Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time plays a big part in Lanford Wilson’s “Lemon Sky” -- but it also hasn’t been kind to the show. When the largely autobiographical piece opened in 1970, it must have felt fresh and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AMIf there were an award for Most Unpleasant Character in a Play, the male lead of Jeff Talbott’s willfully provocative “The Submission” would win in a landslide. It’s not often you se…
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Fans of musical theater love to bicker, but there's one thing they agree on: A live orchestra, preferably a big one, is key to the experience.
Driving the point home, a commercial attacki…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMLet's say you discovered Eugene Ion esco a couple of years ago, via the Geoffrey Rush-starring revival of "Exit the King." You got a taste of Ionesco's absurdist world, and you're curious to…
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When it comes to life skills, Monty has his work cut out for him. He's baffled by the sheer number of toothbrushes and deodorants to choose from. Necktie knots bedevil him. A movie date ends…
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It's only fitting that "Arias With a Twist" starts with its headliner abducted by aliens: This is a jaw-dropping UFO of a show.
A hallucinatory hybrid of performance art, cabaret and thea…
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AN entire circus extravaganza is crammed on one itty-bitty stage, where a trained dog and a magician dazzle the audience with their tricks. Sharp knives are thrown and caught -- through clen…
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As far as subjects for a play go, Mike McAlary is a pretty great choice. In the 1990s, the big-mouthed, big-hearted tabloid journalist embodied both tough-guy reporting and the gritty Gotham…
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Some Broadway stars are so big, they don’t have to wait for the right musical to come along: They can strike out on their own. And that’s just what Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone and Mandy P…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMThere's something fas cinating about the mat ing rituals of science nerds: How could these people be so smart and yet so stupid?
The TV hit "The Big Bang Theory" is about to spend a fifth…
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In the right hands, "Fol lies" is a punch in the gut -- set to a fantastic score. Stephen Sond heim and James Gold man's 1971 musical juxtaposes past and present, reality and fantasy. It can…
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Probably the last things that come to mind when thinking about Ernest Hem ingway are "laughs" and "awesome dance moves." And yet there are plenty of both during "The Select (The Sun Also Ris…
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The Mint Theater spe cializes in unearthing obscure material, but a year ago it dug particularly deep: It presented an arcane 1930s drama, originally written for radio by an Irishwoman large…
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A fearless resistance fighter sings out about his dreams and beliefs. A sexy spy seduces her opponent with her wiles and lung-busting power ballads. Romantic scenes alternate with kinetic ch…
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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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