Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Pray you never get embroiled in an office war " stuck in a room with your foe, day after day, trying to figure out how to defeat them before they...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]There’s the shabby-chic hipster New York we see on cable TV " and then there's Stephen Adly Guirgis' New York, the gritty place where the playwright grew up. The city...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Casting the perky, versatile Christina Bianco in the middling comedy "Application Pending" is like driving a Porsche around the block at 20 mph. What a waste of resources! While theatergoers…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2015
The most wholesome musical in town happens to be about porn. Despite its explicit language (not to mention catchy ditties about things like "Waiting for Wood"), "Pretty Filthy" is winningly.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
"Texas in Paris" is described as a play with music, but the balance between the two parts is lopsided. The musical bits are strong " unsurprisingly, since one of the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
The Encores! series is famous for bringing back musical chestnuts that often haven't roasted on a New York stage in decades. Lo and behold, here comes Tommy Tune! While he's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The title of this new play is a Syrian expression for a perfect dice roll in backgammon. The reference may be meant to suggest a taut battle between opponents going...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:48PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
For every "The Office," there are five cases of "Gracepoint," or an American remake of a successful foreign show that inevitably goes down in flames. Actually, it usually goes down...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:50PM[SHARE]Every other year, Taylor Swift takes her magic wand and anoints the acts who will open her new tour. Now she's just announced that Haim, the LA rock band featuring...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2015
More than its plot or score, what you'll remember from the Poe musical "Nevermore" is its look. Bretta Gerecke's costumes, makeup and props are part Edward Gorey, part Tim Burton...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
As soon as it opened back in September, "You Can't Take It With You" became the funniest show on Broadway. The wildly talented ensemble took hold of Kaufman and Hart's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
There’s no way you'd confuse off-Broadway's new "Into the Woods" revival with the movie version. The latter boasts big-name stars like Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick, swelling musical …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Twisted head games, drinking and drugging, ugly crying: Halley Feiffer goes for melodrama at full throttle in her new play, "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard." One minute you're...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
When Season 1 of "The Fall" debuted on Netflix last year, it pretty much flew in under the radar. Yet another moody BBC thriller? Ho-hum. Then word got around that...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:19PM[SHARE]Clint Eastwood isn't happy to see you " and yes, that's a gun in his pocket. His latest directorial effort, "American Sniper," is doing gangbusters at the box office. Granted,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:57PM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
The making of a Thanksgiving feast is often compared to a marathon. For Kate Benson, it's more like a basketball game. Unfortunately, the playwright's whimsical new show can be as...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
The rambunctious new musical "Honeymoon in Vegas" is old-fashioned and proud of it. A big orchestra pumps out a brassy, melodic score that nods to Sinatra's ba-da-bing days. The wacky...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Rarely has quantum physics felt as romantic, as lively as it does in Broadway's "Constellations." The lives of two people, beautifully played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson " who...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
When candidates the for state's attorney, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) and Frank Prady (David Hyde Pierce), finally had their TV debate on Sunday night's episode of "The Good Wife," …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
Would Showtime's "Episodes" have more traction if it didn't star Matt LeBlanc? Very likely. LeBlanc will never be cool. The show treads very similar ground as "The Comeback," from fellow...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:09PM[SHARE]It’s confirmed " the '90s are back! Exhibit A: The most anticipated show of the winter stars Courtney Love in ripped jeans and a plaid flannel shirt. Oh sure, some...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
There may be a biting comedy lurking somewhere in "Dying for It," but it's really hard to find it in this adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's "The Suicide." British playwright Moira...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
'WINNERS and Losers" starts off as innocuously as a fun parlor game, with its writers, James Long and Marcus Youssef, sitting on either end of a long table, debating what...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2014
While Broadway sleeps through its holiday hangover, the cool kids are taking over the city. One relatively new member of the envelope-pushing derby is Prototype, dedicated to new music for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
A demonic hand puppet. Levitating beds. A live rat. Scandi angst rotating on a giant turntable. Theater didn't need big-name stars to blow your mind in 2014 " though it...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PM[SHARE]Get me the hell out of the frickin' woods! Who'd have thought Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" would become such a phenomenon? Hype around the starry movie adaptation, out Dec....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
It may not be as famous as Harlem's Cotton Club, but Cafe Society made its mark on the New York jazz scene of the 1930s and '40s " not least...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 21, 2014
When "The Last Ship" opened on Broadway a few months ago, many people were confused: Wait a minute " where's Sting? Though he wrote the score, Sting hasn't been onstage...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
“Pocatello" is Samuel D. Hunter's first play since he was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant this year. So the expectations are now a little different than they were when Hunter...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 14, 2014
Technically speaking, "Every Brilliant Thing" is a solo show. But actor Jonny Donahoe spends a lot of time chatting with various people " his character's parents, teacher and partner. You...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:30PM[SHARE]Persistence, thy name is "Soul Doctor"! Every time you think this good-natured but clunky biomusical about Shlomo Carlebach, the singing rabbi, is down for the count, it pops up again....
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