Wednesday, October 9, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:57AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 biogr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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, we ex…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 als…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 teach at …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:08AM[SHARE]Friday, 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, Li…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 genius! You nee…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 the 1…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:15PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Wag…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 of a Tim…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 forward to "…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 successful…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 was a m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PM[SHARE]Aptly enough, "Einstein" " the inept new drama about the father of the relativity theory " makes time slow to a crawl. When it finally ends, you're not sure if you've been at the theater for…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2013
'it's the first time together and I'm feeling kinda horny/Conventional methods of makin' love kinda bore me."
You may have guessed this lyric " crooned, R&B-style, in "Love's Labour's Lost" …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2013
Every summer, like a relative with too much luggage, it arrives on our doorstep: the New York International Fringe Festival, the ungainly cousin to the Edinburgh original. By the time Fringe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
By the end of Broadway's "First Date," Zachary Levi has won over the entire audience " you can feel everybody, women and men, young and old, swooning. If someone happened to smuggle in a sma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:13PM[SHARE]Part of Young Jean Lee's appeal is that you never know what she's going to do. The downtown playwright's recent works include a look at African-American stereotypes ("The Shipment"), a king-…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Timing is everything in this free "Richard III." The show runs 2 1/2 hours without intermission, which means you may want to hit the bathroom before it starts. Which in turn means a trip to …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except that Donna's n…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]It's hard to believe there isn't a metaphor lying around under "Rubble" " a comedy about a TV writer stuck in a pile of debris after an LA earthquake. After all, it's by TV writer Mike Reiss…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except Donna's neithe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
'Shida" may last just over an hour, but it's so action-packed, you feel you're watching it in fast-forward. This could actually be fun, except that this new solo musical vaults from one melo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The most distinctive thing about "Dancing on Nails" is how old-fashioned it is. It's as if playwright Paul Manuel Kane had never heard of modern theater trends. You're not going to find anyt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2013
It takes a strong woman to step into Sigourney Weaver's boots. But that's what Julie White's about to do tomorrow, when she debuts in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," the Tony-winning …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Cozy mysteries in the Agatha Christie mold don't require hard-boiled suspense. What they need is kooky characters " and the new off-Broadway musical "Murder for Two" has plenty of them.
The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:19PM[SHARE]Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
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