As depicted in “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” Louis Armstrong seems to suffer from multiple-personality disorder: Not only does John Douglas Thompson play the legendary jazz great, but he als…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:46AMWatching Craig Lucas’ new drama is like listening to the confessionals at a 12-step meeting: What’s deeply meaningful to the speakers may be tedious for everyone else. Lucas (“Prelude …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:16PMFrances Jue and Cole Horibe in Kung Fu (©Joan Marcus) The title of David Henry Hwang’s bio-play about Bruce Lee is ironic in a way that the screen icon would surely have appreci…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMKelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in The Bridges of MadisonCounty (©Joan Marcus) Is it too much to ask of a show called The Bridges of Madison County that we actually see one of the co…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:46AMA scene from Love and Information (©Joan Marcus) Caryl Churchill’s new play Love and Information features more than a hundred characters in some fifty short scenes ranging in le…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:56AMDonald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the complexities of marriage and friendship.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:50PMHe was a femme fatale in “Die Mommie, Die!” and a schizoid teenager in “Psycho Beach Party.” But Charles Busch’s new character is more demure: This time he plays Jimmy,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:38AMYankee legends past and present are the main characters of Eric Simonson's baseball-themed drama read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PMChristian Borle did a lot of scenery chewing as the villainous Black Stache in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” but that doesn’t compare to the fun he’s having in “Little Me.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:29PMThe star of Broadway's "Jersey Boys" and its upcoming film delivered a 75-minute set filled with classics during a new cabaret show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:40AMThe legendary nightspot Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe has been gloriously resurrected for this lavish and immersive theater experience.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMBertolt Brecht's rarely performed 1926 play is revived in a new version featuring original music by Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening").read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:51PMLaura Esterman and Keith Randolph Smith in Intimacy (©Monique Carboni) For a play that features, among other things, masturbation, ejaculations, fellatio, anal sex, suggestions of inc…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMBilly Hayes is as charming a (former) drug smuggler as you’d ever hope to meet. And if his name isn’t familiar, his story is, thanks to the movie “Midnight Express.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:14AMBrian F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing in Outside Mulllingar (©Joan Marcus) Playwright John Patrick Shanley pours on the Irish blarney in Outside Mullingar, which strains mightily for Moo…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:09AMFrank Langella in King Lear (©Richard Termine) Following in Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s recent footsteps in playing King Lear at BAM’s Harvey Theater, Frank Langella p…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:10AMRebecca Hall (foreground) with Jason Loughlin and Ryan Dinning (background) in Machinal (©Joan Marcus) The Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of Sophie Treadwell’…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:28AMJessie Mueller and Jake Epstein in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical (©Joan Marcus) Baby boomer musical nostalgists have a lot to choose from on Broadway these days. Th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 11:19PMDon’t even think of hibernating: What used to be the deadest month of the year is now a cultural cornucopia, thanks to two downtown theater festivals. What’s surprising is how...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:02PMThe year 2013 had its high notes and its twerks — and Sandra Bernhard dishes about them all in “Sandyland,” her year-in-review revue at Joe’s Pub. Backed by her band,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:53AMYou know him best as Big Pussy, who got wired and whacked in “The Sopranos.” But long before Vincent Pastore played wiseguys, he owned the Crazy Horse Cafe in New...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:38AMKyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined (©Eric Ray Davidson) Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:58AMExperienced theatergoers know that nearly every performer’s credits in the program inevitably list appearances on “Law and Order” and its myriad offshoots. But there are plenty of othe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:31PMPatrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot (Photo by Joan Marcus) Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMWe’re still hunting for Halloween candy between the couch cushions and have yet to order a turkey — but “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” just propelled us into the holidays…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:02AM“How can I go on? I cannot.” And with those fateful words, we know we’re watching a Beckett play — in this case, “All That Fall.” That we’re seeing it...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:44PMMark Rylance in Twelfth Night" (Photo by Joan Marcus) Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:45PMNo wonder Il Divo’s Broadway debut is subtitled “A Musical Affair”: That refers less to their concert of show-stoppers than to the steamy relationship between the hunky quartet and the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:04PMA friendly piece of advice: If you’re ever invited to play poker with Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio . . . pass. In the hands of these sleight-of-hand magicians, a simple deck...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:05AMVirgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight (Photo by Matthew Murphy) It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMWallace Shawn's sexually charged, dystopian drama concerns a doctor who solves the world's hunger problem by inventing a substance enabling animals to eat their own kind.read more
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