Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Keen Company's revival of Tina Howe's 1983 play is certainly blessed to have Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham as its aging Boston Brahmins. Too bad the production has them overdo th…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
What's a flop-around? According to the dictionary, there's no such word. Still, it's a term that deserves a plac…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:58AMEdward Albee's uncompromising take on the stages of death and enigmatic reflection on identity has been given a stunning looking and superbly performed revival though its feet remain planted…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:59AMMonday, March 5, 2012
A terrific, sad yet often funny play by a young playwright who has something to say — actually quite a few things — and knows how to enliven her story and her characters with pungent dia…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:51AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Leslye Headland has saved the funniest and most entertaining scene of Assistance for end. Actually, that surreal finale is less a triumph for the playwright than for set designer David Korin…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:45AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
This week's Off-Broadway Tweet links. . . Robert Hogan as Rutherford …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:09AMKatori Hall's play is disturbing, painful to watch and, If you're squeamish about vulgarity and cussin', be aware that thee " N" word pops up in just about every other sentence . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:59AMGita Sowerby's 1912 drama returns to the Mint Theater . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:57AMMonday, February 27, 2012
The Irish Rep's Ciarán O'Reilly once more demonstrates his ability to give exciting new life to plays that don't rank with O'Nell's masterpieces
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:45AMFriday, February 17, 2012
How I Learned to Drive- Paula Vogel's Pulitzer winner passes the test of time with flying colors and a spectacular Uncle Peck . . .The Broken Heart -- According to Theatre for a New Aud…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:31PMPaula Vogel's Pulitzer Winner Passes the test of time with flying colors
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:38PMAn octogenarian's romp through his life as Captain Kirk, show horse rider, and more, more, more.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:26AMAthol Fugard directs his fledgling but career-making early play which is the inaugural production of the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Signature's exciting new Frank Gehry designed …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMThursday, February 16, 2012
Gabe McKinley's new play is torn right from the 2003 headlines. It's told with great authenticity and style
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:57AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
The Living Theatre will offer a free encore performance of its production of Judith Malina's The History of the World, February 27 at 7 pm. Judith Malina, who's so…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:46PMMonday, February 13, 2012
- I can't think of a rhyming paraphrase of Noel Coward's famous "Don't quibble Sybil." But, I urge any reader on the fence about seeing this show to ignore the quibblers about this show's "u…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:55PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Fans of Downton Abbey take heart: Instead of succumbing to withdrawal pains when the last of the current series ends, you might want to consider another upstairs/downstairs costume drama, …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:47AMThursday, February 9, 2012
Smash, Episode 1-- To paraphrase the cliche about not judging a book by its cover, don't judge this show's future by its first episode Everybody seems to be talk…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:21PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Kate Fodor's new play does take a poke at a marketing and cure-all drug smitten economy, but the cautionary subtext doesn't spoil the fun of this contemporary screwball romantic comedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:39PMSunday, February 5, 2012
Poor Jimmy Porter.-- that's the angry young man of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger. Jimmy's been put down as a hopeless misogynist&nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:26AMFriday, February 3, 2012
Look Back in Anger- Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism . . .Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville- The return of…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:03AMDirector Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:55AMTuesday, January 31, 2012
Morris Spector as the sexy but sinister uncle in Erika Sheffer's Russian immigrant variation on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge Russian Transport- …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:15AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
Delia Ephron's funny but, sadly, all too true, Op-Ed piece Banks Taketh, but Don’t Giveth in the January 27, New York Times, credits h…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:03AMFriday, January 27, 2012
New York's "other Met" offers a rare opportunity to see the Menotti's opera which actually opened on Broadway and nabbed a Pulitzer Prize as a DramaCritics Circle award for best musical of 1…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:15PMThe set's the star in this otherwise thematically obscure play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:42AMWhile the indignities Cynthia Nixon's Doctor Bearing undergoes are indeed not easy to take, this is still an exceptionally rich play, a triple layered exploration not just of death but how w…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AMMonday, January 23, 2012
In New YorkThe Philanderer- With excellent production values and acting, even at a somewhat too long 2 1/2 hours, this witty production of minor Shaw play is qui…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 05:55PMWith excellent production values and acting, even at a somewhat too long 2 1/2 hours, this witty production of minor Shaw play is quite a major pleasure.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:37PM Norm Lewish with Audra McDonald-- Kevin Spacey as King Richard III During the past week I've seen two actors portraying …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:30AMKevin Spacey concludes The Bridge Project with a showboat performance as "The bottled spider" .
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