Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
The Wingfield apartment exists in a void, floating in space and completely surrounded by a dark reflective pool that is simultaneously terrifying and alluring. The fire escape the family use…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWith a big voice and even bigger personality, Ali Stroker was a natural contestant for season two of The Glee Project, a reality TV competition in which the grand prize is a recurring role o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMAt 37 years old, Jordan Roth is the youngest player in a field dominated by older men. He has spoken passionately about bringing the business of Broadway into the 21st century; anyone who ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Attention all girls (and boys) who had a Legolas poster hanging over their bed sometime in the last decade: Tonight is a night that you'll want to be on Broadway. Tonight your fantasy boyfri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMDon't take pictures of Robin De Jesus while he's performing Patti Issues at The Duplex. Before the show he warns, "If I catch you taking a picture I'll say 'Stop, stop, stop! How dare you! W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
"I want to rape the American Dream," Anna Nicole Smith defiantly blares at the audience as she shows off her big fake breasts and winning smile. And rape she does, but what goes around comes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:49PMWhen she's not explaining Shakespeare, Laura Benanti is busy preparing for her return engagement at 54 Below. Benanti's May debut at the midtown supper club garnered a live album entitled …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Michele Spadaro's beautiful set for Women or Nothing, Ethan Coen's first full-length play, now receiving its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, tells its own story before any of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMSunday, September 15, 2013
After the Apocalypse, the theater will survive. That is the central assumption behind Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, now receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMFriday, September 13, 2013
"They came from a desire to see girls kiss on stage," Lucy Thurber (half) quipped when I asked why she wrote The Hill Town Plays, her epic five-play cycle examining hidden poverty in rural A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
If there is a theme to Sutton Foster's return engagement at Café Carlyle, it could best be described as "thinly veiled desperation." The Tony Award-winning star of Broadway's Anything Goes …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Waiters and technicians rushed around the small café table at which Jennifer Ashley Tepper and I sat, unstrategically placed in front of the coat check at 54 Below. Tepper is the newest add…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMMonday, September 9, 2013
On May 11, 1997, the triumph of machine over man officially began (not August 29 of that year, as erroneously predicted in The Terminator). The contraption in question wasn't a military supe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMEverything about Brendan at the Chelsea feels perfectly calculated to induce sleep: the soothingly dim lighting, the rainstorm sound effects, the gentle recitation of sentimental Irish liter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMFriday, September 6, 2013
How did you get your current job? Doubtless, a lot of theatergoers will ask themselves that question upon leaving the New York premiere of Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation. In an electric…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, September 5, 2013
"I got a check yesterday," Leslie Jordan enthusiastically says. It was a residual for some reruns of Will & Grace, the show for which Jordan won his Emmy Award playing the improbably closete…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Brian d'Arcy James grew up on a steady diet of Billy Joel and Phil Collins. While the Drama Desk Award-winning star of Broadway's Shrek is best known for his performances on the Broadway sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Jack Viertel spends a lot of time thinking about Broadway — specifically what makes a show successful. Is it the music? What about the subject matter? Can a star make or break a show? "All…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
It smells like autumn and death within the musty confines of the Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center, overpowering the perhaps more pungent stench of infidelity. It proves the perfect olfact…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMThere are so many good offerings playing off-Broadway this fall, you'll probably want to see more than one. It takes a lot of cojones to produce a new work in New York City, so all of these …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01AMMonday, August 19, 2013
Two seemingly unrelated plays are running in repertory at the Pershing Square Signature Center: Otho Eskin's Final Analysis is a portrait of Vienna circa 1910 while Fraser Grace's Breakfast …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
There is nothing more thrilling than seeing an enormous musical performed in an intimate space: the intensity of the music, the proximity of the dancers, the sweat of the actors literally tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:48PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Joe Papp must be smiling somewhere. The late founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival created his free productions in Central Park out of a conviction that theater is essential and ought…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThursday, August 8, 2013
First dates can be awkward. Modern technology has done little to alleviate that problem. Now that everyone is Googleable and on Facebook, first-daters (and the NSA) have access to a wealth o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Mara Wilson and Max Reuben sat in the Saint's Alp Teahouse on Third Avenue, just a couple blocks away from the rehearsal studios where they used to spend hours rolling around the floor, Afri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
The well-appointed two-story homes of Sag Harbor, New York, are all tinted a very distinctive green — the color of old money. At least that is the way they appear in Chad Beguelin's Harbo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMIf you're looking for a classy evening of dinner, drinks, cabaret, and sadness you can do no better than Paulo Szot, currently making his 54 Below debut. The midtown cabaret is celebrating B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PMIf you're looking for a classy evening of dinner, drinks, cabaret, and sadness you can do no better than Paulo Szot, currently making his 54 Below debut. The midtown cabaret is celebrating B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PM 
