Thursday, October 8, 2015
Harold Pinter’s gripping 1971 drama still cuts with force, drawing new blood.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:33AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The first word spoken in Harold Pinter’s gripping 1971 drama about a man, his wife and the wife’s visiting friend is “dark.” Deeley (Clive Owen) was presumably curious about the hair…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:10PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
If we handed out stars based solely on scenes that were probably awkward to stage in rehearsal, Thomas Bradshaw’s new play might rate four (lots of ultra-realistic sexy time). Alas, there�…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:39AMFriday, September 18, 2015
A segment of the American population seems to believe that Christianity is under attack from godless socialists, gay-marriage supporters and rival creeds trying to impose theocracy on our fa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:14AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
The Acting Company’s evening of adaptations is satisfying in small, intense doses.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:37PMThursday, September 10, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber v Stephen Sondheim, We Will Rock You v American Idiot – the West End's offerings pale beside Broadway's glorious historyBroadway habitués are looking ahead to a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda has built a monument by combing hip-hop with American history.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:32AMFriday, August 14, 2015
We rank the 30 top musicals that made the leap from movie screens to Broadway and Off Broadway stages
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:50PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Annie Baker’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick (also now playing) is built on a similar scale: John runs three hours and 15 minutes over three acts and two intermissions. …
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:48PMThursday, August 6, 2015
What is left to say? After Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s prodigious quill scratched out 12 volumes of nation-building fiscal and military policy; after Lin-Manuel Miranda turned tha…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:24PMFriday, July 24, 2015
It’s not exactly a golden age for ethnic jokes: gags about how black people are like this or Jewish folks always do that…and don’t get me started on Asians! With homicidal cops and whi…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:03AMThursday, July 16, 2015
In 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:34PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Master illusionists Penn and Teller (whose act turns 40 this week!) do better than pull a rabbit out of a hat: They reach deep into our collective need to believe and extract skepticism. It�…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:40PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Bruce Norris’s new play is set at a swingers’ party, which rather complicates the playwriting dictum: show, don’t tell. Unless you have a game cast and an open-minded audience, it’s …
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:18AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Playwright Anne Washburn is America’s bard of the peripherally glimpsed, the half-eavesdropped, the shakily grasped. Her plays immerse characters in baffling subcultures, and the audience …
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:09PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
This year s Tony Awards was overflowing with talent and tough decisions.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:52PMMonday, June 8, 2015
As we noted before, this was one of the most unpredictable Tony Awards in recent memory (and yet, predict we did). It was an unusually strong season, full of diverse, exciting play and music…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:32PMFriday, May 29, 2015
There aren’t many lies you can tell about God that organized religion hasn’t told already: He is loving; He rewards the faithful; He is a He; and the biggest crock of all—that He exist…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:13AMMonday, May 25, 2015
I've got all my stops planned as I prepare one of my periodic visits to the UK from New York. Which plays have I foolishly overlooked?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThere have been plays about the September 11 terrorist attacks. There have been musicals that make reference to the events of that day, too. But as far as we can remember, no one has written…
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PMA hot new emo rock musical spoofs America's seventh President.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PMWith its uniformly good cast, tight direction and frequent flashes of humor, Lombardi is solid playing in every sense of the word.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PMTony Kushner's 1990s epic returns to New York to amaze us again.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM 
