Monday, 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 01:08AMSaturday, December 3, 2011
Six short plays, presented over two separate evenings, offer a loosely connected and uneven glimpse at New York City.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:47AMThursday, December 1, 2011
In one of the few funny moments in “Bonnie & Clyde,” Frank Wildhorn’s seventh and best try at a Broadway musical, Clyde’s brother Buck offers his wife a confection he bought with…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:09PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater To be excited by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’s show, you need not know that their first performance together, in “Evita”, made them both stars, and that it h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:21AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater When Kim Cattrall first appears on stage in “Private Lives,” she is wearing nothing but a towel and earrings – it’s Samantha of “Sex and the City,” you thi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:36AMMonday, November 28, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater Exactly a year after its first preview, November 28th, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark certainly has much to be thankful for this holiday season. It has grossed upwards o…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:37PMFriday, November 25, 2011
The holidays are hell for the Wyeth family of “Other Desert Cities,” as they seem to be for most fictional families, far more than real ones. Home for the holidays for the first time in …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:39AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Follow on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater Shows are opening regularly now on Broadway — see my review below of “Seminar” with Allan Rickman — and four new shows were at le…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:23PMSunday, November 20, 2011
In “Seminar,” Alan Rickman, though no longer Severus Snape (his role in all eight Harry Potter films), plays a character with striking similarities: Leonard starts off evil, ends up comp…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:51PMMonday, November 14, 2011
Follow New York Theater on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater On seeing his first play, Harry Belafonte discovered “theater was power: power to influence, power to know of others…”…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:18PMSunday, November 13, 2011
One couple decides to call each other brooms, a combination of groom and bride, and even orders a wedding cake with two little brooms on top. When it comes to same-sex marriage, you can’t …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:01PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
“Mend your speech a little, lest it mar your fortune,” King Lear tells his youngest daughter. This is good advice for the Twitter generation, and in the production at the Public Theater …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:59PMThe story at the heart of “Venus in Fur” fascinates Americans above almost any other. I don’t mean the sadomasochistic power struggle between a 19th century European nobleman and his d…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:58PMA cast of 17 joyously celebrate the late Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa E.T.C., by performing her words as set to music by Elizabeth Swados.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:18AMMonday, November 7, 2011
The most revealing moment in the first Broadway revival of “Godspell,” a musical by Stephen Schwartz (now best-known for “Wicked”), may come after Jesus stands up on the piano, mike …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:55PMThe health of a society can be determined by the art it demands, Edward Albee has said. But what about how much we’re charged for it? This week in New York theater the average ticket price…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:37PMSunday, November 6, 2011
James Gaddas' hourlong monologue for a boxer is made fresh by Jonny Collis-Scurll's performance and by a gay twist in this Brits Off Broadway offering.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:30AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
If you are surprised to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Elton John and Stephen Sondheim guzzling beer and gobbling chicken wings at the local Hooters, then you probably did not wa…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:43PMThis play about the effect of a factory strike on three blue-collar guys who have been friends since the first grade is strongest as a look at camaraderie.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:33AMMonday, October 31, 2011
If you are surprised to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Elton John and Stephen Sondheim guzzling beer and gobbling chicken wings at the local Hooters, then you probably did not wa…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:30PMSunday, October 30, 2011
Before it even begins, “The Atmosphere of Memory,” with its elegant title and world-class cast, promises to be a worthy next play for the Labyrinth Theater, whose last one was “The Mot…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:00PMSaturday, October 29, 2011
There is the man who was laid off a year and a half ago as the creative director for a children’s television production company, and showed up at Zuccotti Park a day ago after being evicte…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:36AMFriday, October 28, 2011
There is sparkling wit and great timing these days at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, but it’s just in the window, in an article Elaine May wrote to promote “Relatively Speaking,” a trio …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:26PMThursday, October 27, 2011
In “Chinglish,” David Henry Hwang’s funny and timely new play, an American man declares his love for a Chinese woman in Chinese: “Frog loves to pee,” he says with feeling. That is …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:19PMAt the end of Ivo van Hove’s interminable stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s film “Cries and Whispers,” we are rewarded with a breathtaking image: A video of a woman making angel w…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:28AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Joseph Douaihy knows about pain. So do the people all around him, the region they live in, and the country his family is from. Yet in Stephen Karam’s “Songs of the Prophet,” all this p…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:39AMMonday, October 24, 2011
The opening of a play about the dark side of the iPhone; an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Lincoln Center and news of the first theater company to bring Occupy Wall Street to the stage;…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:24PMSunday, October 23, 2011
However uncomfortable you may feel about Mike Daisey’s pokes at Steve Jobs so soon after the Apple founder’s death cannot compare to the queasiness at the horrors this chronicler of the …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:22AMMonday, October 17, 2011
On the week that thousands protested in the theater district as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, two shows opened on Broadway: “The Mountaintop,” about Martin Luther King Jr. and…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:40AMSunday, October 16, 2011
How is it that “The Lyons” is the most enjoyable play I have seen so far this season? The characters are unhappy and unpleasant, and not only that, they are the kind of people we’ve se…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:29PMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street has spread around the world. Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Times Square this weekend, passing by the American Airlines Theater, home to “Man and Boy,” a play…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:26PM 
