Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:04PMIt’s been a long wait through false starts, injuries, firings and mishap after mishap. But the finished “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has finally opened. Here’s our web-slinging ti…
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Tennessee Williams has been a very famil iar presence on New York stages for the past three years or so. What's cool is that for every famous "Glass Menagerie" or "A Streetcar Named Desire,"…
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There's a particularly illumi nating scene in the second act of the new musical "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World," wherein the three sisters who make up the title band are in a recording…
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Carey Mulligan is a terrific actress. The luminous Londoner has earned raves for movies such as "An Education" and "Never Let Me Go," and she could easily have spent her summer shooting some…
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There are many, many ways a musical can go awry. How great, then, to see everything click into place in the new "Lysistrata Jones." Produced by the Transport Group company ("The Boys in the …
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Show tunes have become so complicated and serious: Yes, Sondheim is a genius, and rock musicals are edgy -- but sometimes you just want sass, flash and old-fashioned va-va-voom.
In short,…
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The new dramedy "Cradle and All" re lies on a promising narrative gambit: The first act takes place in the Brooklyn apartment of the stylish, childless Claire and Luke; the second act puts u…
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There you are, settling in for a quiet meal out, and the guy at the next table just won't stop yakking. He seems nice enough, but boy, does he love hearing himself talk.
Sitting through J…
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With 20 different songs (and a few reprises), the kitschy new country musical "Lucky Guy" is overlong and overstuffed.
No wonder: It was written and directed by the man, Willard Beckham, …
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Ever wondered what a pothead version of Gar rison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" would be like? Wonder no more: "Radio Play" is here.
The show is the brainchild of Tommy Smith and R…
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It was bound to happen. In shows like "The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side" and "Happy in the Poorhouse," the Amoralists delivered a high-octane, cartoonishly manic twist on 1970s Hollywo…
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In 2009, Lynn Nottage had an unlikely hit with the Pulitzer Prize-win ning "Ruined" -- a gut-wrenching drama about sex crimes in war-torn Congo.
For the follow-up, the playwright has made…
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A marriage's happy balance is upset by the arrival of an in terloper. It's a fairly banal scenario, but in his play "Candida," George Bernard Shaw spiced it up by layering in a strong politi…
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Did we really need this "King Lear"?
That depends. If you love the play, you may want to catch this production from London's Donmar Warehouse just to see what Derek Jacobi -- of "I, Claud…
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Watching Tony Kushner's new drama is like being in a washing machine: soak, agitate, spin. And repeat: "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scrip…
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Melody isn't ready to handle life. How could she possibly handle death?
That's the question at the heart of "Be a Good Little Widow," Bekah Brunstetter's lovely new play at Ars Nova.
A…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:30PMIt's been a long, action- packed theater season, but make time for "The School for Lies." A delectable offer ing from David Ives, this is a bright, refreshing sorbet of a show, brought to ir…
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'Goodbye and good luck to you all," a woman said as she fled Studio 54 at intermission like a bat out of musical-theater hell.
It wasn't clear whether she wished that to the audience memb…
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When Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" premiered off-Broadway in 1985, it had a "right here, right now" impact. Set in 1981-84 New York, it imparted a powerful, radical immediacy to almost-c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMEvery night's a baby boomer's delight at the Broadhurst, where the new jukebox musical "Baby It's You!" rolls out one golden oldie after another. And this happy-clappy show has a large inven…
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'The House of Blue Leaves" is a roughly stitched patchwork of styles and ideas. The first full-length effort by John Guare ("Six Degrees of Separation"), the 1966 play mixes tones -- dark, c…
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It takes a lot of smarts to act dumb -- and make it funny without condescending to the character or the material.
Playing the tricky role of Billie Dawn in the new Broadway revival of "Bo…
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The nominal lead in the misguided new drama “Picked” is a 20-something actor, Kevin (Michael Stahl-David), who gets chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood machine. But the only semi-int…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PMBig, glitzy numbers are the toast of Broadway musicals. The only thing better? Big, glitzy numbers . . . with nuns! “Sister Act” has plenty of both — and it’s one of the season’s h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PMTo be remotely bear able, the ham-fisted melodrama "High" requires a larger-than-life icon who can sink her teeth into its ripe dialogue, then chomp.
Thankfully, it has Kathleen Turner.
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There's a lot of talk about time in "Wonderland." There's also so much laborious exposition and overexplaining, you'd think this flat new Broadway musical was inspired not by Lewis Carroll, …
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A magnificent, exhila rating feat is taking place at Lincoln Center. Over the course of nearly three hours, the London import "War Horse" takes us to a farm in Devon, England, then to the ki…
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The thrilling, mind- bending new show "Sleep No More" is loosely based on "Macbeth" -- but it's unlike any "Macbeth" you've ever seen.
Or, for that matter, any play you've ever seen.
T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMDavid Greenspan cuts an idiosyncratic figure in theater. As an actor, he has zero range: Whether he's in Adam Rapp's "The Metal Children" or Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of "Orlando," he offers h…
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In his Broadway debut, Chris Rock plays Ralph D., the AA sponsor of Bobby Cannavale's Jackie. They share some heavy scenes -- red-blooded, profanity-laden bouts -- but Rock is a lightweight:…
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