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Friday, October 26, 2012

Review: A Summer Dayat curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

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…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:25AM
Monday, October 15, 2012

Review: The Freedom of the City at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

he Irish Repertory Theater's gripping and moving performance of Brian Friel’s 1973 play . . . Read More

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:55AM
Friday, September 28, 2012

Review: Through the Yellow hour at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

In keeping with the relentlessly grim and ravenously graphic oeuvre that defines many of Adam Rapp’s plays, this is also a startling and extremely visceral response to the timely and topic…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AM
Monday, September 10, 2012

Review: The Train Driver at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

hat Athol Fugard, South Africa’s venerable, highly lauded playwright, is a helluva storyteller is re-affirmed the eighty-year-old’s more recent and arguably best plays . . . Read More

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:17AM
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Review: Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Primary Stages is continuing its laudable association with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his talented daughters, beginning with three one act “trunk” plays from Papa Foo…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:16AM
Friday, August 10, 2012

Review: Into The Woods at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

How great that we are invited quite literally into the woods

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:08AM
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Review: Bring It On at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

If the principal goal of this musical was to have a young and awesomely talented company Bring It On, then they have done it in spectacular fashion.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:36AM
Friday, July 27, 2012

Review: New Girl In Town at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

The Irish Repertory Company deserves a high five for its lovingly Irish-ized revival of New Girl in Town, a too-long-ignored musical from Broadway’s golden age

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:17AM
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Review: Dogfight at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted Next to Normal mto…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AM
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Review: Nymph Errant at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Prospect Theatre's revival of an easy to forget long forgotten musical by Cole Porter .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:59AM
Monday, July 9, 2012

Review: Zarkana Re-Review at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

The extgravaganza returns to Radio City for a limited return engagement. It's shorter and better

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:07PM

Review:The Liar at curtainup.com/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

David Ives' hilarious adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:57AM
Monday, June 25, 2012

Review: Slowgirl by Simon Saltzman

Greg Pierce is unquestionably one of the theater's sharper new talents. With Slowgirl he makes an impressive imprint on a season that is just getting into gear.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:06AM
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Review: curtainup.com/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens first major success now revived at the Papermill Playhouse

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:31AM
Monday, June 4, 2012

Review: Potted Potter at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner have encapsulated the seven books-long adventures of the boy wizard, they are to be commended for a comical condensation that (according to one of my you…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AM
Friday, May 25, 2012

Review: The Common Pursuit at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer and Simon Saltzman

A smartly directed and terrifically performed revival of Simon Gray’s homage to high-toned literary publications and to the bristling academic oeuvre behind it

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AM
Monday, May 21, 2012

Review: Slippery As Sin t curtainup.com/NJ by Simon Saltzman

the latest spoof of old Hollywood murder mysteries, the B variety that filled out the lower half of a double bill during the 1930s and 1940s at New Jersey's Passages Theater . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:07AM
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Review: Are You There, McPhee? at curtainup/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

John Guare’s most free-wheeling and comically absurdist play, commissioned by the McCarter Theater and Princeton University for its world premiere

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48PM
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Review: The 39 Steps at Curtainup/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

The four-person cast headed by Howard McGillin at George Street Playhouse couldn’t be more in step to make the most of their many and mostly manic opportunities in this delightful homage t…

SOURCE: www.curtainup.com39stepsnj12.html at 04:28PM
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Review: Ghost at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

There is no denying that the technical team has created an excitingly refracted vision of New York. Whether that is enough to spell success is questionable

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AM
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Review: Newsies at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer and Simon Saltzman

EXTRA! EXTRA! Newsies is the go-to show for the whole family, from the kids to grandma and grandpa.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:34PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

4000 Miles reprised by Simon Saltzman

Amy Herzog's 2-hander bets another run at the Mitzi Mewhouse

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AM
Monday, April 2, 2012

Review: The Best Man by Simon Saltzman

What could be more amusing in this election year than oodles of snappy and insinuating dialogue that earnestly and humorously recalls a time when the delegates at a convention could actually…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:39AM
Friday, March 23, 2012

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar by Simon Saltzman

Were it not for the singularly intense and brilliantly energizing performance of Josh Young, as Judas, I don’t know how I could have made through to the crucifixion. More amazing is that Y…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:00PM

Review: Death of a Salesman at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Watching this Will Lomany's "way out in the blue ride on a smile and a shoeshine" turn into "an earthquake" is as enduringly shattering as any Greek tragedy. . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:03PM
Monday, March 19, 2012

Review: Travesties at curtainup.com New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

At times, Stoppard's longwinded play is as exhilarating as it is illuminating; at other times it is as exasperating as it is enervating.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09AM
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Review: Twelve Angry Men at curtainup.com/NJ by Simon Saltzman

The verdict of this critic on David Saint's production: It's guilty of being a resounding success

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:38AM
Monday, March 12, 2012

Review: Damn Yankees at curtainup.com/nj by Simon Saltzman

For this seasoned spectator, there aren't any balls or strikes, only solid hits and home runs in this Paper Mill Playhouse revival of a classic musical of the golden era

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:18PM
Friday, March 2, 2012

Review: Carrie at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Even if the story defies rational analysis, this musical can no longer be denied a place among the more unsettling and unusual musicals of our time.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:18PM
Friday, February 24, 2012

Review: Galileo at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

there are glimmering in F. Murray Abraham’s performance that hint that he is striving to find a character who will eventually show the various, sometimes contradictory, sides of Galileo’…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AM
Monday, February 13, 2012

Review: The Threepenny Opera at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

-close to the best production I’ve seen ever seen . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:47PM

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