
Throughout the 1980s and starting with William M. Hoffman's As Is and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, plays addressing the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:01AM[SHARE]Newspapers drop arts criticism in a troubled culture.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:48AM[SHARE]This isn't your grandfather's Les Miz. It's the new and enhanced-in-some-ways-diminished-in-others Les Miz, and it very much takes into account the movie and the possible expectations that i…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:59AM[SHARE]To be blunt about it, I've never thought much of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy as a play, but I'm always willing to change...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26PM[SHARE]Nowhere in the program for Tales From Red Vienna, at Manhattan Theater Club's City Center Stage I, is there any...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:24PM[SHARE]Companies here and abroad, far and wide, high and low devote themselves to William Shakespeare. There's nothing new about the dedication. The Shakespeare devotees just keep coming.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:36PM[SHARE]Since it's impossible to stay on top of absolutely everything on view from one year to the next in burgeoning New...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:16PM[SHARE]Two musical turkeys, roasted and underdone.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:47PM[SHARE]The first performance of the new Wozzeck production at the Metropolitan Opera House turned into one of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:30PM[SHARE]Missing for deliberate reasons or reasons of chronology from All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's sure-fire hit at the Neil Simon, are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:53PM[SHARE]London--If you're heading this way with theatergoing in mind, here's a short list of what's on offer in the next couple...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:56AM[SHARE]Was he really "the greatest actor of his generation"?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:46PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber rules Brittania's West End and, as will come as a surprise to few, has for just about 40 years. Right now, three of his musicals are at hand. The Phantom of the Opera is …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:45PM[SHARE]Because of the hell into which he was thrown with thousands, Flynn conjures moments reminiscent of Dante's Inferno. There are even echoes in his lines of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. And w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PM[SHARE]I admire Margulies's nuanced understanding the dynamics of friendships. He's put "Dinner" is his title, and he plays with it by devoting two scenes to Karen and Gabe preparing food…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PM[SHARE]Standing ovations are so prevalent they are meaningless. The consensus is that ticket buyers paying so much for a seat rise at curtain calls in order to convince themselves they've just gott…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]"The Tribute Artist" continues a comic canon.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:44AM[SHARE]When Little Me opened in November 1962, its major pluses were Sid Caesar, the Carolyn Leigh-Cy Coleman score and the rarely-miss Neil Simon gags. Revived at City Center this weekend, it can…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PM[SHARE]Eric Simonson, who gets his kicks writing plays about sports figures, is jumping the gun on Valentine's Day by sending a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:30PM[SHARE]Brian Kulick certainly attempts to get around the inherent problems with all manner of theatrical notions in a new translation by Gerhard Nellhaus, with Duncan Sheik's music carrying Brecht'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM[SHARE]Before I get to an outright pan of the immoderately irritating Stop Hitting Yourself -- created by Austin's Rude Mechs and now squatting in the Lincoln Center Theater at the Claire Tow -- I'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM[SHARE]Sam Wasson looks at a enormously gifted man's chronic lack if assurance.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:07PM[SHARE]Depending on how the individual observer assesses Colin's choice, he can be considered either as declaring his independence or as self-destructively tossing it aside. Either way, Sillitoe's…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PM[SHARE]The annual event -- this is the 10th year -- is supposed to focus on the new and experimental. Maybe yes, maybe no, but certainly there are helpful hints about whom and what to look for in …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PM[SHARE]Frank Langella is doing a completely respectable King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. But wait. Better be more specific, s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:41AM[SHARE]If it's true that great minds think alike, it may be equally true that minds a notch or two below great also think alike.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PM[SHARE]Before we get to what's wrong with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim, let's establish what's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PM[SHARE]Much of the intense charm of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (Opheus's Descent...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:29PM[SHARE]Die Fledermaus back again as the Metropolitan Opera's New Year's Eve gala confection? Directed by Jeremy Sams,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:48PM[SHARE]The Flea builds a new theater...and community.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:11PM[SHARE]Okay, I admit it, I entered A Christmas Carol at St. Clement's thinking, Oh no, not another one! Which just goes to show...
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