Thursday, 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...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:17PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Anna Chlumsky displays serious comic chops on HBO’s “Veep,” in which she plays Amy Brookheimer, the title character’s perpetually harried chief of staff. Yet the actress sounds a lit…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:02AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Turns out the dominant character in the Clinton administration wasn’t President Bill or First Lady Hillary, but Kenneth Starr. At least that’s how it seems in “Clinton — The Musical,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThe bad news is that the two plays that make up “Wolf Hall” will set you back six hours. Even worse is that they feel even longer. It’s amazing that...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Jackson is a Harvard-educated African-American lawyer who just bought a home in a rough, Brownsville-type neighborhood. He has a reason, though: He grew up there. “In 10 years, this whole.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMHow do you solve a problem like “Gigi”? At first glance the Lerner and Loewe musical seemed ripe for a revival: The movie won a whopping nine Oscars in 1959,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Don’t let his big eyes, tuft of red hair and argyle sweater fool you: Tyrone is a profane, horny, violent little psycho — and funny as hell, too. He’s found...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Watching a couple duke it out works only if you also understand what drew them to each other in the first place. But in the new Broadway revival of David...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMFor a show about rock ’n’ roll, “The Undeniable Sound of Right Now” is a little too well-behaved. Admittedly, this new play by Laura Eason (“Sex With Strangers,” TV’s “House.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Showbiz isn’t all glamour and glitz. In the sharply written, beautifully acted “Music Hall,” an aging diva reminisces about her days touring her song-and-dance act. Sometimes the stage…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
People always complain that theater is too expensive. And it is — if you’re referring to Broadway, with its $150 orchestra seats and its overpriced Theater District restaurants. But the.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:21AMThursday, March 26, 2015
Radio City Music Hall’s “New York Spring Spectacular” is a lot of show — all for something that feels like the most expensive visitors bureau commercial ever made. For starters,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Today, New York celebrates the Fall of the Dark Lord Sauron. What, you didn’t know about the anniversary of the demise of the big baddie from “The Lord of the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22PMLike Batman reboots, but not quite as often as Dracula, “A Star Is Born” returns to movie screens with regularity. Now Bradley Cooper is meant to make his directorial debut...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Action generally speaks louder than words — but silence says even more in “Small Mouth Sounds,” Beth Wohl’s wonderful, perceptive new play. Six strangers meet at a spiritual retreat …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Heidi Holland, the heroine of Wendy Wasserstein’s hit “The Heidi Chronicles,” firmly believes that “all people deserve to fulfill their potential.” The whole point of the play, whi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMYou have to mine for them, but Lerner and Lowe’s Gold Rush musical — now lovingly revived at Encores! — is rife with shiny nuggets. Even with Keith Carradine leading...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:33PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Some of the spring’s hottest shows have been irreverent spins on history, like the hip-hop bio-musical “Hamilton” and “An Octoroon,” an alternately hilarious and searing look at sl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:20PMThursday, March 12, 2015
Remember when the star of “Cabaret” was whoever played the role of Kit Kat Klub chanteuse Sally Bowles? Well, it isn’t this time. It’s Alan Cumming’s Emcee who owns the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:01PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
In her winning solo piece “Josephine and I,” Cush Jumbo recounts how, as a child in Britain, she discovered an unlikely role model in Josephine Baker, the American-born entertainer who...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, March 9, 2015
You might consider enjoying a glass of something before “The Liquid Plain.” Naomi Wallace’s baffling play about slaves and sailors would probably go down better after a drink or two....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:16PMYou may have noticed that Carly Rae Jepsen’s video for “I Really Like You” prominently features a certain Oscar winner who shall remain — oh fine, it’s Tom Hanks. Famous...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14PMYou may want to take A&E’s slogan, “Be original,” with a grain of salt. Consider that one of the network’s flagship spring shows, “The Returned” (premiering Monday night) is …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:01AMSunday, March 8, 2015
To the surprise of exactly no one, Helen Mirren is absolutely terrific as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience,” which opened on Broadway Sunday night. Admittedly, Mirren had practice, ha…
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