Monday, January 23, 2012
Kevin Spacey concludes The Bridge Project with a showboat performance as "The bottled spider" .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:15AMFriday, January 20, 2012
At just 85 minutes this 3-hander held my attention, even though neither the script or the actors had me quite buy into the mounting contrivances. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:11PMDiane Paulus and her collaborators have created a fantastically, even giddily entertaining Porgy and Bess that has enough merits to make all the controversy about ill-conceived tampering mel…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:10AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Athol Fugard is deservedly revered for having proved again and again that the pen can indeed be a mighty weapon against injustice. However, despite a stellar cast, this revival illustrates h…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMTuesday, January 17, 2012
My favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:27AMMy favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:15AMMonday, January 16, 2012
Tweet Peeks at Off-Broadway show reviews. . Curtainup Broadway reviews coming this week: The Road to Mecca & The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Leo - Whether this mult…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:34AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Just a few days after I saw Outside People by Zayd Dohrn, the latest play about Americans in China, and just&nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:45AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
This latest play set in China is not without its contrivances and incomplete plot details, but it's a fast-paced, entertaining and thought-provoking look at the whirlpool of cultural adjustm…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:20PMLABrynth Theater Company continues ts FREE Barn Reading Series at the Bank Street Theater (155 Bank Street). Admission is free and LABPASS members ($35 for a pass) can make advanced reserv…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:05AMSaturday, January 7, 2012
Long before theater goers embrace plays running just 90 minutes without an intermission magazine readers …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:36AMThursday, January 5, 2012
Warm up during the cold months to come with one of the FREE Thursday concerts at the David Rubenstein Atrium. at Lincoln Center, Broadwa…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:26AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
As a theater magazine editor and critic, I'm always on the lookout for theater-related tidbits by news and political…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:11AMSunday, January 1, 2012
Reading Helen Simonson's delightful first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, is a bit like indulging in a sinfully &n…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:36PMSaturday, December 24, 2011
a look back and forward
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:12PMlive theater at not much more than a movie ticketFive New Works by Emerging Artists inMetropolitan’s Seventh Annual Living Literature Festival January 16 – 29, …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:15AMFriday, December 23, 2011
Our stage and screen page review comes down in favor of the Puppet Horses in War Horse, the play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:03PMAlbert (Jeremy Irvine) and his horse Joey in the movieDespite it's long run in London and New York and planned traveling productions, the incredibly imagi…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:55PMThursday, December 22, 2011
A Happy and Healthy Holiday to Our Readers. . .and everything good for 2012 &…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:38PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Connecticut -- If you're too young to remember radio plays. . . It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play- While it adds little to the warmth or sentiment of the original film, t…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 04:04AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
London Theater Goers have a chance to see Eddie Redmayne in Michael Grandage's farewell production at the Donmar. . .Richard II- Also the famous …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:06PMA Year On/Off Broadway Ends: Alas, With 3 Misfires After the delightful Once - a rare screen-to-stage adaptation that retains the charms of its s…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:24AMMonday, December 19, 2011
David Hyde Pierce stars as a workaholic book editor and failed father in Molly Smith Metzler new play which unfortunately does not give him a chance to fully exploit his comic talents
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:15PMSunday, December 18, 2011
Hamlet at Home- How do you winkle out the magic and the thought behind Hamlet? Scott Elliott, the Artistic Director of The New Group did just that as part of the enjoyable “Dark…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:13PMSaturday, December 17, 2011
the move uptown is a case of overreaching. It's still light-hearted and purposefully silly fun, but it's just too slight and limited in broad audience appeal
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22PMFriday, December 16, 2011
if anyone can bring out the very best in a show and make a half-full cup of entertainment filled to the brim, Mayer's the man. At least I thought he was
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:42PMThursday, December 15, 2011
a rare screen-to-stage adaptation that retains the charms of ther source but as a work of art in its own right . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:22PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Bad Box Office Grosses Sink Paul Gross's Broadway debut in Private Lives Considering that I've seen my share of Noel Coward's idle rich hedonists who can't live peace…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:00PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Who better to give Dickens' famous holiday story a Jewish twist than Hoffman, the queen of side-splitting stand-up kvetch? Who indeed! After all, Hoffman's kvetching is a way of saying "Bah!…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:43PMSunday, December 11, 2011
New theater reviews at Curtainup/NJ Bakersfield Mist- an out-of-the-ordinary, almost out-of-the-blue —, but more importantly, outstanding— two-hander . . .Charles Dickens’ A Chri…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:24PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
James X - Gerard Mannix Flynn's James is a natural, amiable Irish story teller, yet much of his humor is distracting. . . Stick Fly — Lydia R. Diamond's country house comedy…
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