Monday, May 25, 2015
When you think about David Auburn, author of the math-and-madness hit "Proof," farce isn't the first thing that comes to mind. So his decision to overhaul "The New York Idea" -- an obscure …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe key character in "What the Public Wants" is a driven media tycoon who reaches millions via dozens of publications. Through them, he seeks to entertain the many and influence the mighty.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhile Tennessee Williams is acknowledged as a master, his later plays are theater's answer to the madwoman in the attic: Producers and directors either ignore them entirely, or tread ginger…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAn early scene in the new off- Broadway play "The Whipping Man" demonstrates the devastating power of words. We're in April 1865 and the war has just ended. A young Confederate soldier, Cal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMDoug is a living nightmare for health-insurance companies: He's more than accident-prone -- he's a lightning rod for calamities. In Rajiv Joseph's uneven play "Gruesome Playground Injuries,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAlthough Encores! productions such as "Gypsy," "Chicago" and "Finian's Rainbow" have made it to Broadway, fans of the long-running City Center series know such transfers are beside the poin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMGiving a blank check to Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor to create a musical seemed like a brilliant idea, once upon a time.U2's worldwide success and the director's track record (“The …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhat did come as a bit of a shock was the open glee with which some critics took down the show. It's as if they were happy the musical wasn't good, and I'm not sure that's an appropriate fra…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe prolific A.R. Gurney has made a specialty of documenting a certain slice of America: Northeast-based, white, middle-class families bound by a strong sense of kinship and precisely delin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn the early '80s, the late mono loguist Spalding Gray created a show called "Interviewing the Audience" in which he did just that. He brought random theatergoers onstage and got them to op…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt's not every day that we get a former Bond Girl on a New York stage -- a Bond Girl who isn't Diana Rigg, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThere are star vehicles, and then there's "The Diary of a Madman," which is like a gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Ferrari for Geoffrey Rush. And the Australian actor -- a leading contender …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNeil Armfield's production is unusually gorgeous. And yet something in the program, of all places, really bugged me.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAs a lifelong soccer fan, I'd never really paid much attention to American football. This all changed when I belatedly became obsessed with "Friday Night Lights." And clearly I'm not the onl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMTennessee Williams would have turned 100 on March 26, and the past months have been jammed with revivals. Except we're not seeing his hits but late-period curios like “The Milk Train D…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMShared space plays a big part in Adam Rapp's new "Hall way Trilogy." It even extends to the Rattlestick Theatre itself, where the stage now runs along the entire side of the house. Hallways…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMShared space plays a big part in Adam Rapp's new "Hall way Trilogy." It even extends to the Rattlestick Theatre itself, where the stage now runs along the entire side of the house. Hallways…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMLet's face it: You don't go to "Timon of Ath ens" expecting much -- if you go at all. Widely assumed to be co-written by Shakespeare and fellow playwright Thomas Middleton, this uneven trage…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBoxing moves are often compared to ballet. "Beautiful Burnout" -- a high-octane show set in a boxing gym -- takes this analogy literally. The training and bouts explode on the elevated ring…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMTen-year-old Michael has been going through some changes lately. His par ents are distracted by their new baby, and they've all just moved to a ramshackle house. When Michael explores the g…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMGritty, tough-talking, blue- collar characters are hardly a rarity onstage. But most of the time their low cash balance is part of the background: It provides color and gives set designers …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe most exciting mo ment in "That Championship Season" comes when Jason Patric's character, Tom, falls down a flight of stairs. For a couple of seconds, you're involved in what's happening…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMethod acting, famously adopted by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, involves actors digging deep within themselves to find their character's emotional truth. Though the technique's lost …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou know a movie's a bona fide phenome non when it spawns a spoof or a stage version. "Black Swan" delivers on both counts with "SWAN!!!," which the irreverent troupe QWAN (Quality Without …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn the right hands, old-fash ioned farce can still kill, as the 2008 revival of "Boeing-Boeing" proved. The return of "Cactus Flower" -- another French comedy from the mid-'60s, this one ad…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA clunker of a Broadway show, “Mothers and Sons” asks us to endure the vacuous chit-chat of deeply unpleasant people. The worst part is, there isn’t even a good reason...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMMany ’80s artifacts are best gone for good: Fond memories of REO Speedwagon, shoulder pads and “ALF” are better than the reality. The same is true of Christopher Durang’s “Beyond...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMSunday, May 24, 2015
https://youtu.be/5sGOwFVUU0I If it’s late May, it means it’s time for the annual Pop Apocalypse, aka the Eurovision Song Contest. Because when it comes to over-the-top, cray-cray musical…
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Ghosts, violence, gore: Where do we sign up?! We don’t see this stuff a lot at the theater, so “The Other Thing” at least has novelty on its side. Sadly...
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You could expect “The Sound and the Fury” to be a tedious slog. And yet, strangely, it’s not. This fearful anticipation comes from the fact that the show is a...
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