Monday, May 25, 2015
'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 05:58PM[SHARE]Nearly 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 05:58PM[SHARE]John 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 05:58PM[SHARE]You 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 05:58PM[SHARE]In 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 05:58PM[SHARE]Richard 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 05:58PM[SHARE]There'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 05:58PM[SHARE]Of 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 05:58PM[SHARE]And 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 05:58PM[SHARE]Since 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 05:58PM[SHARE]Before 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 05:58PM[SHARE]You 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 05:58PM[SHARE]There'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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Fraught reunions, marital discord, Russia, a supernatu ral allusion or two: Heidi Schreck's new show, "There Are No More Big Secrets," is built from promising blocks. It all starts when Gab…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]I've had it with Sondheim -- or rather with Sondheimania. There's been so many events celebrating his 80th birthday this year that the cumulative effect is now the opposite of the desired on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A spectacular folly has just crash-landed at Lincoln Cen ter Theater. Eight years in the making, John Guare's latest play, "A Free Man of Color," is an ambitious, awkward, fascinating, lumb…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Save for a precious few exceptions, the fall theater season has been disappointingly bland. And so Thomas Ostermeier's cold, cerebral “The Marriage of Maria Braun” comes as a rel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Though it boasts a golden pedigree — a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne — “Bells Are Ringing,” from 1956, is often considered a d…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]I for one would love to see the production move to Broadway, if only so I can see it again. It's certainly superior to "The Apple Tree" and "Finian's Rainbow," two befuddling Encores! transf…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]There's nothing quite like "Elling" on Broadway. Based on the Norwegian book and film of the same name, this Oslo-set play is about a pair of socially impaired men who learn to live on thei…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]It's a good time for pe riod pieces -- espe cially wacky ones. On the Great White Way, the rambunctious "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is a bio-musical that's part Looney Tunes, part emo ro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop danc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The head writer for "SpongeBob SquarePants," Steven Banks also moonlights as the dark and twisted Billy the Mime. Now, he tries to reconcile his sugar-and-spice sides in a new play, "Lookin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sausage, anybody? Actually, John Kelly's "Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte" has nothing to do with meat products and everything to do with Austrian painter Egon Schiele. A skilled chameleon, write…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Central Asia is a hair-pulling mess. And as we see in "The Great Game: Afghanistan," it's been a mess for a long time. Covering the years 1842 to the present, this London import tracks a si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Irish novelist Edna O'Brien wrote a plum part for Brenda Blethyn in "Haunted," an oblique, wordy play about a waning marriage. The actress returned the favor by grounding the piece with rea…
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