Friday, February 8, 2013
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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There are several good people involved in “Clive,” including director/star Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio, back onstage after years in the “Law & Order” trenches. For their sake…
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Tina Packer’s survey of Shakespeare’s female characters, “Women of Will,” clocks in at almost three hours. And that’s the abbreviated “overview”: Starting in April, Packer will…
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You can’t blame Hamish Linklater for playing it safe with “The Vandal”: This is the actor’s playwriting debut, after all. Don’t want to go crazy and take a big public spill.
So for…
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Two shows tied for the Tony for Best Musical in 1960. The one that City Center’s beloved Encores! series is reviving this week is definitely not “The Sound of Music.” Instead, we’re …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMThe new off-Broadway piece “All the Rage” starts off with a diffident man in a pale-blue button-down shirt giving out a few words of welcome. He concludes his brief speech with a meek re…
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America mostly knows Wallace Shawn as the cranky Vizzini from “The Princess Bride,” but for many New Yorkers he remains half of the cult movie “My Dinner with André” and a provocati…
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From “Little Shop of Horrors” to “Carrie” and “Re-Animator,” horror musicals aren’t exactly new. But it’s safe to say none tops “The House of Von Macramé” in the hemoglo…
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Some shows leave you scratching your head, wondering when they went wrong. At least “Collision” makes it easy: It goes south in the first minute. And it’s all downhill from there — a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMSunday’s performance of “Life and Times: Episodes 1-4” started at 2 in the afternoon and petered out shortly before midnight. If only its events were as epic! There are no Norse gods a…
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Crystal looks sharp in her black business suit and red pumps. Appearances are doubly important for her: She’s a car saleswoman and she’s dead broke. Projecting confidence means a lot.
In…
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By the time you take your seat, the cast of “Not by Bread Alone” is already onstage, kneading dough and splitting it into loaves at long tables. So begins a process — and a show — th…
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Maggie is young and attractive, and she just wants to have sex with her hot husband — is that too much to ask? You can hardly blame her for being on edge: The man would rather spend his ti…
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The new off-Broadway show “Midsummer (A Play With Songs)” proves that you can still get a lot of great mileage out of boy-meets-girl. Hollywood has cranked out so many awful romantic com…
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Just like “Amour” — Michael Haneke’s austere movie about aging and death — could never have been made in America, “Opus No. 7” had to be imported from overseas. It’s not just…
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In William Inge’s bittersweet 1953 hit “Picnic,” a hunky charmer appears out of nowhere to unsettle the women of a small Kansas town — especially the local beauty, aimless and bored …
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‘The Other Place” is billed as “a riveting new thriller.” That’s putting it loosely.
The play is less riveting than it is reasonably engaging. It’s not entirely new, either, hav…
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When the curtain drops on “Water by the Spoonful,” the first thing that comes to mind is: This fine but innocuous show won last year’s Pulitzer Prize? Over “Other Desert Cities” an…
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This isn’t your daddy’s Chekhov.
Popping up twice this month alone, the melancholy Russian continues his run as New York’s most popular dead playwright. But don’t expect anything tra…
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Patti Page, the subject of the new jukebox musical “Flipside,” was one of the most popular acts of the 1940s and ’50s. Over a 65-year career, the canary — now 85 and still singing �…
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It’s Boxing Day, when one typically returns the gifts you don’t want for things you do. Isn’t it a shame you can’t get the same deal at the theater?
If that were the case, we’d ret…
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Maybe it’s because we live in a world where everybody’s connected, but this year has seen an explosion of “immersive” shows that blur the line between audience and performers. In som…
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Being showbiz pros, Marc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman know full well the secret to a good comedy team is opposing personalities. You suspect they exaggerate their differences for their goofy ne…
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In most crime novels, you try to figure out who did the deed. In Amy Herzog’s new drama, “The Great God Pan,” the big question is whether the deed even happened.
The play opens with t…
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We’re lucky that this year brought several excellent options for family entertainment: “A Christmas Story, The Musical,” “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” and “Elf — The M…
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Peter Jackson spent gazillions of dollars to tell the story of “The Hobbit.” For the new off-Broadway epic “P.S. Jones and the Frozen City,” playwright Robert Askins and director Jos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PMJackie Hoffman should know better than mixing things that shouldn’t be mixed.
In this case, it’s not dairy and meat but pills, which her stage alter ego washes down with a splash of Man…
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Don’t go to “What Rhymes With America” expecting a traditional plot, or even a satisfying explanation for the title. Melissa James Gibson’s quirky play meanders gently from cryptic s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:47PM‘working” is best described by the subtitle of the book it’s based on, Studs Terkel’s 1974 oral history: “People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They D…
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It’s nice to see the folks behind the new Broadway revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” get on the immersive-theater bandwagon. A premium seat is $377, while a cup of soda will set you bac…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMWhen the title character in “Volpone, or the Fox” wakes up, his first impulse is to fondle his beloved gold and praise its glories:
“Thou being the best of things, and far transcendin…
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