"Easier than we could ever have imagined. Harder than we ever thought," says Bono, resting at a Times Square hotel near where "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is readying its first preview.
Former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm was nominated for an Evening Standard Theater Award on Monday in the best newcomer category for her six-month run in the West End musical "Blood Brothers."
Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare have terrific rapport as two polar-opposite social misfits released into the world from a state mental institution in this quirky, intimate comedy-drama.
Charles Smith's romanticized retelling of the marriage between the daughter of civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois and poet Countee Cullen traffics in superficial comedy at the expense of complex characters.
In this technically adroit production, writer-director Edward Einhorn has crafted an eerie, strikingly designed adaptation of Philip K. Dick's heady post-apocalyptic novel.
Two one-acts from different periods in his career display Harold Pinter's range and give a quintet of New York's finest actors the opportunity to explore the depths of his famous pauses.
Neil LaBute reverts to his formula of brutish protagonists and political incorrectness in this twisted morality tale. TV star David Duchovny lacks stage presence.
The Civilians' newest documentary musical theater piece artfully serves up the issues surrounding and emotions inspired by the proposed development of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, amusing…
Playwright Nick Jones' exercise in style is far too pleased with itself and its jejune juxtapositions of period behavior and contemporary snark, amounting to little more than an overextended…
The invaluable Metropolitan Playhouse explores George L. Aiken's stage adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel with intelligence and invention. The result is absolutely fascinating.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare share terrific rapport as two polar-opposite social misfits released into the world from a state mental institution in this quirky, intimate comedy-drama.
"Everything you need to know as far as preparation, whether you're doing Shakespeare or a contemporary piece, should all be right here," Brendan Frasersays, pointing to Simon Bent's script.
Ultimately, this "Bells" is a pleasant-enough serving of a rather ramshackle yet endearing Jule Styne-Betty Comden-Adolph Green mid-career musical comedy.
An entire evening of Dwight Rhoden's choreography is exhaustingly monotonous. The dances feel like chains of unmotivated tasks, which all become a wearisome waste of energy.
Playwright Eliza Clark takes a seeming ordinary fast-food restaurant and three normal kids and turns out a taut and scary examination of the effects of terrorism.
Matt Pelfrey's tightly written drama works as a metaphor for today's bellicose political climate, but Joe Tantalo's expressionistic staging undercuts its emotional effectiveness.
This highly promising collaboration between playwright John Guare and director George C. Wolfe never fulfills its laudable ambitions despite Lincoln Center's lavish and loving production.
