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This rock-concert adaptation in Polish of an abstract two-character French play is cool in a not very fresh way, despite the fine performances of Wojciech Niemczyk and Tomasz Nosinski.
In theater, we don't go out with the old " here, 12-time Broadway veteran Carol Channing, soon to turn 91 " to ring in the new " here, Darren Criss, 24, about to make his Broadway debut. We …
Here are the shows that you can see on Broadway as of this writing — or that are scheduled to open in Spring 2012. Many are closing by the end of December, 2011 or January, 2012. Listi…
Whatever else they have in common " and it's much " the current productions in Brooklyn of "Krapp's Last Tape" with John Hurt and "Misterman" with Cillian Murphy share one above all: Live th…
William Shakespeare is said to have coined several English words and phrases in his first tragedy, "Titus Andronicus," including "Devil incarnate" and "unappeased" " though not, surprisingly…
The Broadway version of "Lysistrata Jones" begins with a loud boom, a full moon, a stage full of smoke, and an intoning diva in Grecian attire. Hooded monks move down the aisles of the Walte…
I asked the Naked Cowboy in Times Square what was the best theater of 2011. "Les Miz," he replied, while he posed in the cold with tourists. Since the revival of "Les Miserables" closed in 2…
It is a swooning moment to hear Harry Connick Jr. sing the title song of a musical now remembered mostly because of that melody, as sung by Barbra Streisand. But Connick sings it only at the…
"There isn't a single one of you that hasn't kept secrets or made mistakes," Dr. LeVay says defensively to his family in "Stick Fly," a play full of mistakes aired and secrets revealed among…
Follow @NewYorkTheater What makes people happiest? The top three answers are sex, exercise, and theater, according to a recent study)` Now, the people studied were 45,000 British iPhone user…
Six short plays, presented over two separate evenings, offer a loosely connected and uneven glimpse at New York City.
In one of the few funny moments in "Bonnie & Clyde," Frank Wildhorn's seventh and best try at a Broadway musical, Clyde's brother Buck offers his wife a confection he bought with the loo…
Follow @NewYorkTheater To be excited by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin's show, you need not know that their first performance together, in "Evita", made them both stars, and that it has tak…
Follow @NewYorkTheater When Kim Cattrall first appears on stage in "Private Lives," she is wearing nothing but a towel and earrings " it's Samantha of "Sex and the City," you think, in a rol…
Follow @NewYorkTheater Exactly a year after its first preview, November 28th, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark certainly has much to be thankful for this holiday season. It has grossed upwards o…
The holidays are hell for the Wyeth family of "Other Desert Cities," as they seem to be for most fictional families, far more than real ones. Home for the holidays for the first time in six …
Follow on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater Shows are opening regularly now on Broadway — see my review below of “Seminar” with Allan Rickman — and four new shows were at le…
In "Seminar," Alan Rickman, though no longer Severus Snape (his role in all eight Harry Potter films), plays a character with striking similarities: Leonard starts off evil, ends up complica…
Follow New York Theater on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater On seeing his first play, Harry Belafonte discovered “theater was power: power to influence, power to know of others…”…
One couple decides to call each other brooms, a combination of groom and bride, and even orders a wedding cake with two little brooms on top. When it comes to same-sex marriage, you can't be…
"Mend your speech a little, lest it mar your fortune," King Lear tells his youngest daughter. This is good advice for the Twitter generation, and in the production at the Public Theater star…
The story at the heart of "Venus in Fur" fascinates Americans above almost any other. I don't mean the sadomasochistic power struggle between a 19th century European nobleman and his dominat…
A cast of 17 joyously celebrate the late Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa E.T.C., by performing her words as set to music by Elizabeth Swados.
The most revealing moment in the first Broadway revival of "Godspell," a musical by Stephen Schwartz (now best-known for "Wicked"), may come after Jesus stands up on the piano, mike in hand,…
The health of a society can be determined by the art it demands, Edward Albee has said. But what about how much we're charged for it? This week in New York theater the average ticket price f…
