Saturday, June 8, 2013
A hard-boiled New York columnist. A fierce British cross-dresser. A sexy whip-cracking ringmistress. And a wily and determined homesick mom. That's just a sample of the colorful characters o…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:55PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Hugh Jackman has two in his home office. Liza Minnelli keeps four on the shelf beside her parents' prizes. Linda Lavin has one " but she never took it out of the box after she moved.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Erica Lipez's impressive but uneven Second Stage Uptown debut, "The Tutors," is a play made for the Facebook era.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Goodbye, girl next door.
With the drop of an f-bomb five seconds into the Off-Broadway play "Reasons to Be Happy," Jenna Fischer sheds the wholesome America's-sweetheart image she c…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The search for presenters of the Tony Awards on June 9 has become a real star trek. Zachary Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock in the current hit, "Star Trek Into Darkness," has been tapped to hand…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Except for the title that you figure must be ironic (and it is), the Off-Broadway dramedy "Good Television" deftly ducks expectations.
The element of surprise is an automatic plus.…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2013
The beautifully performed but problematic musical "Far From Heaven" starts with falling autumn leaves " a telltale sign of change and chill that fits this Eisenhower-era story.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
This version of Bertolt Brecht's typically dry work brings a little lump in the throat, thanks to Elizabeth A. Davis' performance.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]You don't need a massive stage or cast to tell a sprawling story in the theater " not if you've got some ingenuity and nimble actors.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Even if he doesn't win a Tony, "Lucky Guy" nominee Tom Hanks will get his hands on Broadway's coveted award Hanks, who's up for Best Actor for playing Daily News Pulitzer Prize winner Mike M…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:45AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
Forget about fairies, creepy knocks at the door and paranormal sightings. It's regrets, missed chances and life's hard losses that are truly haunting.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2013
Following a funeral mass where a priest goes rogue and reads his flock the riot act " "I stare into your faces and it disgusts me" " a man concludes: "It was a nice service."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Like the show's cheating upper West Side married mom, who can't resist her lower East Side ex, the musical "Murder Ballad" has been drawn downtown.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Laura Benanti knows the art of tease. That's obvious from her easygoing show at 54 Below, "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention," running through Saturday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
I know the words to "The Way We Were" the way they are. Finally. It only took 40 years to get them right. The well overdue wakeup call, which struck me like a bolt last month, came courtesy …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Rousing music and ravishing performances, rubbernecking and unremarkable chicken. That's what's on the menu at rock-pop operetta "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
This return engagement looks mahvelous! Billy Crystal won a 2005 Tony for his solo play "700 Sundays," then went on to tour the show across the U.S. and beyond.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
Playing the infamous Imelda Marcos in the disco musical "Here Lies Love," actress Ruthie Ann Miles boogies and boozes and lives life in the fab lane.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
Picture this: Bunty Berman, the head of a C-list movie studio in 1950s Bombay, finds his empire at the edge of collapse following the release of his latest cinematic stink bomb. So he makes …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:09PM[SHARE]Minutes into the darkly humorous play, "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," it's clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies and the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Old show. New discovery. Musical theater rookie Irina Dvorovenko provides the real high " and the high kicks " in a surefooted Encores! revival of "On Your Toes," through Sunday at New York …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:11PM[SHARE]It's official -- Doogie's doing the Tony Awards again. Emmy winner and Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tonys on June 9, as the Daily News reported this week in Confidenti@l.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:52AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2013
"The Good Wife" legal eagle Christine Baranski has flown back to the stage.
Beginning Wednesday, she stars in the Encores! concert revival of the 1936 tap- and ballet-happy musical …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2013
The brutal economic crunch and widescale business downsizing has made corporate dog-eat-dog more feral than ever.
In his fast-paced, fanged and darkly funny play "Bull," at the Brit…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The unconventional musical "The Memory Show" taxes emotions and the ears.
Written by newcomers Sara Cooper (book and lyrics) and Zach Redler (music), the show concerns a mother (Cat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]"Kinky Boots," the homegrown feel-good musical by Queens girl Cyndi Lauper and Brooklyn boy Harvey Fierstein, danced away with 13 Tony nominations Tuesday, more than any other show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:02PM[SHARE]Stars, schmars. The Tony Award nominations on Tuesday left a glittery who's who of Hollywood out in the cold. Jessica Chastain, Katie Holmes, Alec Baldwin, Jim Parsons, Scarlett Johansson…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:08AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
Yo Adrian! Rocky's getting a shot at Broadway.
He may be known as as brawler with hands of stone, but Rocky Balboa is poised to dance and sing on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2013
Fourteen Broadway premieres in four weeks. That's a thumbnail sketch of a theater critic's life in April. Shows come fast and furiously in the mad dash to open in time for the cutoff for Ton…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2013
Jane Lynch, now known as "Glee" sadist Sue Sylvester, makes her Broadway next month in "Annie." The Emmy-winning actress will play orphanage ogre Miss Hannigan May 16-July 14 at the Palace …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
Maybe this time Emma Stone will be lucky - on Broadway. The "Easy A" star is in negotiations to play Sally Bowles in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret," a source close to the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00PM[SHARE] 
