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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PM[SHARE]Jonathan Larson's hit musical "Rent" left the Great White Way a mere three years ago, and now it's back where it started: in an off-Broadway theater. Yet the production that opened at New Wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PM[SHARE]People get up to all kinds of shenanigans in a rented room. No surprise, then, that a few butts are bared in "HotelMotel," a site-specific doubleheader staged in a small suite at the Gershwi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PM[SHARE]WASHINGTON, DC -- THE word "slapstick" isn't often used in conjunction with Chekhov. And yet here's the imperious Cate Blanchett, nearly tumbling down as the door against which she was strik…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PM[SHARE]There's a reason some people call it "the Cringe Festival." Regulars at the New York International Fringe Festival know it's a crapshoot " emphasis on the first syllable. For every success l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]If aliens came to New York in the summer, they'd assume the only plays here are by Shakespeare. Everywhere you turn, there he is: in the park, in the parking lot (see above) and on Park Aven…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]With "Julius Cae sar," its fifth and last production at the Park Avenue Armory, the Royal Shakespeare Company's local season ends in an orgy of violence and gore. Director Lucy Bailey cou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PM[SHARE]It had to happen: The Royal Shakespeare Company's taken a tumble. The troupe's first en tries in its five-play season at the Park Avenue Armory ranged from a delightful "As You Like It" t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PM[SHARE]WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Lily Rabe isn't yet 30, but she commands the stage with calm, steady authority. This daughter of Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe more than held her own agains…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:58PM[SHARE]The Royal Shake speare Company isn't the only theater happening at the Lin coln Center Festival. Back for a spin is Ireland's Druid Theatre -- the troupe that brought six plays by John M. Sy…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]Zach Braff must have had fun last year at Sec ond Stage, where he played a dominatrix's client in Paul Weitz's "Trust": The engaging star of "Scrubs" is back -- this time making his playwrit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AM[SHARE]The Transport Group has been on a roll lately. There was Mart Crowley's 1960s homosexual classic, "The Boys in the Band," done as a real-time party in a Chelsea penthouse, and the reinventio…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]Death has been very busy over the years, and it sure has range: It's had star turns in movies as diverse as "Bill and Ted's Bogus Holiday," "The Seventh Seal" and "All That Jazz." Now the Gr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]'King Lear" is no picnic: The play's world is one where "machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves," as Lear's confidant, the Earl of G…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:58AM[SHARE]What "The Nut cracker" is to Decem ber, "Hair" is to July. Not only does the musical take place during the Summer of Love, but its "turn on, tune in, drop out" message feels particularly rig…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:35PM[SHARE]Smoke! Pyrotechnics! Battle gear! When the Montagues and the Ca pulets duke it out in this "Romeo and Juliet," it feels like a Kiss con cert -- and it's almost as loud. Needless to say, t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Judy Gold's new solo outing, "The Judy Show: My Life As a Sitcom," begins slowly. For someone who describes herself as a "6-foot-3 Jewish lesbian mother of two," Gold's childhood was utterly…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]At times, the Lincoln Center Festival is the high-art answer to Ep cot's World Showcase -- building entire ven ues from scratch so we can see foreign companies in their home environment with…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:07AM[SHARE]She's a major diva with an ego to match, but her prime years are behind her. So she takes eager-beaver young performers under her wing and mentors them, teaching them the art of interpretati…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:28PM[SHARE]It was possible to be gay at Harvard in 1920, but it was risky. Exactly how dangerous was detailed in a 2002 article in the Harvard Crimson, which revealed "secret court files" documenting t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PM[SHARE]It's not like there's anything terribly wrong about Michael Mitnick's new "Sex Lives of Our Parents." But there isn't anything terribly right, either. The Second Stage Uptown play that op…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PM[SHARE]If a TV series can sprout a spinoff, why not a play? The most appealing character in Amy Herzog's heavy-handed drama "After the Revolution," which ran at Playwrights Horizons in November,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PM[SHARE]The first stop on any itinerary should be the Williamstown Theatre Festival (wtfestival.org, 413-597-3400). Located in the bucolic college enclave of Williamstown, Mass., the fest has drawn …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PM[SHARE]At long last, Spider-Man is ready to do some serious web-slinging on Broadway. And what do we get after $70 million, nine years of work and 183 previews? Silly string and paper streamers. We…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]It's been a long wait through false starts, injuries, firings and mishap after mishap. But the finished "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has finally opened. Here's our web-slinging timeline. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tennessee Williams has been a very famil iar presence on New York stages for the past three years or so. What's cool is that for every famous "Glass Menagerie" or "A Streetcar Named Desire,"…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PM[SHARE]There's a particularly illumi nating scene in the second act of the new musical "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World," wherein the three sisters who make up the title band are in a recording…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:45AM[SHARE]Carey Mulligan is a terrific actress. The luminous Londoner has earned raves for movies such as "An Education" and "Never Let Me Go," and she could easily have spent her summer shooting some…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PM[SHARE]There are many, many ways a musical can go awry. How great, then, to see everything click into place in the new "Lysistrata Jones." Produced by the Transport Group company ("The Boys in the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]Show tunes have become so complicated and serious: Yes, Sondheim is a genius, and rock musicals are edgy -- but sometimes you just want sass, flash and old-fashioned va-va-voom. In short,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM[SHARE]The new dramedy "Cradle and All" re lies on a promising narrative gambit: The first act takes place in the Brooklyn apartment of the stylish, childless Claire and Luke; the second act puts u…
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