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.…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
At around 16 years of age, Susan Sontag 1. offered Thomas Mann a reinterpretation of his "Magic Mountain" 2. had her first affair with a woman, 3. met the professor she would marry. "I know …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2012
This rock-concert adaptation in Polish of an abstract two-character French play is cool in a not very fresh way, despite the fine performances of Wojciech Niemczyk and Tomasz Nosinski.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:52AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
In theater, we don't go out with the old " here, 12-time Broadway veteran Carol Channing, soon to turn 91 " to ring in the new " here, Darren Criss, 24, about to make his Broadway debut. We …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2011
Here are the shows that you can see on Broadway as of this writing — or that are scheduled to open in Spring 2012. Many are closing by the end of December, 2011 or January, 2012. Listi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2011
Whatever else they have in common " and it's much " the current productions in Brooklyn of "Krapp's Last Tape" with John Hurt and "Misterman" with Cillian Murphy share one above all: Live th…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:59PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2011
William Shakespeare is said to have coined several English words and phrases in his first tragedy, "Titus Andronicus," including "Devil incarnate" and "unappeased" " though not, surprisingly…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Broadway version of "Lysistrata Jones" begins with a loud boom, a full moon, a stage full of smoke, and an intoning diva in Grecian attire. Hooded monks move down the aisles of the Walte…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I asked the Naked Cowboy in Times Square what was the best theater of 2011. "Les Miz," he replied, while he posed in the cold with tourists. Since the revival of "Les Miserables" closed in 2…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2011
It is a swooning moment to hear Harry Connick Jr. sing the title song of a musical now remembered mostly because of that melody, as sung by Barbra Streisand. But Connick sings it only at the…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
"There isn't a single one of you that hasn't kept secrets or made mistakes," Dr. LeVay says defensively to his family in "Stick Fly," a play full of mistakes aired and secrets revealed among…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater What makes people happiest? The top three answers are sex, exercise, and theater, according to a recent study)` Now, the people studied were 45,000 British iPhone user…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 3, 2011
Six short plays, presented over two separate evenings, offer a loosely connected and uneven glimpse at New York City.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
In one of the few funny moments in "Bonnie & Clyde," Frank Wildhorn's seventh and best try at a Broadway musical, Clyde's brother Buck offers his wife a confection he bought with the loo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater To be excited by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin's show, you need not know that their first performance together, in "Evita", made them both stars, and that it has tak…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater When Kim Cattrall first appears on stage in "Private Lives," she is wearing nothing but a towel and earrings " it's Samantha of "Sex and the City," you think, in a rol…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
Follow @NewYorkTheater Exactly a year after its first preview, November 28th, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark certainly has much to be thankful for this holiday season. It has grossed upwards o…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
The holidays are hell for the Wyeth family of "Other Desert Cities," as they seem to be for most fictional families, far more than real ones. Home for the holidays for the first time in six …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2011
Follow on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater Shows are opening regularly now on Broadway — see my review below of “Seminar” with Allan Rickman — and four new shows were at le…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2011
In "Seminar," Alan Rickman, though no longer Severus Snape (his role in all eight Harry Potter films), plays a character with striking similarities: Leonard starts off evil, ends up complica…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:51PM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
Follow New York Theater on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater On seeing his first play, Harry Belafonte discovered “theater was power: power to influence, power to know of others…”…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2011
One couple decides to call each other brooms, a combination of groom and bride, and even orders a wedding cake with two little brooms on top. When it comes to same-sex marriage, you can't be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
"Mend your speech a little, lest it mar your fortune," King Lear tells his youngest daughter. This is good advice for the Twitter generation, and in the production at the Public Theater star…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:59PM[SHARE]The story at the heart of "Venus in Fur" fascinates Americans above almost any other. I don't mean the sadomasochistic power struggle between a 19th century European nobleman and his dominat…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:58PM[SHARE]A cast of 17 joyously celebrate the late Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa E.T.C., by performing her words as set to music by Elizabeth Swados.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:18AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
The most revealing moment in the first Broadway revival of "Godspell," a musical by Stephen Schwartz (now best-known for "Wicked"), may come after Jesus stands up on the piano, mike in hand,…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:55PM[SHARE]The health of a society can be determined by the art it demands, Edward Albee has said. But what about how much we're charged for it? This week in New York theater the average ticket price f…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2011
James Gaddas' hourlong monologue for a boxer is made fresh by Jonny Collis-Scurll's performance and by a gay twist in this Brits Off Broadway offering.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2011
If you are surprised to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Elton John and Stephen Sondheim guzzling beer and gobbling chicken wings at the local Hooters, then you probably did not wa…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:43PM[SHARE]This play about the effect of a factory strike on three blue-collar guys who have been friends since the first grade is strongest as a look at camaraderie.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:33AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2011
If you are surprised to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Elton John and Stephen Sondheim guzzling beer and gobbling chicken wings at the local Hooters, then you probably did not wa…
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