Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Director John Dove does his best with Jessica Swale's wordy but historically engaging play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2013
Get out your sweat rags, murder mystery buffs! This musical whodunit musical, is 80 minutes of non-stop wackiness and killer suspense
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
our grazing coverage of the Festival continues. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Given up on reading James Joyce's Ulysses? Well, take heart. Patrick Fitzgerald has taken on the formidable task of adapting this literary juggernaut into a two-character play that scratches…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Erica Lipeza's new play gets an “A†for its smart dialogue and acting and “C†for its somewhat fuzzy plot. It’s a f…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Is Alzheimer's really something to sing about?
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Colm Toibin's novella adapted as a star vehicle for Fiona Shaw.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
Mike Poulton's adaptation of the 1900 play streamlines the original by nearly omitting all of Part 2. What it retains, however, is a complex portrait of a marriage, where love is a bruising …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:40AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
Some Shakespearean renderings make loud footfalls. This production is one of them.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
Featuring Austin Pendleton (who also directs the piece) as William Shakespeare, this bio-drama speculates on the Bard's final days as a man suffering from syphillis that severely debilitates…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
After reviewing the overview, our critic decided to take the complete journey. No regrets
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company) resurrects Strindberg's play with a taut, imaginative production
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:02PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
a disappointing page to stage version of Arthur Phillip's terrific faux memoir best-selling novel The Tragedy of Arthur has gone from the page to the stage at Off Broadway's TBG Theatre .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
This 90-minute play scores on many levels and casts a new light on the Stonewall Riots. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
Irwin and Shiner put a spade to their clowning roots and grow a brilliant new piece that has one foot in the past, one in the present, and surely plants them in the genealogical line of grea…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
As directed by Mark Brokaw and with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane this fairy tale comes complete with a social consciousness, political satire, and contemporary edge
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:40PM[SHARE]he Pearl Theater continues its exploration of Shakkespeare's History plays in its new home on 42nd Street
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David Henry Hwang's early play receives a fine production at at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
not the same old Shakespearean spinach but a penetrating look at some of the Bard's most fascinating women. It goes a long way toward revealing how each female personage ticks
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma has recycled that antiquity known as oral history into an epic bio-drama .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2012
The golden oldie movie is a fun radio play at the Irish Rep .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
if Amy Freed, in collapsing the two plays, loses some structural elements, she doubly drives home the bawdy wit and humor. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Under the direction of Obie Award winner Jo Bonney this show has powerful moments, although it doesn't break any fresh theatrical ground for its activist author.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:04PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
Oscar-winner Olymbia Dukakis as the latest gender-bending exiled monarch
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
How the Tony Award winning Scottish star Alan Cumming manages performing all the characters is something to marvel over. The difficulty is not just that Shakespeare's play has so many meaty …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:49AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
The Public Theater is celebrating its 50th anniversary season at the Delacorte Theater (in Central Park) with Daniel Sullivan's terrific new staging of As You Like It. Starring Lily Rabe as …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:41PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
Plugging into the Beckettian landscape of alienation, Will Eno, via Conor Lovett, takes you to a brave new world where a nameless man discovers that going nowhere is the new truth
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
David Herskovits' new take is a cross-pollination of Brechtian theater, Joycean stream-of-consciousness, and a clipped American idiom
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:13AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
In case you forgot, Shakespeare's natural bent was comedy. Classic Stage' s Dream proves it
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
Emily Dickinson's words "Remorse is memory awake" takes on grisly new meaning in Jose Rivera's new play
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