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": …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PM[SHARE]Don't expect anything groundbreaking from "Chimichangas and Zoloft." Fernanda Coppel's play may be new, but its themes are well-worn: girls coming of age, sexual identity, philandering husba…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]The new off-Broadway show "Potted Potter" is subtitled "The Unauthorized Harry Experience " A Parody by Dan and Jeff." In truth, this British import has zero satirical bite. Rather, it's a c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PM[SHARE]It's hard to believe, considering the amount of publicity they've gotten, but New Jersey is not just Snooki and her GTL routine. (For those unfamiliar with MTV's "Jersey Shore," that's gym, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]Though Lou Reed name-checked him in "Walk on the Wild Side" " as the one who "thought she was James Dean for a day" " Jackie Curtis is less famous today than fellow Warhol superstars Holly W…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Part of the fun of going to the theater is watching live performers create a different world in front of our eyes. That's not enough for some enterprising directors, so they go the extra mil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PM[SHARE]Anglophiles with a fetish for bookish Cambridge students politely arguing about literature and life may get a kick out of "The Common Pursuit." Others may find themselves looking at their wa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Anyone who caught the revivals this year of "The Road to Mecca" and "Blood Knot" knows that South African playwright Athol Fugard takes his sweet time to get to the point. Both shows were bu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AM[SHARE]Gypsy Rose Lee, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden walk into a house . . . This sounds like the setup for either a highbrow joke or Harvey Weinstein's latest Oscar-bait movie,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]It's tempting to think of "Title and Deed" as an elaborate prank played on a helpless audience. This new piece by Will Eno " the critically acclaimed author of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AM[SHARE]The new revue "Old Jews Telling Jokes" is inspired by the Web site of the same name " which consists of a parade of elderly cut-ups delivering jokes. But unlike the Web, which you can leave…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Never mind its provocative title: "Cock" is about love. Things get complicated as people fall in and out of it, but this wonderful 90-minute show renders the emotional mess with great simpli…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AM[SHARE]Mark Ravenhill " best known for "Shopping and F - - king," a 1998 hit at New York Theatre Workshop " is one of Britain's finest provocateurs. His 2006 play "Pool (No Water)" spares us the ra…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:13AM[SHARE]The Encores! production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is like a dessert stuffed with juicy morsels. Why quibble because the cake doesn't always hold the fruity bits together? The lushest ni…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:25AM[SHARE]If the New Group company's new drama, "An Early History of Fire," were by a rookie, you could blame its mediocrity on inexperience. But the author is David Rabe, the Tony-winning writer of "…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AM[SHARE]This production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" looks real good. And not just because the cast includes Christina Ricci, Bebe Neuwirth and at least two guys who can't act but ha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PM[SHARE]Even if you haven't caught the movie it's based on, you can see everything coming a mile away in "Leap of Faith." The only surprise in this predictable, mushy new Broadway musical is how rid…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:21PM[SHARE]It's pointless to even try to summarize "Don't Dress for Dinner," a sex farce more tangled than a plate of spaghetti. Actually, there isn't so much a story as a pileup of contrived lies, mis…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PM[SHARE]Few people today remember journalist Joseph Alsop, but once upon a time he was a big deal. Or so everybody in "The Columnist," a new Broadway show about him, repeats over and over. That "eve…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]There's a lot of fun stuff in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a new musical made of old parts. For starters, this Gershwin jukebox is loaded with unimpeachable classics and a few brilliant ob…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AM[SHARE]Ben may be in the throes of terminal cancer, but his wife, Rita, is determined to know what he thinks about redoing their living room. "I'm dying," he groans. "Yes, I know," she replies. "Tr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PM[SHARE]Something peculiar is happening in "Ghost the Musical." It's nothing to do with the plot, which involves a dead man looking after his (living) girlfriend, and a sham psychic with a 4G connec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]If pumping up improved acting, Sylvester Stallone would have as many Oscars as Meryl Streep, and Channing Tatum would be playing Hamlet. But sadly, bulging biceps and taut pecs aren't enough…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:03AM[SHARE]The new Broadway show "Clybourne Park" is about cultural stereotypes and race relations. Wait, don't run away! Bruce Norris' play is also razor-sharp and funny as hell. When some characters…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Chekhov's "Three Sisters" are unhappy all the time. The two who work are miserable. The married one doesn't love her husband. All of them are sick and tired of their dreary country life, and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]The humor in the new Broadway farce "One Man, Two Guvnors" is so broad, you could drive an 18-wheeler through it " which the actors gleefully do, at 100 mph and without seat belts. Pratfalls…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:22AM[SHARE]Too many shows these days are workshopped or focus-grouped to death. As a result, they're nicely crafted but comfortably safe. "In Masks Outrageous and Austere" is the exact opposite. This T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:25AM[SHARE]You can do a play about Peter Pan and his gang with top hats, wire-assisted flying and sets that dutifully evoke a 19th-century British home or a tropical island. Or you can do it with jokes…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PM[SHARE]There's something primal about one-on-one confrontations, and David Harrower knows it. The Scottish playwright's acclaimed drama "Blackbird" pitted a middle-aged man against a woman with who…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:29PM[SHARE]The opening of "Massacre (Sing to Your Children)" is the single scariest minute of the year. It would spoil the surprise to describe the scene in detail, so let's just say it involves loud m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PM[SHARE]What makes "Magic/Bird" work isn't the mystique still attached to its subjects, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, legends though they are. Rather, the joint tale that opened on Broadway last nig…
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