Monday, April 30, 2012
At Classic Stage it's a more fun focus for A Midsummer Night's Dream- In case you forgot, Shakespeare's natural bent was comedy. Classic Stage' s Dream proves i…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2012
Click title for more.. .Don't Dress for Dinner- a well-performed sequel but not equal to Marc Camoletti's Boeing, Boeing . . .Leap of Faith- Even with the magnetic Raul E…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:30PM[SHARE] The pre-Tony Awards crush of plays opening on Broadway brought two plays with hysterically funny dinner party scenes and a third that aimed for laughs from what happ…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
Even with the magnetic Raul Esparza on board, singing and dancing up a storm, it will take a heap of ticket buying enthusiasts to make this Revival Meeting leap anywhere near the top of the …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:16AM[SHARE]a well-performed sequel but not equal to Marc Camoletti's Boeing, Boeing . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
As Joseph Alsop's stepdaughter asks "Who's Wendell Wilkie?" so theatergoers under sixty might well ask "Who's Joseph Alsop?" At least until they see Pulitzer-winning David Auburn new play ab…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
A shout out for everyone involved with this full of fizzle and fun new-old musical. It's best summed up by Ira Gershwin: " 's Wonderful!"
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Linda Lavin's monstrous matron 's deathbed vigil is as funny and sad on Broadway. as off . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
The multi-culturally cast production Tennessee Williams is said to have always wanted but didn't live to see is respectfully but not flawlessly staged by Emily Mann
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
The best play seen on Broadway this week. . .Clybourne Park- if you havent seen Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize winning play, don't miss its Broadway production. If you saw it at Playwri…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
silence may be golden but in Bret C. Leonard's play it's overdone . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:18AM[SHARE]American audiences get an A-class taste of British humor via Richard Bean's coup-de-farce .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Risks and Rewards of Moving a Show from Off Broadway to Broadway There isn't a show that opens at a &nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
This bio-play's main reason for being, the aura of big league basketball in a Broadway theater, is established even as you take your seat . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:18PM[SHARE]Andrew LLoyd Webber and Tim Rice's wonderful soapoperatic bio-musical gets a wonderful new cast and staging. Paffi and Mandy fans should leave their urge to compareat home and head for the M…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:14PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare Being Shakespeare- Simon Callow cogently explores what Shakespeare achieved andexperienced in his lifetime. .…
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Newsies is the go-to show for the whole family, from the kids to grandma and grandpa.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Mary Beth Peil and Michael Laurence use all their considerable acting skills to imbue Willy Holtzman's fact based odd couple bonding drama with dramatic fireworks
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Peter Qulter's bioplay with music is an acting tour-de-force but don't expect the Judy everybody adores .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
The book is forever so-so, but as Encored at City Center, the show's musical strength and fun elements are maximized, and the weaknesses of the book are minimized
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
Those four can-do, now 40-year-old kids " Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff " are at it again.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The "middle aged kindergarten" in a low-cost, low on amenities version of the upscale Reno, Nevada divorce ranches of the 1950s is an odd setup for British playwright Matt Charman's New York…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Amas Musical Theatre at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. on Thursday, April 26st at 4:00pm, Friday, April 27th at 3:00pm and 7:30pm, and Satur…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:11AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Watching this Will Loman's "way out in the blue ride on a smile and a shoeshine" turn into "an earthquake" is as enduringly shattering as any Greek tragedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:41PM[SHARE]You could do a lot worse than seeing TACT's revival of Neil Simon's 27th play at the company's intimate home on Theater Row.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
New YorkNo Place to Go- The financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe's Pub with Ethan Lipton's funny personal ode to the unemployed. . . .The Big Meal- Though Thornton Wilder is very muc…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:38PM[SHARE]Though Thornton Wilder is very much an unseen ghost hovering over Dan LeFRanc's play, it's not a copy-cat Our Town but the Real Deal: An innovative, intelligent, entertaining play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
Once - This small musical has transferred with its charm and big heart very much intact . . .Once was of the best screen ti stage…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:04PM[SHARE]This small musical has transferred with its charm and big heart very much intact
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2012
New York theater goers can currently see two plays permeated with steamy sado-masochistic games. One made new again by its star an…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:08AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Jesse Berger's immersive staging does nothing to enhance or deepen Genet's sly game-playing 3-hander
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