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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Review: Go Back to Where You Are at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

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. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:05AM[SHARE]

Monday, April 11, 2011

Review: Motherf**Ker With The Hat at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The conversations between Stephen Adly Guirgis's drug and alcohol addicted Romeo and Juliet drop enough F-bombs to make David Mamet's dialogue seem the work of a choir boy

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:13PM[SHARE]

Review: Urge for Going at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

while not offering any new insights into the Middle East troubles, this play about Palestinian refugees does have a touching, universal heartbeat.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:02PM[SHARE]

Review: Catch Me If You Can at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

though Aaron Tveit has the voice to get this musicaliced caper airborne, it's only when Norbert Leo Butz's modern day Jarvert is on stage, that this show gains altitude. . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:18AM[SHARE]

Friday, April 8, 2011

Review: Anything Goes at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

This revival of Cole Porter's tuneful, danceable show is not just "so easy to love" but impossible not to love. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:15AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Review: Benefactors at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Michael Frayn's elegantly structured 4-character 1984 play is still relevant . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:38AM[SHARE]

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Review: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Original and bubbling with ideas as this play is, and even with a ticket selling name like Robin Williams above the title, this is a risky Broadway venture.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:33PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Review of The Other Place at Curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

If the name Sharr White doesn't ring a bell, don't let that keep you from buying a ticket to see his first New York world premiere,

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:15PM[SHARE]

The Spoiler issue for reviewers at Curtainup's blog annex by Elyse Sommer

Telling readers what a show is about without robbing them of a chance to experience revelations gradually

SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:24PM[SHARE]

Review: La Cage Aux Folle's Second Cast at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Havey Fierstein is a lovable Albin and Christopher Sieber a perfect Georges

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:47AM[SHARE]

Monday, March 21, 2011

Review: Kin at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Bathsheba Doran touching and often funny new play is beautifully acted and staged. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:53PM[SHARE]

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Review: Hello Again at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Composer-lyricist-librettist Michael John LaChiusa's sexual roundelay performed in a downtown loft is certainly a different from more conventional theatrical story telling. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:53PM[SHARE]

Review: Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

the pink bus has landed on Broadway

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:46PM[SHARE]

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Review: Encores!-- Where's Charley? at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

it's a treat to hear not just the hits but the less familiar songs from Frank Loesser's first full length musical score. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35PM[SHARE]

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Review: Arcadia at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

You might call this a Pinata Play " Tom Stoppard's theatrical version of the Mexican candy and toy filled papier-mÃ¢ché pot, with the Stoppardian pinata is filled with ideas to be tossed …

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:25PM[SHARE]

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