Saturday, March 17, 2012
“The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey’s well-reviewed monologue currently at the Public Theater, is the subject of an expose in This American Life, the radio program t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:02AMMonday, March 5, 2012
There will be 17 Broadway openings from March 15 to April 26th, an astonishing turnover with only 40 theaters on the Great White Way, almost too overwhelming to consider. So let’s focus ju…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:58AMSunday, March 4, 2012
T. Schreiber Studio's production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play focusing on a retrial of Judas is provocative, playful, and layered but also belabored.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:15AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Decades after Carrie wreaked her revenge for being dumped on with pigs blood, “Carrie” the musical, which opens tonight at the Lucille Lortel, has a chance for its own sort of reveng…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:47PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
The finale of “Assistance” is an abused employee’s revenge fantasy: A woman curses out her boss, and then dances defiantly as the office around her self-destructs in spectacular fashio…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:00PMApartheid was virulent and ignored outside South Africa in 1961 when Athol Fugard wrote “Blood Knot,” launching his international career. The American anti-apartheid movement was in full…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:22AMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Each Broadway show has a different policy to enable either the general public, or students, or young people, to buy tickets at a steep discount. Anything Goes General Rush: $30 – limited n…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:42AMMonday, February 20, 2012
"Bad Kid," David Crabb's one-man show at Axis Theater about his goth-gay Texas adolescence, is vivid and amusing storytelling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMSunday, February 19, 2012
Philip Gawthorne's David Mamet–inspired drama for Mad Dog Theatre Company and the Drilling Company feels as endless as a bad marriage.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:01AMThursday, February 16, 2012
There is the William Shatner, long forgotten, who appeared with Spencer Tracy in “Judgment at Nuremberg” and replaced an ill Christopher Plummer as Henry V at the Stratford Festival. The…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:28PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
A GPS device turns out not just to be aggressively helpful but also clairvoyant in Eddie Antar's clever, cautionary comedy about our tech-dependent era.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Once young and idealist, now rich, arrogant and corrupted, the main characters of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Stephen Sondheim’s most reworked flop, could be said to resemble the Encores!…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:20PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
In “Rx,” Phil tells Meena that she may be suffering from workplace depression, “which isn’t a personal failure; it’s a disease.” He quickly adds: “We hope.” If it is a diseas…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:23PMSunday, February 5, 2012
Smash, the new NBC TV series about the making of a Broadway musical, is well-timed for theater people, both because it’s on Mondays (their standard day off), and because it starts in Febru…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:15PMThursday, February 2, 2012
Meet thirtysomethings Sam Gold, Alex Timbers and Thomas Kail, the respective directors of Broadway's Seminar, Peter and the Starcatcher and Magic/Bird.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, January 29, 2012
“Welcome to blood, sex, sorrow and a good party,” a young man said cheerfully, as he handed out a drink during the Flea Theater’s adaptation of all seven surviving tragedies by Sophocl…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:22PMSaturday, January 28, 2012
The Nixon Rule is named after Cynthia Nixon, who is starring as a literature professor dying of cancer in the Broadway debut of “Wit” 13 years after it opened Off-Broadway and won the Pu…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:53AMThursday, January 26, 2012
“It’s not all that important, of course,” the minister says, helping Miss Helen fill out a form to put her in an old-age home. It is one of many shrewd little moments in Athol Fugard�…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:37AMSunday, January 22, 2012
Is the “Porgy and Bess” currently on Broadway worth seeing? Consider these other questions: Is “Porgy and Bess” racist? Is it an opera or a musical? How important is that goat cart t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:29AMMonday, January 16, 2012
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. What’s on Broadway? Long-running shows, shows about to close, and shows about to ope…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:53PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
At around 16 years of age, Susan Sontag 1. offered Thomas Mann a reinterpretation of his “Magic Mountain” 2. had her first affair with a woman, 3. met the professor she would marry. “I…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:26PMSunday, January 8, 2012
This rock-concert adaptation in Polish of an abstract two-character French play is cool in a not very fresh way, despite the fine performances of Wojciech Niemczyk and Tomasz Nosinski.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:52AMMonday, December 19, 2011
In theater, we don’t go out with the old – here, 12-time Broadway veteran Carol Channing, soon to turn 91 – to ring in the new – here, Darren Criss, 24, about to make his Broadway de…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:33PMSunday, December 18, 2011
Here are the shows that you can see on Broadway as of this writing — or that are scheduled to open in Spring 2012. Many are closing by the end of December, 2011 or January, 2012. Listi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:52AMSaturday, December 17, 2011
Whatever else they have in common – and it’s much – the current productions in Brooklyn of “Krapp’s Last Tape” with John Hurt and “Misterman” with Cillian Murphy share one ab…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:59PMFriday, December 16, 2011
William Shakespeare is said to have coined several English words and phrases in his first tragedy, “Titus Andronicus,” including “Devil incarnate” and “unappeased” – though not…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:37PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
The Broadway version of “Lysistrata Jones” begins with a loud boom, a full moon, a stage full of smoke, and an intoning diva in Grecian attire. Hooded monks move down the aisles of the W…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:48PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
I asked the Naked Cowboy in Times Square what was the best theater of 2011. “Les Miz,” he replied, while he posed in the cold with tourists. Since the revival of “Les Miserables” clo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:51AMSunday, December 11, 2011
It is a swooning moment to hear Harry Connick Jr. sing the title song of a musical now remembered mostly because of that melody, as sung by Barbra Streisand. But Connick sings it only at the…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PMThursday, December 8, 2011
“There isn’t a single one of you that hasn’t kept secrets or made mistakes,” Dr. LeVay says defensively to his family in “Stick Fly,” a play full of mistakes aired and secrets re…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:34PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater What makes people happiest? The top three answers are sex, exercise, and theater, according to a recent study)` Now, the people studied were 45,000 British iPhone user…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:08AM 
