Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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 & the Grea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]Shakespeare 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 as …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46AM[SHARE]One 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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 product…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
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 lectern, a kind of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Last 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" looked lik…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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 pole near u…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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 regulars on t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2013
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 losers looki…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Broadway 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
Life and showbiz got uncomfortably close in "Bunty Berman Presents . . .," a likable but overlong new musical set in the demented world of Bollywood movies.
As it happened, Erick Avari, the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]According to current conventional wisdom, 1936's "On Your Toes" could never cut it again on Broadway. After all, it features a goofy fun plot, songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2013
There's no right or wrong way to approach "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)." Since the late 1960s, Richard Foreman has been creating cryptic, bizarre shows that can be compared on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
It's not fun being the newbie at a party where the other guests already know each other. You watch them chat about their jobs, laugh at old anecdotes, exchange updates about relationships " …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2013
Drag queens and female impersonators have always had a place in theater. Just look at this year's Tonys, where several Best Actor nominees " Billy Porter in "Kinky Boots," Bertie Carvel in "…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2013
In Mike Bartlett's off-Broadway hit "Cock" " alternatively titled, for weaker hearts and newspapers, "The Cockfighting Play" " a man couldn't make up his mind between his boyfriend and his f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Transport Group has had great success matching shows with unusual settings " placing the basketball musical "Lysistrata Jones" in an actual gym, letting the gay-male bitch-a-thon "The Bo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
Talk about going out with a bang! Broadway's ending its season with a sensational revival of "Pippin" " a thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle filled with daredevil acrobatics.
Steph…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
For her first Broadway appearance since "Clams on the Half Shell" 38 years ago, Bette Midler split the difference between playing it safe and taking a risk.
Instead of trotting out her hits …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]David Byrne and big-beat master Fatboy Slim's new musical, "Here Lies Love," owes less to the Great American Songbook than to the disco. With their booming bass and propulsive rhythms, the s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AM[SHARE]Few shows are as deceptively simple as "The Trip to Bountiful." Horton Foote's play is about an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, who's dead set on seeing her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
The narrator in Broadway's "The Testament of Mary" didn't have the easiest relationship with her late son " she can't even bring herself to call him by his name.
He tended to ignore her and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
A word of warning before you sit down for this latest version of "Macbeth" on Broadway: read or reread Shakespeare's tragedy, or at least the playbill's synopsis. Because if you're not famil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
The climax of "Jekyll & Hyde " The Musical" is the infamous "Confrontation" scene, the peak of the evening-long battle between good Dr. Henry Jekyll and evil Edward Hyde.
The trick, of cour…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PM[SHARE]Considering its agitated gestation, it's amazing how smooth "Orphans" is. During rehearsals, actor Shia LaBeouf had well-publicized " by himself " arguments with co-star Alec Baldwin and dir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The downtown actress Hannah Cabell is a whiz at physical comedy, especially when it's driven by manic desperation. This comes in handy in Allison Moore's new play, "Collapse," in which her c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you may see Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties" as warmly catering to the Manhattan Theatre Club's audience.
If your glass is half-empty,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:02PM[SHARE]Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is about disillusion and compromise, but it's not a pity party. Fueled by Odets' loathing for Hollywood, this hard-boiled 1949 play packs a wallop.
At least i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
If your public personality is the same as your personal one, you can safely be yourself, right?
Not so for Nathan Lane's character in Broadway's "The Nance."
His Chauncey Miles, a burlesque …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
The premise of "The Call" is ripped from the headlines " or rather from the parenting chat rooms where some white middle-class couples share their thoughts about adopting kids from Africa.
I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Here's what a $150 orchestra seat gets you at "Motown: The Musical": bargain-basement sets, basic choreography performed merely adequately, and laughable dialogue.
But then there are the son…
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