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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Born Bad by Erik Haagensen

This 2007 Olivier Award–winning play from Debbie Tucker Green is a thoroughly disquieting, relentlessly penetrating work of art. It's essential and stunning theater.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AM
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Benefactors by Erik Haagensen

Carl Forsman's production of Michael Frayn's 1984 drama isn't perfect, but it's intriguing enough to hold your interest and keep you thinking.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter by Erik Haagensen

Author-director Derek Ahonen and a dynamite four-person cast deliver this surreal black comedy of co-dependent lesbians and their teenage cannibal daughter with precision and panache.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:40AM

A Lonely Man's Habit by Erik Haagensen

Jeremy Lawrence seems born to play the great Tennessee Williams, but this one-man show stitched out of the playwright's journals and works is too diffuse and lacking in dramatic purpose.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:46AM
Thursday, March 31, 2011

An Evening with Nathan Gunn by Erik Haagensen

Opera star Nathan Gunn is making his Café Carlyle debut with a beguilingly intimate set that feels as if you're sharing an evening salon of song in his home.

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:37AM
Monday, March 28, 2011

The Other Place by Erik Haagensen

Sharr White's taut, incisive puzzle play, beautifully directed by Joe Mantello and featuring a raw and riveting Laurie Metcalf, tells a harrowing and moving tale.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:03AM
Sunday, March 27, 2011

NY Review: 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' by Erik Haagensen

Director-choreographer Rob Ashford talked Daniel Radcliffe into trying his hand at musical comedy. Alas, the likable and undeniably talented lad is in over his head.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
Friday, March 25, 2011

NY Review: 'Macbeth' by Erik Haagensen

Director Arin Arbus, star John Douglas Thompson, and a uniformly fine cast electrify this no-frills, no-sense production of the Bard's most psychologically satisfying play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

NY Review: 'The Dream of the Burning Boy' by Erik Haagensen

Consisting of slim, movielike scenes and built on a situation so unique that it squelches any wider resonance, "Boy" never gathers enough steam to generate appreciable dramatic force.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime