Wednesday, August 24, 2011
When it rains, it pours: New York now hosts two site- specific, choose-your-own-narrative works in which the audience roams all over a large, custom-decorated building.
Since April, the f…
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Williamstown, Mass. -- It's not often that you leave a musical revue thinking, Wow, that looked great! But John Doyle's tribute to Rodgers and Hart, "Ten Cents a Dance," is full of stylish, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMBritain's Simon Russell Beale has been hailed as the great est stage actor of his generation. The 50-year-old virtuoso interpreter of Shakespeare and Chekhov is versatile, too: He sent up hi…
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The problem with "The Legend of Julie Tay mor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody!" isn't that it was written in a mere six weeks. Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein coughed …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PMThere's good storytel ling, and then there's "Tricks the Devil Taught Me."
Minutes tick by in Tony Georges' new off-Broadway play as you wait for a point, any point, to emerge. By intermi…
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The New York Fringe Festival's single big gest success story is "Urinetown," which not only made it to Broadway in 2001, but won Tonys for best book and best score. So when that show's creat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMYou've got to hand it to Charles Busch: He doesn't make it easy for his audience. The title character of his latest comedy, "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," has to be the sourest puss on the Ne…
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Isabelle is 17 and bright. She's a valedicto rian, and she's about to lose her virginity. It doesn't take Nostradamus to foretell a coming-of-age story.
At least the period setting of you…
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Jonathan Larson’s hit musical “Rent” left the Great White Way a mere three years ago, and now it’s back where it started: in an off-Broadway theater.
Yet the production that opened a…
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People get up to all kinds of shenanigans in a rented room. No surprise, then, that a few butts are bared in "HotelMotel," a site-specific doubleheader staged in a small suite at the Gershwi…
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WASHINGTON, DC -- THE word "slapstick" isn't often used in conjunction with Chekhov. And yet here's the imperious Cate Blanchett, nearly tumbling down as the door against which she was strik…
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There’s a reason some people call it “the Cringe Festival.” Regulars at the New York International Fringe Festival know it’s a crapshoot — emphasis on the first syllable.
For every…
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If aliens came to New York in the summer, they'd assume the only plays here are by Shakespeare. Everywhere you turn, there he is: in the park, in the parking lot (see above) and on Park Aven…
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With "Julius Cae sar," its fifth and last production at the Park Avenue Armory, the Royal Shakespeare Company's local season ends in an orgy of violence and gore.
Director Lucy Bailey cou…
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It had to happen: The Royal Shakespeare Company's taken a tumble.
The troupe's first en tries in its five-play season at the Park Avenue Armory ranged from a delightful "As You Like It" t…
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Lily Rabe isn't yet 30, but she commands the stage with calm, steady authority. This daughter of Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe more than held her own agains…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:58PMThe Royal Shake speare Company isn't the only theater happening at the Lin coln Center Festival. Back for a spin is Ireland's Druid Theatre -- the troupe that brought six plays by John M. Sy…
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Zach Braff must have had fun last year at Sec ond Stage, where he played a dominatrix's client in Paul Weitz's "Trust": The engaging star of "Scrubs" is back -- this time making his playwrit…
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The Transport Group has been on a roll lately. There was Mart Crowley's 1960s homosexual classic, "The Boys in the Band," done as a real-time party in a Chelsea penthouse, and the reinventio…
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Death has been very busy over the years, and it sure has range: It's had star turns in movies as diverse as "Bill and Ted's Bogus Holiday," "The Seventh Seal" and "All That Jazz." Now the Gr…
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'King Lear" is no picnic: The play's world is one where "machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves," as Lear's confidant, the Earl of G…
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What "The Nut cracker" is to Decem ber, "Hair" is to July. Not only does the musical take place during the Summer of Love, but its "turn on, tune in, drop out" message feels particularly rig…
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Smoke! Pyrotechnics! Battle gear!
When the Montagues and the Ca pulets duke it out in this "Romeo and Juliet," it feels like a Kiss con cert -- and it's almost as loud. Needless to say, t…
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Judy Gold's new solo outing, "The Judy Show: My Life As a Sitcom," begins slowly. For someone who describes herself as a "6-foot-3 Jewish lesbian mother of two," Gold's childhood was utterly…
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At times, the Lincoln Center Festival is the high-art answer to Ep cot's World Showcase -- building entire ven ues from scratch so we can see foreign companies in their home environment with…
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She's a major diva with an ego to match, but her prime years are behind her. So she takes eager-beaver young performers under her wing and mentors them, teaching them the art of interpretati…
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It was possible to be gay at Harvard in 1920, but it was risky. Exactly how dangerous was detailed in a 2002 article in the Harvard Crimson, which revealed "secret court files" documenting t…
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It's not like there's anything terribly wrong about Michael Mitnick's new "Sex Lives of Our Parents." But there isn't anything terribly right, either.
The Second Stage Uptown play that op…
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If a TV series can sprout a spinoff, why not a play?
The most appealing character in Amy Herzog's heavy-handed drama "After the Revolution," which ran at Playwrights Horizons in November,…
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The first stop on any itinerary should be the Williamstown Theatre Festival (wtfestival.org, 413-597-3400). Located in the bucolic college enclave of Williamstown, Mass., the fest has drawn …
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At long last, Spider-Man is ready to do some serious web-slinging on Broadway. And what do we get after $70 million, nine years of work and 183 previews? Silly string and paper streamers.
We…
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