“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 06:14AMIf 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…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMThe singer brilliantly juxtaposes and combines the work of Cole Porter and Paul Simon in his wonderful new show at the Cafe Carlyle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMIf this whole showbiz thing doesn’t work out, Simon Callow would make a great professor. The British performer, best known here for such films as “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” just br…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMOne of the two characters in “The Morini Strad” is a violin restorer who loves what he does. Watching him painstakingly repair a damaged Stradivarius is to see a true craftsman at work. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMAt one point during “Out of Iceland,” Lea DeLaria, playing a male troll named Thor, steps onstage in a swan outfit and belts out “Bali Hai” in Icelandic. And that’s one of the even…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMIt may be time to let Judy Garland rest in peace. The beloved entertainer has been a never-ending subject of fascination since her untimely death. Since then, she’s been portrayed on s…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:14AMYou may be wondering why Gore Vidal’s politically-themed drama The Best Man needed another revival a mere twelve years after its last Broadway outing. The better question is why hasn&#…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:37AMThere’s a surreal quality to Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour,” which played this weekend at Newark’s Prudential Center, and it’s not just because its…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AMIt’s a hard knock life for the newsboys in Newsies, the stage adaptation of the flop 1992 Disney musical film that has become a cult favorite. When the ragtag group of orphans and runa…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:47AMThose impish wags from [title of show] are back to their meta-theatrical tricks in their new, similarly whimsically titled new musical. Starring Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenst…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:54AMRising British playwright Matt Charman reveals a fascination with the darker aspects of ‘50s era American society in Regrets, now receiving its world premiere from the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:52AMHolocaust deniers are a reprehensible lot. But they can be transfixing. That’s the uncomfortable message one takes away from “The Soap Myth,” presented by the National Jewish Theater.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMThe last time I checked, incest between a brother and sister was still considered relatively abhorrent. So it naturally comes as a surprise that the Cheek by Jowl production of John …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:11AMWhen Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” opened back in 1991, all three of its leads — Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey — won Tony Awards. Now it’s the children’s hour.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMJesus Christ Superstar, which began its life as a concept album, has always been more fun to listen to than actually watch. But the new Broadway revival--imported from the Stratford Shakespe…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:41AMThe spirit of Woody Guthrie is alive and well in the East Village, thanks to Ethan Lipton’s “No Place To Go,” a “musical ode to the unemployed.” Stylistically, the 41-year-old hew…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PMThis tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson at Feinstein's at Loews Regency doesn't do justice to its subject matter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMIt took no small amount of guts for the Pearl Theatre Company to mount “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” This final masterpiece by Eugene O’Neill hasn’t exactly been underexposed here. B…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMHEY , kids — remember that fairy tale by Hans Christian somebody, “Ugly Duckling,” about a duck that turns into a beautiful swan? Now you can see it live! It has music and dancing and …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMWhenever there’s a new revival of Death of a Salesman people marvel at the fact that it seems so newly relevant. But it’s not that society is changing but rather that Arthur Mill…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:10AM‘Teresa’s Ecstasy,” by the wonderfully named Spanish American playwright and actress Begonya Plaza, tries to combine the spiritual with the earthly in its story of a woman’s quest fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMThere’s a scene in “Hand to God” in which two teenagers tenderly and quietly discuss their feelings for one another . . . all the while desperately trying to ignore the hand puppets th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AMThere’s nothing more annoying than to be stuck at the theater while someone chatters away incessantly on his cellphone. It’s even worse when he’s onstage. That’s the case with “F…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMYou’ll never hear Beethoven’s erotically charged piece of music the same way after seeing “The Kreutzer Sonata.” Adapted by Nancy Harris from Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella — so pro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMThe simple act of storytelling is a time-honored theatrical tradition. But it can also a hackneyed one. Case in point: An Iliad, the new one-man show—well, technically two man, but mor…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:27AMNot that I’m in any rush, but whenever death comes for me I hope it takes the form of the Lady from Dubuque. As elegantly personified by Jane Alexander in the Signature Theatre…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:53AMEven Mark Twain would have liked “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” now playing at the New Victory Theater: Not only is this child-friendly rendition faithful to the text and spirit of his w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PMOn its surface, Tribes is concerned with a young deaf man’s sudden decision to embrace sign language rather than rely on lip-reading. But that description doesn’t do justice to N…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:25AMThe women address us from the stage, speaking in soft, halting tones, their eyes darting nervously. They’re clearly not comfortable being there. But when they look directly at each other,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMThe original musical version of Carrie was a notorious flop upon its 1988 Broadway premiere--it closed after five performances at a loss of millions of dollars, nearly destroyed the reputati…
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