Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Spring blooms with wall-to-wall Will Shakespeare on stages and bookshelves.
"The Tragedy of Arthur." Through April 7 at TBG Theatre, 312 W.…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
Juicy fruit seldom grows on the branches of "Three Trees," an earnest and unshaded new drama.
There's frustration in waiting for this story by Alvin Eng about art, creation and love…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]The play's title, "Happy Birthday," conjures wrapping paper and bows. That fits. Anita Loos wrote the show for her good friend and Broadway luminary Helen Hayes as a change of pace.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
"Lucky Guy," the Broadway play starring Tom Hanks as ace Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, is a stickler for detail.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
1. "It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman" (City Center) Last chance today to see Encores! staging of the fun '60s musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]When you've got it, flaunt it.
Ask actress Cady Huffman, who belted that message as Ulla in 2001 in "The Producers" and is currently living it as Sylvie Sylvane, a striptease artist…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
A new real-life role that strikes closest to actress Tracee Chimo's heart. It reminds us how bona fide bonds form during the creation of make-believe.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
Hold on. That's sound advice in a pinch and especially apt when the going gets really rough. So it's a fitting, if obvious, rallying cry driving the new musical "Hands on a Hardbody."
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:22PM[SHARE]Like a hero plucking kittens from trees and damsels from danger, New York City Center's Encores! series boldly saves seldom-seen, often-iffy Broadway musicals from obscurity.
Their…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:28PM[SHARE]Five days before the show's premiere, Sean Mathias sat in front of me at "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
An ill-fated archeological dig is the setting for "The Mound Builders" and a fitting metaphor for this aimless Signature Theatre excavation of Lanford Wilson's 1975 drama.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]1. "Built to Amaze" (Barclays Center) The Ringling Bros. and Barnum &; Bailey Circus pitches its tent in Brooklyn Wednesday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Ready, set, role reversal.
On Monday at the Palace Theatre at 8 p.m., the annual fund-raiser "Broadway Backwards" is all about girls performing guys' songs and vice versa.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Oh, Mary.
Pope Francis began his first day on the job in prayer at St. Mary Major church, a Roman basilica dedicated to the Blessed Mother.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
Churning Chekhov into modern-day chuckles is the essence of Christopher Durang's slight and happy diversion, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Seen Off-Broadway at Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]To save the day, Edward Watts wears spandex.
It's part of the job when you're playing Clark Kent and the Man of Steel in the Encores! concert revival of the 1966 musical "It's a Bir…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Truth to tell, "The Lying Game" is an odd duck of a play " and an inedible one at that.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Annie Baker's up-close portraits of ordinary people have earned her the label of master miniaturist. She remains true to form when it comes to the intimacy in her acutely observed and affect…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
Barricades have become synonymous with revolution thanks to "Les Miserables," but you don't need a tangle of chairs and tables and timbers to stage the story of an uprising.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]1. "Talley's Folley" (Laura Pels Theatre) Achingly beautiful revival of the Pulitzer-winning love story. Starring Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
She knew life wasn't fair and that government should be, deemed herself a "fun" drunk and kept an armadillo paperweight on her desk in the capitol.
That's how Ann Richards rolled, y…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Creative juice flows from countless sources. Theater director David Herskovits tapped into it at a Jewish Museum exhibit.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
Surfaces can be misleading, observes one of the two men facing off in "The North Pool."
Based only on appearances, the fact that the author is Rajiv Joseph, a Pulitzer finalist for …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:12PM[SHARE]Indie-film ingenue Elizabeth Olsen will be a star-crossed lover this fall in an Off-Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:39PM[SHARE]Brass at "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on Broadway are threatening amateur photographers with eviction. The crackdown comes after theatergoers snapped covert shots this week of Emilia Clarke, who…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Shia LaBeouf may have exited stage left abruptly from what was supposed to be his Broadway debut - but the mercurial actor can't seem to leave the drama behind.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:26PM[SHARE]For Peet's sake, that's impressive multitasking. While Amanda Peet has been practicing law on "The Good Wife," the 41-year-old actress has also been fine-tuning her first play, "The Commons …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2013
In Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's myth-mauling and jagged-edged "Jackie," the former First Lady Jackie Kennedy takes stock of her world-famous image.
It's not a pretty picture " …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 play, "Talley's Folly," is a valentine to unlikely love.
Sweet stuff, to be sure.
But valentines are delicate and demanding.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]A lunar eclipse hangs over "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Theatergoers who attended the play's first preview on Monday grumbled that "Moon River" is nowhere to be heard.
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