Saturday, May 30, 2015
<![CDATA[Sometimes at the theater, the women wrest it from the men -- not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. I'm talking about <em>The Other Thing</em&g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:02AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
Jim Parsons, adored for his appearances as Sheldon Lee Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, is now appearing at Studio 54 (although it's not a Studio 54 production) as the Supreme Being, though th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
The 36 Goldberg variations on the Bach harpsichord tune are copious, but apparently Neil LaBute wants to give those spins on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
What does it mean when the best Broadway songs are almost all in the Tony-nominated revivals?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
If it's offbeat revues you're after, make a beeline to the short-run Street Singer: Celebrating the Life of Edith Piaf at 42West Nightclub, and make it fast. Tonight's performance (May 16) …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Dinner With the Boys, written by Dan Lauria and at the Acorn, is a harmless enough comedy about the Mafia today--not...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Lemon Anderson's Toast, printed some places as Toast, takes place in an Attica Correctional Facility cellblock during late summer 1971. The year isn't immediately specified, but it's mentio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:49PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue Forever at the New York Theatre workshop--as a follow-up to,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42PM[SHARE]<![CDATA[Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue <em>Forever</em> at the New York Theatre workshop -- as a follow-up to, among other writings, her acclaimed <em…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
When you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:47AM[SHARE]<![CDATA[Jonathan Miller's 1997 production of <em>The Rake's Progress</em>, revived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 2003, and around for only two addi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
It's been said that theater emanating from repressed societies is the most pungent. You certainly believe it's the god's honest truth at Trash Cuisine, which the Belarus Free Theatre -- free…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
If there's one thing Susan Stroman's new production of The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera House isn't,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
Synchronicity can be a scary, shocking and ominously timely thing. Only days after Barack Obama apologizes for a drone killing hostages held by al Qaeda in Pakistan, George Brant's Grounded…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:04PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
Everybody knows about gang comedies, most often as television series. Something less talked about, if ever talked about, are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Before the lights go down at the Doctor Zhivago start, the tall, dark Broadway Theatre curtains are parted maybe six or eight feet. Filling the space between them is a compilation of grey c…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:02PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
What do you get when you cross Noel Coward's Private Lives with the Cole Porter-Samuel Spewack-Bella Spewack Kiss Me, Kate? You get cross. That's what you get.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
It's surprising how many actors appearing as William Shakespeare's Hamlet don't take heed of the young Dane's advice to the players about speaking trippingly on the tongue and not sawing the…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Weinstein has certainly toiled industriously to render the movie he produced into a hit. Maybe the hordes of Peter Pan fans will turn it into one.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Towards the end of the Jenny Schwartz-Todd Almond somewhat musical Iowa--or Iow@, as the program has it--four Mormon sister-wives...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
Christopher Wheeldon's choreography for An American in Paris, at the Palace, is so spectacular that you have to forgive anything else wrong with the production--and believe you me, there's p…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
As Tracey Scott Wilson's Buzzer gets underway at the Public, Jackson (Grantham Coleman) introduces himself to the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The reference to the release from Arthur Freed's incomparable MGM unit is recorded here as preamble to the unhappy news that a woefully cheap travesty of the gloriously romantic film has now…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Tyrone is a puppet with sharp teeth that lives at the end of the right arm belonging to timid Jason (Steven Boyer). The fabric...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:21PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
Would the 21 dancers of Flexn, directed by Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and Peter Sellars, object to their movement styles...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Both are surpassingly good treatments. I heartily recommend them, although I definitely question whether it's commercially wise to attach the Love's Labour's Won name to a script that would …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
You don't hear the term "grand opera" much anymore. That's if you hear it at all. But it's going to be revived right now in regards to the opening night performance of Giuseppe Ver…
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