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Monday, August 12, 2013

First Nighter: "Love's Labour's Lost" Loses More Than Wins in the Park; Downtown's "Under the Greenwood Tree" As You'll Like It by David Finkle

It would be a pleasant chore to report that Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost is an amusingly silly musical...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:16PM[SHARE]

Thursday, August 8, 2013

First Nighter: "The Designated Mourner" Still Wallace Shawn's Masterpiece, Only More So by David Finkle

Wallace Shawn's darkly sublime three-hour play--and worth every devastating minute of it--The Designated Mourner was done

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:34PM[SHARE]

First Nighter: "The Designated Mourner" Still Wallace Shawn's Masterpiece, Only More So by David Finkle

Wallace Shawn's darkly sublime three-hour play--and worth every devastating minute of it--The Designated Mourner was...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:34PM[SHARE]

Monday, August 5, 2013

Is the New York Musical Theatre Festival Musical Enough? by David Finkle

NYMF works gangbusters in theory, but what about in reality?

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:42AM[SHARE]

Sunday, August 4, 2013

First Nighter: Tina Howe, Alan Zweibel Take 59E59 Theatre's "Summer Shorts" One-Act Cake by David Finkle

The old saw about saving the best for last is honored during Summer Shorts 2013 at 59E59. The Series A post-intermission,

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:01PM[SHARE]

First Nighter: Tina Howe, Alan Zweibel Take 59E59 Theatre's "Summer Shorts" One-Act Cake by David Finkle

The old saw about saving the best for last is honored during Summer Shorts 2013 at 59E59. The Series A post-intermission

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:01PM[SHARE]

Friday, August 2, 2013

First Nighter: "rogerandtom" Clever but Maybe Too Clever; "I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan" Partially Forgivable by David Finkle

Playwriting as therapy is hardly a new concept. It might even be a challenge to find a single work in the annals that...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:02PM[SHARE]

First Nighter: "rogerandtom" Clever but Maybe Too Clever; "I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan" Partially Forgivable by David Finkle

Playwriting as therapy is hardly a new concept. It might even be a challenge to find a single work in the annals that doesn't

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:02PM[SHARE]

Thursday, July 25, 2013

First Nighter: City Center's "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" Hits Bumps by David Finkle

Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center series...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM[SHARE]

First Nighter: City Center's "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" Hits Bumps by David Finkle

Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

First Nighter: Beatles Tribute "Let It Be" Disappoints, as Does "Nobody Loves You" Tuner by David Finkle

On behalf of Let It Be, described as "a celebration of the music of the Beatles," I don't have much to say. Why would I? I'm a longtime, dyed-in-the-vinyl Beatles fan.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:47PM[SHARE]

Monday, July 22, 2013

First Nighter: Joe Orton's Astute Loot, Matthew-Lee Erlbach's Probing Handbook by David Finkle

Can it be that one of the funniest and one of the most anarchic comic writers of the 20th century, a true member of the exclusive Sui Generis Club, is already forgotten? Not at the Westport …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:57PM[SHARE]

Thursday, July 18, 2013

First Nighter: Sutton Foster, Jeanine Tesori, Brian Crawley Make Violet Red-Hot by David Finkle

So extraordinarily good was the one-night Encores! Off-Center staged concert reading of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley Violet, directed by Leigh Silverman, that it calls for some serious t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:45PM[SHARE]

Friday, July 12, 2013

First Nighter: Simon McBurney's "Shun-kin" Mustn't Be Shunned at Lincoln Center Festival by David Finkle

To begin his Shun-kin note for the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival program, Complicite director Simon McBurney writes, "In...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:29PM[SHARE]

Thursday, July 11, 2013

First Nighter: Blitzstein's 1937 "Cradle Will Rock" Rocks 2013 Encores! Off-Center by David Finkle

The cast of the Encores! Off-Center concert production of Marc Blitzstein's once highly controversial first musical...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:58PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

First Nighter: John Malkovich Futzes Dangerously With "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by David Finkle

It would be a pleasure to report that what John Malkovich has come up with as part of the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival is a refreshing aperitif. It isn't.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:36PM[SHARE]

Monday, July 8, 2013