Thursday, October 18, 2012
Much 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�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM"Don’t Go Gentle” starts like a classic “when opposites collide” comedy: A white, conservative former DA and retired judge helps out a black, unemployed single mom and her cheeky tee…
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The title character in Edmond Rostand’s swashbuckling romance of a play, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” has a big nose. Make that a huge nose.
But don’t mention it to Cyrano, because he’ll …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AMIt’s not safe to preach Gospel to an anticapitalist. Just ask Chris, the unseen college student who, in A.R. Gurney’s new comedy, “Heresy,” is jailed for arguing that the mere word �…
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Welcome to the most boring midlife crisis of the year. No matter what happens to Harper Regan, the title character of Simon Stephens’ new drama, it’s hard to care.
Her supervisor snottil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AMPlaywright Horton Foote made his name with wistful family dramas rooted in home and neighborhood. He left a big void when he died in 2009, and now the shoe is on the other Foote.
Not only h…
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Rona Jaffe’s 1958 best seller “The Best of Everything” certainly pressed a lot of hot buttons. Think “Sex and the City” set in the world of New York book publishing during the “M…
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As the bittersweet new Broadway play “Grace” shows, religion, real estate and love have one thing in common: They require a degree of hopeful, maybe even blind, trust.
Steve — Paul Ru…
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Stephen Sondheim’s musicals have been called textbook examples of integration — stories told through a seamless fusion of book and songs.
And yet many of Sondheim’s tunes easily stand …
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Post-apocalyptic plots are hard to screw up. Throw bedraggled survivors into dangerous situations, question civilization’s future, and your audience is hooked.But while all these elements …
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Up until intermission, “An Enemy of the People” seems like your run-of-the-mill Roundabout period revival. The casually paced production is dignified, well-acted by likable stars such as…
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You only have until Sunday to catch one of the finest performances in town. For the past two years or so, Jenn Harris has been absolutely fantastic in "Silence! The Musical." Because the sho…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10AMOff-broadway’s “Red Dog Howls” begins with the line: “There are sins from which we can never be absolved.”
So, not a comedy then.
And that’s an understatement: Alexander Dinelari…
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Paul is so devastated after Jennifer’s unexpected death that he’s wailing in pain. “She brought joy to my life,” he tells Don, his friend and colleague. “She was a f - - king Hall …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AMDescribing an overprepared but underskilled contestant on “The X Factor” recently, Simon Cowell said, “You’re like a mouse trying to be an elephant.”
Snap! And double snap for “I…
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‘the Exonerated” is about a very exclusive club no one would ever want to join: those who made it out of death row alive. Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s play tells the real stories of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM‘Detroit” is deceptively small in scope. You could say it’s about neighborly relations.
But Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy — which opened last night at Playwrights Horizons, after a…
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There’s nothing to understand in “Einstein on the Beach,” nothing to “get.”
And as the revival of this 1976 masterpiece shows, that’s OK. As conceived by composer Philip Glass, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PMIn just a few years, the French Alliance’s Crossing the Line Festival (fiaf.org/ctl) has become a fall staple. Focusing mostly on French and American artists, this interdisciplinary fest d…
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‘i could be arrested for theft, fraud and murder, and it’s not even 4 o’clock.”
This isn’t a hardened criminal talking, but a frazzled mother and home-care attendant named Loretta…
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Anticipation always runs high in September. Yay, a new season! Tons of new shows to look forward to!
But while there are promising offerings this year, we may have to dig a little deeper to …
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It’s tough going for a comedy like “Mary Broome,” which revolves around a spectacularly unsympathetic lead character. It’s not Mary herself, by the way — because this 1911 play rea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMIt’s not a great sign when you leave a musical thinking more about the visuals than the songs — which is exactly what happens at Broadway’s new “Chaplin.”
The show about the silent…
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It’s been a good year for the South African playwright Athol Fugard, what with the Broadway revival of “The Road to Mecca” and the Signature company dedicating a whole season to his wo…
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When Broadway goes wrong — and sometimes when it goes right — it’s a gaudy, tacky, self-important moving target. And for 30 years, Gerard Alessandrini has been taking shots at it in hi…
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There was a small revolution recently at the Shubert Theatre, during the waning days of “Memphis.”
Nearly 15 minutes into intermission, several women on the long, slow-moving line into t…
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Nothing much happens in Horton Foote’s plays, yet you leave feeling satisfyingly full. He may skimp on the whiz-bang action, but Foote manages to say a lot about his characters — and you…
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The Public Theater’s new “Richard III” — Shakespeare’s most violent tragedy — has been streamlined to the max. Edited down to 90 minutes, it has no set and few props.
But directo…
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For its outdoor program’s 50th- anniversary season, the Public Theater put the park back into Shakespeare in the Park.
In June, we were treated to a lovely production of “As You Like It…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMJust because a play is brief doesn’t mean it has to fit a mold. The three entries in “Summer Shorts Series B” show the many shapes and forms a miniature can take — but then, they’r…
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