It's nice that the Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street are offering a "Recession Special Double Bill" of two one-act plays for the price of one with their pairing of Fringe Festival favorite Sailor Man with the new Rumspringa. But cash-starved theatergoers could really save some money by skipping this wildly disjointed double-bill altogether.
Warren Leight, when he was an executive producer on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” once wrote an episode about a murder that took place in the world of boxing.
August Wilson was the great chronicler of black America. The New Yorker's John Lahr remembers the school drop-out who wrote standing up - with a punchbag at his side
In "The Scene," at Hartford Stage, Theresa Rebeck demonstrates, painfully and hilariously, that you can get both drama and comedy from the unlatching of a single door.
It was a roundhouse right.
It happened pretty fast, but that's how it looked from ringside, er, the audience. A roundhouse right from Mindy Kaling that knocked Brenda Withers off her pins and into next week.
Actually, it sent her to the hospital with a broken nose.
The setting looks like a ghostly, abandoned carnival with a rickety roller coaster rising to the stars and a disturbing motto blazing in lights: "Shoot! Win!"
It's an appropriate sideshow sentiment for "Assassins," the stunning, gut-punch of a musical that the Roundabout Theatre Company has had the good sense to revive at Studio 54.
Featuring four songs by the Knack's Berton Averre and keyboardist Rob Meurer, the Blank Theatre Co.'s deft three-hander is a kind of "Will and Grace" meets "The Bad and the Beautiful."
