Friday, July 6, 2012
You don’t mess with Jackie Hoffman. At least, not if you’re going to ask her to perform at your new nightspot.
Kicking off her show at 54 Below, the comedienne milked her chagrin at bein…
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The real Josephine Baker — shown dancing wildly in a brief film clip — easily trumps the stage version in Cheryl Howard’s solo show. Though filled with details about the star’s life,…
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They loved “Bitches of the Kingdom!” in Orlando, and no wonder. For grown-ups with theme-park burnout, this show about peeved Disney princesses must have been a welcome tonic. Based on a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMBrian d’Arcy James must have one hell of a record collection, and it’s probably all on vinyl. In “Under the Influence,” at the gorgeous new cabaret space 54 Below, the affable star o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PM‘More of Our Parts,” described as “6 New Plays About Disability in 70 Minutes,” perfectly fulfills the mission of its producing company, Theater Breaking Through Barriers.
Known for …
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The Ice Factory Festival always seemed misnamed, because as cutting-edge and cool as its programming tends to be, its SoHo home was notorious for its lack of air-conditioning.
The steamiest …
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It’s debatable whether the world needed yet another As You Like It, since Shakespeare’s pastoral romantic comedy seems to receive a new production every other week. But thereR…
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Most musical revues come across as a scattershot collection of songs. But “Closer Than Ever,” now receiving a sterling revival by the York Theatre Company, contains plenty of story lines…
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The Costa Rican jungle is the evocative setting for “Slowgirl,” the new play by Greg Pierce. But while the ever-present sounds of birds and mysterious animals provide some atmospheric te…
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There’s one thing that can be definitely said about the Soho Rep’s production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya: You’ll probably again feel so closely involved with its charac…
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Jim Parsons works magic in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Harvey. I had my doubts that this old chestnut would have much impact these days. But Mary Chase’s 1944 com…
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It’s appropriate that Gina Gionfriddo’s new play has been compared favorably to Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles. Like that groundbreaking work, this delicious come…
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You can get dizzy trying to keep track of the comings and goings in “Escape,” Susan Mosakowski’s comedy about three troubled couples. Performed in separate, distinct areas of the tiny …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMSo, Ludwig van Beethoven and Quasimodo are giving a panel discussion . . .
It’s no joke, but rather the off-the-wall premise of “The Hunchback Variations.” Not for the intellectually f…
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From its startling opening image of a naked prisoner to its climactic reading of a jury’s verdict, “Murder in the First” is the sort of juicy courtroom drama we rarely get these days.
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Tv viewers groaned when Barbara Walters asked Katharine Hepburn what kind of a tree she’d be — a sign Dulcy Rogers should have heeded. Her one-woman play begins and ends with the writer/…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMA good rule of thumb about circus acts is that the less clothing the performers wear, the better. It’s clearly a philosophy shared by Spiegelworld, the Australian creators of “Absinthe,.…
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The most memorable thing about “Two Intimate” is the audience seating: men on one side, women on the other, as if at an Orthodox Jewish wedding. Not only does this make for a rotten firs…
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Sometimes, memories are best left alone. Such is my experience with seeing the new revival of Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit being presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. This hi…
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August Strindberg wasn't known for his comedies. The current revival of the Swedish playwright’s rarely seen 1893 work "Playing With Fire" isn’t going to change that.
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It may not sound like much, but take my word for it. An elderly man reciting the lyrics of “Ol’ Man River” in a Yiddish accent is one of the funniest things to be found on …
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What better place to see “Into the Woods” than, well, in the woods?
Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 musical classic — not seen here since its Broadway revival a decade ago — will be presen…
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Good luck searching for meaning in Title and Deed, Will Eno’s latest Rorschach test of a play being presented by the Signature Theatre. This monologue related by a nameless figure abou…
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
Yes, the title of Mike Bartlett’s play might seem salacious considering that it concerns a gay couple whose relationship is threatened when one…
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Religious and ethnic jokes abound in “Miracle on South Division Street,” the new sitcom — excuse me, play — being appropriately presented in St. Luke’s Theatre located in the bowel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMEver felt trapped at a party listening to a windbag telling an endless story with no apparent point? Such is the experience of watching “Are You There, McPhee?” John Guare’s new play, …
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George Bernard Shaw’s 1903 classic “Man and Superman” is a weighty philosophical treatise disguised as a frothy rom-com.
The Irish Rep’s revival successfully has it both ways.
On t…
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No one makes depression as attractive as Topher Grace. In “Lonely, I’m Not,” the former star of TV’s “That ’70s Show” manages to make abject misery seem the only rational way t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PMThere were high expectations for the revival of Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (“Miss Saigon”), the pro…
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If names like “Zork,” “Minecraft” and “Zelda” mean nothing to you, then you are definitely not the target audience for “You Are in an Open Field.” Described as the first “n…
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‘The City Club” has everything you’d want in a 1930s-set musical: a deeply flawed nightclub-owner hero, long-limbed chorus girls in a frequent state of undress, vicious fedora-wearing …
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