Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The 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…
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…
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