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"'I thought of doing this as a one-woman thing," says the suburban mom to the audience at Lisa Loomer's engaging but predictable "Distracted," which the Roundabout Theatre Company opened Off…
In the crapshoot called Broadway, Guys and Dolls is as close as the theater gets to a sure thing. Or at least it seemed that way until Des McAnuff's tarted-up and dumbed-down revival opened last night at the handsomely remodeled Nederlander Theatre.
The Civilians, the Obie-winning company that builds canny documentary plays through interviews and impersonations, spent 10 weeks in Colorado Springs, the Evangelist capital of the country and former duchy of Ted Haggard, disgraced pastor of the powerful New Life Church. The result is This Beautiful City, an intriguing notion but, ultimately, a pretty shapeless and self-explanatory musical journey through the minds and hearts of the cultural and religious phenomenon in the shadow of Pikes Peak.
After last month's disappointing tricked-up revival of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," the new company - co-produced by BAM, Kevin Spacey's Old Vic and Sam Mendes' Neal Street - is vindicati…
It would be lovely to be able to say nice things about "The Story of My Life," the two-man musical that showed up on Broadway last night with no hype and lots of obvious care.
But, really.
If the production never quite comes together - and unfortunately it does not - the problem comes down to Denis O'Hare's crazed but not vulnerable Vanya.
Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play that opened last night at Manhattan Theatre Club was inspired by interviews the playwright conducted in Africa with Congo…
For Moisés Kaufman, the writer and director, it's one of those art-imitating-life scenarios.
Anton Chekhov: chick magnet?
Henrik Ibsen: catnip to hot-property Hollywood?
Encores! has fulfilled the part of its mission to showcase unproducible musicals. We appreciate the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - then no more, please.
Ferrell is terrific - sly and subtle, even brave. And "You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush" has arrived right on time for both silly fun and smart summing-up of an epoch…
The best we can say is that Turner - last seen bulldozing Broadway as formidable Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - is being a good sport.
It seemed weird - in an interesting way - that Mary-Louise Parker was cast in Henrik Ibsen's 1890 damaged-diva vehicle, "Hedda Gabler." And, wow, is it ever weird. Unfortunately, it is also …
