Friday, March 15, 2013
Cirque du Soleil’s new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth’s gravity and reach …
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You’ll definitely want to review those program notes before watching “Neva,” the ponderous play by Chile’s Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It’s set in a St. Pet…
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It was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution — the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn. And it’s treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter’s “Hit …
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A.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately (“O Jerusalem,” “Mrs. Farnsworth”) that it’s easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foible…
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‘The Wild Bride” is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it’s grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughte…
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Edie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMWhen the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He’s the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontine…
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Judging by his first commercially produced play, “On the Head of a Pin,” Frank Winters is a promising playwright — especially for a 24-year-old.
All he really needs is a good editor.
T…
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The luridly poetic language is there, and so are some fine performances. But there’s not much more to Mississippi Mud Productions’ bare-bones revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly…
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Ayn Rand-style self-interest runs amok in this drama, featuring Zosia Mamet and Matt Lauria, about the aftermath of a college party sex scandal.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:55PMFriday, February 15, 2013
A young genius tangles with an older, respected rival in “Isaac’s Eye.” But while that notion sounds familiar, Lucas Hnath’s new drama — about the tug of war between Isaac Newton a…
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Three performers, cardboard cutouts, tiny puppets and a pair of swords. That’s all it takes for Scotland’s Visible Fictions theater company to present “The Mark of Zorro,” their char…
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Three monkeys pounding on typewriters, in the hope they’ll eventually produce “Hamlet.” Leon Trotsky going about his day with an assassin’s ax in his head. A universal, nonsensical b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:49AMIt’s the 1950s, and a black family hopes to buy into an all-white neighborhood. No, the play this time isn’t “A Raisin in the Sun” or its modern-day theatrical riff, “Clybourne Par…
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Be careful next time you bring home a stray bunny rabbit, no matter how cute and fluffy he is. For if the new children’s show “Bunnicula” is to be believed, he may be a . . . vampire b…
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Ethan Hawke directs and plays the title character in this modern-day update of Bertolt Brecht's "Baal." read more
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‘She’s a real drama queen, that one,” whispered a shady-looking guy. And I, sipping from the coffee cup a winking bartender had just poured some liquor into, had to agree.
Even as imme…
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It took nearly three decades and countless therapy sessions, but I finally thought I was over the post-traumatic stress of having suffered through the original 1983 Broadway production of �…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMYou’ll think twice about taking advantage of the Missed Connections section on Craigslist after seeing “The Man Under.” Paul Bomba’s strained drama about a man who falls in love with…
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The veteran pop star and "Justin Bieber of the ‘70s" returns to Broadway in a hits-laden show. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:03AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
‘Totally Tubular Time Machine” bills itself as “NYC’s only interactive, intergalactic, pop music experience.” That’s true enough, but whether you’ll want to go back in time to …
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If the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Thea…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:31PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
A Brooklyn lug dreams of roller-skating to stardom in “The Jammer,” a new comedy that strains so hard for laughs, it makes “Starlight Express” seem weighty by comparison.
It’s the…
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Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
That striking proverb comes to mind while watching “The Suit,” the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s haunting piece …
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America Ferrera stars in this dark off-Broadway dark comedy about a young single mother struggling to survive in the depths of the financial crisis. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMFriday, January 18, 2013
There are plenty of fireworks in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but sadly they’re all offstage. For this production marking Scarlett Johan…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:59AMThursday, January 17, 2013
‘working on a Special Day” is one of those shows that takes pains to constantly remind you that you’re watching THEATER. This is a simple story of an emotionally charged encounter betw…
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UNSUNGMusicalsCo.’s mission is to restore and present obscure musicals that merit another look. But their revival of “The Fig Leaves Are Falling” demonstrates that some musicals are be…
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Two women are locked up for decades in a British hospital for the criminally insane. Their crime? Bearing children out of wedlock.
At least, that’s how the Irish Rep describes “Airswimmi…
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‘is that the sort of thing you find funny?” hisses the title character (and target) of Tim Crouch’s solo show, as he endures one humiliation after another.
Well, yes. At least, it’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMThe central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion i…
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