avalanche of political plays contin ues. But rather than focusing on the recent elections, or even the Reagan and Bush administrations, Amy Herzog's "After the Revolution" goes furt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSince 1932, it's been impossible to think of the holidays in New York without the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular." The show is now a local tradition -- and, Lord knows, there are fewer a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBefore taking off for fantasyland, you're often told to close your eyes. At "The Pee-wee Herman Show," now on Broadway, you need to open them wide. As soon as you catch your first glance of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou come to see Al Pacino, but you stay for Lily Rabe. As the Jewish moneylender Shylock, one of theater's most complex, reviled roles, Pacino has made the Public Theater "Merchant of Venic…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThere's a reason candy canes have a twist of peppermint -- to cut the sugar. That's why the best Christmas classics, from "It's a Wonderful Life" to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," are so…
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