Sunday, November 27, 2011
In 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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There’s a chill in the air. The tourists are packing the streets. And the Christmas decorations are blanketing the stores. It can only mean one thing. The Radio City Christmas Spectacu…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:15AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
There’s a lot of love being expressed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Not only by the audience towards Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the veteran musical stars who have been performi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:02AMMonday, November 21, 2011
With so many playwrights indulging in theatrical navel gazing, it’s exciting to find someone who’s looking out at the world. That’s the case with J.T. Rogers, whose last play, “The O…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PMIn the opening minutes of Theresa Rebeck’s new play, four young students nervously await the arrival of a famous novelist who they’ve hired to conduct a series of private seminar…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:34AMSunday, November 20, 2011
In the opening number of “Cotton Club Parade,” Duke Ellington’s “Daybreak Express,” the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra re-creates the sound of a railroad train loudly barreling d…
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It’s not surprising that Noel Coward’s Private Lives is so often produced on Broadway. This delicious 1930 comedy, which has been seen here no less than four times in the last th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:37AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Language isn’t the only thing separating the new theatrical production of “La Strada” from its inspiration. This Spanish-language adaptation of Federico Fellini’s classic 1954 Italia…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMThe Tony-winning star shows off her strong interpretive skills in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Thomas Bradshaw’s new play Burning is playing at the New Group’s theater on 42nd Street, but it would have been right at home on the old 42nd Street as well. This sprawling, ambi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMSunday, November 13, 2011
‘Fragments” is both an accurate and deceptive name for the evening of Samuel Beckett pieces being presented by Theatre for a New Audience. These five short works, collectively lasting un…
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There’s a mass seduction going on nightly at the Broadhurst Theatre. In his one-man show Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, the Aussie performer has the audience eating out of the palm of…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:14AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
At the start of “All-American,” a father coaches his teenager in the fine art of the quarterback sneak as his other child watches in bored silence, smoking a cigarette. As it happens, th…
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Just in case you didn’t you didn’t get your hippy-dippy fix with the recent revival of Hair, there’s now the 40th anniversary production of Godspell to help you get your gr…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:26AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Andrew Hinderaker’s “Suicide, Incorporated” is at first wickedly satirical, almost Kafkaesque: It concerns a firm called Legacy Letters, which specializes in crafting suicide notes. Si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PMSantino Fontana continues to emerge as one of the great talents of the New York stage in Sons of the Prophet, the latest confident from Stephen Karam. As some might remember, it was another …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:14AMSunday, November 6, 2011
As musical subjects go, Anna Edson Taylor’s hardly the Unsinkable Molly Brown. In 1901, the real-life heroine of Michael John LaChiusa’s new show went over Niagara Falls in a barrel at a…
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The title of the show is “The Fartiste.”
There will now be a brief pause; the review will resume after you’ve stopped tittering.
All right then. You may be surprised to learn that th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PMJesse Eisenberg certainly hasn’t written an attractive part for himself in his debuting playwriting effort, now being presented by the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. In his dark come…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:54AMI don’t envy actress-turned-emerging-playwright Zoe Kazan; it’s hard to write a family play that steers clear of the usual tropes of long-simmering resentment and buried history.…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:52AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Titling your play “A Charity Case” is just asking for it, and Australian playwright Wendy Beckett doesn’t make it any easier to resist. This play about adoption “from the adoptee’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMCellphones ring incessantly during “Milk Like Sugar,” but don’t bother to check whether you’ve left yours on. They belong to the teenage girls at the heart of Kirsten Greenidge’s e…
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John Cheever was exploring the mores of the American WASP long before A.R. Gurney wrote his first play. So it’s fitting that the playwright’s debut effort, 1974’s “Children,” now b…
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Miscommunication—of the linguistic, cultural and relationship kind—is the subject of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish. Receiving its Broadway premiere after an acclaimed run e…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:23AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has managed to distill and find the funny in Shakespeare, the Bible and the history of America. But it seems to have fumbled with “The Complete World of Spo…
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There have been plays about ambitious interns scheming their way to the top ever since there’ve been interns. But John Morogiello’s comedy “Blame It on Beckett” puts a knowing theatr…
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Relatively Speaking, the new evening of comic one-acts by Woody Allen, Elaine May and Ethan Coen, has just opened on Broadway, and all I can say is…oy! That this level of writing talen…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:26AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
The recent death of Steve Jobs provides a fascinating conundrum for Mike Daisey, the writer/performer of the solo piece The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. On the one hand, it provides an a…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:39AMMonday, October 17, 2011
It’s hard to get anything done when the Internet beckons -- with yet another friend request, Twitter updates and the latest YouTube video of a dancing cat. It’s even harder when your com…
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For the next month at Ars Nova, every night is opening night.
That’s because the Upper West Side theater is outdoing itself with its showcase for emerging artists. ANT Fest 2011 -- it sta…
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One of history’s greatest ironies is that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his soaring “I’ve have been to the mountaintop” speech on the very night before his death.…
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