Monday, 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 07:02PMSunday, December 29, 2013
The 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 08:53AMSunday, December 15, 2013
You 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 07:38AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Kyle 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 04:58AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Experienced 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 03:31PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Patrick 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 05:07AMSaturday, November 16, 2013
We’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 12:02AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
“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 04:44PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Mark 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 03:45PMFriday, November 8, 2013
No 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 09:04PMThursday, November 7, 2013
A 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 01:05AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Virgil "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 05:07AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Wallace 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
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMDaniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:17AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Fireworks figure prominently in “Luce,” about parents who realize that the child they adopted from Africa a decade ago isn’t what he seems. Sadly, JC Lee’s new play fizzles out...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:22AMSunday, October 13, 2013
The sounds of an Irish jig fill the theater before the action starts — our first tip-off that this Culture Project revival isn’t going to be your typical “Seagull.” And it’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Its title may be poetic — thank Robert Frost — but “And Miles To Go” begins with a profane tirade. From a NYC teacher, no less. After 40 years at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:05PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Theater Review: Honeymoon in Vegas, 3 stars, Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ; 973-376-4343. Through Oct. 27. Running time: 150 minutes, one intermission.
The fun begin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:57PMFriday, October 4, 2013
There’s no flying and not a treacly song to be heard in this Aussie take on J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” Here at the New Victory Theater, the title character isn’t played by a wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27PMDee Bridgewater plays the late, great Billie Holiday in this combined bio-musical/concert.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:17PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
A lot of ground is covered, to increasingly diminishing effect, in “Bike America,” Mike Lew’s play about a young woman’s search for identity on a cross-country bike trip. Although it…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:32PMSunday, September 15, 2013
Anne Washburn's anarchic dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic future imagines the survivors reenacting a classic episode of "The Simpsons."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Playwright Horton Foote's Southern-drenched melodrama receives a posthumous, world premiere production.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMWill Power's drama concerns the unlikely real-life friendship between Muhammad Ali and the controversial screen star Stepin Fechit.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMThursday, August 29, 2013
The biggest name in new plays this season will be in the program, not on the stage.
It’s John Grisham, whose legal thrillers and other works have sold a whopping 275 million copies worldw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
The Savannah tourist board won’t be endorsing “The Cheaters Club” anytime soon. Derek Ahonen’s supernatural dark comedy portrays Georgia’s famously haunted city as a hotbed of sin …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PMMonday, August 19, 2013
‘i’m sick to death of cleverness,” exclaims a character in the cutely titled “The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway.” But while the line comes from Oscar Wilde’s “The Import…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMThursday, August 15, 2013
This new Broadway musical tells the real-life story of Shlomo Carlebach, the "Rock Star Rabbi."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMForty years after his death, Lyndon Johnson is suddenly a hot topic for the stage. “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston plays the late president in the bio-drama “All the Way,” opening…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:37AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" fame collaborate on this new musical based on the early Shakespeare comedy.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:01PMThursday, August 8, 2013
Zachary Levi of TV's "Chuck" and Krysta Rodriguez star in this Broadway romantic musical comedy.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PM 
