Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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]Sunday, April 15, 2012
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]Friday, April 13, 2012
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]Thursday, April 12, 2012
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]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PM[SHARE]Unlike Broadway's "Magic/Bird," which really is about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, "Federer Versus Murray" doesn't focus on those two tennis champions.
That's a bummer, because Gerda Steven…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
Last night, "Evita" returned after a 30-year absence from Broadway. The wait was worth it: This is a big, fat, juicy blockbuster of a show.
Naturally, everybody's flipping out over the hot n…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
How refreshing that the mismatched leads of "4000 Miles" don't look or act like one of the odd couples we've seen a million times.
Vera " the extraordinary Mary Louise Wilson, who was Big Ed…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" has such a bad rep that this new production's program is full of scholarly quotes that basically say, hey, it's really not as chauvinistic as everybod…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AM[SHARE]Big Broadway performances are polished, sometimes to a fault: They're perfectly enjoyable, but they often lack a certain unpredictable battiness.
Not so with Tracie Bennett's tour de force …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
The most memorable part of "The Best Man" is the women.
Gore Vidal's 1960 chestnut may center on three powerful male politicians, but it's the ladies hovering on the periphery who steal this…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
It's tough enough to fill an arena when you have a superstar. What do you do without one?
If somebody could come up with a solution, it's Cirque du Soleil, whose latest spectacle, "Michael J…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
Watching "Pipe Dream" at City Center, you have to pinch yourself now and then to make sure you're not hallucinating.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1955 show " presented in concert by Encores! " …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:02AM[SHARE]As Disney shows go, "Newsies " The Musical" covers all the familiar bases: a wily scamp of a hero matched with a plucky girl, a blustery villain, and a young smarty-pants overcoming every ob…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
A magic show is a magic show is a magic show. You've got illusions, mentalist feats and sleights of hand. Animals appear out of thin air. Someone may or may not be cut by a sharp blade.
The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AM[SHARE]Back in 2006, the sly little tuner "[title of show]" made a pretty big splash. As quirky as its moniker, this was a selfreferential musical about writing and performing a musical, starring t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The new drama "Regrets," set in 1954 Nevada, looks quite nice: Small wood cabins are huddled onstage, with the desert sky in the back and a cooking fire in the center. You can almost smell t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2012
You need a lot of bells and whistles to get noticed these days, let alone land a hit. Some shows bank on stars, usually brought in from the screen. Some rely on songs so popular, the audienc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
If "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" debuted today, John Ford's gory, perverse play would land in a downtown hole and possibly cause a ruckus comparable to past NEA scandals.
But "Pity" was publish…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:37AM[SHARE]It's hard to pin down Jesus in the 1971 rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar." Sometimes, co-creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice seem to agree with Mary Magdalene, who sings "He's a ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The new off-Broadway show "The Big Meal" is high-concept, to say the least. In just 90 minutes, playwright Dan LeFranc tracks Nicole and Sam over several generations " romance, marriage, ten…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
The new Broadway musical "Once" doesn't have a swinging chandelier, tap-dancing showgirls or brand-name stars. There's only one set " and it doesn't levitate.
The show wins its standing ovat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Violence, fantasy, jealousy, dominance and submission, death " Jean Genet's play "The Maids" has it all!
Two sisters working as servants for a rich woman engage in elaborate role-playing ga…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]An interesting case, that Willy Loman. Cynics would say the title character of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is one of the biggest losers to ever grace the stage " yet actors trip ov…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Chicken or fish? Leno or Conan? Rent or buy? Decisions, decisions.
Theatergoers are facing an equally tough choice with "An Iliad," a new one-man show that features two men.
Depending on the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Don't let the title throw you: This is no epic about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. The subject of Tina Howe's play "Painting Churches" is an elderly couple named Fanny and Gardner Chu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:44PM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2012
Jo sure knows how to play party games. "I am your wife, and I am dying," she snaps at her husband, Sam, during a round of 20 Questions, while their guests look elsewhere. That's one way to p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2012
There's so much going on in the new off-Broadway show "Tribes" that it's almost overwhelming: intellect and sentiment, love and cruelty, witty zingers and biting put-downs. But in Nina Raine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
There are two ways to bring back a flop. The first is to believe the show was good but badly staged, and to have a visionary set things right.
The "Carrie" revival that opened off-Broadway l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Despite what Paula Deen says, there is such a thing as too sweet. But the creators of "Rated P for Parenthood" didn't get the memo, and their musical could send unsuspecting audiences into a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PM[SHARE]Fun fact: After graduating from NYU, playwright Leslye Headland ("Bachelorette") briefly worked as Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. Now, a tyrannical tycoon looms over her blistering n…
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