Sunday, April 14, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
'Sleeping Rough" has just three characters, but none of them makes much of an impression. By the end of the show, the first thing that comes to mind is, "Bye. It was dull not knowing you."
…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Once in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in Broadway. "Matilda The Musical" is that show.
"Matilda" landed at the Shubert Theatre with daunting advance word from…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
This season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy "Trevor," a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives' newly revived "All in the Timing," three primates armed…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
In David Harrower's intense 2007 drama "Blackbird," Alison Pill played a grown woman seeking out the man (Jeff Daniels) she slept with back when she was 12 to his 40.The past also catches up…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]When shows are inspired by stars, they tend to be either fawning tributes or studies in self-destruction. With Judy Garland alone, just think of Rufus Wainwright's enamored cover of her Carn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
If you judge a show's popularity by how many productions it's had, then "The Last Five Years" is a "Wicked"-size blockbuster.
In the 11 years since its brief off-Broadway run, this intimate…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" is a eulogy. A really fun, really entertaining eulogy.
You may have heard that Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, is the star of the show " and he is, his Every…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
Fittingly for a show about art, "Three Trees" has the speed and intensity of drying paint.
Alvin Eng's new play centers on the intense bond between the painter/sculptor Alberto Giacometti (…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PM[SHARE]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 freef…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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 the mu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]Watching 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 than the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
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 concert version prese…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PM[SHARE]You 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 on a Hardbo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PM[SHARE]With 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 heroines…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Making 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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 "Breakfast at Tif…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
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 by a ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
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 Sonia and …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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'll have to wai…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]Thunder, 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 woman…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]In 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 been a …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
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 show …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
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 writing this so…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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 chrono…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PM[SHARE]In "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 conversati…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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 in love.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PM[SHARE]For 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 "Old …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2013
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 responsibl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PM[SHARE]Hot 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 "Belleville…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
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 are. …
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