Sunday, January 20, 2013
America 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
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMFriday, January 18, 2013
There are plenty of fireworks in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but sadly they’re all offstage. For this production marking Scarlett Johan…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:59AMThursday, January 17, 2013
‘working on a Special Day” is one of those shows that takes pains to constantly remind you that you’re watching THEATER. This is a simple story of an emotionally charged encounter betw…
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UNSUNGMusicalsCo.’s mission is to restore and present obscure musicals that merit another look. But their revival of “The Fig Leaves Are Falling” demonstrates that some musicals are be…
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Two women are locked up for decades in a British hospital for the criminally insane. Their crime? Bearing children out of wedlock.
At least, that’s how the Irish Rep describes “Airswimmi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PMFriday, January 11, 2013
‘is that the sort of thing you find funny?” hisses the title character (and target) of Tim Crouch’s solo show, as he endures one humiliation after another.
Well, yes. At least, it’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMThe central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:33AMThursday, January 10, 2013
I am not a racist.
And yet there I was, sitting in the audience at “Tar Baby” — comedian Desiree Burch’s provocatively titled new show about race — wearing a sticker calling me one…
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Eager to shed those holiday pounds? You may want to check out “The Diet Show.” Not only might it provide some powerful motivation, but it’s the only show in town that at one point requ…
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You can say one thing about this year’s Under the Radar festival: It has something for every attention span.
Do you suffer from theater-induced attention-deficit disorder? There are three…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMMonday, December 24, 2012
Maybe it’s because we live in a world where everybody’s connected, but this year has seen an explosion of “immersive” shows that blur the line between audience and performers. In som…
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It seems a reasonable request: The dead young soldier standing in front of you forlornly asks for a coin, so he and his men can pay the ferryman to get across the River Styx. It’s easy eno…
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Here are 13 things about “13 Things About Ed Carpolotti”:
1. It’s a solo chamber musical, with Penny Fuller — of Broadway’s “Applause” and “Barefoot in the Park” — as a w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
‘Are you having a good time?” an actor asked me during the intermission of “Restoration Comedy,” the new party — sorry, production — at the Flea Theater.
It was a fair question,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:40PMSpoiler alert: Clarence gets his wings.
That you know absolutely everything that’s going to happen doesn’t spoil the pleasures of “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.” Antho…
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It’s apt that “The Songs I Love So Well” begins with that old chestnut “Danny Boy.” This show starring venerable Irish musician Phil Coulter is suffused with such a warm glow of no…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AMThe action in the rock musical “Bare” revolves around a Catholic high school production of “Romeo and Juliet.” But here, the star-crossed lovers are two gay teens whose illicit roman…
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Ah, the benefits of diminished expectations. Since it began previews in October, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross has been the target of…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 09:56AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Clifford Odets’ rarely seen 1937 drama Golden Boy is receiving a loving revival courtesy of the Lincoln Center Theater, which previously mounted his classic Awake and Sing! to great ac…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:29AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Frances Conroy: They’re just a few of the actors who began their careers touring with the Acting Company. That long list of illustrious alumni may one day includ…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:34PMGiven its title (and a subtitle that’s not fit to print in a family newspaper), it’s pretty clear that “Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas” isn’t aimed at the Rockettes crowd. Or …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PMIt wasn’t easy being Zelda Fitzgerald. The talented wife of “Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald suffered from bipolar disorder, for which she was often institutionalized. Her mar…
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Terrence McNally's new play conveys the chaotic backstage goings-on during the 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Best not to walk the kiddies past an open construction site after taking them to “Circus Oz: From the Ground Up.” The Australian troupe’s new show makes dangling high up on a construct…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMA situation rife with dramatic possibilities is given a frustratingly airless treatment in David Mamet’s new drama about a prisoner arguing for her parole before an impassive prison of…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:42AMFriday, November 30, 2012
The ever-reliable Norbert Leo Butz should earn a Broadway MVP award for his dynamic comic turn in Dead Accounts, the latest effort by the prolific scribe Theresa Rebeck (Seminar, The Underst…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:56AMSunday, November 25, 2012
Like a mordantly funny variation on “On Golden Pond,” Bruce Graham’s new play “The Outgoing Tide” wrests a surprising amount of humor from its dark tale of a family patriarch with …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMNo, that’s not a typo: It’s “Mies Julie,” not “Miss Julie,” that’s playing St. Ann’s Warehouse. This blistering adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 classic is set in pre…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMThursday, November 22, 2012
You can hardly blame Tommy Tune for being a little self-congratulatory in “Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales,” his new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. After all, the 6-foot-6 performer, d…
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Kathie Lee Gifford's musical depicts the rise and fall of famed '20s-era evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:06AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
‘if it wasn’t for you, we might all be eating with chopsticks.”
Those comforting words are offered to a haunted-looking man in “Radiance,” Cusi Cram’s new play that marks the la…
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