Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Nnenna Frelon's new tribute show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency showcase her goregous voice and emotional expressiveness.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMWe're so used to sunny versions of "Peter Pan" that the darkness of "Peter and Wendy" comes as a shock. Based on J.M. Barrie's 1911 novelization of his play, this is a richer, deeper telling…
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Most actors play King Lear as an imperial monarch, the better to contrast with the character’s subsequent descent into madness. But in the new production of the play at the Brooklyn Ac…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:40AMMonday, May 9, 2011
Ever since she saw her photo on a book jacket as a teen, Suzanne Vega's been obsessed with Carson McCullers. Sadly, that passion surfaces only occasionally in "Carson McCullers Talks About L…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMThat life doesn’t always offer the opportunity to neatly right past wrongs is a promising theme for a drama. Too bad, then, that Julia squanders it.
The centr…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:08AMFriday, May 6, 2011
If the title of Tony Kushner’s new play premiere puts you off, wait until you actually sit through it. The overlong and overstuffed The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitali…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:56AMWednesday, May 4, 2011
You may want to think twice before tak ing your children to see "The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy": This exquisitely performed piece is so enchanting, they may never be content with your simpl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMPlaywright David Ives has clearly had a ball adapting Moliere for his screwball verse comedy The School for Lies, and his enjoyment is infectious. Retaining the basic characters, situations …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:51AMMonday, May 2, 2011
The stock market's crashed. The Chinese have taken over. And "the world is falling apart."
No, it's not Donald Trump's latest rant -- it's "Future Anxiety," an apocalyptic satire at the F…
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A musical whose themes encompass the Holocaust and Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t exactly qualify as a feel good experience. That’s perfectly fine—there’s plenty o…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:14AMThursday, April 28, 2011
It may be a time capsule of a play, but the sterling new Broadway revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart reveals that it has lost none of its urgency or power. A semi-fictionalized…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:12AMYou can’t say that the new musical Baby It’s You! is shy about its intentions. In the opening moments of this show about the mega-selling ‘60s girl group The Shirelles, an …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:10AMTuesday, April 26, 2011
In his revelatory production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, director David Cromer unearthed the darkness underlying a play that is usually presented as a paean to a more innocent Ameri…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:55AMMonday, April 25, 2011
The title of Garson Kanin’s play proves all too accurate with the new Broadway revival of Born Yesterday. This comedy about a crooked businessman in cahoots with corrupt politicians ma…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:23AMIf you can't come to Broadway, Broadway is going to come to you.That's the philosophy behind the upcoming nationwide movie theater showings of two current Broadway shows.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:27AMFriday, April 22, 2011
Considering his brilliant comic turn earlier this season in the revival of La Bete and now his titanic performance in Jez Butterworth's new play Jerusalem at the same theater, we might as we…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:45AMThursday, April 21, 2011
There’s fun, if not musical comedy heaven, to be found in Sister Act, the new Broadway musical adaptation of the hit 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. Featuring plenty of talent bot…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:32AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
The charismatic performer delivers a wonderfully entertaining show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58AMThat former sexpot Kathleen Turner, who so memorably raised temperatures in such films as Body Heat and Crimes of Passion, has become a formidable presence in middle age. Her body thickened …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:33AMTuesday, April 19, 2011
Attention, theatergoers. Sitting in a seat and watching a show is so yesterday.
The truth of that statement is well demonstrated by Sleep No More, the wonderfully immersive theatrica…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:53AMHeavy drinking, vicious cat fights and some hot girl-on- girl action would seem the perfect ingredients for a reality TV show.
That all that and more are perpetrated by a women's book clu…
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Down the rabbit hole indeed.
Wonderland is the sort of horrifically bad Broadway musical that doesn’t come along too often these days. Based on-- you guessed it—AliceR…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:26AMFriday, April 15, 2011
The Wild West gets even wilder in "Boom Town," the new children's show by the clever Cirque Mechanics troupe.
It's set in an 1860s mining town that's literally a springboard for circus ac…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PMStage wonders of the most magisterial sort are delivered in War Horse, the hit London production that has been remounted by the Lincoln Center Theater. This epic drama about the bond between…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:45AMThursday, April 14, 2011
There are puppets, and then there's Joey -- the tail-flicking, snorting, galloping star of "War Horse."
It's almost impossible to believe he's just cane and cloth and metal.
"It's up-t…
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The Motherf**ker With the Hat has at least two things going for it right off the bat. The first is that marvelously profane--albeit generally unprintable--title. The second is the coup of ha…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:21AMSunday, April 10, 2011
You'll never hear "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" the same way again after seeing "Born Bad." The traditional gospel hymn takes on ominous overtones in this frustratingly abstract drama abo…
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Basuto Road. That South London address is con stantly invoked like a mystical chant in Michael Frayn's "Benefactors," now receiving a sterling revival by the Keen Company. This bleak 1984 co…
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Tony Award winner Lonette McKee's new cabaret show at the Oak Room offers both lustrous singing and awkward patter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTuesday, April 5, 2011
'I made her a promise, I will not speak," the central character repeatedly vows in Douglas Maxwell's play "The Promise."
But speak she does -- and for 90 engrossing minutes, Joanna Tope d…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:15AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
With all the relationship dramas and mu sicals playing out on city stages, it's a wonder couples' therapists have anything left to do.
New case in point: the York Theatre Company's "Tomor…
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