Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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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Sometimes, memories are best left alone. Such is my experience with seeing the new revival of Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit being presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. This hi…
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August Strindberg wasn't known for his comedies. The current revival of the Swedish playwright’s rarely seen 1893 work "Playing With Fire" isn’t going to change that.
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It may not sound like much, but take my word for it. An elderly man reciting the lyrics of “Ol’ Man River” in a Yiddish accent is one of the funniest things to be found on …
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What better place to see “Into the Woods” than, well, in the woods?
Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 musical classic — not seen here since its Broadway revival a decade ago — will be presen…
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Good luck searching for meaning in Title and Deed, Will Eno’s latest Rorschach test of a play being presented by the Signature Theatre. This monologue related by a nameless figure abou…
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
Yes, the title of Mike Bartlett’s play might seem salacious considering that it concerns a gay couple whose relationship is threatened when one…
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Religious and ethnic jokes abound in “Miracle on South Division Street,” the new sitcom — excuse me, play — being appropriately presented in St. Luke’s Theatre located in the bowel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMEver felt trapped at a party listening to a windbag telling an endless story with no apparent point? Such is the experience of watching “Are You There, McPhee?” John Guare’s new play, …
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George Bernard Shaw’s 1903 classic “Man and Superman” is a weighty philosophical treatise disguised as a frothy rom-com.
The Irish Rep’s revival successfully has it both ways.
On t…
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No one makes depression as attractive as Topher Grace. In “Lonely, I’m Not,” the former star of TV’s “That ’70s Show” manages to make abject misery seem the only rational way t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PMThere were high expectations for the revival of Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Starring Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce (“Miss Saigon”), the pro…
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If names like “Zork,” “Minecraft” and “Zelda” mean nothing to you, then you are definitely not the target audience for “You Are in an Open Field.” Described as the first “n…
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‘The City Club” has everything you’d want in a 1930s-set musical: a deeply flawed nightclub-owner hero, long-limbed chorus girls in a frequent state of undress, vicious fedora-wearing …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PMThe pixiesh performer applies a distinctly modern stamp to a surprising range of material in her superb cabaret show at the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PM‘Glee” meets “Hairspray” in “Fat Camp,” a diverting musical about a group of overweight teens who find love and friendship at Camp Overton, where “You’ve got nothing to gain …
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The most haunting character in “Headstrong” isn’t onstage. He’s Ronnie, a 35-year-old ex-football player who killed himself after sustaining head injuries while playing in the NFL.Hi…
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Raul Esparza is one of the few leading men who can carry a Broadway musical, but even his formidable talents are adrift in Leap of Faith. This musical adaptation of the little-seen 1992 Stev…
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In his first significant effort since his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof, playwright David Auburn delivers a biographical drama about a once famous figure little known today: Joseph A…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:38AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
The dissolute playboy played by Matthew Broderick in Nice Work If You Can Get It is frequently inebriated, and it wouldn’t be a bad idea to be in a similar state to enjoy the slight ch…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:43AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
The current spate of Broadway musicalizations of hit movies hits another nadir with Ghost. This adaptation of the 1990 Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore film is mainly notable for its extravag…
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‘I sense bad vibes,” someone says early on in “Festen (The Celebration),” and, boy, is she on target, as a 60th-birthday party turns into a maelstrom of horrific accusations and lite…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PMThe new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire presents a particular dilemma. Its multiracial cast could well attract new audiences for this seminal 20th century dra…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 02:54AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Its Pulitzer Prize not withstanding, Clybourne Park still seems to me a better idea for a play than it actually is. Bruce Norris’ dark comedy, which has now arrived on Broadway after h…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:32AMSo many plays seem arbitrary, as if the writer were rolling dice to decide what happens next. But “Die: Roll To Proceed” cuts out the middle-man. In Joe Kurtz’s endlessly variable, int…
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The opening line of “Ninth and Joanie” is “It’s dead out . . . there’s nobody nowhere” — and boy, is that the truth. The characters in Brett C. Leonard’s suffocating drama ar…
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With the notable exception of Noises Off, theatrical farce is far more often labored than amusing. But One Man, Two Guvnors, newly arrived on Broadway from London’s West End, is…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 11:37PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Tennessee Williams certainly doesn’t make it easy to be generous.
The common perception about the legendary playwright’s later works is that they were sad reflections of …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:37AMSunday, April 15, 2012
The Civilians, the downtown documentary theater troupe, have tackled such socially and politically charged topics as the evangelical movement and Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards pr…
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“Tasteful” is not a word that springs to mind when thinking about Eva Peron, and it shouldn’t when it comes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical Evita either…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:14AMThursday, April 12, 2012
If you’re going to write a play about two legendary sports figures it would help if more than one of them was interesting. Such is the dilemma of Eric Simonson’s second attempt t…
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