Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Spoiler alert: Clarence gets his wings.
That you know absolutely everything that’s going to happen doesn’t spoil the pleasures of “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.” Antho…
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It’s apt that “The Songs I Love So Well” begins with that old chestnut “Danny Boy.” This show starring venerable Irish musician Phil Coulter is suffused with such a warm glow of no…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AMThe action in the rock musical “Bare” revolves around a Catholic high school production of “Romeo and Juliet.” But here, the star-crossed lovers are two gay teens whose illicit roman…
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Ah, the benefits of diminished expectations. Since it began previews in October, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross has been the target of…
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Clifford Odets’ rarely seen 1937 drama Golden Boy is receiving a loving revival courtesy of the Lincoln Center Theater, which previously mounted his classic Awake and Sing! to great ac…
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Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Frances Conroy: They’re just a few of the actors who began their careers touring with the Acting Company. That long list of illustrious alumni may one day includ…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:34PMGiven its title (and a subtitle that’s not fit to print in a family newspaper), it’s pretty clear that “Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas” isn’t aimed at the Rockettes crowd. Or …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PMIt wasn’t easy being Zelda Fitzgerald. The talented wife of “Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald suffered from bipolar disorder, for which she was often institutionalized. Her mar…
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Terrence McNally's new play conveys the chaotic backstage goings-on during the 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera. read more
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Best not to walk the kiddies past an open construction site after taking them to “Circus Oz: From the Ground Up.” The Australian troupe’s new show makes dangling high up on a construct…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMA situation rife with dramatic possibilities is given a frustratingly airless treatment in David Mamet’s new drama about a prisoner arguing for her parole before an impassive prison of…
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The ever-reliable Norbert Leo Butz should earn a Broadway MVP award for his dynamic comic turn in Dead Accounts, the latest effort by the prolific scribe Theresa Rebeck (Seminar, The Underst…
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Like a mordantly funny variation on “On Golden Pond,” Bruce Graham’s new play “The Outgoing Tide” wrests a surprising amount of humor from its dark tale of a family patriarch with …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMNo, that’s not a typo: It’s “Mies Julie,” not “Miss Julie,” that’s playing St. Ann’s Warehouse. This blistering adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 classic is set in pre…
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You can hardly blame Tommy Tune for being a little self-congratulatory in “Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales,” his new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. After all, the 6-foot-6 performer, d…
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Kathie Lee Gifford's musical depicts the rise and fall of famed '20s-era evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.read more
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‘if it wasn’t for you, we might all be eating with chopsticks.”
Those comforting words are offered to a haunted-looking man in “Radiance,” Cusi Cram’s new play that marks the la…
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In search of the perfect echo, Dusty Springfield recorded her vocals for her classic album “Dusty in Memphis” in a bathroom. That scene is dramatized in “Forever Dusty,” the new bio-…
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The past literally comes back to haunt the characters in “The Piano Lesson,” August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Now, 22 years after its Broadway debut, this deeply moving wo…
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There’s a lot of failed communication among the troubled characters in “The Good Mother,” about a single mother with a disabled daughter. But the biggest failure is playwright Francine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMThere’s a lot of heat if not much substance in “Murder Ballad,” the new rock opera now steaming up the intimate confines of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II.
Starring Karen Oliv…
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Eve Ensler, who told us everything we ever wanted to know about vaginas (“The Vagina Monologues”), shifts her attention to the female teenage psyche in “Emotional Creature,” a theatr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PMEast meets West with a bang in “Golden Child,” David Henry Hwang’s 1996 play at the Signature Theatre, which has dedicated a season to the “M. Butterfly” playwright. Set in early 2…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:17PMA true fondness for the British music hall is probably a prerequisite to fully enjoy the charms of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rupert Holmes’ 1985 musical based on an unfinished novel …
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Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike manages the neat trick of being both a sometimes uproarious send-up of Chekhov and an affectionately heartwarming modern-day va…
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Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow, but it sure doesn’t shine as brightly in the new Broadway revival of Annie. James Lapine’s staging of this clockwork-perfect musical somehow m…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:21AMEven if your Yiddish is limited to the occasional oy gevalt, this won’t stop you from enjoying “The Golden Land.” This spirited musical revue about the Jewish immigration experience is…
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‘a Twist of Water” offers two dramas for the price of one. The first is a tale of a single father’s struggle to raise a rebellious, adopted teenager. The second is a virtual history le…
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If the plot of the Pearl Theatre Company’s “Figaro” seems familiar, that’s because you’ve seen it before, only set to Mozart’s gorgeous music. For this world premiere production,…
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‘Let me say right off I’m a witch,” the title character declares at the start of “Sowa’s Red Gravy,” and thank goodness she does, because it’s the only clear moment of Diane Ri…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PMIt’s such a pleasure watching the central character of “Mojo” blossom from precocious tyke to rebellious teen that you’ll barely notice she’s a puppet.
But a puppet she is, and she…
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