Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The actors may be commended for taking their incredulously conceived roles seriously even if we don't.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:04AMMonday, April 29, 2013
he energetic Papermill Playhouse production comes close at times to taking flight
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:54PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
It's hard to know just how much this emotionally affecting revival rests in the masterly hands of director Wilson or in the instinctively magical moments created by Cecily Tyson. What's cert…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:29AMFriday, April 19, 2013
The over-dosing Dr. Jekyll and his demented alter ego Mr. Hyde are back for the first time since they created their share of havoc on Broadway in 1997
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:13AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
athan Lane allows us to see into the heart-breaking core of a disconsolate man who is compelled to endure the slings and arrows of an unforgiving society, .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:16AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Despite its rambling dramatic arc the great music is certain to bring back memories for many of the decades as well being a reminder of how apropos was the nickname given to Motown's first h…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:45AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
originally produced during the 2010 New York Fringe Festival, this more elaborate and polished production should have a prosperous afterlife in regional theaters.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:34PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Cindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein have proven themselves fortuitously formidable partners who have found a formula that has transformed a so-what film into a so-fine musica Cindy Lauper and …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Whatever it is, we end up feeling for Cathy and Jamie, it won't be for their lack of musical and dramatic commitment to Brown's ambitious score.. . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AMSunday, March 24, 2013
R. N. Sandberg's disarming roundelay of relationships clearly has its roots in Arthur Schnitzler's 19th sex-capade La Ronde.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:00PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Sean Mathias's second attempt to stage Truman Capote's novella doesn't work on Broadway any more than it did in London
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:37PMFriday, March 22, 2013
There is the aura of a very old B movie in listening to the endlessly pontificating science-saturated characters in Lanford Wilson's 1975 play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:59PMthere is plenty of heart and soul being revealed in this small-scaled musical about ordinary people with big feelings.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AMMonday, March 18, 2013
This play makes it appear that the economic bridge that spans between 1880 and 2013 is distanced enough now so that a rich girl can make the right choices for the wrong reasons, or is it the…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:10AMThursday, March 14, 2013
a rather facetious fabrication, or as Lucas call it on the first page of the script, "a damn lie." And since it's a sin to tell a lie, let me say that Craig Lucas's two-hander is not a very …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:26AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Annie Baker, whose other plays have also been lauded for their informally structured, protracted naturalistic style, may be demanding a lot, especially from one segment of the audience, with…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:31AMFriday, March 8, 2013
This solo show succeeds in some measure as a cornucopia of quotes from its eminently quotable subject, as a testament to Ann Richard's indomitable spirit — and to the fine actor portraying…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:54AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
The Keen Company's revival is certainly an example of a sincere effort by A. R. Gurney to show the inevitable shift in the traditional WASP landscape
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:18AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Amy Herzog's most gut-wrenching play is a deeply compassionate exploration into why people will sometimes depart from what is rational, prudent and even sane to protect the ones they love
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:57AMFriday, March 1, 2013
The multi-talented Jesse Eisenberg has written himself an unsympathetic role, but a fine one for Vanessa Redgrave
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35AMThe first major revival in almost twenty years has been given a stunning production, the first musical in the esteemedClassic Stage Company's 45-year history.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:34AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
A fine cast headed by Edie Falco, but a strange and disappointing play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:28AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
The re-discovery of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy by the Mint Theater continues to offer a real treat to its regular subscribers as well as to all adventurous theatergoers previously unfamil…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:31AMThursday, January 3, 2013
‘The Show Must Go On” is an adage long identified with those who work in the theater. Accordingly, it sums up New Jersey’s professional theaters attitude during and after Superstorm Sa…
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- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s rarely revived sweet relic about theater and theater people .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:48AMSunday, December 2, 2012
A special cheer is in order for the George Street Theater for presenting this production that had its world premiere at the Barrington Stage Company
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:57AMMonday, November 19, 2012
the 1990 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by August Wilson, that is now having a stirring revival at the Signature Theater. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:27AMSaturday, November 17, 2012
There's always room for another Chekhov, even when it's actually a take-off on the master by the ever funny Christopher Durang
SOURCE: www.curtainup.comvanyadurang at 05:45PM- not Labrynth Theater Company's usual dramatically gritty play, but a worthy dramatic consideration of how the dark side of man’s nature was able to forever change the course of human des…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:15AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
It's more mischievous than mysterious, but it offers, a couple of wonderfully undemanding hours of entertainment in the grand old tradition of the English music hall. . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AMFriday, October 26, 2012
I was a bit startled to read in the program that John Fosse is considered one of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights, as I'd never heard of him before. I'm a little closer to understa…
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