Thursday, November 20, 2014
Rodgers 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 06:39AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
The only predictable thing about playwright Young Jean Lee is how unpredictable she is. Her “Lear” featured gorgeous period costumes, but no king. The wordless “Untitled Feminist Proje…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:00PMMonday, November 17, 2014
“Punk Rock” received pretty good reviews when it premiered in London five years ago. Maybe our British friends haven’t seen as many teen dramas as we have, because the play...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMNO matter how passionately someone sings “I will never leave you/I will never go away,” that promise may or may not be kept. But when Violet and Daisy Hilton belt...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMSunday, November 16, 2014
If “The River” was playing some dinky little theater with a bunch of unknowns, it’d be dismissed as flimsy and gimmicky. But “The River” is on Broadway, starring the ultra-likable,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMFriday, November 14, 2014
The most mysterious character on “The Good Wife” is slinky investigator Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi) — but a close second may be FBI Special Agent Lana Delaney (Jill Flint), who’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:28PMThursday, November 13, 2014
The “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” seems to have been around forever. OK, not exactly forever, but since 1933, when the show started spreading holiday cheer in razzmatazz fashion. An…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Set in a Bronx soup kitchen, “Grand Concourse” is something of a morality tale. But while Heidi Schreck’s new play is about big issues like faith and forgiveness, it has...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Put two hard-up characters in one play, add tension, and chances are they’ll overcome their differences to share a valuable lesson of some kind. It’s the law of dramatic catharsis....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Noises about a Broadway transfer were buzzing around before the Encores! production of “The Band Wagon” even opened. The show that just bowed at City Center is a hoot, but...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PMFriday, November 7, 2014
Bill Pullman and Holly Hunter are so intense, so scarily good in “Sticks and Bones” that at times it’s painful to watch them — but it’s impossible to forget them....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, November 6, 2014
If you love Broadway’s classic scores, there’s no missing the New York Philharmonic’s semi-staged versions. So while the new “Show Boat” doesn’t always land, there are plenty of …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Broadway has a spotty history when it comes to TV commercials — remember the howler for “The Bridges of Madison County”? It doesn’t help that live theater can look awkward...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:06AMMonday, November 3, 2014
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare — to have a child taken away. Yet the American mom in “The Oldest Boy” is kind of OK with the situation, once she’s past...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTo paraphrase Taylor Swift, haters gonna hate hate hate . . . and everybody else gonna buy buy buy. Surfing on a tsunami-size wave of hype, social-media hustle and product placement —.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:05PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Marissa, the sassy daughter of Alan Cumming’s Eli Gold, hasn’t been on “The Good Wife” all that much, yet she’s become a beloved supporting character. Happily, the curly-hair…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Tom Stoppard plays like “The Coast of Utopia” and “Arcadia” are reliably smart and witty, with intricate structures — parallel stories, jumps in time and place — that flatter au…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
While “It’s Only a Play” is breaking box-office records on Broadway — a textbook example of starry headliners trumping mediocre material — you may want to check out author Terrence…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The lead character in the drama “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” is facing a tough choice: Should he join the Confederate Army or not?...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMSunday, October 26, 2014
You want to love Sting’s “The Last Ship.” It’s a serious-minded show with a new score, not a jukebox of musty hits. It even offers an original story, inspired by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:05PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Fans of “The Good Wife” have a special fondness for the show’s judges. Almost every Sunday night, the popular CBS series features a judge — and they’re usually played by...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:28PMThursday, October 23, 2014
“Disgraced” was far from perfect when it opened off-Broadway two years ago, but it worked up to a point. Aasif Mandvi, of “The Daily Show,” was astringently effective as a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
“The Fortress of Solitude” relies so much on musical pastiche that at times it feels like an old K-Tel commercial, this one pitching “The Super Hits of ’80s New York.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMUnlikely as it may seem, off-Broadway’s “Deliverance” is indeed a stage version of the original “Men vs. Wild” story, where four city slickers on a canoe trip end up battling...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PMMonday, October 20, 2014
For a textbook example of how to botch a great subject, see “Billy & Ray.” It’s not that the show’s terrible. Rather it’s dull. Dishwater dull. Stare-into-space-while-the-clock…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMQuick: Who’s one of the most produced contemporary playwrights in Europe? The answer is Sarah Kane, whose small output belies her iconic status in her native England and especially on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThe return of FBI Agent Lana Delaney (Jill Flint) on “The Good Wife” Sunday night brought out the best in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), as everybody’s favorite investigator was back to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43PMIn addition to its superb plotting and characterization, “The Good Wife” is justly famous for an exquisite wardrobe that helps tell the story. The Post continues to explore this side...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Chances are, the prospect of a two-hour-long, one-woman show about Emily Dickinson won’t send your pulse racing. Nor, for that matter, would seeing “The Belle of Amherst” performed by …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Three excitable sailors enjoy a 24-hour leave in the beloved 1944 classic “On the Town.” You know the score, literally: “The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down,” our seadogs...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Forget texting and Tumblr: The ebullient new musical “Found” is a throwback to the good old days when reminders were scribbled on scraps of paper, kiss-offs on Post-Its, excuses on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM 
