Friday, April 29, 2016
Thursday, April 28, 2016
The full title of this extraordinary showbiz excavation-renovation masterminded by George C. Wolfe—Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed—is v…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:30PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
At the dramatic crux of Tuck Everlasting, a 102-year-old man trapped in a 17-year-old body asks an 11-year-old girl to wait six years until she’s legal, at which point she will drink from …
SOURCE: Time Out at 12:15AMSunday, April 24, 2016
One’s sorely tempted to praise the delightful new musical Waitress using lots of bakery metaphors. After all, its hero is a pastry genius with relationship woes named Jenna (Jessie Mueller…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:38PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
The regicide and rebellion of the history plays are on full display in this fine feast of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:23PMTuesday, April 5, 2016
From Death of a Salesman to his first show on Broadway, Time Out New York's David Cote ranks Arthur Miller's 10 best plays
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:33PMSunday, April 3, 2016
Arthur Miller’s penetrating study of the Salem witch trials is expertly adapted to resonate today.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:47PMThursday, March 31, 2016
There are two types of audience members attending Ivo van Hove’s The Crucible: those who take their seats and, when the curtain rises, wonder, Why’s it set in a classroom? and the other …
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:27PMSunday, March 20, 2016
For a play about test subjects going through extremes of sadness, lust, joy and despair, The Effect leaves you slightly cold.
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:48PMFriday, March 18, 2016
Desire is chemical, or so the scientists say. When that special someone draws near, their scent can cause a fuss in the hypothalamus, prompting a rush of dopamine, adrenaline and oxytocin. P…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:17AMFriday, March 11, 2016
David Harrower’s hellishly compelling play reaches deep into the psyches of two characters marked by a past experience.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:51PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Contrived and gently pretentious, Greg Pierce’s Her Requiem is the Off Broadway equivalent of a New Yorker short story (an improvement, I suppose, on all the new plays that seem like Netfl…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:49PMFriday, January 22, 2016
There was plenty on offer on Broadway this past year, but one musical took the cake.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:36PMThursday, January 14, 2016
Explaining why a thing is funny is hard enough. Trying to account for something you know is hilarious—but then isn’t—is tougher still. Case in point: The Roundabout Theatre Company has…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:53PMSunday, December 20, 2015
Although the titans Zero Mostel, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince are reflexively linked to this 1964 classic, there’s another, uncredited, father of Fiddler on the Roof. It’s Marc Chaga…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:47PMThursday, December 17, 2015
Mamet and Pacino hand over an ungainly and pretentious monologue.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:32PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Despite the built-in obsession with gadgets, science fiction always orbits back to a familiar subject: human psychology. All those robots, rockets and aliens are just shiny metaphors for our…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:50PMMonday, December 7, 2015
New York Theatre Workshop’s sold-out, buzzy Lazarus is hard to describe. Blame the holiday season, but I feel it’s like one of those old-timey TV Christmas specials, in which an isolated…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:07PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Ever see the pitch-perfect 2003 Jack Black comedy School of Rock? Then you know what to expect from the musical version: fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn frenetically inspiring his charges…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:47PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
At-risk, education-deprived teens in one of Africa’s poorest nations. Frustrated musical-theater creators living in Queens. You wouldn’t expect these demographics to meet, much less impr…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:45PMSunday, November 15, 2015
Early in Misery, ex-nurse Annie Wilkes (Laurie Metcalf) informs novelist Paul Sheldon (Bruce Willis) that after a horrible car accident, he’s been in a coma for four days. Make that four d…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:19PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Shatteringly tough revivals such as A View from the Bridge can inspire dueling emotions. First, obviously, there’s immense satisfaction and gratitude that Belgian director Ivo van Hove dig…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:10AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Sweetly traditional grandfather Ojii-chan (George Takei) practices Japanese customs, such as hanging wind chimes, tending his garden and origami. As an example of the last, he folds a page f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:27AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Mike Bartlett s audacious verse drama appropriates the style of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:39PMMonday, November 2, 2015
For the living playwright working in English, William Shakespeare vexes. Whether you think his global stature oppressive or admire the works as antique phenomena with little bearing on today…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:43AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
“Never work with animals or children,” W.C. Fields famously warned, but no one told Matthew Broderick. As midlife-crisis-stricken Greg in the urban fable Sylvia, the actor must keep a st…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:59PMInspired by Oregon Shakespeare Festival's radical Shakespeare translation project, a theater critic updates classic passages of the Bard
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:17AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
In this retro-utopian concert turned musical, Civil War solider Julian (César Alvarez) and British mathematician Ada (Sammmy Tunis) muse rapturously on brain mechanics and consciousness c…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:13PMThursday, October 8, 2015
Since her star-making turn in 2010’s Venus in Fur, Nina Arianda has established a reputation for being irresistibly sexy on stage. Emotional intensity and comic agility only burnish her pa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:56PMHarold Pinter’s gripping 1971 drama still cuts with force, drawing new blood.
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