Thursday, December 19, 2013
There’s the circus, and then there’s Cirque Éloize. Unlike the Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros., the Montreal-based Éloize has no animals, and it favors theaters rather than big top…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PMSunday, December 15, 2013
The cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden — a soulless hangar with awful acoustics — is a terrible place to see a show. And yet “A Christmas Story — The...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31PMMost performance artists are completely unknown outside of museum and gallery circles. And then there’s Marina Abramovic. The glamorous 67-year-old Serbian has reached such a level of hips…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:57PMThursday, December 12, 2013
If all you knew of Ireland came from plays, you’d think it was a nation of underemployed eccentrics who loved spinning tales — and arguing — in florid language. Also,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:15PMIt’s easy to see why Fiona Shaw was a witch on “True Blood” and nasty Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies: The tall, strong-featured Irish actress can do intense...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:23PMMonday, December 9, 2013
The action in “The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence” jumps around time periods and settings, the transitions between them smoothed by a large curtain that glides around on a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:19PMThe hottest new musical in town doesn’t technically exist. But anybody who saw the exhilarating concert version of “Hit List” Sunday night will hope it soon becomes a reality. Haven’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:39PMSince 1893, only 12 dancers have been designated “prima ballerina assoluta,” which is like being crowned empress of the ballet galaxy. So it’s a big deal that the last one...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:58AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Burt Bacharach may be a pop genius with a host of Grammys, Oscars and chart-toppers under his belt, but his theatrical record is spotty. His 1968 musical, “Promises, Promises,” did well…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PMDaniel Kitson’s done pretty well for a prickly Englishman who eschews TV. Often described as a comedian, he doesn’t fire off jokes but mulls over things like identity and death....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:50AMThe last time Frances McDormand appeared on a New York stage, she won a Tony for portraying a working-class mom in the gritty 2011 drama “Good People.” Her new project...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:47AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
It didn’t take long for theater lovers to suggest that Disney’s “Frozen” — with its Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez score — was a natural for the stage. The Disney...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:49PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Terrence McNally loves peeking behind the scenes, and he’s made arcane subjects widely accessible. His best-known play, 1995’s “Master Class,” is about the prickly relationship betwe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:38PMMonday, November 25, 2013
When a family gathering gets boring, you can either turn on the TV or split. Not so at the intermissionless “Regular Singing,” which unfolds as members of the Apple clan...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:39PMRight now Broadway exists in an alternate reality where bleak existentialism is trending. But there’s a simple explanation for Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Beckett’s “Waiting f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:03AMSaturday, November 23, 2013
‘Why am I a hero if I die, and a nuisance if I live?” It’s a question that haunts many veterans. In Charles Fuller’s heavy-handed new drama, “One Night . . . ,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:11AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Does Amanda Peet have something on Manhattan Theatre Club? It’s hard to imagine why else this powerful nonprofit put up the actress’ feeble first play, “The Commons of Pensacola” —…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:10AMEthan Hawke has picked the worst possible time to show restraint. In this new “Macbeth,” the star famous for throwing himself into every role with full-throttle enthusiasm mysteriously r…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:33AMThursday, November 21, 2013
The new comic thriller “Small Engine Repair” isn’t subtle, but it more than makes up for it by being tawdry, nasty and fun. It’s proud pulp fiction, something we don’t...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42AMMonday, November 18, 2013
The big hook of the new musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” is Jefferson Mays. He doesn’t just give a performance — he gives eight of them, impersonating...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Most of the beloved movie “Little Miss Sunshine” takes place during a road trip: The hapless Hoover family drives from New Mexico to California so daughter Olive can compete in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:26PMAnd the Sondheim shows keep on coming! Given the endless stream of revues and full-on revivals, you’d think he was the only Broadway composer worth paying attention to. There’s a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:54PMThe autobiographical solo show has been done to death. Doesn’t matter if it’s a celebrity or an unknown — everybody wants to talk about themselves. But you have to hand...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:58AMSunday, November 10, 2013
No argument about who’s the king of Broadway right now: It’s William Shakespeare. The guy’s got four shows on the Great White Way — the first time since 1987 that...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMFriday, November 8, 2013
Buddies have a wide range of options: They can launch NASA programs, torch Vegas rooms, and everything in between. Girlfriends, on the other hand, have two basic choices. They can...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:03AMThursday, November 7, 2013
What a weird play “The Jacksonian” is. It’s not great — at times it’s not even good — but Beth Henley’s new drama sure sticks in your head. And that’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:20PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
After being burned by years of low-rent movie-spoofing musicals — many of them from the Fringe — you can’t be blamed for dreading “Disaster!” This new show takes on 1970s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:07PMFew playwrights love to scratch an itch more than Bruce Norris. “Clybourne Park,” his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning hit, took on race relations and gentrification with acid wit. For his new…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:40AMSunday, November 3, 2013
Since the “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” debacle, Julie Taymor’s been keeping a low profile. She licked her wounds, and moved on to a new directing project — a production of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:28PMJukebox musicals have had a horrible reputation lately, and with reason: For every “Jersey Boys,” there are twice as many cheeseballs muddling the material they’re meant to honor — R…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:03PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
Done badly, a Brecht play is a preachy, cartoonish embarrassment. Done right, as in this new revival of “The Good Person of Szechwan,” it entertains even as it makes you...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:51PM 
