Monday, August 26, 2013
There are two ways to score a Broadway hit: Load up on name stars and make a mint during a limited run, or bank on good bones that can get through years of cast changes.
Anything involving …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2013
What do Fantasia Barrino, Constantine Maroulis and Clay Aiken have in common? "American Idol," of course " but also Broadway: They're just three of the former contestants who have successful…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
Much like its subject, the new Broadway musical "Soul Doctor" is terminally earnest and relentlessly sunny. Both also share a fish-out-of-water quality.
The show's central character was a m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PM[SHARE]Aptly enough, "Einstein" " the inept new drama about the father of the relativity theory " makes time slow to a crawl. When it finally ends, you're not sure if you've been at the theater for…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2013
'it's the first time together and I'm feeling kinda horny/Conventional methods of makin' love kinda bore me."
You may have guessed this lyric " crooned, R&B-style, in "Love's Labour's Lost" …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2013
Every summer, like a relative with too much luggage, it arrives on our doorstep: the New York International Fringe Festival, the ungainly cousin to the Edinburgh original. By the time Fringe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
By the end of Broadway's "First Date," Zachary Levi has won over the entire audience " you can feel everybody, women and men, young and old, swooning. If someone happened to smuggle in a sma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:13PM[SHARE]Part of Young Jean Lee's appeal is that you never know what she's going to do. The downtown playwright's recent works include a look at African-American stereotypes ("The Shipment"), a king-…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Timing is everything in this free "Richard III." The show runs 2 1/2 hours without intermission, which means you may want to hit the bathroom before it starts. Which in turn means a trip to …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except that Donna's n…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]It's hard to believe there isn't a metaphor lying around under "Rubble" " a comedy about a TV writer stuck in a pile of debris after an LA earthquake. After all, it's by TV writer Mike Reiss…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Donna, of the new dramedy "Harbor," gabs like one of the cool kids. She tosses off insults as if they were cute and endearing, and pleads, "Come on, don't be a biatch."
Except Donna's neithe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
'Shida" may last just over an hour, but it's so action-packed, you feel you're watching it in fast-forward. This could actually be fun, except that this new solo musical vaults from one melo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The most distinctive thing about "Dancing on Nails" is how old-fashioned it is. It's as if playwright Paul Manuel Kane had never heard of modern theater trends. You're not going to find anyt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2013
It takes a strong woman to step into Sigourney Weaver's boots. But that's what Julie White's about to do tomorrow, when she debuts in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," the Tony-winning …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Cozy mysteries in the Agatha Christie mold don't require hard-boiled suspense. What they need is kooky characters " and the new off-Broadway musical "Murder for Two" has plenty of them.
The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:19PM[SHARE]Seeing "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is like stepping into a hot-tub time machine. Under Kathleen Marshall's direction, this Encores! Off-Center presentation takes …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
A little less than three years ago, "Rain" strung together Beatles hits, hired impersonators to cover them and brought the whole shebang to Broadway.
Now "Let It Be" has landed on the Great…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PM[SHARE]Audiences are known to break into applause at the sight of a cool set. By those standards, the one in the new off-Broadway play "The Capables" deserves a standing ovation.
The stage looks as…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2013
'The Designated Mourner" is now acknowledged not just as Wallace Shawn's masterpiece, but as a major achievement of political American theater.
But the most remarkable thing about the reviva…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
Television dating shows are an easy target for satire " almost too easy. After all, it's hard to outdo bird-brained youths looking for true love in hot tubs.
But the wonderful new pop music…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]"Violet" didn't create much of a stir when it opened at Playwrights Horizons in 1997. Composer Jeanine Tesori went on to high-profile Broadway productions like "Shrek" and "Caroline, or Chan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
My name's Bill W., and I'm an alcoholic." Spontaneous response: "Hi, Bill!"No, we weren't at a 12-step meeting but at a recent performance of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob" at the Soho Playhouse, com…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2013
There's a reason we have a revue like "Forever Tango" and not "Everlasting Jitterbug" or "Always Rumba." Since its beginnings in lower-class Argentine neighborhoods, tango has enjoyed global…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
Nothing says jarring like people in tuxes and gowns praising unions and singing lines like "there's something so damned low about the rich!"
This odd juxtaposition takes place at City Center…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 7, 2013
For 20 years, New York City Center's Encores! has breathed new life into semi-obscure or simply unappreciated musicals. A few of those limited-run productions " "Chicago," "Wonderful Town" "…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2013
The whole plot of "Unlock'd" revolves around a sheltered young woman who's so obsessed with her hair that she refuses to cut even a small piece of it to give her suitor.
This may have worked…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2013
David Morse may not be a household name, but he's always a pleasure to watch. With his deceptively kind face and low-boil intensity, the silver-haired character actor has enlivened a wide va…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Before anybody's said a word in "Rantoul and Die," you have a pretty good idea that the play will be a warts-and-all look at working-class life.
First, it's presented by the Amoralists, a c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
One of the weirdest, most unclassifiable plays of the year isn't at a hip Tribeca venue but in Midtown, next door to "The Gazillion Bubble Show."
The writing feels almost avant-garde at tim…
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