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The year 2013 had its high notes and its twerks " and Sandra Bernhard dishes about them all in "Sandyland," her year-in-review revue at Joe's Pub. Backed by her band,...
You know him best as Big Pussy, who got wired and whacked in "The Sopranos." But long before Vincent Pastore played wiseguys, he owned the Crazy Horse Cafe in New...
Kyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
(©Eric Ray Davidson)
Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
Experienced theatergoers know that nearly every performer's credits in the program inevitably list appearances on "Law and Order" and its myriad offshoots. But there are plenty of other TV s…
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring …
We’re still hunting for Halloween candy between the couch cushions and have yet to order a turkey " but "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular" just propelled us into the holidays....
“How can I go on? I cannot." And with those fateful words, we know we're watching a Beckett play " in this case, "All That Fall." That we're seeing it...
Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night"
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
No wonder Il Divo's Broadway debut is subtitled "A Musical Affair": That refers less to their concert of show-stoppers than to the steamy relationship between the hunky quartet and their...
A friendly piece of advice: If you're ever invited to play poker with Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio . . . pass. In the hands of these sleight-of-hand magicians, a sim…
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight
(Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
Wallace Shawn's sexually charged, dystopian drama concerns a doctor who solves the world's hunger problem by inventing a substance enabling animals to eat their own kind.read more
Daniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
Fireworks figure prominently in "Luce," about parents who realize that the child they adopted from Africa a decade ago isn't what he seems. Sadly, JC Lee's new play fizzles out...
The sounds of an Irish jig fill the theater before the action starts " our first tip-off that this Culture Project revival isn't going to be your typical "Seagull." And it's...
Its title may be poetic " thank Robert Frost " but "And Miles To Go" begins with a profane tirade. From a NYC teacher, no less. After 40 years at...
Theater Review: Honeymoon in Vegas, 3 stars, Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ; 973-376-4343. Through Oct. 27. Running time: 150 minutes, one intermission.
The fun begin…
There’s no flying and not a treacly song to be heard in this Aussie take on J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan." Here at the New Victory Theater, the title character isn't played by a woman in g…
Dee Bridgewater plays the late, great Billie Holiday in this combined bio-musical/concert.read more
A lot of ground is covered, to increasingly diminishing effect, in "Bike America," Mike Lew's play about a young woman's search for identity on a cross-country bike trip. Although it makes a…
Anne Washburn's anarchic dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic future imagines the survivors reenacting a classic episode of "The Simpsons."read more
Playwright Horton Foote's Southern-drenched melodrama receives a posthumous, world premiere production.read more
Will Power's drama concerns the unlikely real-life friendship between Muhammad Ali and the controversial screen star Stepin Fechit.read more
The biggest name in new plays this season will be in the program, not on the stage.
It's John Grisham, whose legal thrillers and other works have sold a whopping 275 million copies worldwid…
The Savannah tourist board won't be endorsing "The Cheaters Club" anytime soon. Derek Ahonen's supernatural dark comedy portrays Georgia's famously haunted city as a hotbed of sin " but for …
