Monday, June 6, 2011
London audiences can take in two star-studded productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2011
John Doyle directs and designs the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Road Show, with other fare including Lend Me a Tenor The Musical, Ghost The Musical, Kevin Spacey in Richard III, Sim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller give spirited performances in Daniel Goldfarb's pair of one-acts about parenthood.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Book lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
This observer believes the musicalized version of George Bernard Shaw is not only a sorrowful entertainment, but indicative of a much larger concern about how the musical, as a genre, is evo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
Jonathan Marc Sherman's intermittently affecting new play concerns a 40-year-old man facing fatherhood for the first time.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2011
Kushner has produced a play also reminiscent of Arthur Miller at the top of his form, a play about which many ticket buyers will conclude he's equaled Miller's best.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:57PM[SHARE]Ronan Noone's new play about a dysfunctional family in Kansas is often ludicrous.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]The 2011 Tony Award nominations were announced early Tuesday morning, which can only mean that the annual press meet-and-greet erupted -- or something like that -- not quite so early Wednesd…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The popular cabaret singer's appealing new show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room celebrates women songwriters.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2011
The Irish Repertory Theatre serves up a worthwhile production of Dion Boucicault's rarely-seen 19th-century melocomedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2011
London's starry May includes Penelope Wilton and Imelda Staunton in A Delicate Balance; Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg in Pygmalion; Kristen Scott Thomas in Betrayal; Zoe Wanamaker and Conlet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
David Cromer's revival of John Guare's visionary tragicomedy is only partially successful.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2011
Nina Arianda, Jim Belushi, and Robert Sean Leonard do stellar work in Doug Hughes' smartly directed revival of Garson Kanin's timeless comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2011
Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's beloved opera proves to be spellbinding.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
Well before British actor Simon Callow decided to become an actor, he determined he wanted to be a writer. Now he's combined both talents to write a truly outstanding book about the theater.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
Mark Rylance offers a mind-blowing, must-see performance as a former daredevil in Jez Butterworth's often mesmerizing new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Lauren Flanigan gives an impressive performance in New York City Opera's production of Steven Schwartz's new work about a medium's descent into madness.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Gregory Burke's mesmerizing theatrical piece about the Iraq War returns to St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]The reality talent show -- which under Simon Cowell searched relentlessly for the next big pop star, according to the man's definition -- is no longer blindered to other musical genres.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2011
This harshly beautiful British play about a boy's love for his horse is one of the most moving theatrical experiences in recent memory.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Language has failed -- that's Guirgis's story and he's gallantly sticking to it. This modern rom-com is to be greatly admired, enjoyed and seriously pondered after the final fade-out.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2011
This new Broadway musical about a young con man being pursued by an FBI agent is only intermittently involving.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2011
Sutton Foster is simply scintillating in Kathleen Marshall's rousing revival of the classic Cole Porter musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Those <em>Upstairs Downstairs</em> purveyors have woven their now chilling, now heart-warming, now belly-laughs-inducing intrigues into a tapestry worthy of hanging next to the f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The Keen Company serves up a Grade-A revival of Michael Frayn's searing domestic drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2011
April highlights include Janie Dee in All's Well That Ends Well; Rory Kinnear, Clare Higgins and Patrick Malahide in Hamlet; Rufus Norris directing London Road; Polly Pen's Bed and Sofa; and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM[SHARE]Robin Williams has made his Broadway debut at last. This is a very good thing. The very bad thing is that he arrives in <em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>, a decidedly th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The York Theatre Company offers a well-acted production of this remarkably trite new musical about marriage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Renee Fleming gives an engaging performance in the Metropolitan Opera's rewarding revival of Richard Strauss' opera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
