Don't let the author's name throw you: Though these "Early Plays" are by Eugene O'Neill, these aren't your grandmother's classics. To begin with, you can't really call the three one-act piec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AM[SHARE]William Shatner makes most screen actors look like puppets with too many media-training classes. It's not as if he's a great thespian like, say, Christopher Plummer " for whom Shatner under…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PM[SHARE]Athol Fugard's 1961 drama "Blood Knot" does the exact opposite of what writing manuals advise. Forget about setting the tone and the plot early on to capture the audience's attention: The ho…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PM[SHARE]It had all the elements of a great thriller. A con man abuses the trust of his friends and colleagues at a big newspaper, lies about everything from his upbringing to his résumé to his sou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AM[SHARE]'the Ugly One" may be a new play, but it has the familiar vibe of a classic "Twilight Zone" episode. Translated from the German, Marius von Mayenburg's black-humored fable about appearances …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:56AM[SHARE]Poor Meena. The harried heroine of Kate Fodor's new play, "Rx," is in a funk, and no wonder: A published poet, she works in a soulless gray office as the managing editor for piggeries at Ame…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AM[SHARE]The three-piece orchestra in "Ionescopade" has barely started the overture " zany percussion, wacky noisemakers " and already the whimsy-meter is in the red. You'd think you were at the Big …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AM[SHARE]John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of "angry young men" " smart, educated, working- or mi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AM[SHARE]The new family drama "Russian Transport" isn't edgy or groundbreaking. Rather, it's a good old-fashioned delicacy: a solid yarn, well told. Playwright Erika Sheffer can be guilty of using br…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PM[SHARE]Even before Oedipus asks his daughter to identify a stranger and she calls him "some jerk-off," you know you're in for a wink-wink take on Sophocles. And so it goes, more or less, for five h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:43PM[SHARE]Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Wit" offers a lucky " and brave " actress a complex, finely detailed role that's as demanding as it is rewarding. When the play first opened of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]Daniel Talbott's new off-Broadway play, "Yosemite," starts off great. We're in the woods, among leafless trees coated with a dusting of snow. A young man " he could be in his late teens " is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PM[SHARE]A lot of off-Broadway theater makes extensive use of video nowadays. In January, the Gob Squad company offered the stunt-like "Super Night Shot," in which the actors screened footage of them…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]Few actors play villains as expertly as Kevin Spacey. His gallery of memorable bad guys includes a sadistic movie producer in "Swimming With Sharks," a serial killer in "Seven" and a bullyin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:03AM[SHARE]It's pretty clear the Roundabout company is in the theater business, because its latest Broadway show, "The Road to Mecca," would have a hard time getting made in Hollywood. Forget about mu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]Over the past decade, Young Jean Lee has emerged as one of the most fascinating, unpredictable voices on the downtown scene. The Korean-American playwright mercilessly poked fun at Asian ste…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PM[SHARE]Video is used a lot in theater nowadays, but it's rarely as crucial to a show as it is to "LEO." In this new solo piece, we see two simultaneous versions of author/performer Tobias Wegner: …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:40AM[SHARE]Few New York cultural institutions are as beloved as the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After opening in Brooklyn Heights in 1861, BAM moved to the edge of Fort Greene in 1908. Now in its 150th …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM[SHARE]Sure, we've all seen concerts and dance and other performances on the city's great stages. But what goes on behind the curtains is something to behold, as well. With these grand tours, you'l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 04:05AM[SHARE]After much behind-the-scenes hoopla, the new revival of "Porgy and Bess" finally opened last night on Broadway. Those expecting a bang will have to do with a whimper. To recap the fuss: Last…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PM[SHARE]Americans don't seem to stand a chance in China. In David Henry Hwang's comedy "Chinglish," an Ohio businessman unwittingly becomes embroiled in power plays among Guiyang officials. Poor, un…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PM[SHARE]Visually speaking, "Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now" certainly catches our attention. The off-off-Broadway show takes place in a late 1920s/early 1930s nightclub called the Palace, so…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]In the new comedy "Close Up Space," David Hyde Pierce plays a meticulous, high-strung book editor named Paul Barrow. Paul believes in exacting edits and le mot juste, so in his honor, let's …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:30PM[SHARE]Peter Pan may be the boy who wouldn't grow up, but Cathy Rigby is the woman who won't grow old. The gymnast-turned-actress has been playing Peter on and off in the beloved musical since its …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AM[SHARE]Alot of people whine that Broadway doesn't know how to make entertaining musicals anymore. Happily, it turns out that Broadway still knows how to make 'em. With its catchy pop score, charmin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PM[SHARE]Though "Farm Boy" is being promoted as the sequel to "War Horse," it feels more like a gentle epilogue.Those curious about the fate of the horse Joey and his human friend, Albert, after thei…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PM[SHARE]"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" is known for its great songs " and nutty book. Revived on Broadway for the first time since its 1965 opening, the Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner musical has…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 04:57AM[SHARE]In 2009, Ireland was shaken by a wide-ranging, devastating report on the decades-long child abuse in Church-run institutions. One of the estimated 30,000 victims was Gerard Mannix Flynn, who…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]The best thing about "Stick Fly" is its shameless reliance on soap-opera theatrics. Playwright Lydia R. Diamond multiplies heated arguments about race, class and gender, but the comedy that …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:49PM[SHARE]Jordan Harrison's "Maple and Vine" has one of the most intriguing premises of the year. Katha (the quicksilver Marin Ireland) and Ryu (Peter Kim, stiff and bland) are a 30-something New York…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13PM[SHARE]To call Alan Ayckbourn prolific is an understatement. "Neighbourhood Watch," which just opened at 59E59 Theaters, is his 75th play. And since the British master is a mere 72 and spry " he of…
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