First Nighter: The Marcy Heisler-Zina Goldrich Musical 'Ever After' an Unlikely Ever After by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with pl…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:34am on June 5, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Simon Stephens's "Heisenberg," Tom Jacobson's "The Twentieth-Century Way" by David Finkle

Whether two things appearing simultaneously can be called a trend seems premature. But when they appear one on...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07am on June 4, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Jesse Eisenberg's Spoiled "The Spoils," David Greenspan Snappily Takes on Gertrude Stein by David Finkle

Sometimes the unforgettable characters populating your personal landscape are the ones you'd most like to forget. ...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:10pm on June 2, 2015☆⚑

Book Exposition of America: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? by David Finkle

Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26am on June 1, 2015☆⚑

Book Exposition of America: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just held May 27-29 at the Jacob Javits center, seems t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:26am on June 1, 2015☆⚑

Time for Plays That Play With Time by David Finkle

Time often takes its own sweet, or bitter, time.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 8:15pm on May 30, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Emily Schwend's "The Other Thing," Melissa Ross's "Nice Girl" on Nice Women or Otherwise by David Finkle

Sometimes at the theater the women wrest it from the men--not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. ...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02am on May 30, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Emily Schwend's 'The Other Thing,' Melissa Ross' 'Nice Girl' on Nice Women or Otherwise by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Sometimes at the theater, the women wrest it from the men -- not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. I'm talking about <em>The Other Thing</em&g…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:02am on May 30, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Jim Parsons is God in An Act of God, Robert Creighton is James Cagney in Cagney by David Finkle

Jim Parsons, adored for his appearances as Sheldon Lee Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, is now appearing at Studio 54 (although it's not a Studio 54 production) as the Supreme Being, though th…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32am on May 29, 2015☆⚑

Off-Broadway "Permission" to Bottom by David Finkle

The playwright who smacks us in the face.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 8:33pm on May 20, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Neil LaBute's "The Way We Get By" Doesn't Get By, Simon Callow Transgenders in "Tuesday at Tesco's" by David Finkle

The 36 Goldberg variations on the Bach harpsichord tune are copious, but apparently Neil LaBute wants to give those spins on...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02pm on May 19, 2015☆⚑

Tony Noms for Best Score Then and Now, What's Changed? by David Finkle

What does it mean when the best Broadway songs are almost all in the Tony-nominated revivals?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 3:28pm on May 18, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Edith Piaf Remembered in Pascal Rioult's Revue With Christine Andreas by David Finkle

If it's offbeat revues you're after, make a beeline to the short-run Street Singer: Celebrating the Life of Edith Piaf at 42West Nightclub, and make it fast. Tonight's performance (May 16) …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48pm on May 16, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Dan Lauria's "Dinner With the Boys" Undernourished by David Finkle

Dinner With the Boys, written by Dan Lauria and at the Acorn, is a harmless enough comedy about the Mafia today--not...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:57pm on May 13, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Lemon Anderson's 'Toast' Looks at Attica Up Close and Personal by David Finkle

Lemon Anderson's Toast, printed some places as Toast, takes place in an Attica Correctional Facility cellblock during late summer 1971. The year isn't immediately specified, but it's mentio…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:49pm on May 5, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Orlandersmith Impressively Goes on "Forever," "A Queen for Day" is Crowned by David Finkle

Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue Forever at the New York Theatre workshop--as a follow-up to,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42pm on May 4, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Orlandersmith Impressively Goes on 'Forever,' 'A Queen for a Day' Is Crowned by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue <em>Forever</em> at the New York Theatre workshop -- as a follow-up to, among other writings, her acclaimed <em…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:42pm on May 4, 2015☆⚑

Zoë Wanamaker Talks Theater Here and Abroad by David Finkle

The Anglo-American actress gabs about the Encores! "Zorba!" and much more.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:14am on May 4, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress" Back at the Met by David Finkle

When you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:47am on May 3, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Stravinsky's 'Rake's Progress' Back at the Met by David Finkle

<![CDATA[Jonathan Miller's 1997 production of <em>The Rake's Progress</em>, revived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 2003, and around for only two addi…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:47am on May 3, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Trash Cuisine Scrutinizes Man's Inhumanity to Man by David Finkle

It's been said that theater emanating from repressed societies is the most pungent. You certainly believe it's the god's honest truth at Trash Cuisine, which the Belarus Free Theatre -- free…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:18pm on April 29, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: "The Merry Widow" at the Met With New Cast Trying by David Finkle

If there's one thing Susan Stroman's new production of The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera House isn't,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 1:02pm on April 27, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Anne Hathaway in "Grounded," Irish Troubles in "The Belle of Belfast," Red Bull Theater's "'Tis Pity She's a W by David Finkle

Synchronicity can be a scary, shocking and ominously timely thing. Only days after Barack Obama apologizes for a drone killing hostages held by al Qaeda in Pakistan, George Brant's Grounded…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:04pm on April 26, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Lisa D'Amour's "Airline Highway" Traffic Jam by David Finkle

Everybody knows about gang comedies, most often as television series. Something less talked about, if ever talked about, are...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:05am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: 'Doctor Zhivago' Caught at Musical Malpractice by David Finkle

Before the lights go down at the Doctor Zhivago start, the tall, dark Broadway Theatre curtains are parted maybe six or eight feet. Filling the space between them is a compilation of grey c…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:02pm on April 21, 2015☆⚑