Sunday, January 13, 2013
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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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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