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Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Old Friends: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Playwright Horton Foote's Southern-drenched melodrama receives a posthumous, world premiere production.read more

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Fetch Clay, Make Man: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Will Power's drama concerns the unlikely real-life friendship between Muhammad Ali and the controversial screen star Stepin Fechit.read more

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Making a play for fall by Frank Scheck

The biggest name in new plays this season will be in the program, not on the stage. It's John Grisham, whose legal thrillers and other works have sold a whopping 275 million copies worldwid…

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Southern-fried Gothic comedy's DOA by Frank Scheck

The Savannah tourist board won't be endorsing "The Cheaters Club" anytime soon. Derek Ahonen's supernatural dark comedy portrays Georgia's famously haunted city as a hotbed of sin " but for …

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Here, the scum also rises by Frank Scheck

'i'm sick to death of cleverness," exclaims a character in the cutely titled "The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway." But while the line comes from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being …

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Soul Doctor: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

This new Broadway musical tells the real-life story of Shlomo Carlebach, the "Rock Star Rabbi."read more

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LBJ's ABCs become TMI by Frank Scheck

Forty years after his death, Lyndon Johnson is suddenly a hot topic for the stage. "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston plays the late president in the bio-drama "All the Way," opening next mo…

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Love's Labour's Lost: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" fame collaborate on this new musical based on the early Shakespeare comedy.read more

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

First Date: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Zachary Levi of TV's "Chuck" and Krysta Rodriguez star in this Broadway romantic musical comedy.read more

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Monday, August 5, 2013

'B' shorts brings its A-game by Frank Scheck

A man and woman meet on a blind date. She's a struggling freelance writer, he's a struggling actor. Gradually " over potent cocktails and "Asian soul food" oddities like cornbread miso soup …

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Point Break Live!: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

This wacky theatrical version of Kathryn Bigelow's cult film features its trademark silly dialogue and over-the-top action.read more

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Off with their heads! by Frank Scheck

'the King's Whore" bills itself as "a modern/historical mash-up of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's debacle of a relationship." But Rob Santana's play " the first effort by Starcatcher Prod…

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Mystery takes a B'klyn stroll by Frank Scheck

We were told to meet at a phone booth at the Montague Street entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, near the famous Low Mansion. There, a man in blue-rimmed glasses introduced himself a…

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Take off, Gipper! by Frank Scheck

In 1981, President Reagan famously fired some 11,000 air traffic controllers after they went on strike in defiance of their contract. Now, "I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan" is doing to hapless…

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Lady & the tramp by Frank Scheck

Charlie Chaplin would be proud: The Lincoln Center Festival's "Murmurs," conceived and directed by his daughter Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin and starring his granddaughter Aurélia Thiérrée…

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Nawlins flavor on-key, but a note short on plot by Frank Scheck

You can practically feel the humidity wafting from "Story-ville." Set in the final days of the famed New Orleans neighborhood " a notorious red-light district that's also considered the birt…

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Let It Be: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

This theatrical concert by an expert Beatles cover band follow in the heels of such similar predecessors as "Beatlemania" and "Rain"read more

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Girls serve up angst in NYMF's "VOLLEYGIRLS" by Frank Scheck

SUSAN BLACKWELL of "[title of show]" winningly plays an English teacher pressed into coaching them.

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Girls serve up angst by Frank Scheck

After the cheerleader musicals "Bring It On" and "Lysistrata Jones," it's nice to see girls finally take the court. And they do so " winningly " in "Volleygirls," about a high school girls' …

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'Marry Harry' isn't worth the commitment by Frank Scheck

A romantic comedy that's light on both romance and comedy, this New York Musical Theatre Festival offering concerns the travails of Little Harry (Robb Sapp), a chef who yearns to leave his f…

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Designated Mourner: Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Wallace Shawn stars in a revival of his landmark 1996 play about a bourgeois society of intellectuals who fall victim to a totalitarian regime.read more

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Abe's war, bravely sung by Frank Scheck

For a conflict responsible for the most casualties in American history, the Civil War had one heck of a soundtrack. "Dixie," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," "The Battle Cry of Freedom" an…

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

All the whirl is a stage by Frank Scheck

If the actor's nightmare is finding himself onstage without knowing his lines, the theatergoer's is realizing he's actually part of the play. That's the dizzying idea behind "rogerandtom," J…

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Weary knights lose their ladies in Howard Barker's 'The Castle' by Frank Scheck

In Howard Barker's "The Castle," weary soldiers return home from the Crusades to discover that their wives are hardly awaiting them with open arms. Indeed, the women have gone on to establis…

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Suicidal stranger 'Julian Po' is the talk of the town by Frank Scheck

A drifter wanders into a small town and changes the lives of its inhabitants. No, it's not "Picnic" or "The Rainmaker" but "Julian Po," the strange, intriguing new musical, part of the New Y…

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

One cold, really beautiful corpse by Frank Scheck

For a show that touches on sadomasochism, self-mutilation and disfigurement, "Shun-kin" is awfully decorous. Director Simon McBurney's Complicite theater production is as gorgeous and delica…

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Still sexy, 200 years later by Frank Scheck

The sexual gamesmanship in Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Danger-euses" has never seemed quite so viciously amoral as it does in the hands of John Malkovich. The actor, who made a memo…

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Getting the Willys by Frank Scheck

Just how universal is Willy Loman, the doomed soul of "Death of a Salesman"? We're about to find out, with "This Great Country," a new theatrical reimagining of Arthur Miller's 1949 classic.…

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Get off Scot-free by Frank Scheck

With more than 2,000 new shows each summer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. But if you don't feel up to flying off to Scotland and digging through th…

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Queer doings in the choir by Frank Scheck

The young man onstage is singing the traditional spiritual "Trust and Obey." But just as we're settling into his sweet, lilting voice, we hear the taunts of "Sissy," "F - - - - t " and even …

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

'Banana Monologues' has very little appeal by Frank Scheck

No, "The Banana Monologues" isn't a male rejoinder to Eve Ensler's feminist classic. Rather, in this solo turn, John R. Brennan tells the story of an ill-fated relationship starring an organ…

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