Sunday, May 1, 2016
59E59 TheatersRichard Bean's 1999 play blends social realism with sometimes cruel jokes, managing a distinctive voice despite sticking with a standard recipe Continue reading...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Music Box Theatre, New York This show about the creation of the first jazz musical manages to be both entertaining and informative " but unfortunately not at the same timeIf Broadway has the…
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American Airlines Theater, New YorkJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O'Neill's finest pla…
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Broadhurst Theatre, New YorkThis adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt book has flaws " the songs are repetitive and the set is chaotic " but the show's spirit is ultimately touchingThe question…
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Lyceum Theatre, New YorkJesse Tyler Ferguson's turn as a put-upon restaurant worker has more elements than El Bulli's taster menu, and just as many surprisesOn a nondescript morning a few we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PM[SHARE]Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkBased on the 2007 film, this show about a small-town diner waitress trapped in a loveless marriage is witty and bittersweet, yet its sexual politics leave a …
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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of Bret Easton Ellis's original novel slides off the sli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
In the Pearl Theater Company's adaptation of Georges Feydeau's farce "Le Dindon," a wife swears that she will cheat on her husband only if he betrays her first.
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The Public Theater's Mobile Unit presents this 90-minute version of the tragedy, with Sheldon Best and Ayana Workman as the star-cross'd lovers.
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Manhattan Theatre ClubWith elements of a thriller and absurdist comedy, the play takes us into the experience of a man losing his grip " though some very English slang ranklesAndré (Frank L…
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons, New YorkAnne Washburn's constellation-referencing play provides moments to savor but ultimately leaves audiences hoping for what might have b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PM[SHARE]The Hollywood actors join forces on a Broadway stage in this abuse-revenge drama. They discuss coping with the play's shattering themes eight times a weekActors Jeff Daniels and Michelle Wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2016
With his troubled air and tousled hair, the actor has made his name with anguished characters " from Hamlet to Danny in London Spy. Now on Broadway in The Crucible, he talks about coming out…
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In A. Rey Pamatmat's play at Here, two Filipino families living in New York try to master Monopoly, mah-jongg, affection, aversion and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01PM[SHARE]Ivo van Hove's production " set in a gloomy classroom and starring Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan " doesn't reach the highs of his version of A View from the Bridge and feels overly reliant o…
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With Hungry, the first in a planned election-year trilogy opening at New York's Public Theater, Trump's rise is a dubious gift: 'I'm a citizen before I'm a writer'The plot of Hungry, the lat…
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Friday, March 25, 2016
Musical theater had a bumper year in 2015, with breakout hits such as Hamilton drawing in new crowds and renewed excitement. But is this really a new dawn or has the hype clouded the much mo…
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Cort Theatre, New YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin's tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustreFinally,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PM[SHARE]In this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel, Mr. Walker is working out and absorbing his character, a smooth banker who sidelines as a killer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
Studio 54, New YorkThis joy of this musical, about two warring shop workers unwittingly conducting an epistolary romance, is how the songs deepen and contradict the conversationHungarian pas…
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Atlantic Theatre Company, New YorkKenneth Lonergan once again explores the hypocrisy of likable characters in a play starring Timothy Olypahant that veers between farce, comedy and dramaStri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26PM[SHARE]This play at the New Victory Theater, set during World War II, shows the heroism of these black Army pilots and the discrimination they faced back home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PM[SHARE]Public Theatre, New YorkThough the plot falters, this is an important show in its conviction that transgender people's social and romantic lives are as worthy of interest and empathy than an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Clurman Theater, New York, NYBased on a real-life case of a boy raised as a girl after a dire surgical mishap, this play is sensitively acted but could go deeper into the issuesIs biology de…
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