Female playwrights are woe fully underrepresented on our stages -- women of color particularly. Helping to correct that sorry state of affairs is the Ensemble Studio Theatre's "The River Cro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:20PMImagine being able to see Eugene O'Neill's obscure one-acts, minus all those long monologues. Now you can. Enter "The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 1: Ea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AMTry as I might, I find it impossible to appreciate the Elevator Repair Service’s aesthetic. This enterprising downtown troupe has made a significant name for themselves in recent years…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:02AMThey say that in Hollywood, everybody wants to direct. Apparently, in the theater, what everybody wants to do is write. Exhibit A: Jesse Eisenberg, whose play, “Asuncion,” previews Oct. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMIt’s been a mere ten years since the last Broadway incarnation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies, but that ill-conceived version was lamentable enough to warrant an…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:10AMTheater rarely gets more intimate -- or more immediate -- than Richard Nelson's follow-up to last year's "That Hopey Changey Thing," set on the eve of the last presidential election. Once…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMThere are plenty of one-liners in "A Night With George," and they're even more hilarious if you can un derstand them. Donna O'Connor's one-woman show, part of the1st Irish Festival, featu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PMIn case you wondered what role balloons played in the US military during World War I, there's an off-Broadway show that's only too happy to tell you all about it. Enroll in "Captain Fergu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AMIt seems almost criminal to take one of the English speaking theater’s finest classical actors, have him appear in a play in a tiny basement theater, and then make the run so limited t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:18AMEvenings of one-act plays can cause theatrical whiplash. That's certainly the case with "Summer Shorts 5: Series B." Now running in rep with the recently opened Series A, featuring work b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMIf Charles Busch’s artistic to the late Charles Ludlam was made evident by such parodies as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Red Scare on Sunset, then his latest effort reveals the influe…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:34AMAnyone who saw Rent in its original incarnation at the New York Theatre Workshop will no doubt be discomfited to see that it has now become a theatrical brand. Just three years after it clos…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:28AMSitting through "Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis" is likely to bring on a midlife crisis of your own. Its principal plot element is the retrieval of a bag of crack cocaine from the rectum of a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMParents of teenage girls should probably avoid "Carrie & Francine," the opener of the one- act fest Summer Shorts 5: Series A. Written by 17-year-old playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel, it depicts …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMIt was a musical that spoke to a new generation — and its dramatic backstage story became theatrical legend. On Jan. 25, 1996, the night before “Rent” played its first preview off-Broa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMSeveral years back, Steve Solomon scored a surprise off-Broadway hit with his solo comedy show "My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy!" An account of his dysfunctional fam…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PMThe centenary of Tennessee Williams’ birth has prompted a flood of productions of obscure works from his vaults. Perhaps the most intriguing is “The Pretty Trap,” an early one-act vers…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PMThey must put some thing in the water in Canada. The country has spawned an endless series of circus troupes, the most famous being Cirque du Soleil. The latest arrival is the Montreal-based…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PMGranted, "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" -- but the blues are more than enough in the New Haarlem Arts Theatre's rollicking revival of the Tony-nominated 1999 revue. From the fiery gospe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:54PMThere's one thing to be said about the Drilling Company's "Hamlet": You can't beat the parking. That's one of the perks of Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot, a series of free productions p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMImagine "The Wizard of Oz" spiked with a little salsa and me rengue. Que divertido! You've pretty much summed up "The Yellow Brick Road," a fun new riff on L. Frank Baum's classic. It's g…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMAs metaphors go, it's hard to beat a pair of shoes. That's the main lesson im parted by "The Shoemaker," in which the title character attempts to fix a woman's broken soul -- sorry, sole -- …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM'The Honeymooners," "I Love Lucy" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Which one of these is out of place? None of them, says Claire Beckman, artistic director of the Brave New World theater co…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMIt’s not easy to kill Death Takes a Holiday. This old chestnut about the Grim Reaper taking a much needed vacation was a Broadway hit way back in the 1920s, spawned a successful 1934 m…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:22AMThe opening moments of "Brownsville Bred" suggest we're in for a rough evening. Projected on a sheet hung on a clothesline is a Wikipedia entry about the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, fol…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PM'Victory: Choices in Reaction" is the theatrical equivalent to eat ing your vegetables. Set during the 17th century, when the monarchy was restored to England, this sprawling epic packs in s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PMLove triangles are al ways complicated. But the one in "A Strange and Separate People" is more convoluted than most. In this new play by Jon Marans ("The Temperamentals," "Old Wicked Song…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMHaunted-looking fig ures, their faces painted white, stand motionless onstage as you enter the Flea Theater. It's an arresting image -- one that dissipates as soon as they open their mouths.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PMImagine Blue Man Group ex panding its roster, develop ing the ability to harmonize and turning from blue to white. That, in essence, is "Voca People," about an intergalactic singing group. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:40PM'LADIES and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!" The introduction alone is enough to give you goose bumps -- especially since it's being heard at what used to be the Village Gate, where the brilliant co…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:19PMAN old-fashioned thriller in the Agatha Christie vein, "Tryst" is set in Edwardian times. It could just as easily have been written then as well -- and that's a compliment. Originally pro…
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