Wednesday, March 27, 2013
When August Strindberg wrote “A Dream Play,” in 1901, he was mentally shaky, having just emerged from a bout of paranoid psychosis. This may explain why the plotless work is a lot more f…
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Broadway draws the stars and the attention, but theater fans know there’s gold in them downtown hills — and this spring, off-Broadway is going to see plenty of action.
A lot of it is th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMWatching the sluggish revival of “Happy Birthday,” you start fantasizing about what 10 drag queens could do to the play. They probably would be a better match for Anita Loos’ comedy th…
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There’s a reason “It’s a Bird . . . It’s a Plane . . . It’s Superman” hasn’t had a major revival since its 1966 Broadway premiere: That musical isn’t very good. Yet the conce…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMYou can’t help but root for the likable people on the Brooks Atkinson Theatre’s stage — both the actors and their characters.
It’s harder to muster similar enthusiasm for “Hands o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMWith Holly Golightly, Truman Capote created a carefree, impish sprite — who happens to make money from gentlemen callers. Is it any wonder she’s become one of America’s most beloved he…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMMaking your Broadway debut is nerve-wracking enough. Add a bit of cat-wrangling and a nude scene in a bathtub, and even seasoned pros would have the jitters.
Did we mention the role is Holl…
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W.C. Fields reputedly warned actors to “never work with children or animals.” He should have added “. . . especially cats.”
Look no further than the Broadway production of “Breakf…
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The archaeologists in “The Mound Builders” spend a lot of time talking about their work. You can’t blame them: The Illinois field hosting their important dig is about to be submerged b…
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Few Chekhov-inspired shows make you laugh out loud, and repeatedly at that. In fact there’s probably just one such rare bird on the planet: Christopher Durang’s riotous “Vanya and Soni…
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The Motor City of the ’60s was famous for three things: cars, Motown and riots. The last two figure prominently in Dominique Morisseau’s endearing new play, “Detroit ’67” — we’…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMThunder, lightning: A star deserves a grand entrance, and Bette Davis gets one in Craig Lucas’ new two-hander, “The Lying Lesson.”
The show zooms off to a dramatic start when an older…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMIn Annie Baker’s “The Flick,” which takes place in the run-down movie theater of the same name, two employees start arguing as they sweep the aisles. Avery declares that there hasn’t…
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It’s hard out here for a chimp. The title character of the new off-Broadway show “Trevor” is a primate desperately trying to revive his acting career. His claim to fame: He once shot a…
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Holland Taylor’s “Ann” is a labor of love. The actress, best known for key supporting roles on “Two and a Half Men” and “The Practice,” spent about four years researching and w…
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Watching the magnetic Tina Benko chatter about style and death in “Jackie,” you’ve got to wonder: How the heck did she memorize that crazy script, which jumps about without an obvious …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PMIn “The North Pool,” the white vice principal of a high school in Anytown, USA, asks a Syrian transfer student into his office for a little chat. The entire play consists of their conver…
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We’re so conditioned to be cynical nowadays that dark is considered edgy and romance dopey. But the Roundabout revival of “Talley’s Folly” that opened last night is proud to believe …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PMFor some people, clowns are one rung below mimes and air-guitar zeroes on the ladder of entertainment hell. Well, let the cranks stay home and let the rest of us laugh our heads off at “Ol…
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How do you come up with a new show that also feels comfortably familiar? On Broadway, the current answer is “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” — an actual premiere by the titans re…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PMHot on the heels of Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Revisionist” comes another off-Broadway show depicting Americans in their late 20s as neurotic and immature. The couple in Amy Herzog’s “…
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There are times during “The Revisionist” when you almost have to pinch yourself. Is this actually happening? Are Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg really sharing a stage?
They sure a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMImagine a luxury car, all sleek lines, buttery leather seats, exotic-wood dashboard. Then you step on the gas pedal, and find out it’s running on a measly four cylinders.
That’s pretty …
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In “The Madrid,” Edie Falco is Martha, a woman who abruptly leaves her job and family, and disappears. In other words, the star whose name is selling tickets plays someone who, technical…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMThe Mint company is an expert in excavation, mining forgotten nuggets from the theatrical rubble. Usually choices are made on a case-by-case basis: an obscure American comedy here, an overlo…
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The title of Lloyd Suh’s feeble new comedy accurately sums up its starting point. The 18-year-old Jesus (Justin Blanchard) runs away from home after a blowup with his dad — Joseph, not G…
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If it’s sympathetic characters you crave, skip “Really Really.” This campus-set show presents its 21-year-olds as materialistic, selfish, narcissistic, manipulative and glibly coarse. …
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In the Irish hamlet of Innisfree, native son Sean Enright, the hero of the musical “Donnybrook!,” has the distinct feeling that he sticks out. And it’s not because he spent most of his…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:39AMWatch out: There’s a hot new couple in town! Maggie Siff and Jonathan Cake are so irresistible in “Much Ado About Nothing” that they would make the most embittered divorced believe in …
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The 1998 attack on Matthew Shepard was so brutal, it shocked the nation. After meeting him at a bar one October night, two men took the openly gay University of Wyoming student to a remote a…
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Let’s not judge Ethan Hawke solely on the basis of “Clive”: For two decades, he’s been a frequent presence on New York stages, both intimate and large, venturing into classics and ch…
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