Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The hoops-themed Broadway bio "Magic/Bird" doesn't technically foul out, but it's not exactly a winner either.
Ironically, Eric Simonson's by-the-numbers and stiffly acted account of the on…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Long on gams and short on stage chops, Christie Brinkley is a Roxie without much moxie in the Broadway hit "Chicago."
The Uptown Girl avoids embarrassing herself in the long-running…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
Politics and the oldest profession are on tap at the Public Theater.
Leading off the 2012-13 season announced on April 9 is "Wild With Happy," a comedy written by and starring Colm…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2012
Stroll through the theater district and the question is bound to hit you: When did Broadway become the highway to heaven?
Witness the spiky spiritual satire "The Book of Mormon" and…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
Ricky Martin gives a great big touch of star quality to the seductive revival of "Evita" at the Marquis. He also gives an appealing performance in the role of Che, which, like the show, has …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
3 stars
'The Taming of the Shrew'
Through April 21, Duke on 42nd St., 229 W. 42nd St.
Tickets: $75; (646) …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his role as the host of the Tony Awards " again. Producers of Broadway's grand prize night announced that the "How I Met Your Mother" star will emcee the sho…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tribute and trash collide uneasily in "End of the Rainbow," a jacked-up portrait of Judy Garland that captures the legend at the end of her rope near the end of her life.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
Politics is a dirty business. No shock there. Just read or watch the news. So if in 1960 the candidates were different, the game was the same " smear or be smeared.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
An exhilaring jolt of youthful energy has hit Broadway. It arrives with 30 dazzling dancing feet, a bright rising star, buoyant songs and " whoops, I buried the lead " something meaningful t…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]For a show that drills the importance of seizing the day, "Now. Here. This." is fixed on sizing up days gone by.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:32PM[SHARE]One good thing to take away from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ragtag 57-year-old musical "Pipe Dream" is that your cramped apartment won't seem so bad.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Matt Charman has been called Britain's "fastest-rising" young playwright
But in his likable, low-impact new drama "Regrets," the Off-Broadway rookie takes it slow. Very slow. Somethi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2012
1. "Lost in Yonkers" (Beckett Theatre) Neil Simon revival finds an Off-Broadway home.
(Venues at FathomEvents.com)
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Corbin Bleu will join the Broadway cast of "Godspell" as Jesus beginning April 17 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:57PM[SHARE]"The Capitol Steps." 8 p.m. Friday at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. The acclaimed equal-opportunity political satirists celebrate 30 years of lampooning in this musical revue and perform fresh …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
I don't know how to love this.
The most passion I can muster for the flashy and mechanical new Broadway resurrection of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is qualified like.
Drawn f…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]In the new production of Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer-winning "Lost in Yonkers," clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room. Those mists are gray, threatening and unmoving, just like the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]What's fitting foreplay for some forbidden sex? What else " a forbidden dance.
So begins the U.K.-based Cheek by Jowl's lively take on John Ford's 17th-century tragedy "'Tis Pity S…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Dan LeFranc's tasty and energetically acted little comedy The Big Meal" is being served through April 8 at Playwrights Horizons.
Although it runs a short 85 minutes, the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
What becomes a Broadway hunk?
Two musicals figure it's the perennial, popular, humble white Henley, sparking a Shubert Alley version of "Who wore it better?"
Steve Kazee p…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
"Smash" gets a jolt of bona fide Broadway star power on Monday when Bernadette Peters appears as a famous actress and spotlight-hogging stage mom (is there any other kind?) on the show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:05PM[SHARE]It's hard to imagine a time before electronic media co-opted the news business. But the Broadway productions of "Newsies," opening March 29, and "The Columnist," beginning previews April 3, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
In Jesse Berger's canny staging of Jean Genet's "The Maids," the domestics don't do windows.
The audience does " at least in a way. Seated on four sides of an enclosed bedroom set, …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]In Barcelona to finalize her divorce and research an article on the mystical experiences of St. Teresa of Avila, Carlotta, a New York writer, is rocked by her own surprising awakenings.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Don't rain on me Argentina. Producers of "Evita" were forced to cancel performances for Tuesday night due to a fire-safety system malfunction that left the stage soggy and the eager-to-perfo…
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