Saturday, March 8, 2025
Date: March 6, 2025
Author: Thom Geier
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For nearly three decades, the theater company Clubbed Thumb has nurtured some of the finest new plays to hit the New York stage, from the …
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 12:37PMWednesday, March 5, 2025
There is much to admire in Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Sumo, a deep dive into Japan’s national sport by way of a conventional Karate Kid-style framework. We follow an orphaned teenage apprentice…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMSunday, March 2, 2025
From 'Maybe Happy Ending' to 'Oh, Mary!' here are critic's picks of the best shows currently on the New York stage
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30AMFriday, February 28, 2025
Adapted from my Broadway Bulletin column in the March issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine. New York theatre doesn’t just happen on Broadway. These days, there are plenty of commercial Of…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 11:30AMThursday, February 27, 2025
Is there a dark secret in the past of Rajiv Joseph, the playwright best known for his 2009 Iraq war parable Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the recent sports-themed dramedy King James (o…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
D.A. Mindell’s On the Evolutionary Function of Shame is a timely, trenchant, and often funny new play that explores the issue of trans visibility. Mindell initially sets the scene in the b…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
It was only six years ago that Maggie Siff led a solid but workmanlike revival of Sam Shepard’s 1978 drama Curse of the Starving Class. Now Calista Flockhart and Christian Slater are retur…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 07:00PMMonday, February 24, 2025
Samuel D. Hunter follows his extraordinary 2022 two-hander A Case for the Existence of God with a another astonishing new drama for two actors. This time, two men must calibrate the spaces b…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Bess Wohl takes a big-hearted approach to her subject matter, and to her characters, in this powerful and life-affirming drama
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 10:00PMKate Gilmore conveys the conflict in her character with a riveting command of the show’s vocal and physical demands, but ‘Safe House’ remains too scattershot an exercise in style to mo…
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Entertainment Weekly gives high marks to the new edition- Comes Out Swinging!
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:55AMFriday, December 20, 2013
From Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams to Duke Ellington and Fatboy Slim/David Byrne: The year's best live theater
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:04AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
In the Las Vegas of the new musical Honeymoon in Vegas, there are no EDM deejays or clubs with bottle service. Elvis has not yet left the building (except maybe to put on a parachute). Direc…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:43PMFriday, February 8, 2013
It’s hard to believe that Tom Hanks has never been on Broadway before. But the two-time Oscar winner will make his debut this spring in Lucky Guy, a new play by Nora Ephron, the late write…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 01:45PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
In this exclusive clip, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise and her costar, two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz, talk about working together on the timely story of a con man who returns home sudden…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:36AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
In its first full week since its April 24 opening, Nice Work If You Can Get It joined Broadway’s million-dollar club with a gross of $1,022,115, up a whopping 23 percent from the previous …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:29PMMonday, April 2, 2012
Even more than half a century after its Broadway debut, Gore Vidal's The Best Man still has a timely pull. And it's hard not tease out modern resonances in this old-fashioned political drama…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:26AMThursday, April 28, 2011
It's hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since the first performance of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, a searing, rage-filled cri de coeur from the front lines of the early b…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:01AMSaturday, April 9, 2011
The stars turned out in force last night for the first performance of New York Philharmonic’s four-nights-only production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. There was Alec Baldwin, calling o…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:12AM 
