Wednesday, May 14, 2014
“I can’t bear to see lovely things go to waste,” declares the fading actress of William Inge’s “A Loss of Roses.” The same can be said of this play, which...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:37PMSunday, May 4, 2014
It couldn’t have come at a better time — the end of a theater season that just kept on giving. Much like “Rocky,” one of its hapless targets, Gerard Alessandrini’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:02PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Mary Martin — the quintessential Peter Pan — captivated theatergoers for nearly 40 years. The loving but misguided revue “Inventing Mary Martin” only feels that long. Stephen Cole, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:27AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Lovers and others might want to steer clear of “Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra.” Starting with its icky title — the linking of one’s progenitor to an infamous...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33PMNeil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(©Joan Marcus)
The colorful title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be described as many things, but loveable is not usually …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:08AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Leave it to the New Group to show us a side of Nick Offerman we haven’t seen before — his bare butt. In “Annapurna,” the new play by Sharr White...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:42AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella star in Eric Coble's two-hander Broadway play about an elderly woman who threatens to blow up her Brooklyn brownstone apartment rather than be sent to a …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:45PMJeremy Whelehan's documentary chronicles the world tour of a production of "Richard III" starring Kevin Spacey.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMDaniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan
(©Johan Persson)
His face may be prominently displayed on the Playbill cover and theater marquee, but Daniel Radcliffe melts seamlessly i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:37AMThursday, April 17, 2014
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in Of Mice and Men
(©Richard Phibbs)
Review: Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a beloved classic that is a staple in high scho…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:30AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Audra McDonald doesn’t look or sound anything like Billie Holiday. So it’s a credit to t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Marin Mazzie in Bullets Over Broadway
(©Paul Kolnik)
Imagine a splashy Broadway musical comedy based on a beloved film, written by its original creator who once toiled for Sid Caesar …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:30AMThursday, April 10, 2014
You’ll mingle with ghosts in the new “Speakeasy Dollhouse,” an immersive show about the Booth brothers, actor Edwin and his notorious brother, Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:07PMFriday, April 4, 2014
David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaYTanya Richardson Jackson,
Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo
in A Raisin in the Sun
(©Brigitte Lacombe)
If director…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:05AMThursday, April 3, 2014
In the Transport Group’s new revival of “I Remember Mama,” 10 time-tested actresses — ages 67 to 82 — play all 23 characters, including the men and small boys. But...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:06AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Stephen Sondheim’s spirit hangs heavy over “A Second Chance.” One character calls the composer “one of my heroes.” And a program note from playwright Ted Shen even thanks him. An...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PMMonday, March 31, 2014
Idina Menzel in If/Then
(©Joan Marcus)
When a performer’s mere opening utterance of “Hello, it’s me” garners huge sustained applause, you know you’re in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:26AMFriday, March 28, 2014
Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” is a mash-up of the Latin words “mother” and “moon.” But it’s really about girl power, a female-centric production loosely inspired by “The Tem…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:20PMThursday, March 27, 2014
This world premiere play by Beau Willimon ("House of Cards") concerns four ordinary people whose lives become intertwined by fateful circumstances.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:05PMOff-Braodway’s “Beauty and the Beast” — a critically acclaimed, adults-only affair with explicit sex and nudity — is a fairy-tale love story both onstage and off. Chalk it up t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:22AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller, Grayson Taylor, and Tyne Daly in Mothers and Sons
(©Joan Marcus)
There’s a distressing air of familiarity about Terrence McNally’s Mother…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:00AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Ramin Karimloo in Les Miserables
(©Matthew Murphy)
Les Miserables could well refer to more than a few theater critics, this one included, faced with the prospect of yet again seeing …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
(©Deen van Meer)
When James Monroe Iglehart sings “Friend Like Me” in Disney’s new Broadway musical adaptation of its classi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:19AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Andy Karl in Rocky
(©Matthew Murphy)
You’ll leave the new Broadway musical Rocky humming the score. Unfortunately, it won’t be the wholly unmemorable one by veteran compos…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:27AMThursday, March 13, 2014
The sexy young couple in “Stockholm” seem made for each other. Attractive and fit, they dance joyously and indulge in torrid (offstage) sex before he whips up dinner. As they...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:41AMSunday, March 9, 2014
In Robert Askins’ “Hand to God,” a devout Christian teenager is led astray by a demonic hand puppet named Tyrone. At off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the MCC Theater prod…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Michael McKean, Bryan Cranston, and Brandon J. Dirden in All the Way
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Playing Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s ambitious historical drama All the Way, …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMIt’s sold 100 million copies — and, thanks to its lurid prose, spurred sales of God knows how many electronic readers. Yes, it’s E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Gimmicks trump coherence in a new production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that would probably have Shakespeare suing for copyright infringement. Jonathan Cake and Joaquina Kalukango play th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:54AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The Oscar-winning singer-actress performs songs from her classic movie-musicals "Oklahoma," "The Music Man" and "Carousel" in her cabaret show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:01PMAs depicted in “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” Louis Armstrong seems to suffer from multiple-personality disorder: Not only does John Douglas Thompson play the legendary jazz great, but he als…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:46AM 
