Friday, April 13, 2012
Six decades after her death, three decades after her canonization on Broadway, Evita is back, as immense as a Cathedral, as intimidating as a fascist rally. A sing-through opera as popular a…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The most powerful moment for me in "Magic/Bird," a play about the rivalry and then friendship between basketball stars Magic Earvin Johnson and Larry Bird, occurs after Johnson announces tha…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:45PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
Which Broadway show are you must looking forward to? Take the poll So many plays and musicals are opening from now through April 26th that it is hard to keep up. Here are my reviews of what …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2012
It is not until the very end of "End of the Rainbow," after Judy Garland's pianist tells us how she died from an overdose, that we feel free to be entertained: Tracie Bennett comes back from…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
A report about the new works by Greg Kotis, Lisa Kron, Courtney Baron, Lucas Hnath and more, echoing from the 2012 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
With its talk of sex in the White House and God on the campaign stump, "The Best Man," which debuted in 1960, long has seemed prophetic. But the references to the 2012 campaign are downright…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wider than the gap between the one percent and the 99 percent, or between labor and management, is the one between those who grew up adoring the film "Newsies" and those who found it unwatch…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:35PM[SHARE]When “Jesus Christ Superstar” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater in 1971, the concept album had already sold two and a half million copies. So, while protesters pic…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2012
Using striking puppetry, dance, video, and Elizabeth Swados' lovely score, Federico Restrepo and his Loco7 troupe present the American immigrant experience.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
Willy Loman is something no American wants to be " average. It is something his wife recognizes about him: "A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man," Linda tells their two childr…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
They meet on a Dublin street, he a street musician about to abandon his guitar, she a Czech pianist without a piano. In "Once" the Broadway musical, as in "Once" the small hit film, love beg…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2012
"The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," Mike Daisey's well-reviewed monologue currently at the Public Theater, is the subject of an expose in This American Life, the radio program that ai…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2012
There will be 17 Broadway openings from March 15 to April 26th, an astonishing turnover with only 40 theaters on the Great White Way, almost too overwhelming to consider. So let's focus just…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2012
T. Schreiber Studio's production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play focusing on a retrial of Judas is provocative, playful, and layered but also belabored.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
Decades after Carrie wreaked her revenge for being dumped on with pigs blood, "Carrie” the musical, which opens tonight at the Lucille Lortel, has a chance for its own sort of revenge …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The finale of "Assistance" is an abused employee's revenge fantasy: A woman curses out her boss, and then dances defiantly as the office around her self-destructs in spectacular fashion: The…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]Apartheid was virulent and ignored outside South Africa in 1961 when Athol Fugard wrote "Blood Knot," launching his international career. The American anti-apartheid movement was in full for…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 25, 2012
Each Broadway show has a different policy to enable either the general public, or students, or young people, to buy tickets at a steep discount. Anything Goes General Rush: $30 " limited num…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2012
"Bad Kid," David Crabb's one-man show at Axis Theater about his goth-gay Texas adolescence, is vivid and amusing storytelling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
Philip Gawthorne's David Mamet–inspired drama for Mad Dog Theatre Company and the Drilling Company feels as endless as a bad marriage.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
There is the William Shatner, long forgotten, who appeared with Spencer Tracy in "Judgment at Nuremberg" and replaced an ill Christopher Plummer as Henry V at the Stratford Festival. There i…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2012
A GPS device turns out not just to be aggressively helpful but also clairvoyant in Eddie Antar's clever, cautionary comedy about our tech-dependent era.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
Once young and idealist, now rich, arrogant and corrupted, the main characters of "Merrily We Roll Along," Stephen Sondheim's most reworked flop, could be said to resemble the Encores! serie…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
In "Rx," Phil tells Meena that she may be suffering from workplace depression, "which isn't a personal failure; it's a disease." He quickly adds: "We hope." If it is a disease, the giant pha…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2012
Smash, the new NBC TV series about the making of a Broadway musical, is well-timed for theater people, both because it's on Mondays (their standard day off), and because it starts in Februar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2012
Meet thirtysomethings Sam Gold, Alex Timbers and Thomas Kail, the respective directors of Broadway's Seminar, Peter and the Starcatcher and Magic/Bird.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2012
"Welcome to blood, sex, sorrow and a good party," a young man said cheerfully, as he handed out a drink during the Flea Theater's adaptation of all seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles, a …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Nixon Rule is named after Cynthia Nixon, who is starring as a literature professor dying of cancer in the Broadway debut of "Wit" 13 years after it opened Off-Broadway and won the Pulitz…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2012
"It's not all that important, of course," the minister says, helping Miss Helen fill out a form to put her in an old-age home. It is one of many shrewd little moments in Athol Fugard's "The …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2012
Is the "Porgy and Bess" currently on Broadway worth seeing? Consider these other questions: Is "Porgy and Bess" racist? Is it an opera or a musical? How important is that goat cart to you? T…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. What's on Broadway? Long-running shows, shows about to close, and shows about to open.…
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