Monday, November 3, 2014
To 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 10:00PMMonday, October 13, 2014
Dave Malloy’s pop-rock musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” was an unlikely hit, an adaptation of “War and Peace” that started in a tiny theater, attracted a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:46PMSometimes a set overshadows its show. That’s the case with “Generations” at Soho Rep. The tiny Tribeca company is known for radically reconfiguring its space for every production, and …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:51PMThe male lawyers on “The Good Wife” may be aces on the stand, but none of them qualifies as hot. Seriously, who’d want to peel off any of those milquetoasts’...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMSunday, October 12, 2014
“I’ve been waiting all my life for somebody to see me.” “When you know better, you do better.” “I needed to get connected to me.” Lines like these belong on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:59PMFriday, October 10, 2014
The Walking Dead” is feeling pretty darn good: Ratings are through the roof, and after announcing a spin-off this summer, AMC just renewed the series. No wonder Sunday’s fifth-season pre…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:10PM“The Good Wife” is the rare TV series that got better, not worse, in its sixth season — and among the reasons the show stays way above the float line...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:45PMThank heaven for Nathan Lane, an alchemist who turns comic lead into gold. And he’s been handed a lot of lead in “It’s Only a Play.” Terrence McNally’s 1980s backstage...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49AMThursday, October 9, 2014
“The Walking Dead” is feeling pretty darn good: Ratings are through the roof, and after announcing a spin-off this summer, AMC just renewed the series. No wonder Sunday’s fifth-sea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00PMAfter the successful “Walking Dead” Lego trailer comes an animated mash-up of the first seasons of “Game of Thrones.” According to Mashable, animators from Black Meal used clips fro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:34PM‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets” is wildly entertaining — shockingly so, since it has no plot, is in German and is nearly three hours long. Most of its 25 poems have been set...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:02AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Rob Halford is a metal god — so much so that he tried to trademark that term in 2009. He didn’t need to: Few performers can match the longtime frontman...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:25PMMonday, October 6, 2014
AMC’s upcoming series “Better Call Saul” has a lot of baggage and a lot of expectations. That’s because it’s not 100 percent original. It’s a prequel to “Breaking Bad,” with.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:55AMSunday, October 5, 2014
Btitish import “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is the most deliriously inventive new show on Broadway. One second, a clever bit of stage business leaves you...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:10PMThursday, October 2, 2014
There’s a handsome TV-star character in Broadway’s “The Country House” who’s a bit like Goldilocks. One woman comes at him, but she’s too young. Another is too old. The third…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:57PM 
