Monday, December 8, 2014
Bradley 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 06:39AMTuesday, 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 03:05PM 
