Monday, May 25, 2015
The evening is not without its highlights, but a little brightening of the energy on stage wouldn t hurt.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThis could have been such an entertaining, action-packed musical. Unfortunately, the talents of Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan go largely wasted.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMGory as it is, Shakespeare’s thriller should be produced more often.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMHaving moved out of the basement gym where the Off-Broadway production was staged, this poppy musical has lost some of its charm.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe Man Who Came to Dinner remains the most masterfully chaotic ensemble comedies, even if it doesn t get quite the serving it deserves here.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMSomeone needs to tell Ethan Coen to stop writing awful one-act plays.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMAside from some slow points, Shlemiel the First proves to be a lighthearted dose of fun with some wild klezmer music.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMFrom Spider-Man to The Book of Mormon , the 2011 season swung between disappointing lows and soaring highs.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe classic 1935 American folk opera gets a little tightening and tweaking but keeps its heart where it was.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe classic 1935 American folk opera gets a little tightening and tweaking but keeps its heart where it was.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMWhile incendiary for its time, the 1956 English drama Look Back in Anger has not aged well.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMChristine Ebersole s new cabaret show delivers authentic numbers for 60 straight minutes.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe characters in Erika Sheffer’s are painted with gripping realism and more than one threatening streak.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMWhile the plot of the musical moves backwards in time, the success of Merrily We Roll Along has gotten only better as time moves forward.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMWilliam Shatner’s new one-man show makes for a fun evening of personal reminiscing, video clips and one of his strange musical performances.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMA quarter-century after the historic flop of the original production, the second attempt strips the play of its chaos as well as its intensity.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMEdward Albee’s sinister, surreal and altogether puzzling 1980 play The Lady from Dubuque gets an unexpected revival.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMStephen Spinella and Denis O’Hare alternate nights at the helm of this mesmerizing one-man riff on Homer’s 15,000-line epic poem.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMDespite two strong performances, Carl Forsman’s production of Tina Howe’s 1948 script never quite catches fire theatrically.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMDes McAnuff turns out an exciting production of the rock opera that didn t fare so well its first two times around.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMJohn Ford’s 17th-century tragedy spills over with naughty sex and bloodshed.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe stage production of Newsies will please fans of the cult 1992 film musical.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMEvita doesn t work unless the leads can conquer the score mightily – an element missing in this revival.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMJames Corden leads the funniest, most insane show you’ll find this season.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe friendship between basketball icons Magic Johnson and Larry Bird made for a decent documentary, but makes for boring theater.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMDavid Auburn crafts a bio-drama of scandal, sex and secrets around the life of influential columnist Joseph Alsop.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMClassic Stage Company’s sexy, jubilant production explodes with imagination and an overload of costumes and props.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe Drama Desk Awards, already an outsider in the theater world, have not done themselves any favors recently with omissions in their categories and nominations.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMDespite a lacklusted Broadway season in some respects, this year s Tony nominations feature plenty of praiseworthy work.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThe first new play in over a decade by David Rabe is a letdown, with too many characters and not enough backbone.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMDavid Staller directs George Bernard Shaw s four-act play as a tight, singular piece of theater.
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