Friday, December 16, 2011
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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Alot of people whine that Broadway doesn’t know how to make entertaining musicals anymore.
Happily, it turns out that Broadway still knows how to make ’em. With its catchy pop score, cha…
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Though “Farm Boy” is being promoted as the sequel to “War Horse,” it feels more like a gentle epilogue.Those curious about the fate of the horse Joey and his human friend, Albert, af…
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"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” is known for its great songs — and nutty book.
Revived on Broadway for the first time since its 1965 opening, the Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner musical…
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In 2009, Ireland was shaken by a wide-ranging, devastating report on the decades-long child abuse in Church-run institutions. One of the estimated 30,000 victims was Gerard Mannix Flynn, who…
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The best thing about “Stick Fly” is its shameless reliance on soap-opera theatrics. Playwright Lydia R. Diamond multiplies heated arguments about race, class and gender, but the comedy t…
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Jordan Harrison’s “Maple and Vine” has one of the most intriguing premises of the year.
Katha (the quicksilver Marin Ireland) and Ryu (Peter Kim, stiff and bland) are a 30-something Ne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13PMTo call Alan Ayckbourn prolific is an understatement. “Neighbourhood Watch,” which just opened at 59E59 Theaters, is his 75th play. And since the British master is a mere 72 and spry —…
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In 2006, the intimate Irish movie “Once” conquered millions of hearts with its sincere romance between two young musicians in Dublin. The film earned back 100 times its $200,000 budget, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:45PMEthan Coen’s new show may be titled “Happy Hour,” but by the time it finally ends, you may have renamed it “Two Miserable Hours I’ll Never Get Back.”
The movies Coen and his brot…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMThere’s an intense, otherworldly quality to Cillian Murphy. Maybe it’s the Irish star’s memorable, piercing-blue eyes. Maybe it’s the way in which he disappears into his roles, wheth…
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Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” is one of the funniest dramas ever written. Or maybe it’s one of the saddest comedies. That makes it tough to pull off, and shows often fall into…
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Alice Hauptmann lives in a fancy Fifth Avenue townhouse, and she couldn’t be more welcoming. Visitors parked in her parlor while waiting to meet her are served tea in dainty cups, along wi…
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Going by numbers alone, Frank Wildhorn is Broadway’s most successful composer, with six new shows in 14 years.
We’re talking quantity here. The quality is debatable.
Wildhorn’s best kn…
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Teenagers tend to be self-centered, but Matthew, the blond hunk in “Wild Animals You Should Know,” is a grade-A narcissist. In the first scene of Thomas Higgins’ new play, he recites t…
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You may have heard about the Australian star currently setting Broadway on fire. The heat that emanates from “An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin,” three blocks away from Hug…
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There are teachers who gently coax their charges. And then there’s Leonard, the brilliant editor who runs the titular fiction workshop in Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway comedy “Seminar.…
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Upon hearing that there were changes in the new edition of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular,” a friend shrieked, “They’d better not have cut the ice rink!”
No worries: The ice…
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Those critical of star-casting on Broadway should catch Kim Cattrall — the single best thing in the humdrum new revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” that opened last night.
Best…
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Following in the feel-good footsteps of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” here comes “Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.”
The basic presentation is the same. Likable actors …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:19PMThe brave cast in “Burning” should get combat pay. You have to wonder what’s harder to pull off: the nudity and graphic sex scenes, or the sincere, overwrought dialogue. Oh, to be a fl…
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For its latest piece, “How Much Is Enough?,” the Foundry Theatre reconfigured St. Ann’s Warehouse. A new space has been set up in what is usually the bar and hangout area, and the audi…
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Hugh Jackman, the Wolverine of the “X-Men” franchise, turns out to have real-life superpowers: In “Back on Broadway,” which opened last night, he turns his entire audience into a bun…
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‘The Blue Flower” takes place in the first third of the 20th century, mostly in Germany, against a backdrop of WWI, Weimar and the rise of Nazism. Three of the main characters are visual…
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Having your eyeballs pulled out -- an act infamously featured in “King Lear” -- is horrific. Yet in the Public Theater production that opened last night, the scene barely registers. It�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMThere’s a divan in “Venus in Fur,” and it’s pretty versatile. At first it’s a potential casting couch -- after all, the play takes place during an audition in which an actress, Van…
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Way before “Wicked,” composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz had a blockbuster under his belt: 1971’s “Godspell,” which ran for 2,700 performances, 500 on Broadway. Not bad for a score …
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There are a few plays within Jon Robin Baitz’s drama “Other Desert Cities,” which reopened on Broadway last night, after a successful run earlier this year at Lincoln Center.
The show …
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In his zany comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Shakespeare quadrupled the romance factor: There’s not one, not two, but four young couples, and they engage in four times the amount of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMA show doesn’t have to be first-class to make a memorable impression. Exhibit A: “Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws,” an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act at La MaMa. The production is…
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The tiny Bank Street Theatre is a freakishly appropriate place to watch the excellent new dark comedy “The Atmosphere of Memory.” There’s no stage to speak of; if you’re sitting in t…
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