Thursday, January 8, 2015
There may be a biting comedy lurking somewhere in “Dying for It,” but it’s really hard to find it in this adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s “The Suicide.” British playwright Moira...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
‘WINNERS and Losers” starts off as innocuously as a fun parlor game, with its writers, James Long and Marcus Youssef, sitting on either end of a long table, debating what...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:08PMWednesday, December 31, 2014
While Broadway sleeps through its holiday hangover, the cool kids are taking over the city. One relatively new member of the envelope-pushing derby is Prototype, dedicated to new music for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:19PMWednesday, December 24, 2014
A demonic hand puppet. Levitating beds. A live rat. Scandi angst rotating on a giant turntable. Theater didn’t need big-name stars to blow your mind in 2014 — though it...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PMGet me the hell out of the frickin’ woods! Who’d have thought Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” would become such a phenomenon? Hype around the starry movie adaptation, out Dec..…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:46AMMonday, December 22, 2014
It may not be as famous as Harlem’s Cotton Club, but Cafe Society made its mark on the New York jazz scene of the 1930s and ’40s — not least...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:34PMSunday, December 21, 2014
When “The Last Ship” opened on Broadway a few months ago, many people were confused: Wait a minute — where’s Sting? Though he wrote the score, Sting hasn’t been onstage...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
“Pocatello” is Samuel D. Hunter’s first play since he was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant this year. So the expectations are now a little different than they were when Hunte…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:33PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Technically speaking, “Every Brilliant Thing” is a solo show. But actor Jonny Donahoe spends a lot of time chatting with various people — his character’s parents, teacher and partner…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:30PMPersistence, thy name is “Soul Doctor”! Every time you think this good-natured but clunky biomusical about Shlomo Carlebach, the singing rabbi, is down for the count, it pops up again....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMViondra Denninger, the spaceship captain’s wife in Syfy’s new futuristic miniseries, “Ascension,” is a handful — scheming, icy-blond and prone to bodacious butt cleavage. Clearly, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:06AMThursday, December 11, 2014
The best place to see “Christmas With the Crawfords” isn’t a theater, but in the back of a small, festive bar. The show’s campy drag humor and fleeting moments of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMThe Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall is gigantic — a 55,000-square-foot space that begs to be filled with awe-inspiring projects. Just last June the venue hosted a production of “Macbet…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:37PMMonday, December 8, 2014
“The Invisible Hand” gives us guns, terrorism, violence, hostages — even a daring escape attempt with nail clippers. But don’t worry, there’s nothing here to send your blood pr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMBradley Cooper is currently setting Broadway on fire playing the title role in “The Elephant Man” — a deformed Victorian chap whom the erstwhile Sexiest Man Alive plays without makeup.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:08PMSunday, December 7, 2014
No wonder Bradley Cooper picked “The Elephant Man” for his return to Broadway. This is a labor of love for the star, who chose it for his acting school master’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Truman Capote’s 1956 short story “A Christmas Memory” is one of his most popular works — it’s been made into TV specials, radio plays, an opera and this musical. But...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:02PMNothing went horribly wrong during NBC’s live telecast of the musical “Peter Pan.” Allison Williams didn’t embarrass herself in the cross-dressing title role. The wires held up durin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:51AMThursday, December 4, 2014
“The Illusionists” seems so much like a Vegas revue that you half expect that it comes with an all-you-can eat buffet. And when we say Vegas, we mean something old-school...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMWhen “Cabaret” opened in April, Alan Cumming dialed it up to 11 as the provocative Emcee of the show’s seedy Kit Kat Club. He was the production’s darkly charismatic guide,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Warning: Spoilers ahead Was anybody really surprised that Beth (Emily Kinney) went down in the midseason finale of “The Walking Dead”? That poor waif has had a target on her...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:29PMAnnaleigh Ashford is funny as hell. The gifted comedienne brought down the house nightly (and netted a Tony nod) in Cyndi Lauper’s “Kinky Boots.” She’s even more hilarious in her...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:14PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Lypsinka has been a New York icon for almost 30 years. And she’s never uttered a single word. Not that the flamboyant, highly theatrical redhead has nothing to say. It’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Katori Hall made a noisy entrance on Broadway in 2011 when her drama “The Mountaintop” opened with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. Problem was, that play — about Martin...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:00AMMonday, November 24, 2014
Despite some bright spots, the fall finale of “The Good Wife” wasn’t among the series’ finest moments. This sleek sedan of a show ran more like a Kia last night...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:27PMIt just doesn’t seem possible, let alone right, that a tragic love story could be so fantastically fun. Yet here you are, face aching from grinning, at a show based...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMJoy Behar sure has a mouth on her. No wonder she named her new solo show after it. With a career that extends more than 30 years — 16 of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PMFrom Mary Martin to Cathy Rigby, Peter Pan has traditionally been played by a woman. The latest is Allison Williams, who’ll don the green tights and pointy hat during NBC’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:26PMSunday, November 23, 2014
It’s hard to know what’s going on during Sam Shepard’s new play — but “A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)” always holds your interest. Having the great Irish star Steph…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMThursday, November 20, 2014
This new “A Delicate Balance” is like a Christmas fruitcake that’s been left out too long: It’s boozy and loaded with goodies — Glenn Close! John Lithgow! — but it’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMRodgers and Hammerstein were on a roll by 1947: “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel” were huge hits, and they hoped “Allegro” would make it a threepeat. Alas, with its “Our Town”-like …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:39AM 
