Monday, November 7, 2011
Way before "Wicked," composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz had a blockbuster under his belt: 1971's "Godspell," which ran for 2,700 performances, 500 on Broadway. Not bad for a score Schwartz w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2011
There are a few plays within Jon Robin Baitz's drama "Other Desert Cities," which reopened on Broadway last night, after a successful run earlier this year at Lincoln Center.
The show starts…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2011
In his zany comedy "Love's Labour's Lost," Shakespeare quadrupled the romance factor: There's not one, not two, but four young couples, and they engage in four times the amount of word play,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PM[SHARE]A show doesn't have to be first-class to make a memorable impression. Exhibit A: "Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws," an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act at La MaMa. The production is ramsh…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2011
The tiny Bank Street Theatre is a freakishly appropriate place to watch the excellent new dark comedy "The Atmosphere of Memory." There's no stage to speak of; if you're sitting in the first…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2011
If miscommunication is comedy gold, David Henry Hwang has set his new Broadway show, "Chinglish," in a veritable mine. Though he doesn't tap the vein to its full potential, there are still p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]If you want to score easy laughs, put a wacky dance in your play. Having characters trip on acid is another time-tested recipe.
"Better safe than sorry," Jesse Eisenberg must have thought, s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Imagine the exact opposite of a joy ride: That would be "Cries and Whispers," the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1972 movie.
Set in a literal house of pain, the show tracks the final …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2011
There are two big circus trends nowadays. You can hit people over the head with a loud, garish, pseudo-poetic extravaganza such as Cirque du Soleil's recent "Zarkana" at Radio City Music Hal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2011
A big shadow looms over Stephen Karam's lovely, surprisingly funny new play, "Sons of the Prophet." It's that of Kahlil Gibran and his best-selling collection of vague, inspirational prose p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2011
The new Broadway anthology "Relatively Speaking" is subtitled "3 One-Act Comedies," and there's some truth to that: It is indeed made up of a trio of short plays -- by heavy-hitters Woody Al…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:43PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2011
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]Thursday, October 13, 2011
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]Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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]Sunday, October 9, 2011
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]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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]Monday, October 3, 2011
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]Sunday, October 2, 2011
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]Thursday, September 29, 2011
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]Sunday, September 25, 2011
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]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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]Monday, September 19, 2011
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]Friday, September 16, 2011
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]Thursday, September 15, 2011
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]Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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]Monday, September 12, 2011
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…
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