Wednesday, 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 04:51PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
As bizarre scenes go, it’s hard to top the one in “Grasses of a Thousand Colors” where a character gets a paw job from a fluffy white cat. That seduction...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39AMSunday, October 27, 2013
With its flashy pedigree — stars Daniel “007” Craig and his real-life wife, Rachel Weisz, plus powerhouse director Mike Nichols — Broadway’s new revival of “Betrayal” was a hot…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:42PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
Like a murderer coming back to the scene of the crime, the “Nightmare” haunted house has returned to the Lower East Side. Now in its 10th year, the Nightmare franchise...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:41PMFriday, October 25, 2013
After her “Hedda Gabler” was unfairly savaged in 2009, Mary-Louise Parker took a few years to lick her wounds and focus on her Showtime series, “Weeds.” Now the raven-tressed, porcel…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:31AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Sitting through the dull musical “The Landing,” you wish John Kander had quit while he was ahead. The composer and his longtime partner, lyricist Fred Ebb, are responsible for all-time...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:59PMAfter two decades in the alternative-press trenches, cartoonist Alison Bechdel burst into the mainstream with the 2006 autobiographical graphic novel “Fun Home.” The book was a critical …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37AMMonday, October 21, 2013
A lot happens in John Grisham’s legal thriller “A Time to Kill,” in which small-town lawyer Jake Brigance takes on a seemingly doomed client. Jake overcomes one obstacle after another.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:20AMMarie Antoinette’s tragic story reads like the 18th-century version of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Decapitated.” Mind-blowing luxury and entitlement followed by a gory comeu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:13AMFriday, October 18, 2013
A legal drama drives the story but Rattigan also throws in a subplot about a love that dare not express itself between feisty suffragette Catherine Winslow and arrogant barrister Sir...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:56PMThursday, October 17, 2013
Broadway’s answer to Masterpiece Theater has just arrived in the form of “The Winslow Boy,” Terence Rattigan’s 1946 drama. The last Rattigan play by the Roundabout, “Man and Bo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:19PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
OMG, R&J! Last week St. Ann’s Warehouse gave us a “Julius Caesar” that’s purportedly being put on by inmates in a women’s prison. Now comes a Classic Stage Company production...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:54PMDiscovering that playwright Donald Margulies is the author of “The Model Apartment” is a little like hearing that a cat gave birth to a rabbit. Margulies is best known for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:20AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Enough of these babyboomer-baiting tribute concerts trying to pass for Broadway musicals! Just months after the Beatles impersonators in “Let It Be” left town comes “A Night With Jan…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:42AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Theatergoers are usually told to turn off their cellphones — but rarely are they told their phones may be confiscated. And it’s even rarer to find the restroom stalls plastered...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMEric Simonson’s created a niche market for himself: He writes plays about sports icons. “Lombardi” was about the inspirational Green Bay Packers coach, “Magic/Bird” about friendly …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:26AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
In her 1938 sci-fi novella “Anthem,” Ayn Rand envisioned a groupthink society in which individualism has been forcefully eradicated.
“We are nothing, mankind is all,” a member of thi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:57AMMonday, October 7, 2013
As its title indicates, the new musical “Lady Day” involves a whole lot of Billie Holiday songs. And since it’s an off-Broadway show rather than a regular tribute concert, a dusting of…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:02AMSunday, October 6, 2013
There’s a huge gap between what you see and what you hear in “Big Fish.” Visually speaking, this new Broadway musical is inventive, playful and often downright magical. But then, w…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:49PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Let the games begin! “Bad Jews” is packed with so many vicious arguments that sometimes you want to press your hands over your ears and block out the bickering.
Luckily, those fights are…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:44PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Jonathan Balton, the key figure of “The Film Society,” is an easygoing soul who tries to placate everybody. Don’t make waves — that could be his motto.
But that’s not easy when you…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:08AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Sexual dissatisfaction, loneliness, frustrated small-town dreams, alcoholism, tortured identity: In the 1950s, William Inge turned those unlikely themes into the Broadway hits “Come Back, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThursday, September 26, 2013
This revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” arrives on Broadway from Cambridge, Mass., with the excitement usually reserved for “Breaking Bad” and cronuts: It’s gen…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
The reenactment of Supreme Court oral arguments, verbatim — sounds like an evening of fun theater, right?
OK, maybe not for everybody.
It helps that the new play “Arguendo” is based on…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:30PMSunday, September 22, 2013
Some people are convinced that they’re destined to be artists despite all evidence to the contrary. If they and their enablers drive you nuts, you may want to drop by the off-Broadway com…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:15PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Canadian director Robert Lepage has been in the news a lot here in the past three years — though maybe he didn’t get the kind of coverage he wanted. Mostly he got flak for his staging of…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Before anyone’s spoken a word, you know Nikole Beckwith’s new comedy, “Everything Is Ours,” is going to be unusual.
Just take a gander at the set, a brightly colored living room out …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:53PMThursday, August 29, 2013
It’s autumn: Do you feel a song coming on? Broadway sure does — and this season’s new musicals have something for every taste.
Those craving a big ol’ traditional tuner can look forw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMMonday, August 26, 2013
There are two ways to score a Broadway hit: Load up on name stars and make a mint during a limited run, or bank on good bones that can get through years of cast changes.
Anything involving …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:19AMThursday, August 22, 2013
What do Fantasia Barrino, Constantine Maroulis and Clay Aiken have in common? “American Idol,” of course — but also Broadway: They’re just three of the former contestants who have su…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PMThursday, August 15, 2013
Much like its subject, the new Broadway musical “Soul Doctor” is terminally earnest and relentlessly sunny. Both also share a fish-out-of-water quality.
The show’s central character w…
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