Monday, May 25, 2015
a sampler of five of this annual festival's offerings . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMZach Helm's use of Spalding Gray's style turns out to be less than the best form of flattery . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMIn an important and startling way, Geoffrey Rush, David Holman and Neil Armfield have enhanced the original Gogol story as all great adaptations should. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThursday, June 13, 2013
another Marathon series concludes this year's offerings
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Guillermo Calderon and company do so much with a small light at the foot of the tiny stage that one realizes that moving theater can be made anywhere — even on a small, dim stage, behind t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:12AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Even if you aren't an opera fan, you will become enamored with the spectacle of this full-scale production of painstakingly high quality.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:12AMThursday, September 20, 2012
- Thomas Bradshaw doesn’t shy away from graphic depictions of sex, violence, and depravity and in his new play, Job, such inclinations have met a natural partner. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:19AMSunday, September 2, 2012
Anyone who has children, or knows children, has heard something like the exchange above. It’s kind of cute, sometimes precious. When grown adults do it. . .not so much, especially when the…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:31PMFriday, June 22, 2012
You’ll immediately recognize the set of David Adjmi’s 3C as a dead ringer — down to the ubiquitous house plants and rounded wooden door— for the set of the 1970s-1980s television sho…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AMSunday, May 13, 2012
A formidable trinity of actors make this production, crisply directed by Christopher Morahan, an absolute must-see.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:51PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
All of Williams’ major themes are here, as is the archetype of the domineering matronly doyenne in the character of “Babe.” .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Director J.R. Sullivan has played this O'Neill revival too safely, almost as a museum piece.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:06AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
David Crabb will abduct you into the world of his unusually decadent yet incisive youth and, happily complicit, you’ll jump in for the joyride
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:30AMFriday, February 17, 2012
According to Theatre for a New Audience, this John For play has not seen a New York City production in 30 years, so now's the time to acquaint yourself with the immediate post-Shakespeare li…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:41PMSunday, January 22, 2012
the chief accomplishment of Young Jean Lee's show, in my mind, was to steal away any body shame or embarrassment, either on the part of the performers or the audience
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:32AMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Gerard Mannix Flynn's James is a natural, amiable Irish story teller, yet much of his humor is distracting
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:47AMMonday, December 5, 2011
still a strong and entertaining play executed it in a way that will still appeal to contemporary audiences
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:20AMMonday, November 21, 2011
the Pearl Theatre has deftly handled Shakespeare’s difficult (and long), history play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:32AMMonday, September 26, 2011
The Pearl Theatre’s production masters Ionesco’s mad comedy and sense of fun, while resisting the urge to interpret it or posit its potential meanings
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:16AMThursday, August 11, 2011
two plays in site specific setting for 20 viewers at a time only . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:00AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Anyone interested in James Baldwin or the history of the civil rights era should take the time to see this plucky performance
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:09PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
one of 3 plays by the invaluable Belarus Theater Company in repertory at LaMama.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:33AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Is this really Shakespeare? Why not judge for yourself and be one of those lucky few to have seen a professional production in many generations. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:40PM 
