Monday, May 21, 2012
It’s tempting to think of “Title and Deed” as an elaborate prank played on a helpless audience.
This new piece by Will Eno — the critically acclaimed author of “Thom Pain (based o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMThe new revue “Old Jews Telling Jokes” is inspired by the Web site of the same name — which consists of a parade of elderly cut-ups delivering jokes.
But unlike the Web, which you can…
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Never mind its provocative title: “Cock” is about love. Things get complicated as people fall in and out of it, but this wonderful 90-minute show renders the emotional mess with great si…
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Mark Ravenhill — best known for “Shopping and F - - king,” a 1998 hit at New York Theatre Workshop — is one of Britain’s finest provocateurs. His 2006 play “Pool (No Water)” sp…
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The Encores! production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is like a dessert stuffed with juicy morsels. Why quibble because the cake doesn’t always hold the fruity bits together?
The lush…
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If the New Group company’s new drama, “An Early History of Fire,” were by a rookie, you could blame its mediocrity on inexperience. But the author is David Rabe, the Tony-winning write…
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This production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” looks real good. And not just because the cast includes Christina Ricci, Bebe Neuwirth and at least two guys who can’t …
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Even if you haven’t caught the movie it’s based on, you can see everything coming a mile away in “Leap of Faith.” The only surprise in this predictable, mushy new Broadway musical is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:21PMIt’s pointless to even try to summarize “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” a sex farce more tangled than a plate of spaghetti. Actually, there isn’t so much a story as a pileup of contrived…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PMFew people today remember journalist Joseph Alsop, but once upon a time he was a big deal.
Or so everybody in “The Columnist,” a new Broadway show about him, repeats over and over. That …
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There’s a lot of fun stuff in “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” a new musical made of old parts. For starters, this Gershwin jukebox is loaded with unimpeachable classics and a few brilli…
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Ben may be in the throes of terminal cancer, but his wife, Rita, is determined to know what he thinks about redoing their living room.
“I’m dying,” he groans.
“Yes, I know,” she re…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMSomething peculiar is happening in “Ghost the Musical.” It’s nothing to do with the plot, which involves a dead man looking after his (living) girlfriend, and a sham psychic with a 4G …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMIf pumping up improved acting, Sylvester Stallone would have as many Oscars as Meryl Streep, and Channing Tatum would be playing Hamlet.
But sadly, bulging biceps and taut pecs aren’t enou…
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The new Broadway show “Clybourne Park” is about cultural stereotypes and race relations.
Wait, don’t run away!
Bruce Norris’ play is also razor-sharp and funny as hell.
When some ch…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMChekhov’s “Three Sisters” are unhappy all the time. The two who work are miserable. The married one doesn’t love her husband. All of them are sick and tired of their dreary country l…
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The humor in the new Broadway farce “One Man, Two Guvnors” is so broad, you could drive an 18-wheeler through it — which the actors gleefully do, at 100 mph and without seat belts.
Pra…
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Too many shows these days are workshopped or focus-grouped to death. As a result, they’re nicely crafted but comfortably safe. “In Masks Outrageous and Austere” is the exact opposite.
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You can do a play about Peter Pan and his gang with top hats, wire-assisted flying and sets that dutifully evoke a 19th-century British home or a tropical island.
Or you can do it with jokes…
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There’s something primal about one-on-one confrontations, and David Harrower knows it. The Scottish playwright’s acclaimed drama “Blackbird” pitted a middle-aged man against a woman …
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The opening of “Massacre (Sing to Your Children)” is the single scariest minute of the year.
It would spoil the surprise to describe the scene in detail, so let’s just say it involves …
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What makes “Magic/Bird” work isn’t the mystique still attached to its subjects, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, legends though they are.
Rather, the joint tale that opened on Broadway la…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMUnlike Broadway’s “Magic/Bird,” which really is about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, “Federer Versus Murray” doesn’t focus on those two tennis champions.
That’s a bummer, becaus…
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Last night, “Evita” returned after a 30-year absence from Broadway. The wait was worth it: This is a big, fat, juicy blockbuster of a show.
Naturally, everybody’s flipping out over the…
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How refreshing that the mismatched leads of “4000 Miles” don’t look or act like one of the odd couples we’ve seen a million times.
Vera — the extraordinary Mary Louise Wilson, who …
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Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” has such a bad rep that this new production’s program is full of scholarly quotes that basically say, hey, it’s really not as chauvinistic a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMBig Broadway performances are polished, sometimes to a fault: They’re perfectly enjoyable, but they often lack a certain unpredictable battiness.
Not so with Tracie Bennett’s tour de fo…
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The most memorable part of “The Best Man” is the women.
Gore Vidal’s 1960 chestnut may center on three powerful male politicians, but it’s the ladies hovering on the periphery who st…
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It's tough enough to fill an arena when you have a superstar. What do you do without one?
If somebody could come up with a solution, it’s Cirque du Soleil, whose latest spectacle, “Micha…
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Watching “Pipe Dream” at City Center, you have to pinch yourself now and then to make sure you’re not hallucinating.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1955 show — presented in concert by E…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:02AMAs Disney shows go, “Newsies — The Musical” covers all the familiar bases: a wily scamp of a hero matched with a plucky girl, a blustery villain, and a young smarty-pants overcoming ev…
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