Friday, October 26, 2012
I was a bit startled to read in the program that John Fosse is considered one of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights, as I'd never heard of him before. I'm a little closer to understa…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
he Irish Repertory Theater's gripping and moving performance of Brian Friel's 1973 play . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:55AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
In keeping with the relentlessly grim and ravenously graphic oeuvre that defines many of Adam Rapp's plays, this is also a startling and extremely visceral response to the timely and topical…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
hat Athol Fugard, South Africa's venerable, highly lauded playwright, is a helluva storyteller is re-affirmed the eighty-year-old's more recent and arguably best plays . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Primary Stages is continuing its laudable association with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his talented daughters, beginning with three one act "trunk" plays from Papa Foote's…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:16AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
How great that we are invited quite literally into the woods
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
If the principal goal of this musical was to have a young and awesomely talented company Bring It On, then they have done it in spectacular fashion.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
The Irish Repertory Company deserves a high five for its lovingly Irish-ized revival of New Girl in Town, a too-long-ignored musical from Broadway's golden age
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted Next to Normal mto…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
Prospect Theatre's revival of an easy to forget long forgotten musical by Cole Porter .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:59AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
The extgravaganza returns to Radio City for a limited return engagement. It's shorter and better
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:07PM[SHARE]David Ives' hilarious adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:57AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Greg Pierce is unquestionably one of the theater's sharper new talents. With Slowgirl he makes an impressive imprint on a season that is just getting into gear.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens first major success now revived at the Papermill Playhouse
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2012
Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner have encapsulated the seven books-long adventures of the boy wizard, they are to be commended for a comical condensation that (according to one of my you…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
A smartly directed and terrifically performed revival of Simon Gray's homage to high-toned literary publications and to the bristling academic oeuvre behind it
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
the latest spoof of old Hollywood murder mysteries, the B variety that filled out the lower half of a double bill during the 1930s and 1940s at New Jersey's Passages Theater . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2012
John Guare's most free-wheeling and comically absurdist play, commissioned by the McCarter Theater and Princeton University for its world premiere
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
The four-person cast headed by Howard McGillin at George Street Playhouse couldn't be more in step to make the most of their many and mostly manic opportunities in this delightful homage to …
SOURCE: www.curtainup.com39stepsnj12.html at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
There is no denying that the technical team has created an excitingly refracted vision of New York. Whether that is enough to spell success is questionable
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
EXTRA! EXTRA! Newsies is the go-to show for the whole family, from the kids to grandma and grandpa.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Amy Herzog's 2-hander bets another run at the Mitzi Mewhouse
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
What could be more amusing in this election year than oodles of snappy and insinuating dialogue that earnestly and humorously recalls a time when the delegates at a convention could actually…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:39AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Were it not for the singularly intense and brilliantly energizing performance of Josh Young, as Judas, I don't know how I could have made through to the crucifixion. More amazing is that You…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:00PM[SHARE]Watching this Will Lomany's "way out in the blue ride on a smile and a shoeshine" turn into "an earthquake" is as enduringly shattering as any Greek tragedy. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
At times, Stoppard's longwinded play is as exhilarating as it is illuminating; at other times it is as exasperating as it is enervating.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
The verdict of this critic on David Saint's production: It's guilty of being a resounding success
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:38AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
For this seasoned spectator, there aren't any balls or strikes, only solid hits and home runs in this Paper Mill Playhouse revival of a classic musical of the golden era
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2012
Even if the story defies rational analysis, this musical can no longer be denied a place among the more unsettling and unusual musicals of our time.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
there are glimmering in F. Murray Abraham's performance that hint that he is striving to find a character who will eventually show the various, sometimes contradictory, sides of Galileo's te…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2012
-close to the best production I've seen ever seen . . .
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