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Saturday, April 8, 2017

How Laura Linney Got Cynthia Nixon a Dream Role by Mark Peikert

Three-time Tony nominee Linney and Tony winner Nixon tackle two roles on alternating nights in The Little Foxes.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, March 3, 2017

Putting Sunday Together by Mark Peikert

Director Sarna Lapine brings a fresh focus to the recently opened Sunday in the Park with George.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Twenty Years Later, Glenn Close Finds a New Norma by Mark Peikert

It may be a reprisal of her Tony-winning role, but Glenn Close isn’t repeating anything in Broadway’s revival of Sunset Boulevard.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, December 8, 2016

See Dear Evan Hansen’s Redesigned “Blue” Room by Mark Peikert

Bloomingdale’s teamed up with the show to redesign the Music Box Theatre’s green room into a Bloomingdale’s outfitted Blue Room.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Come for the Comedy, Stay for the Songs—Ana Gasteyer Takes Over Café Carlyle by Mark Peikert

The Broadway and Saturday Night Live star talks about what she has up her sleeve for concert audiences at the Carlyle.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Tiny Geniuses by Mark Peikert

Every nails-on-a-chalkboard cliché inherent in adult actors playing children is in evidence in "Tiny Geniuses," a new comedy about first grade.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Protected by Mark Peikert

Have we forgotten what the "Fringe" in Fringe Festival means? Apparently playwright-director Timothy Scott Harris has, because there's nothing fresh, original, or offbeat in his sagging new …

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

NY Review: 'Bunked!' by Mark Peikert

Alaina Kunin and Bradford Proctor have written a funny, hip musical about hormone-addled counselors at Camp Timberlake that has attracted an abnormally talented cast, here displayed to perfe…

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Over and Over by Mark Peikert

Writer-director Tim Aumiller's bare-bones staging of his new play is only partly successful.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Evan O'Television in Double Negatives by Mark Peikert

Every cliché of a Fringe Festival offering is on full display in this unfunny, boring one-person show.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Nance O'Neil by Mark Peikert

Never mind the title; David Foley's intriguing new drama is all about the lingering mystery of Lizzie Borden.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Now Circa Then by Mark Peikert

There is an embarrassment of riches to be found at Ars Nova with the premiere of playwright Carly Mensch's gorgeous one-act "Now Circa Then."

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Ritter, Dene, Voss by Mark Peikert

Two battling sisters anxiously await the return of their prodigal brother, with whom they share a fraught relationship. No, it's not a revival of Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic."

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

“Sylvia Plath” and Easy-Off by Mark Peikert

Elisabeth Gray and a talking oven bring the poet back to lifeTruman Capote once described a sheet of paper he spied in a young woman's typewriter. It read, “Sylvia Plath, I hate you/ A…

SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM

Returning to the (Milk) Well by Mark Peikert

MilkMilkLemonade gets an Off-Off Broadway remount
Time Stands Still might be getting all the attention for returning to Broadway just months after it premiered last season, but Donald Margulies' play isn't the o...

SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Mark Peikert

Playwrights Horizons reminds us that theater can still make us think

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Stuck in the Middle With Them by Mark Peikert

Loneliness is my sweet spot; I can’t get enough of things that limn the depths of desperate solitude. The list of really great treatments of lonely people is a surprisingly long one (I…

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Lighting Up Off-Off-Broadway by Mark Peikert

Chiara Montalto reminds us that theater doesn’t need flash to succeed

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Breaking Point by Mark Peikert

Lincoln Center is currently holding some of Broadway’s brightest talent in a musical prison

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Temp Work by Mark Peikert

Neil LaBute’s new play has a man finding God (and fame) during an office massacre

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Are You Nobody Too? by Mark Peikert

The inmates run their own asylum in the dreary ‘Elling’

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

A Few Doors Down From Uranus by Mark Peikert

A Fringe Fest transfer sheds its charm in its move uptown

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

NY Review: 'Brian Dykstra's Ho!' by Mark Peikert

This new one-man holiday show has its moments but fails to ignite good cheer in the audience's' heart.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

The Land Whale Murders by Mark Peikert

Jonathan A. Goldberg's comedic murder mystery is a refreshingly successful off-the-wall comedy that never overwhelms its flimsy premise.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

The (Screen)Play’s the Thing by Mark Peikert

Pragmatism is no match for vanity in ScreenPlay, a very funny new play about what, exactly, success means.

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Poor People Problems by Mark Peikert

Surprisingly, for someone who has apparently never written before, Blood From a Stone is an engaging, occasionally amusing and frequently wrenching new drama.

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 05:58PM

Making Theatre in “Qatar” by Mark Peikert

How two Jewish New Yorkers went to the Middle East and came back with two musicalsFor most people, e-mails from foreign countries written in broken English are an instant signal to hit delet…

SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM

Ankhst by Mark Peikert

Walk like an Egyptian straight past this comically bad revival of Clarinda Karpov's 1989 play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

A Rockette Prepares for Christmas by Mark Peikert

How Rockettes train (and unwind) during the Radio City Christmas Spectacular — The Rockettes may be synonymous with the holiday season, but the high-kicking dancers stay busy throughou…

SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AM
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Be Careful With That Axe! by Mark Peikert

Forget bowling pins—the members of Cirque Alfonse prefer to juggle heavy-duty cutting tools — “Some things that we were trying to use, like big bear traps or stuff like tha…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:11PM
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Trashy Outfits Need Love Too by Mark Peikert

Meet the wardrobe wizard at Broadway’s Rock of Ages — “I like to refer to Rock of Ages as the big little show,” says wardrobe supervisor Wendall Goings. As he puts it…

SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AM

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