Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Book writer-lyricist Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori have turned Alison Bechdel's graphic book into an unusual and well worth seeing musical.'. . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:48AMMonday, October 21, 2013
Some nifty stage craft, well-paced direction and a dedicated cast make for an entertaining enough play, but not as rich as its source,John Grisham's first courtroom drama
SOURCE: at 08:30AMThe chaos or "chassis" that according to Jack Boyle has the world in a terrible state in Sean O'Casey's 1924 play has all too many more recent counterparts in other countries and families
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:29AMFriday, October 18, 2013
- Sometimes what works in London for a director, doesn't transfer well to Broadway, especially when that director must now deal with a new cast. But Lindsay Posner has another top drawer cas…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:15AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
While Donald Margulies ranks high on my list of fine contemporary playwrights, I can't say that his troubled early play has blossomed into a misunderstood and unfairly neglected treasure who…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Long before Madame Arkadina's — oops, I mean Isobel's — sensitive son Constantine improves his pistol marksmanship in time for the play's tragic climax, my inclination to compare Max Sta…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:24AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Jill Eikenberry is billed as this New York premiere's star, Eleanor Handley plays the s main character and delivers a fine performance, while Eikenberry is somewhat miscast . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AMThursday, October 10, 2013
a rumination inspired by the new musical Big Fish
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:21PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Of Eric Simonson's three sports-themed plays Bronx Bombers, comes closest to being a real play. No books and videos on the same subject to invite negative comparisons and more to work with f…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:47AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Woody Allen's Homage to the poet of the Contemporary American theater, Tennessee Williams
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AMFriday, October 4, 2013
You definitely don't have to be Jewish to find plenty to laugh at and — if you're unlucky enough to have a sanctimonious, razor-tongued relative like Daphna Feygenbaum — to identify with…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
The Keen Company's revival of Jon Robin Baitz's rarely produced first full-length play proves that a promising new play can, given the right cast and direction, continue to live up to its pr…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:05AMFriday, September 27, 2013
New York theater goers are being bombarded by a veritable blizzard of plays by William Shakespeare this season. But one of the most thrilling revivals is The Glass Menagerie by the contempor…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:28AMThis forgotten William Inge play is too overstuffed with relationship dysfunctions and plot complications. However, the T.A.C.T. production is so well staged and acted that it is indeed well…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Elevator Repair Service shifts from literature to the law for its unique style of using every word, including the pauses and uhumps, to transform it all into an often hilarious theater work .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:16AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
Susan L. Schulman's memoir of her life as a press agent
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:50AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
I'm sorry to report that Ethan Coen's first full lenth play is annoyingly misconceived, egregiously contrived, unbelievable and unfunny.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:03AMClever as this travelogue through over 80 years following a horrific apocalypse via the satiric cartoon series, The Simpsons is, it's going to have audiences divided between the extravagantl…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:02AMMonday, September 16, 2013
If anyone can make Shaw's early play sparkle, David Staller's the man. And so he has done. This is a colorful production, rich in whimsy and musical movement that has some of the actors danc…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:47AMFriday, September 13, 2013
Even if I were free to attend every evening of Mike Daisey's 29 performanced, I doubt I could have brought myself to sign on for more than two at most. As it turns out, much as I admire the …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:08AMHorton Foote's many fans are in for quite a surprise. These old friends and their various relatives could easily be mistaken as kin to the greedy unhappy people in Tennessee Williams' Cat on…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:07AMThursday, September 12, 2013
Even if I were free to attend every evening of Mike Daisey's 29 performanced, I doubt I could have brought myself to sign on for more than two at most. As it turns out, much as I admire the …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:48PMMonday, September 9, 2013
Lee Blessing's fanciful but not very funny exploration of the after life left me with little except another reason to be mad at Bernard Madoff
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:47PMRegina Taylor's merging of real and surreal is likely to leave you feeling over-assaulted with ideas. On the other hand, this new play may just make you stop and reset your thinking about co…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:44PMFriday, September 6, 2013
How could any job make a move to Columbus, Ohio anything but purgatory for anyone who's lived in trendy Park Slope.. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AMLucy Thurber's new play is being launched along with restaged production of four previous dramas under the umbrella title of The Hillside Plays.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:23AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Otho Eskin's cast of already and still to be famous people from the arts, science and politics who interact in a typical Vienna coffee house circa 1910 is indeed fascinating but it makes for…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:03PMSaturday, August 24, 2013
A site-specific slice of nostalgia and bitterness about immigrants in the mid 20s
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:47PMFriday, August 23, 2013
Mark St. Germain's latest play about an imagined meeting between two famous men, in this case F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AMSunday, August 18, 2013
Shakespeare & company's outstanding revival of Martin McDonagh's first Leenane play, with a stellar cast headed by company founder Tina Packer
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:41AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Our first Fringe review has been posted-- check back daily for more . .
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