Saturday, August 25, 2012
You can look at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in terms of the movie stars that will be on the stage: Al Pacino and Katie Holmes and Debra Winger — or how about Paul Rudd, Michael Shann…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:46AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Those of us smitten two years ago by “The Orphan’s Home Cycle,” the Signature Theater Company’s epic production of nine of Horton Foote’s plays taking place in a small Texas town h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:22PMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner may wish to reconsider his reported plans to stage a political comeback, thanks to “Tail!Spin!” which eviscerates him and three other politicians at the…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:21PMFringe show "Night of the Auk" is a campy revival of Arch Obler's 1956 drama about mankind's first trip to the moon, originally directed by Sidney Lumet.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:27AMThursday, August 9, 2012
“Shakespeare and Sondheim in the Park,” it says on the new logo used in posters and programs and t-shirts for the Delacorte Theater’s 50th season, and it is a slogan one can happily em…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:55PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
The story behind “Bullet for Adolf,” an aimless comedy co-written and directed by Woody Harrelson that has now opened at New World Stages, surely helps explain why the actor decided in h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:49PMHow some fancy footwork (and many stairs) made stars of the Newsies newsboys, including Ryan Steele and Ephraim Sykes
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
“FDR was a cheerleader….Madonna was a cheerleader…Michael Jordan,” sing the cast of “Bring It On,” a musical based on a movie about two competing high school cheerleading squads,…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:01PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
"Tin Bucket Drum," the Imbewu Trust's South African fable of a girl born with rhythm who challenges a police state, is told lyrically by Mpume Mthombeni.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:20AMMonday, July 23, 2012
“He was young, abstract, and therefore cruel,” Dostoevsky writes of a character in Crime and Punishment. “Some things are not forgivable: Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable,” Blanc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:32PMMonday, July 16, 2012
The Drilling Company's crowd-pleasing production of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is played as a gentrification battle on the Lower East Side.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:48AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
In playwright-director Yoshvani Medina's "Probation," at Repertorio Español, first-rate acting rescues a half-baked plot about Cuban immigration to America.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:43AMThursday, July 12, 2012
"Rio," at NYMF, a tuneful musical with a propulsive beat that sets the story of "Oliver Twist" in the slums of Brazil, is undermined by errant stagecraft.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:02AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire — and there are more classic characters on her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 24, 2012
Peggy Stafford's "Motel Cherry," from Clubbed Thumb and New Georges and part of Summerworks 2012, mixes "Grand Hotel" with halfhearted fairy tales.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMThursday, June 21, 2012
The Central Park production of “As You Like It,” starring the luminous cross-dressing Lily Rabe, astonishing double dukes Andre Braugher, outrageous jester Oliver Platt, is not t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:27PMWhat many theatergoers know and don’t love about “Harvey” is that this comedy about a 6’3 1/2” invisible rabbit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945, beating out Tennessee Will…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:52PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Megan Hart's first full-length play about a writer's first novel is too sketchy, and isn't saved by strong performances from Richard Masur and Michelle David.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:15AMMonday, June 18, 2012
When Annie Baker, playwright of the exquisite “Circle Mirror Transformation” and her frequent collaborator, super-star director Sam Gold (“Seminar,” “Look Back …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:37PMMonday, June 11, 2012
Ethan Lipton's enigmatic send-up of urban life, "Luther," in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, needs more decisiveness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Winners of the 66th annual Tony Awards for the best of Broadway will be announced on Sunday night, June 10th. Winners will have asterisks in the list of nominees below. The links are to my r…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:59PMSunday, June 3, 2012
Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway competed in the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards. The winners are in boldface with an asterisk. OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:38PMSaturday, June 2, 2012
This La MaMa revival of H.M. Koutoukas' odd tale of three clowns menaced by a panther-baboon is surreal and often soporific yet redeemed by its language.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:38AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Wonderful performances enhance this eerie stew of a story cooked up around fascinating real-life Japanese theater and school of male impersonators Takarazuka.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:37AMSunday, May 27, 2012
This minor August Strindberg comedy about a love triangle is adapted for an all-black cast and set on Martha's Vineyard in the 1920s.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:41AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Political columnist Joseph Alsop, a New Deal liberal and a Cold War hawk, is embodied by Tony Award winner John Lithgow in a new Broadway play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
Would the movie Forrest Gump make a great musical, or must this never happen? How good a Broadway musical could be made from the movies Mean Girls or Moulin Rouge? Clue or Clueless? Those ar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:26AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The 2012 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-2012 theatrical season are: Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) Phillip Boykin (The …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:07PMSunday, May 6, 2012
The Lucille Lortel Awards represent the best on Off-Broadway, chosen from 91 eligible shows (50 new plays, 17 musicals, 24 revivals).Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2012 Luc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:42PMFriday, May 4, 2012
In a word cloud for articles about the Tony Award nominations, which were announced on Tuesday, the word “snub” would be just about as big as “Broadway” or “Hugh Jackman.” Annual…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:56AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
The nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards have been selected in the 22 competitive categories. There are also four special Tony categories. The 2012 nominees are: Best Play Clybourne Park…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:42AM 
