Thursday, July 2, 2015
Never mind whether he can sing: Can Jake sell a joke? To everybody’s surprise, including maybe his own, Jake Gyllenhaal is appealingly funny and sweet in Encores’ semi-staged concert of.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:04AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Three sisters gather for a weekend in Cape Cod, Mass. One has a possibly terminal illness, another is a hysterical bride to be, the third reveals a surprise pregnancy. They...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMIt took for frickin’ ever, but here they are at last: All three “Decline of Western Civilization” movies are out on DVD! Why the excitement, you may ask? Well, the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:58AMMonday, June 29, 2015
You say typecasting, I say playing to an actor’s strengths. And the new comedy “Shows for Days” plays to Patti LuPone’s strengths to the power of a gazillion. The role...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSaturday, June 27, 2015
When Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart” premiered on Broadway in 2011 — 26 years after its creation — its author was outside the theater, distributing leaflets about AIDS. The.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:06AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Three weeks after winning Tonys for the book and score of “Falsettos” in 1992, William Finn collapsed on the street — felled by a congenital brain malformation. Not only did...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:56PMCome for the stars — stay for the crazy plot! It’s safe to say that the initial lure for “Wayward Pines” was the kind of deluxe cast you tend to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:10AMMonday, June 22, 2015
Who cares about Jon Snow? Five minutes into “Poldark,” the dark, broody and very much dead Jon Snow had been replaced in our hearts by the dark, broody and very...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:22PMFriday, June 19, 2015
Remember when French music stopped sucking? OK, so good stuff came out before Daft Punk — it’s just that nobody outside France knew it. It took the masked duo and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:32AMThursday, June 18, 2015
“It feels like all my friends are dying,” Jordan complains in the new comedy “Significant Other.” Well, technically they aren’t: They’re getting married, one after another, a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMWhat’s Chris Noth thinking in “Doctor Faustus”? Hard to tell. As the ambitious magician of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play — who trades his soul to Lucifer in exchange …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
It’s not just “Game of Thrones” that boasts jaw-dropping shockers — the new play “Gloria” has such a fantastic moment, it’s killing me that I can’t spill the beans. All...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Shakespeare in the Park is nothing if not wildly uneven. So it goes with the Public Theater’s latest, “The Tempest,” in which some of the acting is inventive and unexpected,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSundance TV’s “Deutschland 83” is hyped as the first German-language series to be picked up by an American network. Now that’s going to lure the viewing masses! And it’s also...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:15AMMonday, June 15, 2015
Early in the new Lincoln Center musical “Preludes,” the lead character admits to liking Gordon Lightfoot: “I know he’s not cool, but he brings back a fond feeling.” The surprise...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Party time! There’s tenderloin on the grill and artichoke dip on the coffee table. The guests gab about real estate, traffic and overextending your neck at Pilates. You know —...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMFriday, June 12, 2015
Since Season 2 of “Orange Is the New Black” premiered in June 2014, several cast members have really stepped it up in terms of visibility. Before Netflix unleashes Season 3...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:28AMThursday, June 11, 2015
“Guards at the Taj” may take place in 17th century India, but it has a very “Harold & Kumar” vibe. The play has lofty ambitions, but in reality it boils...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Chaos, delays, back-stabbing: With everything that happens behind the scenes, it’s a miracle theater ever makes it to an audience. At least that’s the impression we get from the new...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThe vampire story has been done to death — but “Cuddles” puts a fantastic spin on it. So fresh does the blood flow that this creepily inventive British import makes...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:00PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Two American grunts in their early 20s are holed up in a wrecked bunker in an unnamed desert. They’re bored out of their minds, fruitlessly trying to get a signal...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:07PMForget the Tony Awards — Monday night’s “Bombshell” wiped them off our brains. The one-night-only concert benefit, which sold out the huge Minskoff Theatre in minutes, raised $800,00…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:07PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Not many choreographers have worked with Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Jean Paul Gaultier and Pedro Almodóvar — and been produced in opera houses and culture temples around the globe. Enter Blanca…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PMAt the 2015 Tony Awards, it paid to be either a woman or British. Or a British woman like Dame Helen Mirren, who won the night’s first award — and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:16AMSunday, June 7, 2015
It was the best of times…and the worst of times. Broadway had a record-breaking 2014-’15 season, with a whopping $1.365 billion in ticket sales. Too bad everything that glittered was…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:19PMThursday, June 4, 2015
As Steve Guttenberg learned, not every theater company wants to do Shakespeare with the star of “Police Academy.” Having been AWOL from Broadway since 1990’s “Prelude to a Kiss,” G…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37PMShakespeare’s the undisputed king when it comes to summer theater in New York. Along with Steve Guttenberg’s “Henry IV, Part 1” in Riverside Park, here’s where else you’ll find t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:16PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Mary-Louise Parker is the only reason to see “Heisenberg.” The play’s flimsy and contrived, but it provides the chance to experience her peculiar pull. Not everybody enjoys Parker’s …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThere’s no “Cabaret” in Alan Cumming’s cabaret. But then you can’t blame him for skipping those ultra-familiar tunes in his Café Carlyle debut, “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Son…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:13PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Probably no one does tense, awkward nerd better than Jesse Eisenberg. We’ve seen him play that type in the movies “The Social Network” and “Adventureland,” and in the off-Broadway …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMMonday, June 1, 2015
When one of the two characters in a play is nicknamed Prime Evil, things are bound to get tense. And so they do in the quietly gripping show “A Human...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:48PM 
