Friday, July 6, 2012
"The Sensational Josephine Baker
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(Through Sept. 8, Beckett Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St.)
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]A Jersey Shore romance with jazzy pop songs but no Snooki is a hotly anticipated show at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) launching Monday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
The York Theatre Company wraps its 15-month look back at Off-Broadway musicals with a wonderfully performed revival of "Closer Than Ever, a two-act revue that opened in November 1989 at the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A California girl who channeled Lola from "Damn Yankees" and a Florida boy who got romantic as Raoul in "The Phantom of the Opera" sang their way to Best Actress and Best Actor and $10,000 s…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Trends have a funny way of popping up practically overnight. That includes the avuncular avalanche that tore across Off-Broadway stages uptown, downtown and in Central Park.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
Award-winning composer and lyricist Richard Adler, a bright star of Broadway's Golden Age, has died. He was 90.
Adler is best-known for co-writing the music and lyrics for the 1954 show "Th…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
Shakespeare in the Park's new "As You Like It" strikes stirring and memorable chords.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tragedy plus time equals comedy. The 1977 sitcom "Three's Company" plus time equals David Adjmi's new play "3C," a work that wants to be biting parody but ends up a gummy stunt.
The…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Reality TV alum and rising Broadway star Laura Osnes made her cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle on Tuesday in an evening that showcases a beautiful voice, personality and style. She sings he…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
All's fair in love and war. As it turns out, the feisty female correspondents who brave battlefields in "Love Goes to Press" are seasoned on both fronts in this low-flying comedy at the Mint…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:09PM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
Lincoln Center launched a winner with its world premiere of Greg Pierce's "Slowgirl." The play is as captivating as the Claire Tow Theatre atop the Vivian Beaumont.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Every "Uncle Vanya" " and there's certainly no shortage of them in New York " comes with its own defining hallmarks.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2012
A mouth-watering menu of theater is set for summer stages across the city. Consider: Cate Blanchett acting in Chekhov, Amy Adams singing Stephen Sondheim,
a musical about the Littl…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]1. Laura Osnes (Cafe Carlyle) The "Bonnie & Clyde" Tony nominee's cabaret debut runs June 19-30.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
Sunday's Tonys looked back at the best of last season, but it wasn't all about hindsight.
The telecast also gave a glimpse of what's coming down the pike this fall.
It was…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
If you're mad for Jim Parsons as the brainy oddball Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory," odds are you'll be just as crazy about his Broadway star turn in "Harvey."
In it, he pl…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]New York is famous for gutsy reinvention. The latest example of a bold redo is a new nightclub forged from a Studio 54 cellar space that comes with a dubious past from the cocaine- and disco…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
It's last call to see Jon Robin Baitz's terrific play "Other Desert Cities" on Broadway.
The comedy-drama about deep bonds and deeper se…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Gina Gionfriddo's new play "Rapture, Blister, Burn" is a smart, funny and lightning-paced look at feminism " past and present.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Kristin Davis, who's known for playing uptight Charlotte on "Sex and the City," will make her Broadway debut in "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" on July 10. It's high time, too.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
In "Storefront Church," John Patrick Shanley returns to the Bronx, the setting of his exceptional 2004 Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama "Doubt."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]It dominated the Tonys on Sunday with eight wins and the Best Musical "Once" cleaned up at the box office Monday. The show had "its best day yet," said a spokesman, adding that sales rose 50…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2012
The 66th Tony Awards got off to a fun, if familiar, start on Sunday night: Singing Mormons (again), host Neil Patrick Harris (again) and a gay joke about Broadway (again).
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:37PM[SHARE]When a stage musical morphs into a movie (and vice versa) changes are guaranteed.
The cheeky (and hairy) jukebox musical "Rock of Ages," which has been blasting Journey, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Taking a musical from Broadway to big screen is tricky business.
Think of "A Chorus Line" (we all felt nothing), "Hair" (a tangled mess) and "Guys and Dolls" (Marlon Brando's not th…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Make your predictions for tonight's winners. Daily News critic Joe Dziemianowicz's picks are in boldface.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]There's nothing duller than awards shows when all the juicy prizes are a lock. Happily, shoo-ins are in very short supply across the most coveted categories and so many so-tight acting races…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Opening Sunday night, Broadway's biggest show of the year " the Tony Awards. The annual blowout means big stars, big parties, and, thanks to a slew of nail-biters, some big angst.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
In his very fine plays "Lobby Hero" and "Waverly Gallery" and the film "You Can Count on Me," Kenneth Lonergan proved himself a thoughtful and detailed observer of modern-day relationships.
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