Monday, September 29, 2014
We know about happy families being alike and unhappy ones being different, but Tolstoy was mum on the weird households. What about the clan that sticks together through chaotic, leaderless f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:17AMFriday, September 19, 2014
The stars will come and go in A.R. Gurney's popular 1988 two-hander, an epistolary romance between friends that stretches over 50 years. Gregory Mosher directs Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow (…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:41AMThursday, September 18, 2014
David Cote interviews the greatest living British playwright about his Roundabout revivals, smoking while writing and his years as a hack journalist.
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:15PMThe astonishing, totally fearless Amazon of alt cabaret and raunchy comedy (Inside Amy Schumer) returns to Joe's with a new show commissioned for the venue. Cocreated with Broadway's Marc Sh…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:10AMThursday, September 11, 2014
Funny how yesterday’s manboy becomes today’s sad old guy. But that’s always been Michael Cera’s trick, hasn’t it? Ever since he grew a cult fan base as frozen-in-the-headlights tee…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:58PMSunday, August 17, 2014
One of our most versatile and prolific playwrights, Theresa Rebeck has a den wall crowded with trophies: monodrama (Bad Dates), modern Greek tragedy (The Water’s Edge), backstage comedy (T…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:34PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert are all messed up in Jean Genet's subversive classic.
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:22PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
The latest King Lear opens at a time when the world is confirming its apocalyptic vision: civilians shot out of the sky, children bombed in schools and disease spreading from foreign lands. …
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:38AMFriday, August 1, 2014
It’s hard to tell the sinners from the saints with Stephen Adly Guirgis. The earthy playwright—whose profanity-laced urban yarns were often directed by the late (still cannot fucking acc…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:17AMSaturday, June 28, 2014
The self-destructing Hollywood star was kicked out of Cabaret last night. He should take his antics to these other hits on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:37AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Broadway is no stranger to rap (In the Heights), but this is the first time a bona fide rapper's songbook has been turned into a jukebox musical by Todd Kreidler. Woven around songs by Tupac…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:07AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Another year, another Tony Awards telecast. In general, the gold went to the most deserving of the season: Few would carp about Bryan Cranston or Neil Patrick Harris nabbing top honors, and …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:26PMFriday, June 6, 2014
He took the London stage by storm 30 years ago, but Kenneth Branagh has never trod the New York boards. Now the thespian brings his critically acclaimed take on Shakespeare’s Scottish tyra…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:42PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Yes, the TONY* nominees, as in Time Out New York. Here's who we think should get the nod on Tuesday morning.
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:26PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Clothes unmake the men in Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein’s mostly effective period drama about cross-dressers in 1962. Set at a Catskills resort that caters to straight married fellows w…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:07AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Transitioning from child star to adult gay icon, sitcom prince and social-media wizard, Neil Patrick Harris always seemed to be a cultural rock star. But in his latest reinvention, it turns …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:53PMIn case its telegraph title didn’t clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picn…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:39AMSunday, April 20, 2014
Profiles of playwright Martin McDonagh report how, in 1994, the young Anglo-Irish scribe holed up in his childhood home and cranked out the drafts of seven plays in an incredible nine months…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:33PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Arrested Development’s hilarious man-child makes his Broadway debut in August; here are the scenarios he should avoid
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:09PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Near the end of his best-selling 1959 memoir, Act One, dramatist-director Moss Hart relates an opening-night speech made by George S. Kaufman, his (grand-speeches-hating) cowriter on the sma…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:52PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
When Depression-era migrant workers George Milton (Franco) and Lennie Small (O’Dowd) roll into a California ranch, the hands say it’s “funny” that the guys travel together. There’s…
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:39PMMonday, April 14, 2014
As someone accustomed to getting in and out of Broadway houses as quickly as possible to avoid the post-curtain death march up the aisle into the maelstrom of Times Square, I will admit to f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:40PMFriday, April 11, 2014
“The artist can be forgiven anything if he produces great art,” says one of Woody Allen’s proxies (and let’s face it, they’re all proxies) in Bullets Over Broadway. The maxim is ai…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:08AMSunday, April 6, 2014
Will Eno’s Broadway debut is a unique opportunity for the idiosyncratic writer to alienate and irritate whole new demographics. Cranky defenders of well-made plays will fume over its lacon…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:03PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Get FREE tickets to the Sunday April 6 matinee of the show and then get on the guest list for the CD release party afterward.
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:13PMMonday, March 31, 2014
At the risk of sounding, y’know, bitchy, you sorta know what to expect from a musical based on the 1989 cult movie Heathers. There will be the three titular mean girls, a fat gal cruelly n…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:38PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Beloved diva Idina Menzel (Wicked) returns to Broadway in a new musical by the makers of Next to Normal. Menzel plays a fortyish woman whose life is followed along two parallel tracks in the…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:13PMMonday, March 24, 2014
A 16-year original run, a 2006 revival and a megahit movie clearly can't quell the French fighting spirit. Cameron Mackintosh brings his global phenomenon back to the Great White Way, in a r…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:23PMFriday, March 14, 2014
Every few years, a piece of stagecraft drops so many jaws and pops so many eyes, it becomes a Broadway insta-icon: Add to that list the spectacular final bout in Rocky.
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:50AMThursday, February 20, 2014
The great English playwright Caryl Churchill dissects our fractured, data-clogged culture with this dizzying mosaic of microdramas, originally presented at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. C…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:34AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Conor McPherson’s spellbinding new play has the sense of something otherworldly reverberating within it.
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