Does October 25 sound like “Soon” or "Later" to you, Sondheim fans? Whether it's sooner or later, it's certainly not now — but it is the earliest you'll get a peek at the s…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMMandy Patinkin's voice holds the same national-treasure/national-joke status as a Julian Schnabel plate-painting or a Keith Haring mural. It's a saccharine klaxon that can whipsaw from birdl…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMAre you okay, old friend?
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMThat real rare thing: a good, small play.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:58PMYes This Man, the title of Mike Daisey’s slender new monologue, has a kind of “Ecce Homo” quality to it, and Daisey, declaredly, plays his own Pilate here. As a white male monologist, …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:55AMNew York's premier investigative theater company looks into death this weekend.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:37PMAmanda Plummer makes existing look so hard in the Tennessee Williams revival.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:35PMA particularly starry spring descends on Broadway.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:42PMSir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh, friend of the working man, is bringing miserable back. All the miserables, in fact: Les Misérables — flush with brand recognition after its extreme close-u…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:32PMIs Sarah Sokolovic theater’s next great actress?
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 07:41PMTo the strains of "Brink of Doom" (à la Brigadoon), the parody institution Forbidden Broadway — skewering the Great White Way for 30 years now — reemerges after a three-year hiatus. And…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:33PMAs two revivals arrive on Broadway, a critic revisits Lloyd Webber and Rice.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:00PMWit is in good health for its age (fourteenish, an awkward time for a revival) and risk profile (star-driven, midwinter Manhattan Theatre Club production).
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 12:29AMMusical? Opera? Rapture? Travesty? Two critics on the remade Porgy and Bess.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:41PMIn an age of endless squabbles over nothing, from the debt ceiling to foreign aid, New Yorkers know whats worth fighting over.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:14PMThere’s much to love (along with a few choices that mystify me) in Once, a sweet mash of tuneful, youthful, beautiful blarney that’s successfully leapt from screen to stage.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:52PMSmall-scale brilliance, a mystery hotel—and those singing Mormons!
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:56PMWhat’s so wrong with an “updated” Godspell? Golly, aren’t they all updated? Perhaps no other American musical cries out for retrofitting more than this one, with its strung-together …
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:22AMThe Ethan Coen–Woody Allen–Elaine May triptych Relatively Speaking nearly drowns in its own shtick.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 11:53PMPrint media, organized labor, and musical theater: Three institutions from Golden Age America so perennially beleaguered, they’ve more or less been reduced to camp. And really, what’s so…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:08PMOn hoping for the best, every August.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:29PMFond of women who don’t — correction, won’t — know their place, confine themselves to their appointed range, or answer to any authority other than their own instincts, even if it mea…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:03PMDavis McCallum is a director to watch. Taking the reins of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents,, he turns a wet little Freudian nightmare into a muscular seriocomedy — one that (to …
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:52PMIs there anything more glorious than an outdoor wedding in summertime? The bride blushing (and scheming and strategizing), the clueless horndog groom elaborately entrapped, and some fickle a…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:50PMLast week, I took a break from critiquing Off–Off Broadway plays about naked hip-hop Serbo lesbian forest children struggling with father issues and consumerism to interview actor-comedian…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:16PMI didn’t attend the Tonys — I prefer to experience shared cultural moments (awards ceremonies, inaugurations, targeted assassinations) the way nature intended, via telecast — but so fa…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:23PMOne Arm, Moisés Kaufman's fast, fierce, brutally beautiful stage adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams, is more than a play: It's a time machine. Kaufman has retrieve…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:30PMWhat will Karin choose to believe? Does she even have a choice? Do we?
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