Hell hath no fury like a geek disappointed. Example No. 3,854: "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," the new solo piece by Mike Daisey. With shows such as "The Last Cargo Cult" (about m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:37PM[SHARE]It's a stormy night in Memphis on April 3, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. has only a few hours left to live. Earlier that evening, he delivered his famous "I've been to the mountaintop" sp…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]For her off-Broadway debut as a playwright, omnipresent actress Zoe Kazan ("Angels in America," "A Behanding in Spokane") has gone out on a limb with an extravaganza in which a telepathic ni…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]In his new play, "The Lyons," Nicky Silver pulls off a neat trick: He's written a comedy fueled almost exclusively by letdowns. An old married couple endures despite decades of encrusted res…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]No wonder Frank Langella makes off with the Roundabout's new revival of "Man and Boy": He's playing a crook, after all. As Gregor Antonescu -- a silver-haired, silver-tongued speculator who…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Imagine you're a rock fan and the Rolling Stones are just making their New York debut after decades of playing Europe. Big deal, right? That's what the Berliner Ensemble's belated bow is for…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PM[SHARE]Here's an alternative title for the new show "Motherhood Out Loud": "Love, Loss, and What I Gave Birth To." It's OK, marketers, you don't have to thank me. Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:06AM[SHARE]Not only is Adam Rapp prolific, but you never know what he's going to come up with next. In the past 18 months alone, he delivered the censorship drama "The Metal Children"; combined three p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PM[SHARE]During the first 45 minutes of "Lidless," it's hard not to feel little tremors of excitement: It really seems as if playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is on to something. And then she goes out…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:18PM[SHARE]Time plays a big part in Lanford Wilson's "Lemon Sky" -- but it also hasn't been kind to the show. When the largely autobiographical piece opened in 1970, it must have felt fresh and daring.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AM[SHARE]If there were an award for Most Unpleasant Character in a Play, the male lead of Jeff Talbott's willfully provocative "The Submission" would win in a landslide. It's not often you see a show…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:43AM[SHARE]Fans of musical theater love to bicker, but there's one thing they agree on: A live orchestra, preferably a big one, is key to the experience. Driving the point home, a commercial attacki…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PM[SHARE]Let's say you discovered Eugene Ion esco a couple of years ago, via the Geoffrey Rush-starring revival of "Exit the King." You got a taste of Ionesco's absurdist world, and you're curious to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:15PM[SHARE]When it comes to life skills, Monty has his work cut out for him. He's baffled by the sheer number of toothbrushes and deodorants to choose from. Necktie knots bedevil him. A movie date ends…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]It's only fitting that "Arias With a Twist" starts with its headliner abducted by aliens: This is a jaw-dropping UFO of a show. A hallucinatory hybrid of performance art, cabaret and thea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AM[SHARE]AN entire circus extravaganza is crammed on one itty-bitty stage, where a trained dog and a magician dazzle the audience with their tricks. Sharp knives are thrown and caught -- through clen…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:13PM[SHARE]As far as subjects for a play go, Mike McAlary is a pretty great choice. In the 1990s, the big-mouthed, big-hearted tabloid journalist embodied both tough-guy reporting and the gritty Gotham…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PM[SHARE]Some Broadway stars are so big, they don't have to wait for the right musical to come along: They can strike out on their own. And that's just what Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone and Mandy Patin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]There's something fas cinating about the mat ing rituals of science nerds: How could these people be so smart and yet so stupid? The TV hit "The Big Bang Theory" is about to spend a fifth…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:29PM[SHARE]In the right hands, "Fol lies" is a punch in the gut -- set to a fantastic score. Stephen Sond heim and James Gold man's 1971 musical juxtaposes past and present, reality and fantasy. It can…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Probably the last things that come to mind when thinking about Ernest Hem ingway are "laughs" and "awesome dance moves." And yet there are plenty of both during "The Select (The Sun Also Ris…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PM[SHARE]The Mint Theater spe cializes in unearthing obscure material, but a year ago it dug particularly deep: It presented an arcane 1930s drama, originally written for radio by an Irishwoman large…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PM[SHARE]A fearless resistance fighter sings out about his dreams and beliefs. A sexy spy seduces her opponent with her wiles and lung-busting power ballads. Romantic scenes alternate with kinetic ch…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM[SHARE]When it rains, it pours: New York now hosts two site- specific, choose-your-own-narrative works in which the audience roams all over a large, custom-decorated building. Since April, the f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PM[SHARE]Williamstown, Mass. -- It's not often that you leave a musical revue thinking, Wow, that looked great! But John Doyle's tribute to Rodgers and Hart, "Ten Cents a Dance," is full of stylish, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Britain's Simon Russell Beale has been hailed as the great est stage actor of his generation. The 50-year-old virtuoso interpreter of Shakespeare and Chekhov is versatile, too: He sent up hi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PM[SHARE]The problem with "The Legend of Julie Tay mor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody!" isn't that it was written in a mere six weeks. Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein coughed …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]There's good storytel ling, and then there's "Tricks the Devil Taught Me." Minutes tick by in Tony Georges' new off-Broadway play as you wait for a point, any point, to emerge. By intermi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]The New York Fringe Festival's single big gest success story is "Urinetown," which not only made it to Broadway in 2001, but won Tonys for best book and best score. So when that show's creat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]You've got to hand it to Charles Busch: He doesn't make it easy for his audience. The title character of his latest comedy, "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," has to be the sourest puss on the Ne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Isabelle is 17 and bright. She's a valedicto rian, and she's about to lose her virginity. It doesn't take Nostradamus to foretell a coming-of-age story. At least the period setting of you…
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