Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Santo Loquasto's set at BAM's Harvey for Henrik Ibsen's undoubtedly most challenging, yet ultimately intriguing, play, The...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2013
Call it "interactive." Call it "immersive." Call it whatever contemporary term you will. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
If you like theater and you like politics, you're going to jump at the chance to see theater about politics, Then get...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
Perhaps it's this reviewer's imagination, but it seems that more than the usual number of plays set in the workplace are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
The single most spectacular dance number on view at the moment -- and it won't be for long; get there fast -- erupts in the second act of On Your Toes, the current Encores! series entry at C…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Just as William Shakespeare did with his history plays, Friedrich Schiller did with Mary Stuart and others have done...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet."
Yes,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
In Chicago, Fosse had Fred Ebb and John Kander explain the power of giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle, and Diane Paulus has taken that dictum to heart with her American Repertory Theater prod…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:26PM[SHARE]Tuning into the gossip the Divine Miss M spews jubilantly as another Divine Miss M is such fun it hardly matters that five minutes after the romp ends, much of the dirt dished with such five…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
What Nikos Kazantzakis did to de-sanctify Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, Colm Toibin has done for the Madonna in The Testament of Mary -- with, predictably, the some outraged respon…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:39PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
It's a strongly recommended drama that takes place on Manhattan's Central Park West in a beautifully furnished 14-room apartment, the confusing layout of which eventually becomes a metaphor …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:33PM[SHARE]If someone grabbed you on the street and yelled in your face for the next two and a half hours, what would you do? Well, the cast of the Jekyll & Hyde revival at the Marquis scream until…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
Plays conjuring Manhattan in the 1930s often take on the look of a live-action Edward Hopper painting. Not a bad thing. Actually, the effect is stunning when the curtain rises on The Nance.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:01PM[SHARE]Does "The Flick," Annie Baker's 3-Hour work, really need an artistic director's apologia?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
"The Audience" with Helen Mirren and "This House" at the National show the English how they're governed.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Londoners " or those willing to cross the pond " have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors and mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
It's likely that audiences exiting the Metropolitan Opera after Robert Lepage's eye-popping production of
The Tempest, based on Shakespeare's great drama, will be in a state of uncertainty …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
What is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cau…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
Although I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, <em>Joseph Anton</em>, have I realized how some part of me continues to loo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
No production of Cyrano de Bergerac is worth a minute of anyone's time unless the title character is portrayed by a top-drawer actor. Fortunately, "bravura" barely begins to describe Tony Aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
British playwright Simon Stephens has written several striking plays, but Harper Regan, now making its American debut at Atlantic Theater Company under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Although there are some troublesome aspects to Daisy Foote's
Him, now being presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, too much about the author's new work about a dysfunctional Tremont…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
Any piece of theater in which one human after another turns into a thundering African mammal inherently requires as much theatricality as a director can lavish, and that's exactly what Emman…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Craig Wright obviously has a potent thing against organized religion of any variety, but with Grace, now making its Broadway bow at the Cort Theatre under Dexter Bullard's committed directio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
In Jeffrey Hatcher's unruly, though not unrewarding, Ten Chimneys, now at Theatre at St. Clement's, the playwright examines an unconventional marriage for the glue holding it together. This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Although Hamlet still doesn't take revenge on his murdered father until the corpse-strewn final scene, nobody will ever accuse this title figure of being slow to act in the Shakespeare's Glo…
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