Friday, January 21, 2011
Anyone who's seen Carol Channing in one of her recent appearances -- say, at the Kennedy Center Honors -- knows that she's remarkably spry for an almost-90-year-old. But she's even more dyna…
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They say truth is stranger than fiction -- but fiction's often far more entertaining. So it is with British comedian Daniel Kitson's "The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church," a one-man s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PM'Are there more plots to unravel?" complains the title character of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," and he might as well be speaking for the audience.
Luckily, the Fiasco Theater's charming ne…
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If the idea of watching two machines chatting to each other sounds exciting, then "Hello Hi There" is the show for you. Nirvana for computer geeks, this bizarre theater piece by Annie Dors…
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No need to bother with that revival of "King Lear" arriv ing in April at BAM. Why sit through the entirety of Shakespeare's classic when you can get pretty much the same story in less than 7…
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You'd expect cheeki ness from a theater troupe named Pants on Fire, and that's exactly what you get in this rollicking British import at the Flea Theater.
"Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses" …
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Marital difficulties? Try watching Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano in ac tion. These husband-and-wife performers have so much personal and musical chemistry, they're practically providing c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMThe problem with being a cutting-edge theater festival is that it gets harder and harder to keep things sharp.
That's the challenge faced by Under the Radar, presented each year by the Pu…
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The first sign that "Baby Uni verse: A Puppet Odyssey" isn't your ordinary puppet show comes in the lobby, when a small, wheelchair-bound robot with a striking resemblance to Stephen Hawking…
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Even if you're allergic to mime, Mum menschanz enchants. This durable Swiss troupe makes nonverbal magic with ordinary and not-so-ordinary objects, transforming them into abstract creations …
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It's a good thing there's a bar inside the Ace of Clubs basement theater where "Naked Holidays" is playing: You're going to need to down some seriously spiked eggnog to endure this holiday s…
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The first time she per formed in New York -- 36 years ago -- Bonnie Langford, then 10, played Baby June to Angela Lansbury's Momma Rose in "Gypsy."
Judging by the manic energy of "Bonnie …
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If you've ever sat through a boring wed ding speech, you'll probably wince during the opening scene of "If That's All There Is." But while it captures such moments with comically painful acc…
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Like spiked eggnog, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" assaults you with sweetness while adding a bracing kick of something stronger. The Irish Repertory Theatre's production includes an abundan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM'Black Nativity," the all- black retelling of the Na tivity story, has been a holiday staple since 1961. This year's edition -- an updated, retitled "Black Nativity Now" -- commits the Scroo…
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'You've Got Hate Mail" is the perfect bed room farce for an era in which there's more action online than in actual bedrooms.
Composed entirely of e-mails and text messages riotously enact…
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A full-throated belter one minute, a sensitive chanteuse the next: Either way, Baby Jane Dexter is the real deal.
In her nearly four decades on the cabaret scene, she's lived her life in …
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AS theater audiences go, the one for "Measure for Measure" last week was pretty uniform — an all-female contingent that was in uniform: the dark-green pants and shirts of the Bayview Corre…
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Part "Stomp," part "Blue Man Group" and part "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," "Momentum" is as infectious as it is derivative. This kinetic production from the Israel-based company M…
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"Hot Lips to Cool Blues!" isn't just the title of Sally Kellerman's new cabaret show -- it's a pretty fair summary of her career.
This is, after all, the woman who gained fame and an Osca…
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It can't be easy being David Boyle. As the sole performer in "Being Sellers," part of the Brits Off Broadway series, he not only has to embody Peter Sellers, but Inspector Clouseau, Chance t…
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A canny pairing of early and late one-acts by Harold Pinter, "The Collection & A Kind of Alaska," makes it clear that the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's talents only deepened over the year…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:06PMA country racked by in tense division be tween the right and left; character assassination by a biased press -- and ruthless political figures willing to do whatever it takes to achieve thei…
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Even by the daunting standards they've set for themselves, the Civilians' latest effort is a stretch. "In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards" is the musical-theater equivalent of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMCharles Smith's "Knock Me a Kiss" plays like a Tyler Perry movie set during the Harlem Renaissance.
Inspired by the ill-fated marriage between the daughter of activist W.E.B. Du Bois and …
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'I had God on my side," declares John Smith, the generically named character David Duchovny plays in Neil LaBute's new, deeply problematic play, "The Break of Noon."
That's how Smith expl…
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Amoralists. Rapp. The names are embla zoned on the program for "Ghosts in the Cottonwoods" like the stars of a Hollywood action film. And no wonder: This is a theatrical meeting made in he…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:43PMIn Peter Nichols' new comedy, "Lingua Franca," set at a wildly dysfunctional language school, the accent is on conflict. It might make you grateful for Rosetta Stone.
Set in 1950s Florenc…
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Memo to aspiring dramatists: If that whole playwriting thing doesn’t work out, there are other job possibilities out there. You might even get elected president.
That’s what happened to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:06PMCombining men in drag with a spoof of cheesy '50s-era sci-fi movies, "Devil Boys From Beyond" is like time-capsule camp. A hit at last year's Fringe Festival, its familiar brand of kitsch se…
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Michael Shannon fans often have to settle for seeing him in small doses: his brief, Oscar-nominated turn in "Revolutionary Road," his supporting role in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
But the …
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