Monday, 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...
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Geneva Carr is really good at playing moms. She can do nice ones, as in the AT&T ads where she fretted about rollover minutes. But she’s even better in Robert...
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If “Chaplin” could make it to Broadway, so could “Cagney.” Both musicals profile Hollywood icons, but while “Chaplin” was clunky and bloated, the light-footed “Cagney” at lea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:33PMIf you’re going to spend an hour and a half listening to a mildly irreverent riff on the Bible, it might as well be with Jim Parsons. Who better to...
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Nice girls finish last. OK, maybe not dead last, but not far from the bottom. At least that’s the case in Melissa Ross’ new play “Nice Girl,” whose title character,...
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The Thrilla from Wasilla is nowhere to be seen in "Picking Palin." But she weighs heavily on the minds of the characters in this Fringe Fest production -- a quartet of high-ranking Republic…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMI like "Gypsy" and "Anything Goes" and "Mame" as much as the next theater critic, but sometimes I miss the volatile energy of a rock show on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM"Wife to James Whelan" has just been extended. If you like an old-fashioned, well-crafted story, this is the show to see right now.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMEdward Albee is an undisputed titan of American theater: This is the man, after all, who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Three Tall Women" and "The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?" So it's…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNothing is too outré for the theater these days. Wall-to- wall profanity? Strictly for amateurs. Onstage vomiting? So yesterday. Lucy Thurber isn't afraid to up the ante: In her plays, peo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMB'Way bound Some prime old-school thespians are hitting Broadway for fireworks of acting this fall. Cherry Jones sexes up as an entrepreneurial madam in G.B. Shaw's “Mrs. Warren's Prof…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhat's less surprising: that Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” is proving remarkably resilient — or that “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks can't act? Ove…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWHATTHEHELLWASTHAT?!?Forget that stretches of Florencia Lozano's "underneathmybed" are in Spanish. While those who don't speak that language are at a slight disadvantage, it's relatively ea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSheila Callaghan's lat est play, "Roadkill Confidential," starts off with a strong David Lynch vibe. An FBI man in an eye patch (Danny Mastrogiorgio) spouts terse, cryptic lines. Blondie pl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMLillian Hellman's 1939 melodrama "The Little Foxes" centers on the greedy machi nations of an Ala bama family at the turn of the last century. The thrilling, eye-opening production that ope…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMDespite successful trips to the mainstream -- his play "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" scored a Tony nomination and "Die, Mommie, Die!" was turned into a movie -- Charles Busch is best e…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn skinny black pants, tai lored white shirt and a black tie, Laurie Anderson looks like a cross between a Catholic schoolboy and a member of the Knack in her new show, "Delusion." But ther…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMVirginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando" poses daunting challenges to stage adapters. The title character starts off as a boy, then becomes a woman. And not only does Orlando live through the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe brilliant production of "Brief Encounter" that opened on Broadway last night should make all but the sourest puss believe in romance again. It's a spirited charm offensive that's just i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Freckleface Strawberry" may be based on the kids book by the ac tress Julianne Moore, but it feels more like a version of "Free To Be . . . You and Me." Like that 1972 album and subsequent…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe last time Cherry Jones teamed with director Doug Hughes on Broadway was for "Doubt," in 2005. The result was Tonys for both, boffo box office, a national tour and a movie (starring Mery…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAt times, "Gatz" casts such a strong spell that it feels as if the world outside the Public Theater has ceased to exist.And then there are the deadly boring stretches. Very long ones, consi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe last time Belgium's Jan Lauwers and his Needcompany were in town, it was six years ago with the remarkable "Isabella's Room." This visually beautiful, deeply moving evocation of grief an…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSomeone's slipped Sarah Goodwin a chill pill . . . or 10. When we first met the prickly photojournalist heroine of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still" -- during the play's first run, in J…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhen characters be come popular on a sitcom, they're sometimes spun off into their own series.That's what should happen to Sherry and Grace, the mismatched sisters in Kim Rosenstock's new o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHardships, petty humiliations, financial strain, crushed hopes: That's what you can expect as an actor. At least that's how it is in David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre" -- and it's a come…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhile many downtown shows lose their edge when they move to Broadway, the new musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" has actually gained both scope and focus in the transfer.At the Public Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHigh- and low-brow collide in "La Bete," an American play about art vs. commerce that's set in 1654 France. It's entirely in rhyming couplets, but it also gets laughs from farting and burpi…
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