Thursday, September 27, 2012
Ibsen's classic about a small town doctor who attempts to warn the citizenry about the local spa's contaminated waters. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
‘hard Times” is that rare musical where you walk in humming the tunes. In fact, it’s got to be the most tuneful show you’ll ever see about the 1863 Civil War draft riots, thanks to i…
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The raucous teenagers onstage seem perfectly normal at first. They’re playing an exuberant game of soccer, laughing and joking and at one point stopping to dance to a Beyoncé song. One is…
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Look up “acquired taste” in the dictionary and you’ll probably find a picture of Dina Martina. The drag-queen performer and Provincetown, Mass., fixture returned to New York recently f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMUneasily blending an examination into the global effects of climate change with dysfunctional family drama, British playwright Nick Payne’s dark comedy If There Is I Haven’t Foun…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:24AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
‘Why do the righteous suffer?” That question’s at the heart of the Old Testament’s Book of Job — one that will feel newly relevant to theatergoers who sit through “Job,” Thomas…
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The Anderson Twins don’t really play the fabulous Dor-seys in “The Anderson Twins Play the Fabulous Dorseys!,” but never mind. This musical tribute from one pair of swinging musical si…
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If press releases are to be believed, no Bulgarian play has ever received a major New York City production until now.
And if the Bug Company’s “The Eyes of Others” is any indication, …
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You can’t throw a rock in this town without hitting a solo performer.
But this hasn’t stopped the All for One Theater Festival from showcasing even more. Kicking off tomorrow, the festiv…
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Watching “The Why Overhead,” it’s hard not to imagine its playwright in some actual, dead-end office job, taking notes about his co-workers with the hope of one day putting it all onst…
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The ambitious new Broadway bio-musical depicts the life and career of the legendary screen star. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:13PMNO, the women pictured above won’t be strutting the runways this Fashion Week.
They’re the subjects of “Sicks,” a play by Clay Edmonds —whose day job is director of merchandising f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Imagine a Narcotics Anonymous meeting at which the speaker suddenly breaks into song and dance. This should give you a pretty good feel for “Methtacular!” — a confessional solo show ab…
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‘i could squeeze a bullet between those lips.” “I could get a spoon and prise it in your eye sockets.” “I could squeeze a grenade up there.”
Such are among the not-so-tender decl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Sam Shepard clearly hasn’t mellowed with age. The 68-year-old playwright’s newest work, “Heartless,” which the Signature Theatre’s giving a world premiere, reveals a writer still r…
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One of the more depressing moments in a man’s life comes with the realization that he’s no longer young enough to be cougar bait.
That was one of the random thoughts prompted by “Couga…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM‘the Book of Mormon” isn’t the only show in town to poke fun of Mitt Romney’s faith. Enter “Missionary in Manhattan” which is pretty amusing, if a lot less profane — and just $…
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Broadway’s long sigh of relief is over: Gerard Alessandrini’s skewer-fest, “Forbidden Broadway,” is back with “Alive & Kicking!” Opening Sept. 6, it once again makes comic mincem…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:35PMMonday, August 20, 2012
Club kids are familiar with the strange goings-on at The Box, the intimate Lower East Side venue that specializes in modern-day burlesque and risqué vaudeville acts. But the hot spot’s cu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PMSunday, August 19, 2012
It may advance the cause of Arab-Israeli relations, but the new play “Dogs” doesn’t do much to help theater. This new work by the Israeli company TheaterCan at the Fringe Festival conc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Ever wonder what happened to the singing Von Trapp family after they escaped the Nazis by climbing the Alps at the end of “The Sound of Music”?
Probably not, especially since in real lif…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PMLong before Matisyahu made Orthodox Judaism hip, there was Shlomo Carlebach. This “Rock Star Rabbi,” whose accessible brand of Jewish music made him an unlikely pop star in the 1960s, is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AMImagine owning a home plate that once graced the old Yankee Stadium. Or the glove worn by the player who ended Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak with a catch. Or the letter Babe Ruth w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Now playing in Toronto by way of Glasgow and London’s West End—and prior to a hoped-for Broadway run—Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles is far from the cheery juke-box musi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:35AMBy Beverly Hills standards, Deana Martin had a perfectly normal childhood. She sang Christmas carols with Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland attended her school play and “Uncle Frank” Sinatr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMIt’s bad enough that politicians screw over their constituents. Do they have to screw over the English language, too?
Thanks to sleazy politicos involved in career-breaking sex scandals su…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:37AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy tale-inspired musical starring Amy Adams is appropriately presented in the woods in this free Central Park revival. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman's shaggy dog farce was inspired by their youthful days working together at a Houston construction site. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:23AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Broadway dimmed its lights Friday night in Gore Vidal’s honor. Happily, a slew of cast changes at his scathing 1960 comedy, “The Best Man,” has scarcely diminished this fine revival’…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM‘shalom, my brothers,” Rain Pryor greets her audience — and if that sounds incongruous coming from a woman in a large Afro, well, that’s the point.
As “Fried Chicken and Latkes” …
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Charity Hope Valentine is reborn as Caridad Esperanza Valentin in the new Latin-accented revival of “Sweet Charity.” But while the ethnic flavoring adds some spice to the 1966 musical ab…
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