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…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:17AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
The stars will come and go in A.R. Gurney's popular 1988 two-hander, an epistolary romance between friends that stretches over 50 years. Gregory Mosher directs Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow (…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
David Cote interviews the greatest living British playwright about his Roundabout revivals, smoking while writing and his years as a hack journalist.
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:15PM[SHARE]The astonishing, totally fearless Amazon of alt cabaret and raunchy comedy (Inside Amy Schumer) returns to Joe's with a new show commissioned for the venue. Cocreated with Broadway's Marc Sh…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
Funny how yesterday's manboy becomes today's sad old guy. But that's always been Michael Cera's trick, hasn't it? Ever since he grew a cult fan base as frozen-in-the-headlights teen George M…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2014
One of our most versatile and prolific playwrights, Theresa Rebeck has a den wall crowded with trophies: monodrama (Bad Dates), modern Greek tragedy (The Water's Edge), backstage comedy (The…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:34PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert are all messed up in Jean Genet's subversive classic.
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The latest King Lear opens at a time when the world is confirming its apocalyptic vision: civilians shot out of the sky, children bombed in schools and disease spreading from foreign lands. …
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:38AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
It's hard to tell the sinners from the saints with Stephen Adly Guirgis. The earthy playwright"whose profanity-laced urban yarns were often directed by the late (still cannot fucking accept …
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
The self-destructing Hollywood star was kicked out of Cabaret last night. He should take his antics to these other hits on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
Broadway is no stranger to rap (In the Heights), but this is the first time a bona fide rapper's songbook has been turned into a jukebox musical by Todd Kreidler. Woven around songs by Tupac…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:07AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Another year, another Tony Awards telecast. In general, the gold went to the most deserving of the season: Few would carp about Bryan Cranston or Neil Patrick Harris nabbing top honors, and …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2014
He took the London stage by storm 30 years ago, but Kenneth Branagh has never trod the New York boards. Now the thespian brings his critically acclaimed take on Shakespeare's Scottish tyrant…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
Yes, the TONY* nominees, as in Time Out New York. Here's who we think should get the nod on Tuesday morning.
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
Clothes unmake the men in Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein's mostly effective period drama about cross-dressers in 1962. Set at a Catskills resort that caters to straight married fellows who…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Transitioning from child star to adult gay icon, sitcom prince and social-media wizard, Neil Patrick Harris always seemed to be a cultural rock star. But in his latest reinvention, it turns …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:53PM[SHARE]In case its telegraph title didn't clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picnic…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
Profiles of playwright Martin McDonagh report how, in 1994, the young Anglo-Irish scribe holed up in his childhood home and cranked out the drafts of seven plays in an incredible nine months…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:33PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
Arrested Development's hilarious man-child makes his Broadway debut in August; here are the scenarios he should avoid
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
Near the end of his best-selling 1959 memoir, Act One, dramatist-director Moss Hart relates an opening-night speech made by George S. Kaufman, his (grand-speeches-hating) cowriter on the sma…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
When Depression-era migrant workers George Milton (Franco) and Lennie Small (O'Dowd) roll into a California ranch, the hands say it's "funny" that the guys travel together. There's a faint s…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
As someone accustomed to getting in and out of Broadway houses as quickly as possible to avoid the post-curtain death march up the aisle into the maelstrom of Times Square, I will admit to f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
"The artist can be forgiven anything if he produces great art," says one of Woody Allen's proxies (and let's face it, they're all proxies) in Bullets Over Broadway. The maxim is aimed at gro…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
Will Eno's Broadway debut is a unique opportunity for the idiosyncratic writer to alienate and irritate whole new demographics. Cranky defenders of well-made plays will fume over its laconic…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Get FREE tickets to the Sunday April 6 matinee of the show and then get on the guest list for the CD release party afterward.
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