Monday, May 25, 2015
The creative team does an impressive job of translating a story originally meant for the page.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play is a keen and touching study of fidelity, fiction and marital love.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Edward Albee s parlor puzzler is meant to be difficult, but there is depth and sophistication if you re willing to look for it.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Despite an excellent performance by Bradley Cooper, the pace drags and the transitions are bumpy.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Now in its fourth Broadway revival, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic speaks in a universal language.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Anna Trumbull (Kristine Nielsen), a.k.a. the Pig Woman, is a bohemian ex"blue blood (and half Native American) who likes to unlock "potential" in young people. She does so with whimsical blu…
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From Broadway's best new musicals to global festivals, the city's stages keep hot during the summer months
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:11PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
With interactive shows continuing to draw in crowds, we rank the most popular Off Broadway events from best to worst
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
This morning, Broadway-bound Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker announced the nominees for the 2015 Tony Awards. While for us there weren't a lot of surprises (our pre-nominations were pret…
SOURCE: Time Out at 02:35PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
Yes, it's our annual tradition at TONY"that's Time Out New York"we choose the nominees as if we were the committee!
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Claire Zachanassian (Rivera) fled her dreary European town a disgraced, ruined girl, and she returns to Brachen a vengeful billionairess, planning to exact revenge on Anton Schell (Rees), th…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:09PM[SHARE]Do you fondly remember that Taming of the Shrew episode from Moonlighting, back in 1986? Whenever blue, do you stream Shakespeare in Love for succor? Are you a fierce partisan for Blackadder…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Based on a sweeping historical novel crammed with characters and incident, Doctor Zhivago follows the fortunes of a heroic man with a divided heart across decades of turmoil and revolution, …
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
If all you needed for a successful Ghosts were a spooky set, sickly shadows and an ardent Helene Alving, then Richard Eyre's adaptation would be perfect. But this new look at Ibsen's 1881 sh…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:11AM[SHARE]The arrival of two big musicals derived from classic 1950s movies located in the City of Light (see Gigi) indicates either a resurgent interest in the early film oeuvre of Leslie Caron or a …
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:10AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Despite its title, there are more species than just Canis lupus scurrying and lurking along the margins of Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two, the Royal Shakespeare Company's triumphant, blockbuster…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
Broadway watchers over the past few years have known what a treasure Laura Benanti is: beauty, awesome singing chops and her not-so-secret weapon, killer comedy timing. Benanti's shtick (hon…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
Society looms large in the Stephen Daldry's charged revival of David Hare's SkylightÂ"and not just in the second-act state-of-the-nation wrangle between low-income schoolteacher Kyra (Mul…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:55AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
The Rockettes and the creative army behind Radio City Music Hall's New York Spring Spectacular want to turn you into a tourist in your own town"not such a feat, really. Another hundred peopl…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
The teen Elizabeth, fated to wear the crown and wield the scepter as Queen of England, hates her new digs at Buckingham Palace. "It's like being trapped in a museum," whines the unhappy girl…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:20PM[SHARE]American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace's The Liquid Plain"by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed. I'm jus…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Checking out Larry David's debut as a Broadway playwright and performer, I did not expect to be thinking of ancient Greek tragedy. Comedy, sure, but I figured past influences would stretch b…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
At a press conference this afternoon, Public Theater head Oskar Eustis, along with Miranda and the production cast and crew, surprised everyone who had been expecting news of a spring transf…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
History ticks to a syncopated beat in Lin-Manuel Miranda's jubilant, overflowingly rich Hamilton. And just as syncopation achieves its energizing effect by disturbing the expected flow, so M…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
How to answer snobs who denounce Broadway as a cultural wasteland of gaudy lights, musical cheese and tacky titillation, a place where suckers from around the world flock to get fleeced? You…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
Hugh Jackman may not be singing and dancing, but we still can't wait to see his new gig on Broadway. The charismatic Aussie stars in a mysterious new piece by Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) abo…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:34PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
One of the finest speeches in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (and there are several), concerns the absolute value of good construction, using a cricket bat as an example. Henry (McGregor), an…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:28AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
To use shipbuilding as an analogy for crafting musicals, the songs are the hull"the most visible part of the thing, taking up the most space. But you won't sail far without a strong, even ke…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:43AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Despite the Sherlock-derived title and gruesome crime scene it opens with, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time solves the case relatively quickly. By the end of the first act w…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:08AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
We know about happy families being alike and unhappy ones being different, but Tolstoy was mum on the weird households. What about the clan that sticks together through chaotic, leaderless f…
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