Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Our first Fringe review has been posted-- check back daily for more . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:28AMThursday, August 8, 2013
the Unicorn Theater is transfomed into a creepy mansion by Yale Drama School talent
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:33PMSunday, August 4, 2013
Olympia Dukakis is at her most compelling in the non-verbal scenes that epitomize the tragedy of a woman whose willingness to profit from war goes counter to her determination to keep her ch…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:36AMFriday, August 2, 2013
The first of Annie Baker's Shirley, Vermont plays is being given a lovely production at the Chester Theatre.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:23PMSunday, July 28, 2013
Bernard Slade's crowd-pleasing comedy gets its latest revival, starring a real married cou;le .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:42AMFriday, July 26, 2013
despite the provocative subject of transgender life, this isn't a show sizzling with sex. Instead the sizzle comes from the tenderness and warmth of the various one on one relationships; als…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Though set in a narrow Brooklyn community between 1944 and 1948, the divide between different beliefs and life styles is more than ever far reaching and pertinent in this stage adaptation of…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:18AMSunday, July 21, 2013
if you're a music lover, and especially fond of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Trio in A Minor," rejoice. You're going to hear it all, plus several other of the Maestro's works, performed by live musi…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:24PMThe exceptionally well cast and staged revival of Shaw's most popular play is closing next week. If you don't want to miss having a genuinely " loverly" time, get thee to the main stage of t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:49AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Thrills and chills and emotional and legal quandaries! Be prepared for plenty of all in this revival of William Mastrosimone's extremely violent and tense 1980 drama about a rape that turns …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:02AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
A bio-drama that's uniquely site specific in one of the Berkshires' Gilded Age mansions
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:31PMMonday, July 8, 2013
The sophisticated musicals we've become accustomed to in recent years have made the corn-fed story less worthy of Hammerstein's poetic lyrics and Rodgers' ever easy on the ears melodies. So,…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:12PMMonday, July 1, 2013
The response at the opening night performance of James Goldman's 1966 play proves that the appeal of an evening providing a cross between a dramatic history lesson and a Spamalot-like comedy…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:21AMFriday, June 28, 2013
t's quite a coup for the theater company that calls the Chester Town Hall home to be presenting the world premiere of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's latest collaboration . But, while the pl…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:43PMFriday, June 14, 2013
The monologue which raises the curtain on John Guare's exploration of three Eastern Europeans' immigrant experiences is less a play than an anecdote. Martin Moran is a fine anecdotist. The s…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36PMI've seen my share of Shakespeare plays at the Public Theater. But but never as a rap and hip hop driven musical. This very loose take on Othello now at the Public's Anspacher is a far cry f…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Reviews of all th winners and losers in Curtainup's archives. . . Pippin - The Big Tony Winner, with Best Musical Revival just one of its awards . Kinky Boot…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:23AMReasons to Be Happy - Neil LaBute devotees will find plenty of reasons to be happy that he's re-visiting the messy lives of two working class couples in an anywhere USA suburb. …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:09AMJ.B. Priestley's play about a British import company's obsolescence in the face of a changing business practices and the Great Depression, is a highlight of this year's Brits Off-Broadway Fe…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:03AMNeil LaBute devotees will find plenty of reasons to be happy that he's re-visiting the messy lives of two working class couples in an anywhere USA suburb
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:01AMMonday, June 10, 2013
We are in proccess of moving our site to a new host -- and are temporarily posting rviewes at th Annex...A CurtainUp London ReviewRutherford and Son…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:07PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
- a terrific cast, smart production, lots of word play but ultimately disappointing .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
The much anticipated Far From Heaven musical while not heavenly, has a lot to makeit worth seeing, including a radiant Kelli O'Hara. &nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:00AMMonday, June 3, 2013
The changes between the show's trial run at Williamstown and its arrival at Playwrights Horizon while not enormous, are substantial enough to make my second viewing a more emotionally compel…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:36AMFriday, May 31, 2013
-This production's new translation, songs and merger of the ancient and Kremlin revolutions have not prevented director BrianKulick and his actors from clearly taking us into Brecht's world …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AMMonday, May 27, 2013
Bashir Lazhar - The utter purity and poetry of this play that was the basis for an 84th Academy Award-nominated movie, Monsieur Lazhar. will linger long after the performance. . . ReaThough…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:34AMFriday, May 24, 2013
I completed my Russian Week -- first(Encores! revival of On the Town; then , Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and and finally Richard Nelson's slow…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:35AMFriday, May 17, 2013
No contest when it comes to my most unusual theater experience of the week. . .the expanded version of the popoper Natasha, Pierre…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:32AMthe hit pop-opera is the latest theatrical variation of the little engine that could. It's spread its creative wings and moved to a large, trendy new venue where it serves a tasty Russian me…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Things finally quieted down in terms of Broadway show openings which were top heavy on solo shows this year. But there was plenty to see off the main stem-- to wit&nb…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:45AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Encores! ends its season with the show that married ballet and jazz .
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