Monday, May 25, 2015
The 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…
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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMarital 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMYou'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" up…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNo 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIf 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 Dorsen…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'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 new p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThey 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe character at the heart of "Carnival Round the Central Figure" doesn't look at all well. Lying in a hospital bed, his mouth slack, he has a ghastly pallor and dark eyes that make him loo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAnyone 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 dyn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIf the news makes you want to cry, there's an antidote in town: "NEWSical the Musi cal." This new edition of the topical musical revue does for current events what the late, lamented "Forbi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe best way to ap preciate "Molly Sweeney" may simply be to shut your eyes. As he did in "Faith Healer" a few seasons back, Brian Friel uses three intersecting monologues, this time tellin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMJacobean drama is so rarely performed on these shores that any halfway decent production is bound to attract serious theatergoers. So it's doubly satisfying that the enterprising Red Bull T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBob Hope and Bing Crosby would be spinning in their graves at the thought of "The Road to Qatar!" -- a lame musical comedy in the style of their classic "Road" movies. Based on its creators'…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWho, younger readers may wonder, was Michael Rockefeller? Back in 1961, former Gov. Nelson's 23-year-old son went to Papua New Guinea on an anthropological expedition and never returned. Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMDeath-row dramas have been a theatrical staple since the '30s, and "When I Come To Die," Nathan Louis Jackson's new take, adds little that's fresh. Damon Robinson (Chris Chalk), in prison f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA sheet of paper, a chair, some rubber balls, fruit and a suitcase. That's about all the props Jamie Adkins needs to create theatrical magic in his family-friendly "Circus Incognitus." A ve…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHe was the man Oscar Wilde went to prison for: his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, the handsome, overprivileged son of the Marquess of Queensbury whom Wilde and others affectionately called Bosi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAs Leo Tolstoy famously observed, "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." For the three siblings in Melissa Ross' "Thinner Than Water," unhappiness takes the form of constant argu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNo one plays intense, irascible char acters better than Mandy Patinkin. The former "Criminal Minds" actor is perfectly cast in Rinne Groff's "Compulsion," inspired by writer Meyer Levin's o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIf "The Body Politic" is to be believed, political op eratives engage in some pretty kinky foreplay. Republican Spencer Davis and Democrat Trish Rubenstein like to play a game of "political…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIf there's one thing we can learn from "A Perfect Future," it's that politics and heavy drinking don't mix. Nor does it make for particularly interesting theater. David Hay's new play is on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe name "Abulkasem" may not mean anything to you now, but it will mean much after you've seen "Invasion!" Maybe too much, because this satirical Swedish import packs a whole lot of ideas -…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHaving a baby? You might want to avoid "40 Weeks," the Debbie Downer of pregnancy plays. The couple are Angie (Megan Hart) and Mark (Jorge Cordova), who are having a tough go of it financia…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe swashbuckling pirates of "Treasure Island" burst into song often enough to make it feel like a musical. But despite repeated choruses of "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum," this new adaptat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAny doubts that the Irish are in love with words are quickly dispelled by "Mimic." The sheer torrent of language that Raymond Scannell spews out in his one-man show will leave you numb and b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM�Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark� may never get around to officially opening on Broadway. But no fewer than three new Spider-Man musicals opening this week are willing to go where that $65…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Let's talk about the 'Real House wives,' " says Kathy Griffin, con spiratorially. And for the rest of her shamelessly titled "Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony," which opened its very brief run o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThere's not much to do in limbo except talk. And talk. And talk. And that's exactly what the three historical characters in "Spy Garbo" do. By the end of this long-winded evening of philoso…
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Justin Bartha and Elisabeth Reaser star in this new play by 'Hand to God' author Robert Askins, about married couples participating in Christian Domestic Disciplline.read more
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Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in Neil LaBute's new play about the aftermath of a drunken hook-up, premiering off-Broadway at Second Stage.read more
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