Sunday, April 20, 2014
Early in the exhilarating musical "Violet," a backwoods young woman totes a tattered suitcase onto a bus.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
There's no riddle about the aim of "The Mystery of Irma Vep." The goal is to crack you up.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
With his recent frat-boy antics and Renaissance-man boasts, James Franco earns eye rolls. But he deserves an appreciative nod for his Broadway debut in "Of Mice and Men."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
On paper, "The Library" had everything going for it. But on stage, the drama about the aftershocks of a fatal school shooting lacks insight.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
Billie Holiday hallmarks " a gardenia (for her hair), elbow-length gloves (for hiding needle marks) and "God Bless the Child" (for her mother, always) " are bound to be included in any bio o…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Hogwarts wonder boy Daniel Radcliffe can't contain his love " or F-bombs " when he talks about the Great White Way, where he's just begun previews of "The Cripple of Inishmaan."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2014
Rising Irish star Sarah Greene is a beauty and a beast in the jagged comedy "The Cripple of Inishmaan." That's the job when you play Slippy Helen, a fiery teenaged redhead who seductively be…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Woody Allen's musical works its tail off to tickle and delight. It's too bad that the comedy about a playwriting hit man is a bit of a miss.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
It's not a good sign when a show's most memorable and colorful performance comes from the four-legged cast member.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
It's funny how trying to connect with neighbors, spouses, God, whomever, can lead you nowhere.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
Denzel Washington's popularity makes the revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" a hot ticket, but there's a better reason: He and the show are flat-out excellent.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:45PM[SHARE]Like a great bottle of wine, the vineyard-set musical "The Most Happy Fella" is robust, complex and palate-pleasing.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Sally Bowles drinks gin like water in "Cabaret." And, natch, that's exactly what actress Michelle Williams actually guzzles when she's apparently boozing on stage at Studio 54. She'd be blot…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
"Heathers: The Musical" is such a fun and satisfying Off-Broadway treat, you might be tempted to express amazement by quoting the show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
"If/Then" raked in about a $1 million at the box office last week. Much of that Broadway booty owes to the name (or wrong name!) of its star, Idina Menzel.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
The Transport Group's take on John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," opening Sunday, promises to be one that sticks in the brain.
Then again, memorably adventurous and innovative inte…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Meet Violet, the soulful, doleful pit bull co-starring with James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in the John Steinbeck classic.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2014
As the addled monarch in "King Lear," Michael Pennington wears a fur-collared coat that's rich in texture and plummy in tone " just like his voice.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The revival of Christopher Durang's 1981 comedy starts well, but about halfway in, things sag.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]There's grist for a provocative and touching drama as a mom takes stock of the life her son might have had. But the script doesn't go there.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
It's the 1980s megamusical famous for its sprawling 19th-century French canvas, big cast of characters and huge anthems made even more max with massive choral accompaniments.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]The Great White Way has come down with a severe case of jukeboxitis. The syndrome is caused when many shows are woven together with recycled popular songs.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2014
The day before James Dolan took out the knees of the leggy production of "Hearts and Lights," Weinstein sat beside him in Radio City Music Hall, taking in a rehearsal that would seal its fat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams makes her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret," an encore of the Tony-winning 1998 revival of the Kander-and-Ebb musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
If you're granted three wishes to make during Disney's "Aladdin" you'll definitely want to use one to discover how the musical's creative genies pull off the magic-carpet ride in the second …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
For a play about survival, David Grimm's "Tales From Red Vienna," barely registers a pulse.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2014
There's probably a worthwhile, if well-worn, story of unwanted and inescapable family legacies lurking in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play "Appropriate."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
The Broadway musical "Rocky" is big-hearted, quick-fisted and predictable " but it saves its biggest punch for the last 15 minutes.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
