Wednesday, 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 04:51PMTuesday, 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 07:54PM 
