Wednesday, June 29, 2011
John Rando directs this iconic musical with style and a great cast.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:50PM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil's biggest show yet is imperfect but who cares, if it means a visit to Radio City Music Hall .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:47PM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2011
Unnatural Acts (www.curtainup.com/unnaturalacts.html), the dramatic expose of Harvard's shameful Secret Court 1920 prompted by a homosex…
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a cautionary Never Again tale that's also a strikingly staged, entertaining theatrical experience. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Not tired of the gennius Tiger Woman who kept Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in previews for seven months? Missed Law & Order's killer take-off&nbs…
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Can this marriag be saved? And can Weller's play about it be saved from being a poor cousin to his Fifty Words?.
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in T.V. Carpio as the now downsized Arachne and ensemble members in "Behold and Wonder." The mythical Arachne may have been downsized and homogenized into a go…
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The long extended mega-million musical is officially out of rehab & our review of th 2.0 version includes a backgrounder on Spdey's Marvel Comic Book
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tain The Big Tony Winners Top L-r: Leading performers Frances McDormand (Good People), Mark Rylance (Jersulaem), Norbert Leo Butz (Catch Me In You Can). . . Scene from Best pla…
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In a season rich with straight plays, the problem family play once again laid claim to being a genre in its own right-- Off…
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probably the most offbeat musical currently on any New York Stage . . .
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The terrific Carey Mulligan makes a strong case for theatricality of Ingmar Bergman's 1961 film
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The name Rachel Crothers is unlikely to ring a bell with most modern theater goers, a situation once again changed with a mint revival by the Mint Theater . . .
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though "brevity is the soul of wit" is not an adage Tony Kushner tends to follow for his own plays, his take of Corneille's 5-act drama spins out over a fast-paced, easy to follow two hours …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Public Theater (will begin previews on Monday, June 6 for the 2011 Shakespeare in the Park summer season featuring MEASURE FOR MEASURE, directed by David Esbjornson, and ALL'S WELL THAT …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:03PM[SHARE]a Curtainup Book Review especially for Shakespeare fans. . .and those who are on the fence about all the Bardolatry. . .
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Daniel Goldfarb's play views the to be or not to be a parent question as a damned-if-you do and damned-if you don't situation though he does stack the deck in favor of one . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:32AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2011
At at time when bad things keep happening to good people, you could do worse than watch mean schemes crash, a villainess turn heroine, and a potential victim really turn into a lucky guy. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:31AM[SHARE]The best thing about Jonathan Marc Sherman's play now part of the Public's wonderfully affordable LAB series is that Bob Dishy, who was in the Williamstown premiere, is again on board
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Austin Pendleton has trimmed Shaw's Candida to accommodate music, so much so that it comes off as a play version of Condensed Reader's Digest Book
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
Lynn Nottage's clever script is full to the brim with acting opportunities, hilarious scenes and imaginative stagecraft, all of which are fully realized under Joe Bonney's direction. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:56PM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
Ronan Noone's black a comedy paints an unflinching portrait of a contemporary American heartland that sustains itself with shoddy dreams, frayed moral values and with delusions of grandeur .…
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despite taking too much time to tell its story while not taking the time to clarify the erudite historic references, this is a play that no Tony Kushner fan or serious drama enthusiast will …
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Donna Murphy's terrific performance can't overcome the fact that this show's too sketchily constructed libretto is a let down even if you've been maneuvered into shedding a few tears
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Unlike so many agitprop dramas which tend to be of the moment, this one lives on as a full-blown tragedy with the added parallels to world events that cry for leaders unafraid to speak ou
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Terrific performances from Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as well as support players Christopher Abbott and Alison Pill, can't rescue this darker than ever comedy from bei…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2011
There's a newgorgeous blonde doing an unmissable rendition of "Anything Goes." This one is Nina Arianda who plays Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin's 1949 comedy . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
As the anti-heroic Johnny "Rooster" Byron is a Pied Piper for the teenaged children of the conventional home owners near his outlaw dwelling, so his interpreter, Mark Rylance, is also the Pi…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Christopher Shinn's 10th play is about an actor who catches the gold ring on tinsel town's merry-go-round. To make the film he's picked to star in, he must allow the director to pick his bra…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
to paraphrase Albert's exultant "What a team we make! Albert and Joey together for ever" . . . What a team the people involved in this unique show make! I'll remember it for ever -- and so w…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
David Greenspan has written himself a whimsical play about a long dead Greek chorus boy who turns into a sort of good fairy to a gathering of modern thespians. . .
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