The surprising thing is how DiPietro's script combines humorous fluff with substantial emotion. Its seemingly opposing aspects complement each other. Not an easy thing to pull off.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:17AMIt's unfortunate that director van Hove wasn't able to point his leading lady in the right direction. But with its otherwise excellent cast and the director's sense of both the minimal and t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:11PMPhilip Ridley creates a mounting sense of urgency and the New Group's Scott Elliott pulls it all together . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:51AMJohn Patrick Shanley's 1986 play by the Attic Theater Company at the Flea. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:00AMPan Asian Repertory Theatre's musical is, like the James Michener novel on which it's based, a study of Yankee bigotry in post-World War II Japan, and it's not a pretty picture.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:04AMPlaywright Anne Washburn, with director Les Waters, creates an exaggerated melodramatic sensibility that is completely copacetic with the horror movie genre to which it is wed . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AMAttica, 1971. The famous prison on the eve of its infamous riots is the setting for Lemon Andersen's play. But if you're expecting outsize brutality and barbarians at the gate, you're at the…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:55AMwell-structured, skillfully drawn, and slyly entertaining. If only it were less hollow
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10PMBathsheba Doran's play doesn't purport to have profound answers or even ask probing questions. It's an observation of the human species laid bare, simple and complex at the same time. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AMNot for the staid traditionalist, but an exciting and decidedly different entertainment.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:25PMDowntown or Uptown, the Role's the Thing for Reed Birney, An Actor's Actor
SOURCE: at 11:29AMDimbleby is fantastic as Dory. With a voice that's warm, clear and full, she delivers Previn's gems with flawless phrasing and meticulous shading.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:02AMa new play by Keith Josef Adkins at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AMThe York's Musicals In Mufti production is a portrait — or at least a snapshot — of a young artist whose contribution to musical theater would go on to be enormous
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