Wednesday, March 21, 2012
"A small man can be just as exhausted as a great one," Arthur Miller wrote in Death of a Salesman. This statement is all too true in today's world, where two jobs per family, or even per per…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 04:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
"Death be not proud," Cynthia Nixon pleads on West 47th Street in the stunning production of Wit at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Well, Nixon clearly has not been informed that Death is be…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 02:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sometimes less really is more. This statement is certainly true when applied to the musical adaption of Stephen King's Carrie, which has been reincarnated at the MCC's Lucille Lortel Theatre…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:56AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2012
While struggling to find work as an actor, Danny Thomas vowed that if he ever found success, he would open a shrine dedicated to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Tho…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 12:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Actor. Activist. Musician. All of these labels, and more, can be applied to Gavin Creel, one of the busiest men in the entertainment industry. Last seen on Broadway as Claude in the revival …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
"It's only a game." This phrase can often be categorized as famous last words, especially in the riveting production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, currently in performances at the Alice Grif…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2012
"He's horrifyingly odd and exciting," one character says of another in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. The same could be said of the current revival of Osborne's landmark 1956 work, curre…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I thought I was prepared for Wit when I entered the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. I had seen countless plays about illness throughout my career as an entertainment writer. Last season alone I …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2012
The living ain't easy on Catfish row in the new rendition of Porgy and Bess, currently playing at the Richard Rogers Theater on Broadway. Minimalistic, passionate and violent, filled with so…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 03:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The themes of light and darkness have inspired so countless works of art and literature. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness came to mind frequently while watching the Roundabout Theater Compa…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 04:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Jeremy Jordan can't seem to stay out of the news. The star of the recently closed Broadway musical Bonnie and Clyde, the recent film release Joyful Noise, and the upcoming Broadway musical N…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Frothy fun abounds at the Walter Kerr Theater where Lysistrata Jones has made a triumphant transfer to Broadway. This silly, surprisingly heartfelt update of Aristophanes' comedy about the b…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
You might be able to see forever on a clear day, but you won't want to in this poorly conceived musical revival/re-imaging currently in performances at the St. James Theater. First seen on B…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 11:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Spending a long weekend with family can be described as many ways. Frightening, inspiring, boring, exciting and predictable are just a few choice words to characterize such a situation. Stic…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 02:20AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 26, 2011
It is clear from Kim Cattrall's entrance onstage in Private Lives that the audience is in for a smart, sensual treat. Striding onto a balcony clad in nothing but a fluffy white bath towel, t…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 10:35AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
Talk is anything but cheap in Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play currently in performances at the Golden Theater. Starring Alan Rickman as an acid-tongued literary professor teaching a class…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
No actual blood is shed during a performance of Venus in Fur, the startling sex comedy written by David Ives and directed by Walter Bobbie, currently at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Starr…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2011
A wonderful holiday gift has arrived on Broadway from Jon Robin Baitz, whose play Other Desert Cities has opened at the Booth Theater. After a critically-acclaimed run off-Broadway earlier i…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:34AM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2011
It may already be the name of a hit film but Lost in Translation would be a fitting title for David Henry Hwang's latest play, Chinglish, currently playing at the Longacre Theatre. A comedy …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Sometimes all you need is some good news. In today's world of economic troubles, Tea Party debates and Occupy Wall Street, a little bit of joy couldn't do any harm. Thankfully (thank whoever…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2011
In a city of eight million people and endless possibilities, how can there be so many single men and women out there? Just ask Dr. Alex Schiller, sexual psychologist, musical therapist and f…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 01:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2011
There is no awkward small talk at the Brooks Atkinson theater, where Relatively Speaking, a series of three one-act plays is currently in residence. Written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woo…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 01:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Roundabout Theater Company's production of Man and Boy, starring Frank Langella, is eerily representative of the present-day financial crisis that has wracked our country. Many different…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Actions may speak louder than words in some scenarios, but the same could not be said for The Submission, Jeffrey Talbott's timely, thought-provoking and deeply unsettling play currently in …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Watch out, Edward Cullen. There's a new vampire on the block. And this one isn't happy about it. There are no wisecracking high school students, and his skin doesn't sparkle. This vampire is…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A lovely scene has been staged at the Laura Pels Theater, courtesy of the Roundabout Theater. A picturesque villa filled with attractive people is onstage for your viewing pleasure. Unfortun…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 08:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
"Never look back." This song lyric from the musical Follies is also a warning to each of the characters in the show. A love and hate letter to nostalgia, and one of Sondheim's richest…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 05:13PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
Dan Heching was 25 and living in Paris when he was mugged. Six years later, the award-winning playwright has taken his experience and turned it into an original one act play. Sammy Gets Mugg…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 03:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2011
The battle of the sexes is a timeless topic explored in drama. However, when presented in a fresh and inventive way, it can provide a thought-provoking night at the theater. All's Well That …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2011
Some see life through rose-colored glasses, and others see it with crystal clear vision. The Illusion, the final production in the Signature Theater Company's season of works by Tony Kushner…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 03:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A Minister's Wife, a chamber musical in performances at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is reminiscent of a delicately decorated candied bon-bon " sweet, lovely and absolutely …
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