Thursday, December 22, 2011
In what surely must be purely coincidental timing, Farm Boy has arrived for a holiday engagement at 59E59 Theaters. Michael Morpungo’s “sequel” to his War Horse has opened …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:33AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
The cavernous St. Ann’s Warehouse provides the perfect theatrical environment for Misterman, Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s one-person play starring Cillian Murphy in his U.S. sta…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMSunday, December 18, 2011
You’ll probably head straight for a deli after “Shlemiel the First,” the delightful morsel of a 1994 klezmer musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Chelm” stories. In this wor…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PMFriday, December 16, 2011
Good luck scoring an invitation to the most exclusive social reception in town. It’s being held at the palatial and luxurious Fifth Avenue townhouse belonging to the very wealthy Mrs. …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:14AMThursday, December 15, 2011
The near demise of commercial off-Broadway has resulted in a plethora of unsuitable Broadway productions of tiny shows that look awfully wan in big theaters. The latest example is Lysistrata…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:57AMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Had enough Sugarplum Fairies to last you a lifetime? Tired of seeing the Rockettes kicking up their heels again? Bah, humbug, indeed.
Hey, this is New York City, so no problem. There’s pl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMMonday, December 12, 2011
In the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, we learn that the central character experienced a past life and suffered an untimely end, only to be reborn in a new incarnation. Such is t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:21AMFriday, December 9, 2011
If there was ever a show that should begin with the disclaimer, “Kids, don’t try this at home,” it’s the Cirque Shanghai’s “Bai Xi.” This Chinese acrobatic spectacle — the ti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMIt’s a long weekend’s journey into night at Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond’s overstuffed play about an African-American family’s tumultuous reunion at their summer home …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:34AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Could there be an actor more perfectly suited for Samuel Beckett’s works than John Hurt? Not only does his gaunt face and wiry hair recall the playwright, but he has the ravaged look of a …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PMWhen the indie film musical Once was released five years ago, it became a critical and box-office sensation. This touching tale of the relationship between a Dublin Irish street musician and…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:25AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
The stifling languorousness that so often afflicts contemporary productions of Chekhov is thankfully nowhere in sight in this Classic Stage Company’s revival of The Cherry Orchard. Dir…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:18AMSunday, December 4, 2011
In the classic 1939 comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” an outrageously obnoxious character wears out his welcome. The same can be said for the Peccadillo Theater Company revival that o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PMFriday, December 2, 2011
One might think that true-life, murderous outlaws wouldn’t exactly be a likely choice for musical treatment, but then again composer Frank Wildhorn has already put songs in the mouths …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:03AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
The pair's second show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency displays both their brilliant musical chops and their hilarious comic chemistry.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Two men sit in a sparsely appointed waiting room. The silence is periodically broken by the sound of a banging door, so loud it feels like a gunshot.
“Drives you ’round the bloody bend,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMSunday, November 27, 2011
In case you didn’t know it yet, drugs are bad. That’s the not-very-revelatory message of Dael Orlandersmith’s “Horsedreams,” her “Reefer Madness”- style drama about the evils o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:29PMFriday, November 25, 2011
There’s a chill in the air. The tourists are packing the streets. And the Christmas decorations are blanketing the stores. It can only mean one thing. The Radio City Christmas Spectacu…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:15AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
There’s a lot of love being expressed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Not only by the audience towards Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the veteran musical stars who have been performi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:02AMMonday, November 21, 2011
With so many playwrights indulging in theatrical navel gazing, it’s exciting to find someone who’s looking out at the world. That’s the case with J.T. Rogers, whose last play, “The O…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PMIn the opening minutes of Theresa Rebeck’s new play, four young students nervously await the arrival of a famous novelist who they’ve hired to conduct a series of private seminar…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:34AMSunday, November 20, 2011
In the opening number of “Cotton Club Parade,” Duke Ellington’s “Daybreak Express,” the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra re-creates the sound of a railroad train loudly barreling d…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:18PMFriday, November 18, 2011
It’s not surprising that Noel Coward’s Private Lives is so often produced on Broadway. This delicious 1930 comedy, which has been seen here no less than four times in the last th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:37AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Language isn’t the only thing separating the new theatrical production of “La Strada” from its inspiration. This Spanish-language adaptation of Federico Fellini’s classic 1954 Italia…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMThe Tony-winning star shows off her strong interpretive skills in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Thomas Bradshaw’s new play Burning is playing at the New Group’s theater on 42nd Street, but it would have been right at home on the old 42nd Street as well. This sprawling, ambi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMSunday, November 13, 2011
‘Fragments” is both an accurate and deceptive name for the evening of Samuel Beckett pieces being presented by Theatre for a New Audience. These five short works, collectively lasting un…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:15PMFriday, November 11, 2011
There’s a mass seduction going on nightly at the Broadhurst Theatre. In his one-man show Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, the Aussie performer has the audience eating out of the palm of…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:14AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
At the start of “All-American,” a father coaches his teenager in the fine art of the quarterback sneak as his other child watches in bored silence, smoking a cigarette. As it happens, th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Just in case you didn’t you didn’t get your hippy-dippy fix with the recent revival of Hair, there’s now the 40th anniversary production of Godspell to help you get your gr…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:26AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Andrew Hinderaker’s “Suicide, Incorporated” is at first wickedly satirical, almost Kafkaesque: It concerns a firm called Legacy Letters, which specializes in crafting suicide notes. Si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM 
