Broadway prefers comfort food: a familiar classic here, a new comedy there, maybe a hot-button-issue drama to look relevant. So David Mamet's "The Anarchist" stands out as a new play of idea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]A lot of eating takes place in the new Broadway comedy "Dead Accounts," but there's little for the audience to chew on. While the producers were busy signing up Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]One of the best things about the new off-Broadway drama "My Name Is Asher Lev" is how old-fashioned it is. Although there are moments of levity, the show isn't afraid to be deeply earnest. W…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]Writing a musical is hard. Writing a musical based on a movie with a passionate cult following is harder yet. A lot of your customers are going to feel personally betrayed by any change to w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]Most of the new play "The Twenty-Seventh Man" takes place in a 1952 Soviet prison cell. It contains four men, part of a larger group of 27 rounded up on Stalin's orders. They're more or less…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PM[SHARE]Holiday shows can get away with murder. They have familiar subjects, a captive audience and a limited run, so too often they don't try as hard as they should. When it first appeared a couple…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PM[SHARE]There are many who say that Broadway has been taking pointers from Vegas lately. But the new musical "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson" has its eye on another entert…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]As befits its title, the new musical "Giant" doesn't lack for ambition. Based on Edna Ferber's Texas saga " which inspired a classic 1956 movie with James Dean " this isn't the intimate tune…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM[SHARE]In case you were wondering: No, an avalanche of lewd double-entendres and sex jokes isn't enough to carry a comedy " you still need trivial things like, oh, a plot and characters. David Wes…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PM[SHARE]You'd think a good musical could satisfy a theatergoer's craving for entertainment. Some catchy songs, maybe a few dances, a bit of romance: Who could ask for anything more? Rupert Holmes, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AM[SHARE]You can't hide from Chekhov! Not only are his classics revived again and again " even "Ivanov" just came back to us " the long-dead Russian playwright is infiltrating new works, too. Case i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AM[SHARE]As the title character in Chekhov's "Ivanov," Ethan Hawke plays a real piece of work. "You've brought darkness to our lives," a neighbor complains. The local doctor accuses Ivanov of "heartl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PM[SHARE]You can't dream up a better subject for a play than Richard Nixon, a man of Shakespearean scope. Douglas McGrath's new off-Broadway drama, "Checkers," offers occasional glimpses into the for…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:01AM[SHARE]There's a reason "Annie" has become a beloved classic since it first opened 35 years ago. This is a show that was cooked up by pros at the top of their game. Charles Strouse and Martin Char…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:01AM[SHARE]When Richard Nelson introduced his multi-play family saga a couple of years ago, it felt a little gimmicky. Each show would be about the same Rhinebeck, NY, clan, the Apples " always played …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AM[SHARE]Told he must go to the hospital or die of heart failure, Charlie flat-out refuses to leave his home. He lost his will to live a long time ago. In Samuel D. Hunter's wonderful new play, "The …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:55AM[SHARE]No wonder "The Heiress" has returned to Broadway time and again since its 1947 premiere. Romance, money, lies, manipulation and petticoats: Ruth and Augustus Goetz's melodrama has it all. In…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PM[SHARE]"The show must go on," said the entertainment business, and for the most part it did: Most of the Great White Way was open for business yesterday, while other major institutions simply resch…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 04:59PM[SHARE]It's unclear who the title characters in "Bad Jews" are. Joshua Harmon's entertaining new comedy of hostility " did not open last night, as scheduled, at the Roundabout Underground " pits tw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PM[SHARE]With a title like "Legendarium," you'd think the Big Apple Circus' new show would bring on horses rigged out to look like unicorns, or at least tumbling jesters re-enacting Grimm tales. But…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:39PM[SHARE]You have to hand it to Karen Allen: The once-heroine of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" made a brave choice for her return to the stage after an 11-year absence. Instead of a familiar vehicle by o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:09AM[SHARE]Based on its title, can you guess the subject of the new play "Wild With Happy"? More hints: Two people flirt in a very inappropriate setting, and there's a high-speed car chase down I-95. G…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:45AM[SHARE]Whenever there's a dinner party in a play, chances are it's going to end badly. Friends get together for a good meal, a nice bottle of wine. Next thing you know, someone insults someone else…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PM[SHARE]Hey, Rahim, is that a bomb in your briefs, or are you happy to see us? The title of Jon Kern's new play should give a clue. Indeed, it's option A for Rahim (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a young Pakis…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]Much like the celestial body of its title, the new pop opera "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" has appeared out of nowhere to brighten the theatrical season. Instead of flashy ads …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AM[SHARE]Edward Albee's classic dust-up "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" may now be eligible for AARP " this new Broadway revival opened Saturday, the play's 50th anniversary " but it's a model of wr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]"Don't Go Gentle" starts like a classic "when opposites collide" comedy: A white, conservative former DA and retired judge helps out a black, unemployed single mom and her cheeky teenage son…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PM[SHARE]The title character in Edmond Rostand's swashbuckling romance of a play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," has a big nose. Make that a huge nose. But don't mention it to Cyrano, because he'll cut ya " f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]It's not safe to preach Gospel to an anticapitalist. Just ask Chris, the unseen college student who, in A.R. Gurney's new comedy, "Heresy," is jailed for arguing that the mere word "consumer…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]Welcome to the most boring midlife crisis of the year. No matter what happens to Harper Regan, the title character of Simon Stephens' new drama, it's hard to care. Her supervisor snottily de…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AM[SHARE]Playwright Horton Foote made his name with wistful family dramas rooted in home and neighborhood. He left a big void when he died in 2009, and now the shoe is on the other Foote. Not only h…
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