Saturday, 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 10:26PMThursday, October 13, 2011
There is a shocking moment halfway through “The Mountaintop,” the play starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett that imagines the last night that Martin Luther King Jr. is alive. It…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:14PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, with a surprisingly varied score and a dated story about Americans finding love in Israel, is given a competent barebones revival by Musicals T…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:57AMMonday, October 10, 2011
This week in New York theater began with the promise of Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr. coming to Broadway, and ended with the possibility of two of each. Another possibility: Michael C. H…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:31PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Everybody from Louis Armstrong to Bobby Darin to Sting has recorded its music; Bob Dylan has said he was “aroused straightaway by the raw intensity of the songs.” It’s been on Broadway…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:09PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Only one show opened on Broadway in September. In October, there will be four: Man and Boy with Frank Langella, October 9; The Mountaintop, with Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett, October 13…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:50PMSunday, October 2, 2011
A terrific cast and a respect for Jane Austen's language help make this latest staging of the beloved novel a worthy entertainment, even while the score is not ideal.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:35AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Featuring actual teenagers playing fake ones, "Kissless" seems clueless, but thanks to some strong-voiced songs and choreography it's not worthless.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:47AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
With a cast that includes Jonathan Groff (“Spring Awakening,” “Glee”) and Rutina Wesley, who as Tara was just killed (perhaps permanently?) in the “True Blood” season finale, “…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:48PMMonday, September 26, 2011
The action this week in New York Theater has been largely off Broadway and even Off-Off Broadway. Off-Broadway Week begins today, two-for-one tickets until October 9th. The winners of the Ne…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:21AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
“These awards celebrate our incredulity that things ever go right,” said playwright John Patrick Shanley Robert, one of the presenters for the seventh annual New York Innovative …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:52AMMonday, September 19, 2011
The marquees are going up, the new Broadway season has begun — with the opening of the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies”. (Technically, the new season began in …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:20AMA theater full of girls ages 13 to 15 are enthralled by the speaker on the stage, Gloria Steinem, who is speaking at the Talkback after “Facebook Me,” a fascinating theater piece written…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:43AMSunday, September 18, 2011
The announcement that “Freud’s Last Session” was leaving the Upper West Side for Midtown gave me a guilty conscience. I thought I should see the show before it departs its natural habi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:32PMThursday, September 15, 2011
In 1997, a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub, taken to the 70th police precinct, and sodomized with a wooden handle, which was then used to bash …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:55PMMonday, September 12, 2011
When the sequined ghosts of showgirls past appear at the beginning of “Follies,” a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical opening tonight whose delights edge out its disappointments, th…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:26PMSunday, September 11, 2011
When the Elevator Repair Service theater company staged “Gatz” last year, one critic gushed that it represented a new genre in theater, a hybrid of book (Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gats…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:46PMFriday, September 9, 2011
Sept. 11 affects a New Jersey Muslim family in this play by Rehana Lew Mirza, which, originally mounted on the first anniversary of that event, doesn't compel in revival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMThursday, September 8, 2011
From the moment the six members of the Fiasco Theater tell us to turn off our cell phones by singing a polished melody, it is clear these entertainers could spin magic from a bologna sandwic…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:48PMMonday, August 29, 2011
The Fringe Festival ended two days earlier than planned because of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out the closing night party, and the last-second chance to see shows with big buzz. Eighteen…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:41PMLea Michele Sarfati was born a quarter-century ago today, August 29, 1986. As Lea Michele, she debuted on Broadway at age eight as Young Cosette in Les Miserables, and subsequently had roles…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:03PMSaturday, August 20, 2011
Writer and performer Ali Kennedy Scott portrays five survivors of a natural catastrophe in Australia, but her delineation of character needs to be deeper and more distinct.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:19AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
OK, yes, we first see the creator of the Spider-Man musical Julie Taymor – renamed Julie Paymore (get it?) – in a straitjacket and mask a la Hannibal the Cannibal in “Silence of the La…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:31PMMonday, August 15, 2011
In Nathan Cuckow and Beth Graham's new play, two twins read and act out a macabre tale that is better written than it is performed and funnier than it is terrifying.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:07AMSunday, August 14, 2011
The two site-specific plays that make up “HotelMotel” take place around a bed in a back parlor of The Gershwin Hotel, which is right next door to the Museum of Sex, and that seems an esp…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:38PMThree shows in New York explicitly describe themselves as both theater pieces and as circus acts: “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark,” Cirque de Soleil’s “Zarkana,” and, now, “Traces…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:32AMNicholas Billon's subtle, unsentimental play is inspired by the recent discovery of an island off the coast of Greenland and imagines the story of the man who discovered it and his family.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:07AMThursday, August 11, 2011
Like the motorcyclists who tattoo Harley-Davidson onto their arms, some theatergoers treat “Rent” as an indelible part of their lives, something that has become almost sacred. This may h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:48PMFriday, August 5, 2011
The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:12AMThe first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:12AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
The 2011 New York Innovative Theater Award nominees, announced August 1st, include 166 individual artists, 55 different productions and 45 Off-Off-Broadway theater companies. Winners will be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:09AM 
