Monday, May 25, 2015
SHAKESPEARE -- even the comedies -- can be heavy lifting, so it's a pleasure to report that "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is lighter than air.Imported from London's Globe Theatre, this "Merr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou may want to have a study guide handy during the Irish Rep's "Banished Children of Eve," a swirling historical drama that often feels like homework.Set during the 1863 New York Draft Rio…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou may want to have a study guide handy during the Irish Rep's "Banished Children of Eve," a swirling historical drama that often feels like homework. Set during the 1863 New York Draft Ri…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou may find yourself nervously whistling in the dark at "Play Dead," the fiendishly frightening but playful spookfest devised by Todd Robbins and Teller, the silent half of Penn & Teller. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou might want to avoid "Notes From Under ground" if you're feeling out of sorts -- because this blistering adaptation of Dostoevsky's 1864 novella could send you over the edge. Adapted by …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe story behind "Personal Enemy" is more interesting than the play itself. Co-written in 1953 by British play wrights John Osborne ("Look Back in Anger") and Anthony Creighton, it was bare…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMichael 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 br…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMCombining 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 s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMemo 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 Vacl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAmoralists. 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 heav…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn 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 Florence,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'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 explai…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMCharles 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 th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMEven 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 05:58PMA 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 the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA 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 yea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMPart "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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMPart "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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAs 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 C…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA 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 pu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'You've Got Hate Mail" is the perfect bedroom farce for an era in which there's more action online than in actual bedrooms. Composed entirely of e-mails and text messages riotously enacted …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMLike 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 abunda…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'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 Scro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'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 Scro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIf 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 ac…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe 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 La…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt'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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMEven 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe 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 Hawkin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe 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 Publ…
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