Reunited 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 …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:58AMThe plays of Athol Fugard often require heavy lifting on the part of an audience. That’s particularly true of his 1987 drama The Road to Mecca, now being given its Broadway premiere in…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:54AMI* capturing the monotony and anger that marks the daily life of New York City cops, “Newyorkland” makes a powerfully compelling film.The problem is, it’s supposed to be a theater piec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PMWhy does every show set in Dublin seem to take place in a bar? Hot on the heels of the Broadway-bound “Once” — where you can step up onstage and buy a pint of Guinness before the show …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:49AMComposer Stephen Sondheim will probably be appeased when he sees The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, the reconceived revival of the classic opera by George and Ira Gershwin and, oh yes, lib…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:40AMFlip around the radio dial lately? You probably won’t find anything as entertaining as the programming put on by Soviet Free Radio Order. Especially its “At Home Field Guide,” a homesp…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:05PMBridesburg is a run-down neighborhood in south Philadelphia. If Victor Kaufold’s drama set there is any indication, you won’t want to go there . . . or to “Bridesburg,” for that matt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PMThe Chinese language is all that one seems to be hearing lately. Not only did presidential candidate Jon Huntsman resort to Mandarin while rebuking Mitt Romney during a recent debate, but Da…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:43AMImagine a cross between “Inherit the Wind” and David Mamet’s charged student-versus-teacher drama “Oleanna,” and you have some idea of “How the World Began.” Catherine Trieschm…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMLet’s say you’ve flipped through a newspaper, reading this or that; sponged the breakfast crumbs off the table, loaded the dishwasher and wrestled your child into a car seat for a trip t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:06PMThe Under the Radar festival is a much-needed showcase for adventurous theater companies whose work isn’t exactly commercial — for better or worse. Two recent cases: the New York troupe …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13PMThe tourists may have left, but the city’s about to be invaded by a new force of thousands. And Mark Russell is ready. The arts festival he produces may be called Under the Radar, but ther…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:49PMBy any measure, this year was a real roller-coaster ride for Jeremy Jordan. Like the Frank Sinatra song, the 27-year-old actor’s been up and down and over and out, having made a splash wit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PMDavid Hyde Pierce somehow always manages to project a vaguely uncomfortable, awkward quality in his characters. It feels totally appropriate for Close Up Space, the uncomfortable, awkward ne…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:56AMIn what surely must be purely coincidental timing, Farm Boy has arrived for a holiday engagement at 59E59 Theaters. Michael Morpungo’s “sequel” to his War Horse has opened …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:33AMThe cavernous St. Ann’s Warehouse provides the perfect theatrical environment for Misterman, Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s one-person play starring Cillian Murphy in his U.S. sta…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMYou’ll probably head straight for a deli after “Shlemiel the First,” the delightful morsel of a 1994 klezmer musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Chelm” stories. In this wor…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PMGood luck scoring an invitation to the most exclusive social reception in town. It’s being held at the palatial and luxurious Fifth Avenue townhouse belonging to the very wealthy Mrs. …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:14AMThe near demise of commercial off-Broadway has resulted in a plethora of unsuitable Broadway productions of tiny shows that look awfully wan in big theaters. The latest example is Lysistrata…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:57AMHad enough Sugarplum Fairies to last you a lifetime? Tired of seeing the Rockettes kicking up their heels again? Bah, humbug, indeed. Hey, this is New York City, so no problem. There’s pl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMIn the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, we learn that the central character experienced a past life and suffered an untimely end, only to be reborn in a new incarnation. Such is t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:21AMIf there was ever a show that should begin with the disclaimer, “Kids, don’t try this at home,” it’s the Cirque Shanghai’s “Bai Xi.” This Chinese acrobatic spectacle — the ti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMIt’s a long weekend’s journey into night at Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond’s overstuffed play about an African-American family’s tumultuous reunion at their summer home …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:34AMCould there be an actor more perfectly suited for Samuel Beckett’s works than John Hurt? Not only does his gaunt face and wiry hair recall the playwright, but he has the ravaged look of a …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PMWhen the indie film musical Once was released five years ago, it became a critical and box-office sensation. This touching tale of the relationship between a Dublin Irish street musician and…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:25AMThe stifling languorousness that so often afflicts contemporary productions of Chekhov is thankfully nowhere in sight in this Classic Stage Company’s revival of The Cherry Orchard. Dir…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:18AMIn the classic 1939 comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” an outrageously obnoxious character wears out his welcome. The same can be said for the Peccadillo Theater Company revival that o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PMOne might think that true-life, murderous outlaws wouldn’t exactly be a likely choice for musical treatment, but then again composer Frank Wildhorn has already put songs in the mouths …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:03AMThe pair's second show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency displays both their brilliant musical chops and their hilarious comic chemistry.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTwo men sit in a sparsely appointed waiting room. The silence is periodically broken by the sound of a banging door, so loud it feels like a gunshot. “Drives you ’round the bloody bend,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMIn case you didn’t know it yet, drugs are bad. That’s the not-very-revelatory message of Dael Orlandersmith’s “Horsedreams,” her “Reefer Madness”- style drama about the evils o…
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