Friday, 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 09:10AM[SHARE]Ethan 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 reced…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:26PM[SHARE]And 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 05:54PM[SHARE]The 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 06:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 10:06PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:07PM[SHARE]Few 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 06:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:28PM[SHARE]Jukebox 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.I.P....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:03PM[SHARE]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 04:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 ticket...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 09:41PM[SHARE]Friday, 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, porcelain-skin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:59PM[SHARE]After 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 and …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:20AM[SHARE]Marie 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 comeuppance…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:13AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 05:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Boy," boas…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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[SHARE]Discovering 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 02:20AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
Enough of these babyÂboomer-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 Janis J…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:06PM[SHARE]Eric 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 NBA rivals…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 this collec…
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