Nora 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…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:24PMDespite its title song dropping more F-bombs than you’d think possible in a single number, “F#%king Up Everything” is actually a sweetly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl musical. Set in hi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PMNot aimed at the typical-aged theater audience, “Piggy Nation: The Musical!” has a bouncy score and just enough bodily function jokes to keep the kid-crowd for which it’s intended. As …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:27PMThe ominous feeling begins upon walking into the darkened theater, where three rusty claw-foot bathtubs are sitting on the stage. And it only gets spookier at the beginning of “The Drownin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:54PM‘we’re gonna have some fun, don’t worry,” Bello Nock assured a young boy’s nervous parents as he gently escorted their son to the stage. They had reason to worry: After all, they�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMYou might say “For Love,” about the tortured romantic lives of three 30-something women, is like “Sex and the City” — only the city is economically depressed Dublin, and the sex is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMCirque du Soleil’s new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth’s gravity and reach …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMYou’ll definitely want to review those program notes before watching “Neva,” the ponderous play by Chile’s Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public. It’s set in a St. Pet…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMIt was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution — the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn. And it’s treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter’s “Hit …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMA.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately (“O Jerusalem,” “Mrs. Farnsworth”) that it’s easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foible…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PM‘The Wild Bride” is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it’s grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughte…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PMEdie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMWhen the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He’s the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMJudging by his first commercially produced play, “On the Head of a Pin,” Frank Winters is a promising playwright — especially for a 24-year-old. All he really needs is a good editor. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PMThe luridly poetic language is there, and so are some fine performances. But there’s not much more to Mississippi Mud Productions’ bare-bones revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMAyn Rand-style self-interest runs amok in this drama, featuring Zosia Mamet and Matt Lauria, about the aftermath of a college party sex scandal.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:55PMA young genius tangles with an older, respected rival in “Isaac’s Eye.” But while that notion sounds familiar, Lucas Hnath’s new drama — about the tug of war between Isaac Newton a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PMThree performers, cardboard cutouts, tiny puppets and a pair of swords. That’s all it takes for Scotland’s Visible Fictions theater company to present “The Mark of Zorro,” their char…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMThree monkeys pounding on typewriters, in the hope they’ll eventually produce “Hamlet.” Leon Trotsky going about his day with an assassin’s ax in his head. A universal, nonsensical b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AMIt’s the 1950s, and a black family hopes to buy into an all-white neighborhood. No, the play this time isn’t “A Raisin in the Sun” or its modern-day theatrical riff, “Clybourne Par…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AMBe careful next time you bring home a stray bunny rabbit, no matter how cute and fluffy he is. For if the new children’s show “Bunnicula” is to be believed, he may be a . . . vampire b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMEthan Hawke directs and plays the title character in this modern-day update of Bertolt Brecht's "Baal." read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM‘She’s a real drama queen, that one,” whispered a shady-looking guy. And I, sipping from the coffee cup a winking bartender had just poured some liquor into, had to agree. Even as imme…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:28AMIt took nearly three decades and countless therapy sessions, but I finally thought I was over the post-traumatic stress of having suffered through the original 1983 Broadway production of �…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMYou’ll think twice about taking advantage of the Missed Connections section on Craigslist after seeing “The Man Under.” Paul Bomba’s strained drama about a man who falls in love with…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMThe veteran pop star and "Justin Bieber of the ‘70s" returns to Broadway in a hits-laden show. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:03AM‘Totally Tubular Time Machine” bills itself as “NYC’s only interactive, intergalactic, pop music experience.” That’s true enough, but whether you’ll want to go back in time to …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMIf the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Thea…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:31PMA Brooklyn lug dreams of roller-skating to stardom in “The Jammer,” a new comedy that strains so hard for laughs, it makes “Starlight Express” seem weighty by comparison. It’s the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMAnger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. That striking proverb comes to mind while watching “The Suit,” the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s haunting piece …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMAmerica Ferrera stars in this dark off-Broadway dark comedy about a young single mother struggling to survive in the depths of the financial crisis. read more
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