Thursday, January 19, 2012
Reunited with his American Beauty director, Sam Mendes, Kevin Spacey pulls out all the stops with his devilishly entertaining turn in the title role of the Bridge Project’s production …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The plays of Athol Fugard often require heavy lifting on the part of an audience. That’s particularly true of his 1987 drama The Road to Mecca, now being given its Broadway premiere in…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
I* capturing the monotony and anger that marks the daily life of New York City cops, "Newyorkland" makes a powerfully compelling film.The problem is, it's supposed to be a theater piece. The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PM[SHARE]Why does every show set in Dublin seem to take place in a bar? Hot on the heels of the Broadway-bound "Once" " where you can step up onstage and buy a pint of Guinness before the show and at…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:49AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2012
Composer Stephen Sondheim will probably be appeased when he sees The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, the reconceived revival of the classic opera by George and Ira Gershwin and, oh yes, lib…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Flip around the radio dial lately? You probably won't find anything as entertaining as the programming put on by Soviet Free Radio Order. Especially its "At Home Field Guide," a homespun com…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:05PM[SHARE]Bridesburg is a run-down neighborhood in south Philadelphia. If Victor Kaufold's drama set there is any indication, you won't want to go there . . . or to "Bridesburg," for that matter.To it…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PM[SHARE]The Chinese language is all that one seems to be hearing lately. Not only did presidential candidate Jon Huntsman resort to Mandarin while rebuking Mitt Romney during a recent debate, but Da…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:43AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
Imagine a cross between "Inherit the Wind" and David Mamet's charged student-versus-teacher drama "Oleanna," and you have some idea of "How the World Began."
Catherine Trieschmann's new piec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]Let's say you've flipped through a newspaper, reading this or that; sponged the breakfast crumbs off the table, loaded the dishwasher and wrestled your child into a car seat for a trip to yo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2012
The Under the Radar festival is a much-needed showcase for adventurous theater companies whose work isn't exactly commercial " for better or worse. Two recent cases: the New York troupe the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13PM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
The tourists may have left, but the city's about to be invaded by a new force of thousands. And Mark Russell is ready. The arts festival he produces may be called Under the Radar, but there'…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:49PM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2011
By any measure, this year was a real roller-coaster ride for Jeremy Jordan. Like the Frank Sinatra song, the 27-year-old actor's been up and down and over and out, having made a splash with …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
David Hyde Pierce somehow always manages to project a vaguely uncomfortable, awkward quality in his characters. It feels totally appropriate for Close Up Space, the uncomfortable, awkward ne…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:56AM[SHARE]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 05:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 world, food is …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 07:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 plen…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:21AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 title, not exactly…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]It’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 05:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PM[SHARE]When 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 06:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 opene…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 04:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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, doe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 of cocaine and …
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