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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM[SHARE]Rona Jaffe's 1958 best seller "The Best of Everything" certainly pressed a lot of hot buttons. Think "Sex and the City" set in the world of New York book publishing during the "Mad Men" era …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]As the bittersweet new Broadway play "Grace" shows, religion, real estate and love have one thing in common: They require a degree of hopeful, maybe even blind, trust. Steve " Paul Rudd, in…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:31PM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim's musicals have been called textbook examples of integration " stories told through a seamless fusion of book and songs. And yet many of Sondheim's tunes easily stand on the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Post-apocalyptic plots are hard to screw up. Throw bedraggled survivors into dangerous situations, question civilization's future, and your audience is hooked.But while all these elements fi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]Up until intermission, "An Enemy of the People" seems like your run-of-the-mill Roundabout period revival. The casually paced production is dignified, well-acted by likable stars such as Boy…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AM[SHARE]You only have until Sunday to catch one of the finest performances in town. For the past two years or so, Jenn Harris has been absolutely fantastic in "Silence! The Musical." Because the sho…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10AM[SHARE]Off-broadway's "Red Dog Howls" begins with the line: "There are sins from which we can never be absolved." So, not a comedy then. And that's an understatement: Alexander Dinelaris' new play,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Paul is so devastated after Jennifer's unexpected death that he's wailing in pain. "She brought joy to my life," he tells Don, his friend and colleague. "She was a f - - king Hall of Famer,"…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AM[SHARE]Describing an overprepared but underskilled contestant on "The X Factor" recently, Simon Cowell said, "You're like a mouse trying to be an elephant." Snap! And double snap for "If There Is I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:40AM[SHARE]'the Exonerated" is about a very exclusive club no one would ever want to join: those who made it out of death row alive. Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's play tells the real stories of six o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]'Detroit" is deceptively small in scope. You could say it's about neighborly relations. But Lisa D'Amour's dark comedy " which opened last night at Playwrights Horizons, after a successful …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:45AM[SHARE]There's nothing to understand in "Einstein on the Beach," nothing to "get." And as the revival of this 1976 masterpiece shows, that's OK. As conceived by composer Philip Glass, director Rob…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PM[SHARE]In just a few years, the French Alliance's Crossing the Line Festival (fiaf.org/ctl) has become a fall staple. Focusing mostly on French and American artists, this interdisciplinary fest dra…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:20PM[SHARE]'i could be arrested for theft, fraud and murder, and it's not even 4 o'clock." This isn't a hardened criminal talking, but a frazzled mother and home-care attendant named Loretta Mackey. S…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:54AM[SHARE]Anticipation always runs high in September. Yay, a new season! Tons of new shows to look forward to! But while there are promising offerings this year, we may have to dig a little deeper to …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]It's tough going for a comedy like "Mary Broome," which revolves around a spectacularly unsympathetic lead character. It's not Mary herself, by the way " because this 1911 play really is abo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PM[SHARE]It's not a great sign when you leave a musical thinking more about the visuals than the songs " which is exactly what happens at Broadway's new "Chaplin." The show about the silent-film icon…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AM[SHARE]It's been a good year for the South African playwright Athol Fugard, what with the Broadway revival of "The Road to Mecca" and the Signature company dedicating a whole season to his work. To…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:16PM[SHARE]When Broadway goes wrong " and sometimes when it goes right " it's a gaudy, tacky, self-important moving target. And for 30 years, Gerard Alessandrini has been taking shots at it in his belo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]Nothing much happens in Horton Foote's plays, yet you leave feeling satisfyingly full. He may skimp on the whiz-bang action, but Foote manages to say a lot about his characters " and you alm…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]The Public Theater's new "Richard III" " Shakespeare's most violent tragedy " has been streamlined to the max. Edited down to 90 minutes, it has no set and few props. But director Amanda Deh…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PM[SHARE]For its outdoor program's 50th- anniversary season, the Public Theater put the park back into Shakespeare in the Park. In June, we were treated to a lovely production of "As You Like It," w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PM[SHARE]Just because a play is brief doesn't mean it has to fit a mold. The three entries in "Summer Shorts Series B" show the many shapes and forms a miniature can take " but then, they're by write…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PM[SHARE]'Bullet for Adolf" has all the markings of a cult show " it could be theater's answer to a midnight movie. Directed and co-written by Woody Harrelson, this new off-Broadway play is often ine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]True to its title, "My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow" meanders gently. It's not so much a play as an impressionistic travelogue back in time. Though this is a solo piece, writer-performer Erin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AM[SHARE]Titillating titles, madcap musicals and Shakespeare, either straight up (another "Twelfth Night") or twisted ("Pulp Shakespeare," a mash-up of the Bard and Quentin Tarantino): Yes, the New Y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:41PM[SHARE]Provocation isn't easy. The guys from "South Park" and "The Book of Mormon" make it look that way, but it's really not. Case in point: The new musical "The Last Smoker in America," which tr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]Mikhail Baryshnikov may be the star of "In Paris," but there's no dancing here, just a bit of mimed bullfighting " choreographed by American Ballet Theatre's Alexei Ratmansky " as striking a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Every year, the "Summer Shorts" series introduces six new American one-act plays. While the three pieces in this season's first batch are, by definition, brief, two are so slow that you may …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Don't worry," Mike Tyson told us, "you'll leave with two ears tonight, I promise." Which is more than Evander Holyfield got, but at least he wasn't in the audience Tuesday night for "Mike T…
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