Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Purim came and went, but the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is celebrating it now with “The Megile of Itzik Manger,” a freewheeling musical adaptation of the Book of Esther that’s…
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You may not think a play set in rural Ontario, Canada, is worth a New York minute, let alone two hours — but if you pass up “The Drawer Boy,” it’s your loss.
Michael Healey’s dram…
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Immigration is a hot-button issue — and you can literally feel the heat at “La Ruta.” The Working Theater’s new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the…
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Leaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway’s “Brief Encounter,” Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it’s shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able …
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Who would have thought a play titled “The Dance of Death” would be one of the funniest shows in town?
August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater’s r…
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Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
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Right now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown’s Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals — the real…
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Ancient Rome doesn’t seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Julius Caesar”: Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensembl…
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It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
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It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
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‘Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?” Rob Drummond asks in “Bullet Catch.” Whether you do or not, you’ll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing s…
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So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies — replete with a game audience providing sound effects — …
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It’s hard to figure out exactly where to look while watching “The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth.” Geared for kids ages 7 and older, this new “live-action graphic novel…
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‘Finks” feels personal. And with good reason: This drama about Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford’s struggles during the show-business blacklist of the ’50s was written by their son Joe G…
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Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
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‘it’s not like a cabaret,” gushed Elaine Stritch. “It’s like all my friends in New York got together!” And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her C…
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Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
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Despite its title song dropping more F-bombs than you’d think possible in a single number, “F#%king Up Everything” is actually a sweetly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl musical. Set in hi…
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Not aimed at the typical-aged theater audience, “Piggy Nation: The Musical!” has a bouncy score and just enough bodily function jokes to keep the kid-crowd for which it’s intended. As …
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The ominous feeling begins upon walking into the darkened theater, where three rusty claw-foot bathtubs are sitting on the stage. And it only gets spookier at the beginning of “The Drownin…
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‘we’re gonna have some fun, don’t worry,” Bello Nock assured a young boy’s nervous parents as he gently escorted their son to the stage.
They had reason to worry: After all, they�…
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You might say “For Love,” about the tortured romantic lives of three 30-something women, is like “Sex and the City” — only the city is economically depressed Dublin, and the sex is…
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Cirque du Soleil’s new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth’s gravity and reach …
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You’ll definitely want to review those program notes before watching “Neva,” the ponderous play by Chile’s Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It’s set in a St. Pet…
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It was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution — the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn. And it’s treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter’s “Hit …
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A.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately (“O Jerusalem,” “Mrs. Farnsworth”) that it’s easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foible…
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‘The Wild Bride” is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it’s grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughte…
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Edie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMWhen the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He’s the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontine…
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Judging by his first commercially produced play, “On the Head of a Pin,” Frank Winters is a promising playwright — especially for a 24-year-old.
All he really needs is a good editor.
T…
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The luridly poetic language is there, and so are some fine performances. But there’s not much more to Mississippi Mud Productions’ bare-bones revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly…
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