Saturday, November 1, 2014
London--In all my theater-going days, I don't remember seeing a production that would likely give me nightmares. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
This week we get the revivals of Tom Stoppard's somewhat autobiographical The Real Thing (1982), at the American Airlines Theatre, and Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Not to be foolishly subtle about it: If a better new musical than The Last Ship appears on the horizon this Broadway season, tuner lovers best consider themselves extravagantly lucky.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2014
Since Tony Kushner could be considered to know best, why not quote what he says he admired after seeing Ivo van Hove's revival of the playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:22AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
If you go by several adamant playwrights, it's a terrible idea for married couples to get together over an after-hours drink...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
White-hot controversy is dogging the opera's Metropolitan Opera House premier engagement after many productions elsewhere, only some of them protested. The circumstances have, not surprising…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:05PM[SHARE]The Billy & Ray of the vague title Mike Bencivenga gives his play at the Vineyard are Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2014
Only occasionally does Engstrom include one of Parker's economic poems. She leaves out the one about men not making passes at girls who wear glasses and the suicidal one with the conclusion …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2014
Leave it to Neal Goren. He's cherry-picked Bohuslav Martinu's comic one-acts Alexandre Bis and Comedy on the Bridge...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
Yes, I was in Shea Stadium when the Beatles shook their moptops and played their instruments for 35 minutes while not...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:51PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Context is everything. At least that's the impression I had on leaving The Actors Company Theatre revival of Frank Marcus's 1965 multiple prize-winning play, The Killing of Sister George, at…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Curiously, one of the reasons the play falls short of Pulitzer Prize-winning Margulies's usual vaunted mark is that he's chosen, as many playwrights before him have, to make The Country Hous…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:35PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
From start to finish Pendleton and Walsh give astoundingly natural performances that go some way, though not far enough, to justify the length of the sketch.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:41PM[SHARE]The hot cabaret singer who could rest comfortably on her natural talents...doesn't.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
Rarely have I seen such a large collection of scene-stealers on one stage. Check that. There's so much hilarity occurring that no one can steal a complete scene. What these thieving actor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:08PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
The interest Oliver Sacks takes in the human brain fascinates Peter Brook. The Valley of Astonishment is another consequence of that fascination, and, as presented at the Young Vic, currentl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Discounting the rare scare flick, I've only once been tempted to look away from a movie screen--and succumbed to the urge. It...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:44PM[SHARE]The Money Shot (title appropriated from porn-industry jargon, if you didn't already know) shouldn't be as consistently amusing as it is. LaBute get his laughs -- and he gets a carload of th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2014
During the intermission after the first uneven two acts of the Pearl Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya revival, I remarked to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
There's no telling when Two Gentlemen of Verona will come around again. So if an incarnation this good is available, that's even more reason to tune right in.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
Is Love Letters A. R Gurney's most lucrative play? No one seems to be quite sure, but it has to be up there among the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:28PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
In Craig's Wife, George Kelly's 1925 play subsequently filmed twice with Rosalind Russell and then Joan Crawford as the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
In Kenneth Lonergan's revived 1996 play, This is Our Youth, a Steppenwolf production transferred to the Cort, what...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
In the history of art, the importance of patrons has rarely been underestimated. The egregious result of Solomon Guggenheim's support for Rudolf Bauer is one of the most disturbing instances…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Four busboys are hustling non-stop at Frederick's Madison, an Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, when Elizabeth Irwin's My Manana Comes -- ultimately an ironic title -- begins with veloci…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
On the set, empty for the most part, are two upstage pianos. Music director Greg Jarrett and Roberto Sinha play them, both wearing straw hats and other Bromelmeier-supplied speakeasy garb. T…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2014
If you tend to think of playwright Naomi Wallace as compulsively pretentious--I do--be advised that And I and Silence, the title...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27PM[SHARE]Generally, it's not a good idea for playwrights to direct their own work--or maybe anyone else's, for that matter. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
Cabaret is alive and not quite yet reduced to gasping for breath in New York City.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
This time of year, things are so beehive-hectic in these parts that it's easy to drive around on a single Saturday and see, say, The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the compac…
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