Monday, May 25, 2015
A provocative play about the back-room negotiations of football could be a healthy and refreshing stretch/departure from traditional Broadway fare. The problem is that this one about the fam…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMStephen Spinella's performance and Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's adaptation at the McCarter Theater prevents this grimly realistic anti-war story from ever being boring. Instead, it bores…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMforty-five years have not dimmed the brilliance of the Beatle canon, certainly none of the thirty-one songs performed.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThis is Maxwell's show. It is she who completely embodies both the fearless woman who once danced on the wings of planes and the distressed woman who suddenly finds herself lost in the cloud…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMQuinn's motor-mouthed oral thesis may not always be uproarious, but it is consistently rib-tickling. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMWhether or not there is any good reason to encourage it, this musical adaptation of the popular movie will presumably join the roster of other perennial holiday shows
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThis 25th anniversary touring revival proves that it can make the rounds even without a turntable.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMa rarely produced dramatic trifle by the creator of the famous 101 Dalmations in its New Jersey premiere
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThis latest, but unfortunately poorly-acted and seriously misdirected resurrection of the play manages to make victims of those in the audience as well as those consigned to the stage. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMtwo chances to catch an important example of vintage musical political satire. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMSarah Treem's invigorating new two-character play at the McCarter . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMSean McNall's Alcestedelectably decimates a society made up of fools and fops. Too bad the support cast isn't as uniformly outstanding
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThe popular spelling bee musical buzzes into the Paper Mill Playhouse . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMStaged simply and effectively by Charlotte Moore and in the grandest/familiar tradition of Irish story-telling, Brian Friel's 3-way monologue hasn't a rigid bone in its body. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMa glittering cast, elegant staging makes the much done play still enjoyable.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMa rare misfire for the invaluable York Theater . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMFrank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize Winner still winning at George Street Playhouse . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMin David Hay's binge-besotted play the amount of wine that its four character drink appears to be the primary catalyst in determining their future..
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMin David Hay's binge-besotted play the amount of wine that its four character drink appears to be the primary catalyst in determining their future..
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Dan Lauria's dinner now served Off-Broadway
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:56AMFriday, April 10, 2015
musical spoof about William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:05PMSunday, March 22, 2015
an enthralling entertainmen
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:31PMFriday, March 20, 2015
a comedy where funny happenings and clever word-play are in tooshort supply
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:53AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
If Cush Jumbo's show is admirably self-serving, it is also an unapologetic homage
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:20PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Best of all, there is the constant exchange of wonderfully down-to-earth, humorously naturalistic dialogue that is Odets' forte
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:51AMFriday, February 13, 2015
All the players are adept, under Jessica Kubzansky's frisky direction, at careening between two worlds— the superficial and the existential
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:44AMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Forty years later, we can still respond to the plentiful humor as well as the amount of pathos and poignancy integrated into this cleverly politicized ninety-minute comedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:34PMMonday, January 26, 2015
a fine revival at the George Street Playhouse
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- a lucid dream of a play and this fine production re-affirms its place among the more endearing of contemporary Irish plays.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:03AMFriday, December 5, 2014
no let-up to the brittle wit and savvy wisdom spread through by this grand musical show
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:52AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
As close to a perfect holiday attraction for the whole family as one can get
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