Sunday, December 9, 2012
When 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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Here’s one way you know “Golden Boy” is set in the past: Its hero is torn between idealistic music-making and a lucrative sports career. But instead of micro-managing him to a Nike end…
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Every December, seasonal shows take over our local stages, and resistance is futile. But which one is right for you — and your finicky friends and relatives?
Help has arrived! Let this sel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:32PMSome Christmas tales are so straightforward and intimate, you can tell them around a fireplace with a cup of cocoa.“A Civil War Christmas” isn’t one of those stories. Set in December 1…
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Opera has been very good to Terrence McNally. He scored one of his biggest hits with “Master Class,” inspired by Maria Callas’ infamous voice lessons. “Golden Age,” which opened la…
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Broadway prefers comfort food: a familiar classic here, a new comedy there, maybe a hot-button-issue drama to look relevant. So David Mamet’s “The Anarchist” stands out as a new play o…
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A lot of eating takes place in the new Broadway comedy “Dead Accounts,” but there’s little for the audience to chew on. While the producers were busy signing up Katie Holmes and Norber…
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One of the best things about the new off-Broadway drama “My Name Is Asher Lev” is how old-fashioned it is. Although there are moments of levity, the show isn’t afraid to be deeply earn…
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Writing a musical is hard. Writing a musical based on a movie with a passionate cult following is harder yet. A lot of your customers are going to feel personally betrayed by any change to w…
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Most of the new play “The Twenty-Seventh Man” takes place in a 1952 Soviet prison cell. It contains four men, part of a larger group of 27 rounded up on Stalin’s orders. They’re more…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PMHoliday shows can get away with murder. They have familiar subjects, a captive audience and a limited run, so too often they don’t try as hard as they should.
When it first appeared a coup…
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There are many who say that Broadway has been taking pointers from Vegas lately. But the new musical “Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson” has its eye on another en…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMAs befits its title, the new musical “Giant” doesn’t lack for ambition. Based on Edna Ferber’s Texas saga — which inspired a classic 1956 movie with James Dean — this isn’t the…
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In case you were wondering: No, an avalanche of lewd double-entendres and sex jokes isn’t enough to carry a comedy — you still need trivial things like, oh, a plot and characters.
David…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMYou’d think a good musical could satisfy a theatergoer’s craving for entertainment. Some catchy songs, maybe a few dances, a bit of romance: Who could ask for anything more?
Rupert Holm…
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You can’t hide from Chekhov! Not only are his classics revived again and again — even “Ivanov” just came back to us — the long-dead Russian playwright is infiltrating new works, to…
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As the title character in Chekhov’s “Ivanov,” Ethan Hawke plays a real piece of work. “You’ve brought darkness to our lives,” a neighbor complains. The local doctor accuses Ivano…
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You can’t dream up a better subject for a play than Richard Nixon, a man of Shakespearean scope.
Douglas McGrath’s new off-Broadway drama, “Checkers,” offers occasional glimpses into…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:01AMThere’s a reason “Annie” has become a beloved classic since it first opened 35 years ago.
This is a show that was cooked up by pros at the top of their game. Charles Strouse and Marti…
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When Richard Nelson introduced his multi-play family saga a couple of years ago, it felt a little gimmicky. Each show would be about the same Rhinebeck, NY, clan, the Apples — always playe…
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Told he must go to the hospital or die of heart failure, Charlie flat-out refuses to leave his home. He lost his will to live a long time ago.
In Samuel D. Hunter’s wonderful new play, “…
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No wonder “The Heiress” has returned to Broadway time and again since its 1947 premiere. Romance, money, lies, manipulation and petticoats: Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s melodrama has it a…
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“The show must go on,” said the entertainment business, and for the most part it did: Most of the Great White Way was open for business yesterday, while other major institutions simply r…
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It’s unclear who the title characters in “Bad Jews” are. Joshua Harmon’s entertaining new comedy of hostility — did not open last night, as scheduled, at the Roundabout Underground…
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With a title like “Legendarium,” you’d think the Big Apple Circus’ new show would bring on horses rigged out to look like unicorns, or at least tumbling jesters re-enacting Grimm tal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:39PMYou have to hand it to Karen Allen: The once-heroine of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” made a brave choice for her return to the stage after an 11-year absence. Instead of a familiar vehicle …
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Based on its title, can you guess the subject of the new play “Wild With Happy”? More hints: Two people flirt in a very inappropriate setting, and there’s a high-speed car chase down I…
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Whenever there’s a dinner party in a play, chances are it’s going to end badly. Friends get together for a good meal, a nice bottle of wine. Next thing you know, someone insults someone …
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Hey, Rahim, is that a bomb in your briefs, or are you happy to see us? The title of Jon Kern’s new play should give a clue.
Indeed, it’s option A for Rahim (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a young P…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMMuch like the celestial body of its title, the new pop opera “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” has appeared out of nowhere to brighten the theatrical season.
Instead of flashy …
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Edward Albee’s classic dust-up “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” may now be eligible for AARP — this new Broadway revival opened Saturday, the play’s 50th anniversary — but it�…
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