Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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�…
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…
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