Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
Brian Friel isn't completely convinced love is a forever thing. As proved by the entertaining revival of Lovers presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, Friel lets audiences know how uncert…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play-with-a-cause, isn't unfurled very often, which definitely makes Doug Hughes' thoroughly competent Manhattan Theatre Club revival at the Samue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The singing was so strong and supple throughout the Metropolitan Opera 's opening night production of Gaetano Donizetti's
L'Elisir d'Amore that the traditional look of Tony Award-winning di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
At four-and-a-half-hours-long,
Einstein on the Beach " the famed Robert Wilson-Philip Glass project now being revived at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House "adds up to slightly less than the sum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
The intrigue and dark beauty of Mary Broome, Alan Monkhouse's 1911 drawing-room drama being revived under Jonathan Bank's astute direction at the Mint Theatre " stems from how creatively the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06PM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2012
Chad Begeulin's play about a gay couple at odds over adopting a baby is touching and well-acted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2012
Sam Shepard's obscure new play deals with five wacky people in a house in California.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
For Gore Vidal's memorial at the Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday, August 23, a photograph of the playwright-novelist-essayist was placed against the American flag. Not surprisingly, it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2012
Reports on An End to Dreaming, Antigone Unearthed, Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, and KRiEp.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Primary Stages offers an expertly acted trio of Horton Foote's affecting one-act plays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Reports on Tail! Spin!, Gay Camp, and The Importance of Doing Art.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
Neil Simon's 1963 comedy gets a charming revival at the recently reopened Bucks County Playhouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PM[SHARE]Reports on Pink Milk, The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children and Dark Hollow: An Appalachian Woyzeck
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
Ron Cephas Jones leads an excellent cast in the Public Theater's speedily-performed and effective production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
This entertaining trio of short works by Paul Rudnick, Sean Hartley & Sam Davis, and Neil Labute have a high silliness quotient.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
Some starry new cast members, including John Stamos, Cybill Shepherd, and Kristin Davis, more-than-effectively step into this timely revival of Gore Vidal's political drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
The New Haarlem Arts Theatre offers up a Latin-tinged revival of the 1966 musical comedy about an overly optimistic dance-hall hostess.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
This trio of one-act plays by Wendy Kesselman, Nancy Giles, and James McLure are decidedly above-average.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
Reports on Living With Henry, Zapata! The Musical, A Letter to Harvey Milk, and The Groove Factory.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
Irish Rep presents an enticing revival of the Bob Merrill-George Abbot tuner, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 drama Anna Christie.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev's New York premiere is an over-long exercise in gratuitous violence and scatological language.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
Marc Kudisch imbues the title character of Moliere's play with a whopping quantity of theatrical delight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
This trio of plays by Ireland's Tom Murphy vividly displays the troubles his countrymen have endured over the past 125 years.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Alan Cumming gives a brilliant, often surprising performance in this unusual version of Shakespeare's tragedy at the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
Ali Ahn and William Jackson Harper make an attractive and passionate pair in the title roles of Joanna Settle's contemporary Shakespeare on the Sound production of the Bard's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PM[SHARE]Reports on Fear, Henry V, The Last of the Haussmans, Posh, and Twelfth Night
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Jim Parsons and Jessica Hecht give brilliant performances in the Roundabout Theatre Company's winning revival of Mary Chase's comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Gina Gionfiddo's examination of contemporary feminism is full of witty lines that mask the play's seminar-like feeling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
This new play about a Palestinian family living under Israeli rule is only mildly effective.
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