Friday, April 27, 2012
a well-performed sequel but not equal to Marc Camoletti's Boeing, Boeing . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:13AMThursday, April 26, 2012
As Joseph Alsop's stepdaughter asks "Who's Wendell Wilkie?" so theatergoers under sixty might well ask "Who's Joseph Alsop?" At least until they see Pulitzer-winning David Auburn new play ab…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:59AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
A shout out for everyone involved with this full of fizzle and fun new-old musical. It's best summed up by Ira Gershwin: " 's Wonderful!"
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:09AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Linda Lavin's monstrous matron 's deathbed vigil is as funny and sad on Broadway. as off . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AMMonday, April 23, 2012
The multi-culturally cast production Tennessee Williams is said to have always wanted but didn't live to see is respectfully but not flawlessly staged by Emily Mann
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:00AMFriday, April 20, 2012
The best play seen on Broadway this week. . .Clybourne Park- if you havent seen Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize winning play, don't miss its Broadway production. If you saw it at Playwri…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:14AMThursday, April 19, 2012
silence may be golden but in Bret C. Leonard's play it's overdone . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:18AMAmerican audiences get an A-class taste of British humor via Richard Bean's coup-de-farce .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:15AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
The Risks and Rewards of Moving a Show from Off Broadway to Broadway There isn't a show that opens at a &nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:09PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
This bio-play's main reason for being, the aura of big league basketball in a Broadway theater, is established even as you take your seat . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:18PMAndrew LLoyd Webber and Tim Rice's wonderful soapoperatic bio-musical gets a wonderful new cast and staging. Paffi and Mandy fans should leave their urge to compareat home and head for the M…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:14PMMonday, April 9, 2012
Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare Being Shakespeare- Simon Callow cogently explores what Shakespeare achieved andexperienced in his lifetime. .…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:22AMThursday, April 5, 2012
EXTRA! EXTRA! Newsies is the go-to show for the whole family, from the kids to grandma and grandpa.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:34PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Mary Beth Peil and Michael Laurence use all their considerable acting skills to imbue Willy Holtzman's fact based odd couple bonding drama with dramatic fireworks
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:45AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Peter Qulter's bioplay with music is an acting tour-de-force but don't expect the Judy everybody adores .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09AMFriday, March 30, 2012
The book is forever so-so, but as Encored at City Center, the show's musical strength and fun elements are maximized, and the weaknesses of the book are minimized
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:58PMThursday, March 29, 2012
Those four can-do, now 40-year-old kids — Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff — are at it again.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:03AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
The "middle aged kindergarten" in a low-cost, low on amenities version of the upscale Reno, Nevada divorce ranches of the 1950s is an odd setup for British playwright Matt Charman's New York…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Amas Musical Theatre at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. on Thursday, April 26st at 4:00pm, Friday, April 27th at 3:00pm and 7:30pm, and Satur…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:11AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Watching this Will Loman's "way out in the blue ride on a smile and a shoeshine" turn into "an earthquake" is as enduringly shattering as any Greek tragedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:41PMYou could do a lot worse than seeing TACT's revival of Neil Simon's 27th play at the company's intimate home on Theater Row.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AMThursday, March 22, 2012
New YorkNo Place to Go- The financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe’s Pub with Ethan Lipton’s funny personal ode to the unemployed. . . .The Big Meal- Though Thornton Wilder is very…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:38PMThough Thornton Wilder is very much an unseen ghost hovering over Dan LeFRanc's play, it's not a copy-cat Our Town but the Real Deal: An innovative, intelligent, entertaining play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:20AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Once - This small musical has transferred with its charm and big heart very much intact . . .Once was of the best screen ti stage…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:04PMThis small musical has transferred with its charm and big heart very much intact
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:04AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
New York theater goers can currently see two plays permeated with steamy sado-masochistic games. One made new again by its star an…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:08AMFriday, March 16, 2012
Jesse Berger's immersive staging does nothing to enhance or deepen Genet's sly game-playing 3-hander
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:45AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Here's the lineup for the York Theatre Company's FREE Developmental Reading Series: Stranger, Guess Who’s Coming to Seder? and Dirty Little Secret. All …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:54PM Here's the lineup for the York Theatre Company's FREE Developmental Reading Series: Stranger, Guess Who’s Coming to Seder? and Dirty Little Secret. All&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:43PMNew York Slings & Arrows- view 1st episode freeADVERTISING AT CURTAINUP Painting Churches- The Keen Company's revival of …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:59PMThe 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…
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