Sunday, August 5, 2012
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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There are plenty of places in this town where you can see Tony-winning actors perform.
A roof isn’t usually one of them.
That changes this weekend, when the Red Shirt Rooftop Reading Serie…
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The controversial former champ tells his side of the story while settling scores along the way. read more
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A Siamese cat imagines himself to be a Chihuahua in the delightful new kids’ musical “Skippyjon Jones.” This summer’s free offering from Theaterworks USA deserves a hearty olé!
The…
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‘it smells like armpits in here,” one of the characters says about the dilapidated train station in “Black Milk,” but the odor is the least of it. Vassily Sigarev’s play, now recei…
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Leave it to the Aussies to deliver a rollicking Chekhov.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s new Uncle Vanya being presented by the Lincoln Center Festival is a triumphant rendition that tha…
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Jake LaMotta may be 90, but he can still beat Mike Tyson to the punch.
The legendary pugilist has opened his autobiographical show, “Lady and the Champ,” just before Tyson hits Broadway…
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The most infuriating thing about “Serious Money,” Caryl Churchill’s 1987 satire of financial manipulations, is how damnably relevant it remains.
The play was a flop in its 1988 Broadwa…
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Much like the 1991 film that inspired it, the new musical Dogfight is a sweet, unassuming and quietly touching tale that has the feel of a tightly constructed short story. While its storylin…
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Wearing a dress and bonnet while flouncing around and speaking in a high-pitched whine, Peter Dinklage makes a far different impression in the new production of Molière’s “The Imaginary…
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Like the teeming slums that are its setting, the new musical “Rio” is seriously overcrowded. This re-imagining of “Oliver Twist,” set in modern-day Brazil, is so stuffed with inciden…
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Just when you thought it was safe to head into the water, here comes the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
What used to be one of the best bets of the fall is now playing the hot days of s…
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You don’t mess with Jackie Hoffman. At least, not if you’re going to ask her to perform at your new nightspot.
Kicking off her show at 54 Below, the comedienne milked her chagrin at bein…
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The real Josephine Baker — shown dancing wildly in a brief film clip — easily trumps the stage version in Cheryl Howard’s solo show. Though filled with details about the star’s life,…
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They loved “Bitches of the Kingdom!” in Orlando, and no wonder. For grown-ups with theme-park burnout, this show about peeved Disney princesses must have been a welcome tonic. Based on a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMBrian d’Arcy James must have one hell of a record collection, and it’s probably all on vinyl. In “Under the Influence,” at the gorgeous new cabaret space 54 Below, the affable star o…
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Known for …
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The Ice Factory Festival always seemed misnamed, because as cutting-edge and cool as its programming tends to be, its SoHo home was notorious for its lack of air-conditioning.
The steamiest …
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It’s debatable whether the world needed yet another As You Like It, since Shakespeare’s pastoral romantic comedy seems to receive a new production every other week. But thereR…
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Most musical revues come across as a scattershot collection of songs. But “Closer Than Ever,” now receiving a sterling revival by the York Theatre Company, contains plenty of story lines…
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The Costa Rican jungle is the evocative setting for “Slowgirl,” the new play by Greg Pierce. But while the ever-present sounds of birds and mysterious animals provide some atmospheric te…
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There’s one thing that can be definitely said about the Soho Rep’s production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya: You’ll probably again feel so closely involved with its charac…
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Jim Parsons works magic in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Harvey. I had my doubts that this old chestnut would have much impact these days. But Mary Chase’s 1944 com…
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It’s appropriate that Gina Gionfriddo’s new play has been compared favorably to Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles. Like that groundbreaking work, this delicious come…
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You can get dizzy trying to keep track of the comings and goings in “Escape,” Susan Mosakowski’s comedy about three troubled couples. Performed in separate, distinct areas of the tiny …
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It’s no joke, but rather the off-the-wall premise of “The Hunchback Variations.” Not for the intellectually f…
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From its startling opening image of a naked prisoner to its climactic reading of a jury’s verdict, “Murder in the First” is the sort of juicy courtroom drama we rarely get these days.
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Tv viewers groaned when Barbara Walters asked Katharine Hepburn what kind of a tree she’d be — a sign Dulcy Rogers should have heeded. Her one-woman play begins and ends with the writer/…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMA good rule of thumb about circus acts is that the less clothing the performers wear, the better. It’s clearly a philosophy shared by Spiegelworld, the Australian creators of “Absinthe,.…
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The most memorable thing about “Two Intimate” is the audience seating: men on one side, women on the other, as if at an Orthodox Jewish wedding. Not only does this make for a rotten firs…
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