Sunday, March 4, 2012
There’s so much going on in the new off-Broadway show “Tribes” that it’s almost overwhelming: intellect and sentiment, love and cruelty, witty zingers and biting put-downs. But in Ni…
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There are two ways to bring back a flop. The first is to believe the show was good but badly staged, and to have a visionary set things right.
The “Carrie” revival that opened off-Broadw…
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Despite what Paula Deen says, there is such a thing as too sweet. But the creators of “Rated P for Parenthood” didn’t get the memo, and their musical could send unsuspecting audiences …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMFun fact: After graduating from NYU, playwright Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”) briefly worked as Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant. Now, a tyrannical tycoon looms over her bliste…
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The best part of Katori Hall’s Broadway debut, “The Mountaintop,” was the very end, when the show really took flight. Most of the time, the 30-year-old playwright seemed constricted by…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:44PM‘life in this house is intolerable,” someone moans in the terrific British family drama “Rutherford & Son,” now at the Mint.
But while the home’s gloomy, Githa Sowerby’s 1912 pla…
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If the skies had looked the way they do in Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” which just opened at Classic Stage Company, the famous Italian astronomer may never have looked up a telescope. I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMDon’t let the author’s name throw you: Though these “Early Plays” are by Eugene O’Neill, these aren’t your grandmother’s classics.
To begin with, you can’t really call the th…
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William Shatner makes most screen actors look like puppets with too many media-training classes.
It’s not as if he’s a great thespian like, say, Christopher Plummer — for whom Shatner…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMAthol Fugard’s 1961 drama “Blood Knot” does the exact opposite of what writing manuals advise.
Forget about setting the tone and the plot early on to capture the audience’s attention…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PMIt had all the elements of a great thriller. A con man abuses the trust of his friends and colleagues at a big newspaper, lies about everything from his upbringing to his résumé to his sou…
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‘the Ugly One” may be a new play, but it has the familiar vibe of a classic “Twilight Zone” episode. Translated from the German, Marius von Mayenburg’s black-humored fable about ap…
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Poor Meena. The harried heroine of Kate Fodor’s new play, “Rx,” is in a funk, and no wonder: A published poet, she works in a soulless gray office as the managing editor for piggeries …
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The three-piece orchestra in “Ionescopade” has barely started the overture — zany percussion, wacky noisemakers — and already the whimsy-meter is in the red.
You’d think you were a…
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John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of “angry young men” — smart, educated, wo…
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The new family drama “Russian Transport” isn’t edgy or groundbreaking. Rather, it’s a good old-fashioned delicacy: a solid yarn, well told.
Playwright Erika Sheffer can be guilty of …
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Even before Oedipus asks his daughter to identify a stranger and she calls him “some jerk-off,” you know you’re in for a wink-wink take on Sophocles.
And so it goes, more or less, for …
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Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Wit” offers a lucky — and brave — actress a complex, finely detailed role that’s as demanding as it is rewarding. When the play fir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PMDaniel Talbott’s new off-Broadway play, “Yosemite,” starts off great. We’re in the woods, among leafless trees coated with a dusting of snow. A young man — he could be in his late …
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A lot of off-Broadway theater makes extensive use of video nowadays. In January, the Gob Squad company offered the stunt-like “Super Night Shot,” in which the actors screened footage of …
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Few actors play villains as expertly as Kevin Spacey. His gallery of memorable bad guys includes a sadistic movie producer in “Swimming With Sharks,” a serial killer in “Seven” and a…
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It’s pretty clear the Roundabout company is in the theater business, because its latest Broadway show, “The Road to Mecca,” would have a hard time getting made in Hollywood.
Forget ab…
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Over the past decade, Young Jean Lee has emerged as one of the most fascinating, unpredictable voices on the downtown scene. The Korean-American playwright mercilessly poked fun at Asian ste…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PMVideo is used a lot in theater nowadays, but it’s rarely as crucial to a show as it is to “LEO.”
In this new solo piece, we see two simultaneous versions of author/performer Tobias We…
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Few New York cultural institutions are as beloved as the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After opening in Brooklyn Heights in 1861, BAM moved to the edge of Fort Greene in 1908. Now in its 150th …
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Sure, we've all seen concerts and dance and other performances on the city's great stages. But what goes on behind the curtains is something to behold, as well. With these grand tours, you'l…
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After much behind-the-scenes hoopla, the new revival of “Porgy and Bess” finally opened last night on Broadway. Those expecting a bang will have to do with a whimper.
To recap the fuss: …
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Americans don’t seem to stand a chance in China. In David Henry Hwang’s comedy “Chinglish,” an Ohio businessman unwittingly becomes embroiled in power plays among Guiyang officials. …
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Visually speaking, “Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now” certainly catches our attention. The off-off-Broadway show takes place in a late 1920s/early 1930s nightclub called the Palace…
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In the new comedy “Close Up Space,” David Hyde Pierce plays a meticulous, high-strung book editor named Paul Barrow. Paul believes in exacting edits and le mot juste, so in his honor, le…
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Peter Pan may be the boy who wouldn’t grow up, but Cathy Rigby is the woman who won’t grow old. The gymnast-turned-actress has been playing Peter on and off in the beloved musical since …
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