The 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…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:01AMTyrannical bosses should be more careful about mistreating their employees. Their victims may very well develop into talented playwrights who will later skewer them in viciously funny fashio…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:08AMIts lurid title notwithstanding, “I Killed My Mother” is neither campy comedy nor a theatrical take on film noir. Instead, Andras Visky’s new play — a portrait of a young woman’s h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:52AMThe Irish Rep has done it again. Having ably resuscitated, Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape” and “The Emperor Jones,” it’s now revived “Beyond the Horizon” — a drama that …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:52AMWith partisan politics injecting itself into scientific debate with dismaying frequency these days, Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo has a disturbing modern resonance. While the Classic Stage …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:03AMAlthough the stage seems bare for The Wooster Group’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Early Plays, it actually contains an awful lot of baggage. The troupe is well known for…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:20AMImagine a “Honeymooners” episode in which Ed Norton channels the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and you’ve got the gist of “Call Me Waldo.” In Rob Ackerman’s whimsical new comedy…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AMOne thing’s guaranteed about an evening with Marc Salem — he’ll mess with your head. The renowned mentalist does it again in his latest show, “Mind Over Manhattan,” which will leav…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AMIt’s hard to imagine that a crackling drama could revolve around a poet laureate’s career. But Jack Canfora’s “Poetic License” manages to render a tale of artistic ambition and hid…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AMIt may be heretical to say, but seeing Athol Fugard’s landmark 1961 drama Blood Knot again, even in a superbly realized revival such as the one being presented by the Signature Theatre…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:18AMFrank Scheck William Shatner takes audiences on a witty journey through his acting career in his one-man Broadway performance.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PMWhen the narrator of “A Map of Virtue” turned out to be a bird statue, the play stopped working for me. Sadly, that was in the first few minutes.This latest effort, presented by the play…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMAs delicate as a cherry blossom, “Tokio Confidential” transports us to 19th-century Japan. This lovely chamber musical about a Civil War widow whose life’s transformed by a tattoo arti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMLove proves lethal in John Ford’s 1629 revenge drama “The Broken Heart.” Theatre for a New Audience’s stylish rendition of this difficult and rarely performed play captures all of it…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMNorbert Leo Butz has always brought a certain strangeness to his roles, whether a buffoonish con artist in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” or an obsessive FBI agent in “Catch Me If You Can.�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PMWhen Rinde Eckert’s “Moby-Dick”-themed “And God Created Great Whales” premiered in 2000, it racked up rave reviews and many awards, and went on to several revivals. Well, call me I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:09PMRevivals of “Merrily We Roll Along” are a lot like the musical itself: Just as its characters get younger and more idealistic with each scene, there’s a perpetual hope of going back in…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMAn offhand reference to wild ducks is the closest you get to Chekhov’s brilliance in “Chekhovek,” an ill-advised adaptation of the Russian master’s short stories. Like “The Sneeze,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:51AMTry as you might, you won’t find a directing credit in the program for “Psycho Therapy.” Watching it, you won’t find any evidence of a director, either. Frank Strausser’s alleged c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:48AMMemo to theater companies specializing in the classics: Take a cue from Marvell Rep. The troupe’s second season doesn’t have a Shakespeare, Chekhov or Shaw in the bunch — just six cont…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:48AMIt’s ironic that John Osborne’s classic drama Look Back in Anger is now as much of a period piece as the “well-made plays” it was attempting to usurp. This work--whic…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:00AMIn light of the recent Vassar early-admissions snafu, already wary parents of students applying to college should avoid “Inadmissible.” Not that anyone else should rush to see this play …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:27PMBeware sexy Russian men bearing gifts. That seems to be the primary message of Russian Transport, the new play by Erika Sheffer being given its world premiere by the New Group. This uneasy b…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:09AMMargaret Edson has just written one play in her life, the brilliant Wit, now receiving its Broadway premiere a mere seventeen years after it was first produced and went on to win nearly ever…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:58AMThe British songstress long-awaited return to the New York nightclub scene proved to be a truly triumphant evening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMIn “The Mystery of Claywoman,” we meet a 500-million-year-old extraterrestrial who’s become a cult-like figure. She’s a fascinating character — too bad we don’t get to see more o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:38PMThough “Stopped Bridge of Dreams” is based on 17thcentury Japanese writings, its style couldn’t be more contemporary. Written, directed and designed by MacArthur “Genius” Award win…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMYou can tell that George Bernard Shaw was still a young man when he wrote “The Philanderer.” This infrequently performed comedy has a breezy playfulness, unlike the playwright’s more h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:21PMThe four scientists in “Instinct” spend most of the play’s 85-minute running time debating parenthood, religion and sexual identity. Oh, and they’re also trying to halt an epidemic k…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMA Midwestern mother and her businesswoman daughter travel to a small American city. Their purpose? To identify the body of a family member who committed suicide.Hilarity ensues.If that sound…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMReunited with his American Beauty director, Sam Mendes, Kevin Spacey pulls out all the stops with his devilishly entertaining turn in the title role of the Bridge Project’s production …
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