Thursday, August 9, 2012
Just 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PM‘Bullet for Adolf” has all the markings of a cult show — it could be theater’s answer to a midnight movie.
Directed and co-written by Woody Harrelson, this new off-Broadway play is o…
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True to its title, “My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow” meanders gently. It’s not so much a play as an impressionistic travelogue back in time.
Though this is a solo piece, writer-performe…
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Titillating titles, madcap musicals and Shakespeare, either straight up (another “Twelfth Night”) or twisted (“Pulp Shakespeare,” a mash-up of the Bard and Quentin Tarantino): Yes, t…
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Provocation isn’t easy. The guys from “South Park” and “The Book of Mormon” make it look that way, but it’s really not.
Case in point: The new musical “The Last Smoker in Amer…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PMMikhail Baryshnikov may be the star of “In Paris,” but there’s no dancing here, just a bit of mimed bullfighting — choreographed by American Ballet Theatre’s Alexei Ratmansky — a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMEvery year, the “Summer Shorts” series introduces six new American one-act plays. While the three pieces in this season’s first batch are, by definition, brief, two are so slow that yo…
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"Don’t worry,” Mike Tyson told us, “you’ll leave with two ears tonight, I promise.”
Which is more than Evander Holyfield got, but at least he wasn’t in the audience Tuesday night…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMImagine a musical called “Twilight” that had generic vampires instead of Bella and Edward. That’s pretty much what happens with “Bring It On — The Musical,” which has little in c…
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Ask anybody about great but gone music venues in New York, and they’ll go on and on about CBGB, the Fillmore East, Max’s Kansas City and the Savoy Ballroom.
But the Continental Baths? T…
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Don’t kick yourself if you’ve never heard of “New Girl in Town.” Only a regular at Marie’s Crisis or another show-tune piano bar would know this 1957 musical. Bob Merrill’s genia…
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A political campaign is great background for a play. And the vetting of a candidate is particularly juicy: After all, you’re dealing with someone’s potentially explosive past, and the te…
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It’s not often that a Chekhov play is almost drowned by laughter.
Yet that’s exactly what happens at the Sydney Theatre Company’s “Uncle Vanya,” which just opened at City Center a…
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It hits you when the angel puppet with the Queen fixation starts warbling “We Will Rock You”: The Lincoln Center Festival brings us shows from all over the world for its annual showcase,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMWhen in doubt, just throw stuff. It’s a tried-and-true approach, and “Re-Animator: The Musical” revels in it.
The first four rows of the theater are covered in plastic. Seats aren’t…
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Here’s a new show that has a lot going for it, including a wonderful performance by star Lindsay Mendez and swift staging by Joe Mantello (“Wicked,” “Other Desert Cities”).
But “…
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Besides an ode to bodacious bosoms, Cole Porter’s “Nymph Errant” features white slavery, lesbianism and a heroine who desperately — and unsuccessfully — tries to get laid.
Yet des…
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It may be a sweltering July, but you get the sense that “Fela!” would have the sweatiest cast on Broadway no matter the season. These guys work so incredibly hard that they’re glisteni…
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There’s no getting around the unrelenting misery of “DruidMurphy.” Made up of three plays by Irish playwright Tom Murphy — unknown in the US but much admired at home — this is one …
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Near the beginning of “Macbeth,” a character observes, “Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”
It’s a line the creators of this production, which just op…
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Not only is “Terminator Too — Judgment Play” a cheap ticket, but that $25 includes a free beer. By all means, cash in: This is the kind of show that’s definitely better with beer gog…
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Every so often, a show comes along that polarizes critics and audiences alike. Right now, “3C” is that show.
Some reviewers, including myself and the New Yorker’s John Lahr, loved thi…
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‘Triassic Parq — The Musical,” which just opened at the SoHo Playhouse, sticks to an approach familiar to anyone who’s ever attended the New York International Fringe Festival.
Proud…
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Broadway is said to bet on stars. Well, yes and no. Look at the long-running hits: Do you know who’s in “Wicked” or “Jersey Boys” right now? At the same time, casting is key to the…
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Leslie Hendrix spent 19 seasons playing medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on all four “Law & Order” series. You’d think playwright Jim Henry would have asked the star of his new thril…
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‘come and knock on our door/We’ve been waiting for you . . .” Although the names have been changed, the premise of the new off-Broadway show “3C” will be familiar to anybody with a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMShakespeare in the Park is turning 50 this year, and its new production of “As You Like It” is a great gift to itself — and us.
Something special is happening here: The parts may not a…
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Whether you like them or not, the Amoralists’ gritty shows are like no other — thanks mostly to resident playwright Derek Ahonen’s distinctive mix of hyper-realism and satire, brash vi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:30PMMartha Gellhorn was a bold, opinionated woman. Fearless, too: She worked as a war correspondent and married Ernest Hemingway. Then she dumped him.
Now, 14 years after her death, Gellhorn is…
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It’s about depression, boredom, thwarted ambition and hopeless loves. And it’s one of the most popular plays in New York.
Indeed, not a year goes by without someone taking a stab at Che…
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Few things on Broadway are as old-fashioned as “Harvey.” And it’s not just because Mary Chase’s play is from 1944 — plenty of older works have more edge than this butter knife of a…
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