Thursday, March 27, 2014
This world premiere play by Beau Willimon ("House of Cards") concerns four ordinary people whose lives become intertwined by fateful circumstances.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:05PMOff-Braodway’s “Beauty and the Beast” — a critically acclaimed, adults-only affair with explicit sex and nudity — is a fairy-tale love story both onstage and off. Chalk it up t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:22AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller, Grayson Taylor, and Tyne Daly in Mothers and Sons
(©Joan Marcus)
There’s a distressing air of familiarity about Terrence McNally’s Mother…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:00AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Ramin Karimloo in Les Miserables
(©Matthew Murphy)
Les Miserables could well refer to more than a few theater critics, this one included, faced with the prospect of yet again seeing …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
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When James Monroe Iglehart sings “Friend Like Me” in Disney’s new Broadway musical adaptation of its classi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:19AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Andy Karl in Rocky
(©Matthew Murphy)
You’ll leave the new Broadway musical Rocky humming the score. Unfortunately, it won’t be the wholly unmemorable one by veteran compos…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:27AMThursday, March 13, 2014
The sexy young couple in “Stockholm” seem made for each other. Attractive and fit, they dance joyously and indulge in torrid (offstage) sex before he whips up dinner. As they...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:41AMSunday, March 9, 2014
In Robert Askins’ “Hand to God,” a devout Christian teenager is led astray by a demonic hand puppet named Tyrone. At off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the MCC Theater prod…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Michael McKean, Bryan Cranston, and Brandon J. Dirden in All the Way
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Playing Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s ambitious historical drama All the Way, …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMIt’s sold 100 million copies — and, thanks to its lurid prose, spurred sales of God knows how many electronic readers. Yes, it’s E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Gimmicks trump coherence in a new production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that would probably have Shakespeare suing for copyright infringement. Jonathan Cake and Joaquina Kalukango play th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:54AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The Oscar-winning singer-actress performs songs from her classic movie-musicals "Oklahoma," "The Music Man" and "Carousel" in her cabaret show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:01PMAs 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 04:46AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Watching 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 09:16PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Frances 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 07:06AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Kelli 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 05:46AMThursday, February 20, 2014
A 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 05:56AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the complexities of marriage and friendship.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:50PMMonday, February 10, 2014
He 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 04:38AMThursday, February 6, 2014
Yankee 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 04:29PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
The 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 11:40AMSunday, February 2, 2014
The 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 07:00PMThursday, January 30, 2014
Bertolt 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 05:03AMSunday, January 26, 2014
Billy 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 05:14AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Brian 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 05:09AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Frank 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 05:10AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Rebecca 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 05:28AMSunday, January 12, 2014
Jessie 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 11:19PMMonday, December 30, 2013
Don’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 07:02PM 
