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As a part of P.S. 122's Coil Festival, Temporary Distortion presents a rather unsettling but realistic look at the New York Police Department, Newyorkland. Using both live action and v…
Grab a Kleenex kids.The new Broadway-bound musical Once, based on the 2006 Irish indie flick of the same name about two real-life
lovestruck musicians, just released this live-theater versi…
Theater break! Today we've got three -- count em, three -- insta-reviews from our intrepid theater critics AndrewAndrew. Below, they weigh in on Daniel Kitson's It's Always Right Now, Until …
Every time I watch a YouTube video of "Shit Some Fool Says to Some Other Fool" I think, "This will be the last one I'll think is funny." Well, leave it to show-biz legend Liza Minnelli (or s…
Playwright/director Young Jean Lee has earned her now-global reputation
by making plays that change the way people look at things, that change the way
people think of theater, and by coming …
This is a new version, by director Diane Paulus and playwright Susan Lori-Parks,
of the steamy, Southern musical
filled with bluesy, time-slowing classic songs, like "Summertime" and "It…
Today's oldie-but-goodie video comes courtesy of the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis (newly out on Blu-ray). It's the very moving and sad scene wherein Esther (Judy Garland) sings "Ha…
It originally started as a convoluted and cockamamie musical in 1965, however the new production of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever attempts to update the storyline (a woman who has ESP a…
Here are 10 plays I saw off-off Broadway this past year and enjoyed tremendously:1. Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good 2. In the Pony Palace/Football3. The Divine Sister4. …
It was a rainy and miserable night in DUMBO the night we saw Cillian Murphy (who most recently starred in the over-hyped movie Inception) in Enda Walsh's Misterman, now playing at St. Ann's …
It wouldn't seem like December if there weren't any Christmas shows. Pipe Dream Theatre brings the New York premiere of 3 Ghosts, a "Steampunk Musical" based on Charles Dickens' A Chri…
The witty and Greek mythology-obsessed stage writer Douglas Carter Beane's latest production began off-off-Broadway last summer in the basement of a Greenwich Village church. Now, just six m…
After reading the scathing New York Times review of this new musical based on the story of outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, we were scared for the prospect of the almost two-and-a-hal…
Playwright David Jenkins, whose first play for the theater company Human Animals Presents, Middlemen, was solidly received in 2009, comes back with a three-character piece, Post Office, dire…
Playwright and Rutgers grad Samuel Brett Williams, who has had his works produced at places like Naked Angels, New York Theater Workshop and Ars Nova, has joined forces with actors Malcolm M…
ICON Stephen Sondheim at Barnes & Noble Calling all Broadway Babies: Stephen Sondheim, the man responsible for some of the past century's most important and beloved American mu…
This 1969 version of the Greek myth Medea stars legendary singer Maria Callas in the lead and was directed by the visionary director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Filmed in Turkey at the gorgeous Gor…
When arranging our interview with 30-year-old playwright Stephen Karam, he suggested we meet him at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It seemed like a strange request until we realiz…
1. Vulture breaks down just how gratuitous Michael Fassbender's nudity is in his new film Shame, which opens tomorrow.2. Jersey Shore star Pauly D has signed to the rapper 50 Cent's G-Note l…
The combination of a star-studded powerhouse of a cast that includes
notables from stage, screen and TV (Alan Rickman, Hamish Linklater) + a seasoned, highly in-demand
director…
Did we let our views about Occupy Wall Street and the 99% effect our
review of this classic 1930 Noël Coward comedy about two couples that
make up part of the 1%? Did Kim Cattrall just …
These days, and specifically Tuesdays, beloved identically-outfitted DJ duo (and Paper theater critics) AndrewAndrew take over the back room of the East Village's Parkside Lounge for an earl…
Did we feel like something was lost in the translation, or did the new Broadway play "Chinglish" redefine theatre for us? Watch the review to find out!
Japanese-British artist Simon Fujiwara's Performa commission, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," is a semi-autobiographical "epic narrative" in three acts. The first act takes place in his hometown, …
AndrewAndrew caught a matinee of the newly opened Venus in Fur at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and agree that they've "never seen something so erotic while sitting next to so many elderly …
