Monday, May 11, 2015
South African playwright Athol Fugard has spent nearly six decades exploring his country’s bitter divides. It’s not that everybody suddenly reconciles in his new play, “The Painted Roc…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM"The more you see, the less anything makes sense in this town.” By the time friendly barkeep Beverly (Juliette Lewis) says that to Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon),...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:17PMhttps://youtu.be/UHj8TMTq8fA So that’s where Kalinda has been hiding: the frozen-food aisle! A lot happened on season 6 of “The Good Wife,” but Archie Panjabi’s announcement of her e…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:51AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Now that’s a test of ingenuity: How do you translate “Cool Hand Luke,” which takes place on a Florida chain gang, to the stage with no set or props? This...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:30PMThursday, May 7, 2015
When Encores! announced that John Turturro would star in its concert version of “Zorba!,” the big question was: “But can he sing?!?” Um, not really. But to his credit, Turturro...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:53PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
The events leading up to the explosive Attica Prison riot of 1971 promise to be the stuff of compelling drama. It’s too bad, then, that “ToasT” is so undercooked. Though...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, May 4, 2015
At last, the crypto-gay, cannibal mafia comedy we haven’t been waiting for! “Dinner With the Boys” is all that and less: Ineptly written, directed and acted, this is one hell...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PMAt times, “Forever” — Dael Orlandersmith’s new solo piece about growing up with a violent drunk of a mother — is like the film “Precious,” only with songs by Patti...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:05PMSaturday, May 2, 2015
When people get what they want on a TV series, it’s bad news for the show. Just look at what’s happened on “House of Cards,” and is currently unraveling on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:25AMThursday, April 30, 2015
We've seen our share of canines onstage, but few can compete with Crab, a cheeky mutt who makes off with “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Crab gleefully attacks a ball...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMOne of the most dreaded sights on Broadway is the white insert in the playbill letting you know that the show’s star is out that night. Yet theatergoers at new...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:59PMMonday, April 27, 2015
Back in October, Archie Panjabi announced she’d leave “The Good Wife” at the end of the season. The news knocked the wind out of the CBS drama’s sails. Panjabi’s character,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:42PMGiovanni and Annabella are made for each other: “One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all,” he swoons. Never mind that they’re also brother and sister — passion...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:11PMSunday, April 26, 2015
You could be forgiven for missing “Grounded” when it premiered off-Broadway last year — it was, after all, a play by an unknown writer with a relatively unknown actress at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
Extra! Extra! Well-off middle-aged white guy undergoes midlife crisis! Let’s make a TV show about it! Sorry to break it you, “Happyish,” but if you’re going to be a comedy...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:28AMThursday, April 23, 2015
It’s Chita Rivera’s world: We just live in it. This works out very well for the Kander and Ebb musical “The Visit,” in which the charismatic star plays a billionairess...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMHungry for clichés? “Airline Highway” is chock full of them. A hooker with a heart of gold, a gruff handyman, a sassy gender-bending African-American, a lonely stripper: Every character…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMBroadway hits have a kind of white-hot energy: Everything from story to song clicks into place, the actors are firing on all cylinders — and the audience knows it’s watching...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:45AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Fiery revolutionaries, overheated passions, power ballads belted to the balconies, an upstanding hero and a fanatical villain — hey, if it worked for “Les Misérables,” it could work f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, April 20, 2015
The new Broadway comedy “Living on Love” isn’t just filled with clichés — it revels in them. This is a show that has its cake, eats it, and then rubs...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMEnough already with “Game of Thrones,” “Empire,” “True Detective” and all those attention-grabbing shows! It’s time to give props to the sturdy series that don’t pretend to r…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Don’t let its perky title and the cute children in its cast fool you: “Fun Home” isn’t a show for tourists. Based on Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, Lisa Kron.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMFriday, April 17, 2015
At the very beginning of “Orphan Black,” it felt as if its appeal was in its concept. One word: clones. Really, how cool is that? But it quickly became obvious...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PMThursday, April 16, 2015
You can’t overstate how stunningly beautiful, how achingly well sung this new revival of “The King and I” is. A lifesize ship gracefully moves over the orchestra, and a Siamese...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMYou’d think the role of the titular ruler of Siam in the musical “The King and I” wouldn’t have much leeway in terms of casting, but consider that it’s been...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:17PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Psycho Hamlet, qu’est-ce que c’est? The least you can say about Peter Sarsgaard’s performance as Shakespeare’s vengeful prince is that it’s fully committed — in every sense of th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMForget that “Finding Neverland” is set in 1904 London and that Kelsey Grammer plays a theater producer rather than a pedantic shrink: The show muscles in a “Cheers” joke. Surprisingl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
As far as comedy goes, the most rewarding wedding is the one that goes off the rails. And so Broadway’s new musical “It Shoulda Been You” piles on the mishaps...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM“I thought I had something to say, but I don’t,” says a character in “Iowa.” The same could be said of Jenny Schwartz’s new play with music, which strains so...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:48PMMonday, April 13, 2015
If you watched Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones” season premiere, you may have noticed the camera lingering on Daario Naharis after some naked exertions with Daenerys. But a shapely beh…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53PM“Ghosts” packs an astounding amount of drama into just over an hour and a half — cheating and lying, bitterness and hypocrisy, venereal disease and crushed hopes, and that staple...
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