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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
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Review: Tokio Confidential at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Eric Schorr has found a provocative subject within the age-old art of tattooing the human body upon which to create a hair-raising (no pun intended) dramatic theme

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:05AM
Monday, February 6, 2012

Review: Professor Bernhardi at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Although the play is extremely wordy this rarely produced Schnitzler play is not so irrefutably dense with political posturing that we can’t appreciate its slyly satirical underpinnings

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:37AM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Review: Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

he return of the wild and wacky vaudeville-styled revue that Robert Allan Ackerman conceived in the mid 1970s to celebrate the absurdist canon of Eugene Ionesco is sure to win new fans for t…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:52AM
Monday, January 23, 2012

Review: Boeing-Boeingat curtainup.com/ new jersey by Simon Saltzman

This British adaptation of Marc Camoletti’s 1962 French farce is well served by this production . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:32PM

Review: The Convert at curtainup New Jerse by Simon Saltzman

Danai Gurira’s gripping new play set in the region of South Africa now named Southern Rhodesia, on the first leg of its three-theater rolling world premiere. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:17AM
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Review: Leo at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Whether this multi-media piece is welcomed in the New York with the same enthusiasm that greeted it earlier this year at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe remains to be seen. I certainly fell fo…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:33PM
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

2011Ten Best, Near Best and Worst On and Off Broadway by Simon Saltzman

Overview of 2011 Theater Season On and Off Broadway

SOURCE: princetoninfo.com at 12:32PM
Monday, November 28, 2011

Review: Suicide, Incorporated at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Andrew Hinderakers’s modestly macabre but also humorously tender play is also an ironically good fit for the Underground series as it deals with the decision by people to end their unhappy…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:49PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Review: Iriving Berlin's White Christmas at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

a better than ever dose of nostalgia awaiting you at the Paper Mill Playhouse

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:54AM
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Review: Horsedreams at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Dael Orlandersmith's brutally frank play about a family decimated by drug addiction, written in a beautifully composed, essentially lyrical, narrative -driven style

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:21PM
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Review: TheBlue Flower at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

a wondrously dreamy Dada-era-invoked new musical, a beautifully incremented multi-media confluence of truth and fantasy, art and history

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:37AM
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Review: Phaedra Backwards at Curtainup/NJ by Simon Saltzman

Going forward by means of going backward works quite well, and far from being confusing, casts a contemporary and hypothetically psychological light on the ancient Greek myth

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:36PM
Monday, October 17, 2011

Review: To Kill A Mockingbird at curtainup.com/NJ by Simon Saltzman

The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is presenting a very fine production of the popular stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:17AM
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Review: It Shoulda Been You at curtainup.com/ New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

Brian Hargrove & Barbara Anselmi have put a Jewish mother with all her lovable flaws in the center of a delightfully ebullient, often hilarious, new musical comedy

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:56PM
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Review: Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Curtainup by Simon Saltzman

an exuberant and appealing production at the Crossroads Theater

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:08PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Review: Newsies at curtainup.com/NJ by Simon Saltzman

There is nothing quite like the excitement that accompanies the world premiere of a new musical, especially one that, like this Papermill Playhouse premiere, is the result of work by some of…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:34PM
Friday, September 16, 2011

Review: Othello at Curtainup/NJ by Simon Saltzman

an Othello that still shocks and delights at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:54AM
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Review: Temporal Powers at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

The Mint's production of Teresa Deevy's long ignored play is certainly a cure for those in search of a good yarn .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:43AM
Monday, August 22, 2011

Review: Bluebird at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Simon Stephen's beautifully written, tenderly sad play has finally crossed the Atlantic. Too bad that audiences here have been given such a short time to see it, especially since it stars th…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:23PM
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Review: Olive and the Bitter Herbs at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

A superb cast has been entrusted with the difficult burden of speaking a lot of funny lines while also behaving either irresponsibly or reprehensibly in Charles Bush's new play

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:59PM
Friday, August 12, 2011

Review: Rent at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

the iconic musical's original director Michael Grei has attended to the show's needs with marked discipline as well as with some newly motivated impressions

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:50AM
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Curtainup by Simon Saltzman

This splendidly directed and spiritedly acted political farce is exactly the recommended prescription for how best to cope these days with the woes of economic deprivation, social injustice …

SOURCE: www.curtainup.comaccidentaldeathnj.html at 10:10PM
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Review: The Pretty Trap at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

there is the prospect of a happy ending in this early one-act version of The Glass Menagerie

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:08PM
Monday, July 25, 2011

Review: All New People at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Put four people with major issues in a room and see what happens when they are fueled by alcohol, an assortment of drugs including cocaine and a script that is neither credible nor makes muc…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:25PM
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Review: The Patsy at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

An old play and a new monologue have been created as performance pieces, each allowing the wonderfully talented Greenspan to be ingratiating and impressive in different ways.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:16PM
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Review: Death Takes a Holiday at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Composer Maury Yeston, book authors the late Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan and director Doug Hughes have resurrected Alberto Casella,s metaphysical/fantastical/supernatural 1924 Italian play…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:21PM

Review: Hair at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

the touring Tribe rocks on Broadway

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:47AM
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Review: A Strange and Separate People< at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Jon Marans' intensely-acted play under the very fine direction of Jeff Calhoun needs a more credible and more engaging characters. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:16PM
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Review: Timon of Athens at curtainup/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

Shakespeare's muddled play is getting something it hadn't bargained for: Brian B. Crowe's delightfully daffy but undeniably relevant interpretation. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:53AM
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Review: Silence the Musical at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

cheeky musical based on the famous film about Hannibal Lecter . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:47AM

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