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…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2011
Before it even begins, "The Atmosphere of Memory," with its elegant title and world-class cast, promises to be a worthy next play for the Labyrinth Theater, whose last one was "The Mother"Wi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2011
There is the man who was laid off a year and a half ago as the creative director for a children's television production company, and showed up at Zuccotti Park a day ago after being evicted …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2011
There is sparkling wit and great timing these days at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, but it's just in the window, in an article Elaine May wrote to promote "Relatively Speaking," a trio of unf…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2011
In "Chinglish," David Henry Hwang's funny and timely new play, an American man declares his love for a Chinese woman in Chinese: "Frog loves to pee," he says with feeling. That is not what h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:19PM[SHARE]At the end of Ivo van Hove's interminable stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film "Cries and Whispers," we are rewarded with a breathtaking image: A video of a woman making angel wings in …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Joseph Douaihy knows about pain. So do the people all around him, the region they live in, and the country his family is from. Yet in Stephen Karam's "Songs of the Prophet," all this pain is…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2011
The opening of a play about the dark side of the iPhone; an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Lincoln Center and news of the first theater company to bring Occupy Wall Street to the stage;…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2011
However uncomfortable you may feel about Mike Daisey's pokes at Steve Jobs so soon after the Apple founder's death cannot compare to the queasiness at the horrors this chronicler of the digi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:22AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2011
On the week that thousands protested in the theater district as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, two shows opened on Broadway: "The Mountaintop," about Martin Luther King Jr. and "Ma…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
How is it that "The Lyons" is the most enjoyable play I have seen so far this season? The characters are unhappy and unpleasant, and not only that, they are the kind of people we've seen on …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street has spread around the world. Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Times Square this weekend, passing by the American Airlines Theater, home to "Man and Boy," a play sta…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2011
There is a shocking moment halfway through "The Mountaintop," the play starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett that imagines the last night that Martin Luther King Jr. is alive. It is …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, with a surprisingly varied score and a dated story about Americans finding love in Israel, is given a competent barebones revival by Musicals T…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:57AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2011
This week in New York theater began with the promise of Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr. coming to Broadway, and ended with the possibility of two of each. Another possibility: Michael C. H…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:31PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
Everybody from Louis Armstrong to Bobby Darin to Sting has recorded its music; Bob Dylan has said he was "aroused straightaway by the raw intensity of the songs." It's been on Broadway seven…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:09PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2011
Only one show opened on Broadway in September. In October, there will be four: Man and Boy with Frank Langella, October 9; The Mountaintop, with Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett, October 13…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2011
A terrific cast and a respect for Jane Austen's language help make this latest staging of the beloved novel a worthy entertainment, even while the score is not ideal.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:35AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
Featuring actual teenagers playing fake ones, "Kissless" seems clueless, but thanks to some strong-voiced songs and choreography it's not worthless.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
With a cast that includes Jonathan Groff ("Spring Awakening," "Glee") and Rutina Wesley, who as Tara was just killed (perhaps permanently?) in the "True Blood" season finale, "The Submission…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2011
The action this week in New York Theater has been largely off Broadway and even Off-Off Broadway. Off-Broadway Week begins today, two-for-one tickets until October 9th. The winners of the Ne…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
“These awards celebrate our incredulity that things ever go right,” said playwright John Patrick Shanley Robert, one of the presenters for the seventh annual New York Innovative …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:52AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2011
The marquees are going up, the new Broadway season has begun — with the opening of the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies”. (Technically, the new season began in …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:20AM[SHARE]A theater full of girls ages 13 to 15 are enthralled by the speaker on the stage, Gloria Steinem, who is speaking at the Talkback after "Facebook Me," a fascinating theater piece written and…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
The announcement that "Freud's Last Session" was leaving the Upper West Side for Midtown gave me a guilty conscience. I thought I should see the show before it departs its natural habitat; t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
In 1997, a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub, taken to the 70th police precinct, and sodomized with a wooden handle, which was then used to bash …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2011
When the sequined ghosts of showgirls past appear at the beginning of "Follies," a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical opening tonight whose delights edge out its disappointments, the pe…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2011
When the Elevator Repair Service theater company staged "Gatz" last year, one critic gushed that it represented a new genre in theater, a hybrid of book (Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby") and…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:46PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2011
Sept. 11 affects a New Jersey Muslim family in this play by Rehana Lew Mirza, which, originally mounted on the first anniversary of that event, doesn't compel in revival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2011
From the moment the six members of the Fiasco Theater tell us to turn off our cell phones by singing a polished melody, it is clear these entertainers could spin magic from a bologna sandwic…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2011
The Fringe Festival ended two days earlier than planned because of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out the closing night party, and the last-second chance to see shows with big buzz. Eighteen…
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