"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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AM[SHARE]Imagine a musical called "Twilight" that had generic vampires instead of Bella and Edward. That's pretty much what happens with "Bring It On " The Musical," which has little in common with t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Ask anybody about great but gone music venues in New York, and they'll go on and on about CBGB, the Fillmore East, Max's Kansas City and the Savoy Ballroom. But the Continental Baths? Thoug…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PM[SHARE]Don't kick yourself if you've never heard of "New Girl in Town." Only a regular at Marie's Crisis or another show-tune piano bar would know this 1957 musical. Bob Merrill's genial score didn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]A political campaign is great background for a play. And the vetting of a candidate is particularly juicy: After all, you're dealing with someone's potentially explosive past, and the tempta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AM[SHARE]It's not often that a Chekhov play is almost drowned by laughter. Yet that's exactly what happens at the Sydney Theatre Company's "Uncle Vanya," which just opened at City Center as part of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:47PM[SHARE]It hits you when the angel puppet with the Queen fixation starts warbling "We Will Rock You": The Lincoln Center Festival brings us shows from all over the world for its annual showcase, and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM[SHARE]When in doubt, just throw stuff. It's a tried-and-true approach, and "Re-Animator: The Musical" revels in it. The first four rows of the theater are covered in plastic. Seats aren't assigne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM[SHARE]Here's a new show that has a lot going for it, including a wonderful performance by star Lindsay Mendez and swift staging by Joe Mantello ("Wicked," "Other Desert Cities"). But "Dogfight," w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Besides an ode to bodacious bosoms, Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant" features white slavery, lesbianism and a heroine who desperately " and unsuccessfully " tries to get laid. Yet despite all t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]It may be a sweltering July, but you get the sense that "Fela!" would have the sweatiest cast on Broadway no matter the season. These guys work so incredibly hard that they're glistening wit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PM[SHARE]There's no getting around the unrelenting misery of "DruidMurphy." Made up of three plays by Irish playwright Tom Murphy " unknown in the US but much admired at home " this is one of the mos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AM[SHARE]Near the beginning of "Macbeth," a character observes, "Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?" It's a line the creators of this production, which just opened at th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Not only is "Terminator Too " Judgment Play" a cheap ticket, but that $25 includes a free beer. By all means, cash in: This is the kind of show that's definitely better with beer goggles. Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Every so often, a show comes along that polarizes critics and audiences alike. Right now, "3C" is that show. Some reviewers, including myself and the New Yorker's John Lahr, loved this shar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]'Triassic Parq " The Musical," which just opened at the SoHo Playhouse, sticks to an approach familiar to anyone who's ever attended the New York International Fringe Festival. Proudly cheap…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PM[SHARE]Broadway is said to bet on stars. Well, yes and no. Look at the long-running hits: Do you know who's in "Wicked" or "Jersey Boys" right now? At the same time, casting is key to the equation,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Leslie Hendrix spent 19 seasons playing medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on all four "Law & Order" series. You'd think playwright Jim Henry would have asked the star of his new thriller fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]'come and knock on our door/We've been waiting for you . . ." Although the names have been changed, the premise of the new off-Broadway show "3C" will be familiar to anybody with a passing k…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Shakespeare in the Park is turning 50 this year, and its new production of "As You Like It" is a great gift to itself " and us. Something special is happening here: The parts may not all be …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Whether you like them or not, the Amoralists' gritty shows are like no other " thanks mostly to resident playwright Derek Ahonen's distinctive mix of hyper-realism and satire, brash violence…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:30PM[SHARE]Martha Gellhorn was a bold, opinionated woman. Fearless, too: She worked as a war correspondent and married Ernest Hemingway. Then she dumped him. Now, 14 years after her death, Gellhorn is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AM[SHARE]It's about depression, boredom, thwarted ambition and hopeless loves. And it's one of the most popular plays in New York. Indeed, not a year goes by without someone taking a stab at Chekhov…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Few things on Broadway are as old-fashioned as "Harvey." And it's not just because Mary Chase's play is from 1944 " plenty of older works have more edge than this butter knife of a show. Wha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AM[SHARE]Abi Morgan is hot right now. Last year alone, this Englishwoman wrote the high-profile movies "Shame" and "The Iron Lady" and created the critically acclaimed miniseries "The Hour…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]It took a whopping seven writers, four directors and three producers to come up with "We Play for the Gods." But rather than an embarrassment of riches, this new show by the Women's Project …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]There are two things you should know about "Rapture, Blister, Burn." It's about feminism, and it's fun. Plays that focus on any kind of -ism tend to provoke a recoil reflex: Who goes to the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AM[SHARE]Set in The Bronx in 2009, "Storefront Church" includes balloon payments, influence peddling and the real estate crisis. But don't go to John Patrick Shanley's new play expecting ripped-from-…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]There are two surefire ways to make an audience go "awww" " prominently feature a puppy or food. As its title indicates, "Food and Fadwa" picked option B. In a series of mock cooking-show se…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]The witless "Medieval Play" might have been written by a cocky 16-year-old boy. And not just any boy, but one eager to show off his arcane erudition (the story revolves around 14th-century p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]Some plays can stretch a tiny plot for hours. They finally grind to a halt, and you're still wondering what the heck they were trying to say. And then there's Alena Smith's "The Bad Guys": …
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