Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Thanks to a certain Netflix series, a lot of attention's been paid lately to women in prison. Now comes a new play about women who've met behind bars, complete with...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Unless you live in a country-music bubble, you know electronic dance music is big " billions of dollars big. The recent list of the highest-earning DJs is just as eye-popping....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:22PM[SHARE]Interpol has classed up since its gigs at dives like Brownies and Luna Lounge 15 years ago. Now the band has announced it will play the Metropolitan Museum of Art's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PM[SHARE]As speculated, Emma Stone is due to replace Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles in Broadway's "Cabaret" for a limited run beginning Nov. 11. Alan Cumming is staying put as the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2014
Many stories about a get-together or reunion build up to a big, cathartic blow-up. Theresa Rebeck's new play, "Poor Behavior," opens with one. And it's all downhill from there for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:08PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
The success of the "Outlander" miniseries on Starz reminds us of the heyday of female-centric miniseries, in the 1980s and early 1990s, when grand, complicated love stories played out agains…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
Showtime has just announced that Season 4 of "Homeland" will premiere on Sunday, Oct. 5, with a double episode. That's assuming viewers still care. If you gave up on "Homeland"...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
It’s the rare musical title that tips off the plot: There is indeed a riot going in "Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter," and it does take...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM[SHARE]Lauren Bacall was a Hollywood icon who was made for the stage. Which this clip, from her hit "Applause" " possibly one of the campiest items on YouTube " makes...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:17PM[SHARE]"The Walking Dead" already has gangbuster ratings, but could they get even bigger if the show was made with Legos instead of regular actors? (Despite its wooden acting, the current...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
By every measure " star power, buzz, lofty ticket prices " "The Maids" is the most hyped event of this year's Lincoln Center Festival, if not the entire summer. And...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:09PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
Running through Aug. 16, Lincoln Center Festival's "The Maids" " starring the formidable Cate Blanchett and French icon Isabelle Huppert " is off-Broadway. It's also off the charts " not...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
You’d think Julia Stiles would know better after all those movies, from "Save the Last Dance" to the Bourne trilogy. She even held up her own opposite Bill Pullman in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]The actors in the boxing drama "The Opponent" don't pull their punches " which can't be said of the slack play itself. For nearly two hours, Guy Van Swearingen and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Like many actors of a certain age and stature, John Lithgow decided it was time to do "King Lear." And why not? Although many still remember him as the comic patriarch...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
After vanishing from the NY stage for 25 years, Albert Innaurato is back with a vengeance " and his weapons are cocked and loaded. Those who were around in the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
You're not going to find Stephen Adly Guirgis writing about hedge-fund managers or Williamsburg hipsters. The guy sticks to what he does best, which is telling about a racially mixed,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]“Varekai” is billed as Cirque du Soleil's "newest arena show," but it actually was created back in 2002, for the big top. While the acts are as tight as we...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The Second Stage production of the new dramedy "Sex With Strangers" is polished and stylish. It also boasts superior casting, with the excellent Anna Gunn (Walter White's long-suffering wife…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Second Stage Uptown scored big a few years ago with "Bachelorette," which became a movie and launched the career of playwright Leslye Headland. Now the company's unearthed another gem with...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:49PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
You can't accuse Theatreworks USA of lacking ambition in its shows for young audiences. Its 26th season's production, "The Lightning Thief," is an action-packed musical filled with heroic ba…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Warren Leight found a nifty way to sum up 20 years' worth of Knicks agony: In "Sec. 310, Row D, Seats 5 and 6," the Tony-winning writer of "Side Man"...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:03PM[SHARE]Stories that pop on the big screen can fizzle when they hit the stage. For every hit like "Once" there are a dozen misfires like "Bullets Over Broadway," the latest...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
Encores! Off-Center has done a bang-up job reviving obscurish off-Broadway musicals, some of which, on the strength of these productions, later made it to Broadway. "Pump Boys and Dinettes" …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Randy Newman's only musical, "Faust," is an odd bird: It's never been staged in New York, yet it's spawned a couple of famous-ish songs. You may have heard Bonnie Raitt's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
No matter what Benjamin Scheuer talks or sings about in his solo musical, "The Lion," he sticks to a monotone that's polite at best, bland at worst. Which is pretty...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
Jonathan Larson's legacy usually boils down to "Rent." But the Encores! Off-Center series is making a strong case for his lesser-known "tick, tick…BOOM!" with a high-energy production …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:31PM[SHARE]The thing with reunions is that they always boil down to the same big ideas: Nobody's the way they used to be, friendship is treacherous, and you can't go home...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
'The Old Woman" is pretty much a live-action version of "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe. This new theatrical piece has all the vaudevillian shti…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
Rap on Broadway? Purists, relax " "Holler If Ya Hear Me," the Tupac Shakur musical that opened Thursday night, is endearingly traditional. Yes, there's gangsta anger and lots of profanity,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:56PM[SHARE]Th3 strapping Jane Lynch came up short in only one way Wednesday night: Her cabaret debut " "my maiden voyage," she quipped " ended too soon. Even with two encores,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:53PM[SHARE] 
