Monday, May 25, 2015
Matthew Lopez's gripping play about a troublesome chapter in our history gets a vivid New York premiere . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's operatic musical is a somber but memorable experience . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]Leave it to A. R. Gurney, the theater's Playwright Laureate of American Wasp life, to turn a family wedding into a ghostly comedy of manners. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]how Feb. 8th made theatrical history as a theater critics' Tea Party
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]enjoyable, beautifully illustrated theatrical family history . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]New LABrynth Theater Company playwright Melissa. Ross unites a family of half-siblings for their father's final hours
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]Rine Groff uses marionettes to revisit a long-ago battle over the rights to dramatize Anne Frank's diary . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]If you don't mind a romance that trots out every political difference between the red and blue states, this adds up to a pleasant, if not especially memorable, 2 hours
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]The first play, Rose, gets Adam Rapp's triptych of one-acts off to a fine start. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]Adam Rapp's triptych moves forward 50 years with its second one-act, but loses ground with its self-indulgent vulgarity and less intriguing characters . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]all 3 Hallway plays now officially open-- our omnibus review page covers it play-by-play with an all-in-one overview. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]The concluding "Hallway" play doesn't make for an all's well that ends well trilogy
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]David Linday-Abaire and the superb Frances McDormand lighten his picture of a segment of our society that is struggling to keep from sinking from low-income to no-income . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]What's a good way to kick off Women's History Month? The theater seems to be doing it with all male casts
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 05:58PM[SHARE]a stellar cast buoys this play relying on a favorite plot device: a one night party that climaxes with a top-it-all shocking revelation
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]a prequel to Peter Pan, big on imagination though occasionally too precociously clever
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]he problem with once very funny hit is that the audience is no longer laughing.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PM[SHARE]An Awards Ceremony Without Tension . . . and That's Actually Fu
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
No puppet to buoy Robert Askins' new play about another offbeat Christian practice
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:14PM[SHARE]Neil LaBute in a romantic mood, though still with a twist, at Second Stagee
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:10AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
A.R. Gurney's 1983 semi-autobiographical World War 2 coming of age/family drama is buoyed by Jim Simpson's smart something old/something new direction .
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Athol Fugard is one of our most successful contemporary playwrights. Yet he feels a close kinship to outsider artists like the South African rock painter at the center of his new play . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
A Broadway-ish production and an enthusiastic but vocally challenged Zorba
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
Why We Shouldn't Get Rid of Earworms As Part of the Musical Theater Experience
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
Opera Diva Reneé Fleming couldn't have wished for a more apt role for her non-operatic stage debut, if only it had been in a more substantial play .
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A "living funeral" in the Big Easy, is colorful but insubstantial
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
This Kander& Ebb musical finally makes it to Broadway. . .and it's a triumphant landing as piloted by John Doyle and starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees .
SOURCE: at 10:09PM[SHARE]Star casting and Dianne Paulus may make this Peter Pan back stage fiction critic proof . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A musical NOT borrowing from a book or movie, though it does borrow unapologetically from Shakespeare
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:16PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
if you've been waiting for a truly unique new musical, this unique family story is the one you won't want to miss
SOURCE: at 06:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
new book makes this more politically correct but less piquant
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