Sunday, July 7, 2013
For 20 years, New York City Center’s Encores! has breathed new life into semi-obscure or simply unappreciated musicals. A few of those limited-run productions — “Chicago,” “Wonderf…
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The whole plot of “Unlock’d” revolves around a sheltered young woman who’s so obsessed with her hair that she refuses to cut even a small piece of it to give her suitor.
This may hav…
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David Morse may not be a household name, but he’s always a pleasure to watch. With his deceptively kind face and low-boil intensity, the silver-haired character actor has enlivened a wide …
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Before anybody’s said a word in “Rantoul and Die,” you have a pretty good idea that the play will be a warts-and-all look at working-class life.
First, it’s presented by the Amorali…
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One of the weirdest, most unclassifiable plays of the year isn’t at a hip Tribeca venue but in Midtown, next door to “The Gazillion Bubble Show.”
The writing feels almost avant-garde …
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‘The Explorers Club” is the rare comedy that fulfills its mandate: It wants to do nothing more than make you laugh — and that it does.
Nell Benjamin’s gleefully goofy new concoction,…
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You can’t accuse the cast of “The Comedy of Errors” of holding back. Everybody on the Delacorte stage, where this new Shakespeare in the Park production opened last night, exerts thems…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:45PMGreg and Alex are a happily married Manhattan couple with a 4-year-old son. Jake is smart, creative — and he loves pretending to be a princess.
“We’ve got seven different Cinderella D…
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‘roadkill” is a fantastic theatrical experience, one you’re unlikely to forget. It also happens to be the feel-bad show of the year.
The heavy subject — sex trafficking — is distur…
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The most popular young-adult novels these days — “The Hunger Games,” “The 5th Wave” — feature hotties entangled in love triangles while trying to survive in a dystopian, dangerou…
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It’s hard to pin down “A Picture of Autumn”: You can see it as either a funny drama or the most depressing comedy of the season. Above all, the show that opened off-Broadway Monday nig…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:59PMThe best sits right next to the worst in “3 Kinds of Exile,” the new project by John Guare. The show is made up of three distinct works that share a theme — the experiences of a trio o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMWith plays like “Fat Pig” and movies like “In the Company of Men,” Neil LaBute made a career out of antagonizing audiences. His usual MO is to expose our baser instincts by throwing …
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There’s something to be said about typecasting. What’s wrong with an actor zeroing in on a type and playing brilliant variations on that theme? Nobody accuses a violin virtuoso of not pl…
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There are two or three good plays fighting it out within “The Tutors.” But they cancel each other out, and the show that opened last night at Second Stage Uptown ends up merely promising…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMLike old-fashioned dramas, the new “Somewhere Fun” is staged in three acts with two intermissions. It also boasts two charismatic powerhouses in the leads: Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mul…
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The most important part of any musical is the score. And “Far from Heaven” — about prejudice and repressed desire in 1957 Connecticut — boasts a gorgeously lush and evocative score. …
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A jukebox opera isn’t a bad idea. The Met pulled it off last year with “The Enchanted Island,” which borrowed plotlines from a couple of Shakespeare plays and stuffed them with baroque…
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You can see why theater companies are drawn to “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”: Writing at the end of WWII, Bertolt Brecht brought together elements from an old Chinese tale and the Judgmen…
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Men hang out in a homey pub. They exchange gruff jokes, down drink after drink, and soon enough start trading tales.
Naturally, “The Weir” takes place in Ireland — where else would cam…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PM‘Basilica” is the rare new play that spares us the self-inflated problems of the white, big-city middle class. Set in gritty south Texas, the show deals with the travails of the blue-col…
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Oh no, not another immersive, sung-through rock musical!
But “Murder Ballad” first opened at Manhattan Theatre Club last fall, the same time the Russian-inflected “Natasha, Pierre & th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMShakespeare in the Park doesn’t have summer to itself anymore. Pretenders have popped up with all kinds of gimmicks: site-specific environments. Shows where the audience follows the cast a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46AMOne of the things that makes Broadway star Laura Benanti so much fun to watch is the discrepancy between her unassuming behavior and what happens when she starts singing.
Benanti is one of t…
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A midlife crisis has devastating consequences in “The Master Builder.” This should surprise no one since the 1892 play is by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian not known for rom-coms.
But the pro…
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The program for “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” claims the show is “a new comedy.” That’s a bit misleading.
Sure, there’s a director (Rebecca A. Trent) and basic staging: a lecter…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:36AMLast fall’s most exciting sensation wasn’t a big Broadway musical but a scrappy outsider sneaking in under the radar.
At first glance, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” lo…
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Nomi Malone is back! In the 1995 camp classic “Showgirls,” Elizabeth Berkley’s psycho stripper climbed to the topless top of the Strip. Now at long last, Nomi’s made her way to a pol…
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Immersive and site-specific shows are hot right now, and “City Council Meeting” hits both of those sweet spots. Devised by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay and Aaron Landsman — all regular…
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The last time Philip Seymour Hoffman teamed up with playwright Bob Glaudini, they scored an unlikely hit with 2007’s “Jack Goes Boating” — an affectionate depiction of so-called lose…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PMBroadway these days is specializing in famous people played by even more famous people: Tom Hanks as the tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, Bette Midler as super-agent Sue Mengers and Holland T…
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