Monday, August 1, 2011
The acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAdam Rapp's early play about an unusual family reunion is like a furious assault on the senses.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMElisabeth Gray gives a dazzling performance in this cleverly conceived "solo show" which examines the life of the late poet.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe award-winning actor discusses his collaboration with director Ivo van Hove on NYTW's The Little Foxes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSamuel D. Hunter's eloquent new drama about a group of struggling craft store workers gets a superbly acted and directed production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReports on The Twentieth-Century Way, Amsterdam Abortion Survivor, and Headscarf and the Angry Bitch.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Am I the only one who thinks the Weisslers are hoping that doe-eyed Casey Anthony will be acquitted of filicide...so that they can sign her up as the next Roxie Hart in Chicago? And from wha…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:32PMThursday, June 23, 2011
When upper-middle-class couples start behaving like undomesticated animals, chances are good that you're watching one of Michael Weller's recent two-handers, Fifty Words or Side Effects, wh…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 09:46AMMonday, June 13, 2011
I waited for more than two hours to see Theatre for One yesterday, but it was worth it to have Dallas Roberts hold my hands and tell me a story. He is one fearless actor, and his powers of c…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:11PMFriday, May 27, 2011
Jonathan Marc Sherman's new play about expectant parenthood, Knickerbocker, isn't exactly a bundle of joy, even if you're familiar with the parent-child themes he digs into in previous wor…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:38AMThursday, May 19, 2011
"They’re sort of tortured by music, and they can’t make it come out of themselves the way that they want to--what a great idea for a show!" So says Joy Gregory, book writer of The Sha…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:32PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Amid all the Broadway openings of late I caught this charming little play at Ars Nova about a young woman coming to terms with widowhood, Be a Good Little Widow.
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:54AMSaturday, April 30, 2011
Movies are being turned into musicals with assembly-line efficiency nowadays, and watching Sister Act, based on the popular Whoopi Goldberg film, you can see the mechanics of creation.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:44AMWednesday, April 27, 2011
Chris Rock makes his Broadway debut in a play with a fittingly foul title for a performer known for his raunchy comedy.
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 08:28PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
The fountain of youth must be located somewhere in the vicinity of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. That's where the fabulous Sutton Foster is headlining the Roundabout Theatre Company's magica…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:30PMFriday, April 15, 2011
I read Michael Frayn's Benefactors many years ago, and it had such an impact on me that I could still remember assorted lines as I watched the Keen Company's smart revival.
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:45PMBrian Bedford's sumptuous revival of The Importance of Being Earnest is definitely not a production marked by radical directorial reinterpretation. It's just pure jaunty, frolicsome fun to t…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 01:14AMSixteen years after it premiered on Broadway, Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's masterpiece about the quest for knowledge, understanding, glory and love, is just as complexly brilliant as it was in it…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 01:13AMMonday, April 11, 2011
It's been eight years since John Leguizamo's last solo Broadway outing, and Ghetto Klown makes you wonder if he's been writing the entire time. A two-and-a-half-hour autobiographical tour de…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:36PMNo doubt about it: Daniel Radcliffe is utterly adorable. That much is apparent from the moment he steps onstage--or dangles above it, to be exact--in this utterly charming Broadway revival o…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:27PMThe photo above could very easily give you the wrong impression about Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, the latest provocative production from The Amoralists. Based on the visual, I would …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:40AMFriday, April 1, 2011
The Broadway season is no longer a 12-month affair, or even a nine-month liaison. Aside from a smattering of shows that opened in the fall and winter, the overwhelming majority of Tony hopef…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:20PMMonday, March 28, 2011
Laurie Metcalf gives a splendid performance as a research scientist battling a mysterious illness in Sharr White's new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMI don't usually get choked up reading about critics and other assorted theater journalists (even though I am one), but this tribute to Mel Gussow and Michael Kuchwara by Howard Sherman, the…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 07:13PMTuesday, March 15, 2011
The only thing as good (or better) than seeing great theater in New York is seeing great theater out of town. My grandfather always said that food tastes better when you dine out, and the sa…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:39PMFriday, March 11, 2011
Let's go over how shallow I am. When I first heard that a production of The Normal Heart was coming to Broadway, I wasn't terribly excited. Not that I didn't like the play. But I'd read it a…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:39AMWednesday, March 9, 2011
It intrigues me when different parts of my life come together around a certain thing or theme. As I was making my way through Catherine O'Flynn's beautifully haunting second novel, The News …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:30PMTuesday, March 8, 2011
... but he's onstage at 3LD Art & Technology Center in Spy Garbo (played by the wonderful Steven Rattazzi), along with double agents Wilhelm Canaris and Kim Philby. But what could be a devil…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 01:55PMFriday, February 25, 2011
A friend sucked me into the guilty pleasure of Living Social. Like Groupon, it's a website that offers daily group discounts on everything from exercise classes to dry cleaning.Over the last…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:07PMSunday, February 20, 2011
Here's a piece I did about Rinne Groff, whose new play Compulsion, is now running Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The cast includes Mandy Patinkin and an Anne Frank marionette:Rinne Grof…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:10PMWednesday, January 26, 2011
With America's political attention aimed at ourselves these days, and what little energy we have to focus on international affairs devoted to conflicts in the Middle East, Honey Brown Eyes' …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:22AM 
