J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” was a surprise hit when it was revived on Broadway nine years ago. Now comes Priestley’s “Cornelius,” which vanished after its 1935 West End…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PMIt’s best known as the place where the Titanic was built. But Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard where “The Boat Factory” is set, was much more than that — a place where generat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMWe get not one but two Susan Sontags in Moe Angelos’ “Sontag: Reborn.” The first is the younger version, beginning in the late intellectual’s teenage years, as she begins a search fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PMReality Tv seems almost too easy a target for satire, but “Good Television” mostly avoids the pitfalls. This debut work by veteran Atlantic Theater Company actor Rod McLachlan offers dis…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AMWhat does it take to go “Around the World in 80 Days?” Just two hours, five actors and some highly inventive theatricality. Jules Verne’s 1873 classic about the globe-trotting adventur…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMChristopher Lloyd stars in this off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's modern classic. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:00PMLove lost and found is at the heart of the best works in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s “34th Marathon of One-Act Plays.” The first in its annual three-part series is a better-than-usual bi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AMPerhaps you thought you could get away with secretly reading “Fifty Shades of Grey” on your Kindles and iPads. But your naughty literary predilections will be exposed should you see “C…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMThe veteran comedian delivers riffs on the U.S. Constitution in his new solo show.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMTalk about setting the scene: For “Core Values,” Lauren Helpern’s vividly realistic set design depicts the cramped, dreary conference room of a small Manhattan travel agency. Lit by f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMNow that she’s 73, Christina Crawford might want to resolve her mommy issues. That’s the main feeling evoked by “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” a bizarre show in which Crawford rehashes …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMFor “This Side of Neverland” — two one-act plays by “Peter Pan” author J.M. Barrie — the Pearl Theatre leaves this side of the Atlantic for the starchy shores of Edwardian Englan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PMA few minutes into his new show, Mark Nadler orders the theater doors to be locked. “You will stay for ze entire show und you vill like it!” he announces in a comical German accent he dr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMManhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes. Good luck with that in this town. And good luck to audiences at “Love The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMPurim came and went, but the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is celebrating it now with “The Megile of Itzik Manger,” a freewheeling musical adaptation of the Book of Esther that’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMYou may not think a play set in rural Ontario, Canada, is worth a New York minute, let alone two hours — but if you pass up “The Drawer Boy,” it’s your loss. Michael Healey’s dram…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMImmigration is a hot-button issue — and you can literally feel the heat at “La Ruta.” The Working Theater’s new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:47PMLeaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway’s “Brief Encounter,” Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it’s shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PMWho would have thought a play titled “The Dance of Death” would be one of the funniest shows in town? August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater’s r…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMFrank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMRight now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown’s Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals — the real…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMAncient Rome doesn’t seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Julius Caesar”: Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensembl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMIt’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:17PMIt’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AM‘Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?” Rob Drummond asks in “Bullet Catch.” Whether you do or not, you’ll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMRadio drama is alive and well and playing at a theater near you. So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies — replete with a game audience providing sound effects — …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AMIt’s hard to figure out exactly where to look while watching “The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth.” Geared for kids ages 7 and older, this new “live-action graphic novel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AM‘Finks” feels personal. And with good reason: This drama about Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford’s struggles during the show-business blacklist of the ’50s was written by their son Joe G…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMOperating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 01:16AM‘it’s not like a cabaret,” gushed Elaine Stritch. “It’s like all my friends in New York got together!” And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her C…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMNora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
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