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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
Friday, July 8, 2011

Review: Master Class at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

You don't have to be a Maria Callas worshiper to empathize with the prescribed notes of poignancy or purpose of Tyne Daly's portrayal of the diva . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:14AM
Monday, June 20, 2011

Review: 4000 Miles at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Amy Herzog's new play revisits the feisty grandmother of her After the Revolution . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:05PM
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Review: Sleeping Beauty Aakes at Curtainup/New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

a musical of many small delights, including some pithy declarations and just as many missed opportunities. . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Review: Curtains at Curtainup New Jersey by Simon Saltzman

The Papermill Playhouse's lively revival of Kander and Ebb's Curtains

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:34AM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Review: Sister Act at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Although downright silly, outrageously hokey and pervasively shallow, under the snappy direction of Jerry Zaks, this latest nun-sensical musical ranks among the season'sbest

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:27PM

Review: High at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

You don't want to mess with no-nonsense, gutter-mouthed Sister Jamison Connelly, as played by Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo's occasionally gripping but also gratuitously lurid new play

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:01AM
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Wonderland at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

this modern twist on Alice's familiar journey is only fitfully amusing and certainly never whimsical.. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:51PM
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Review: Marie and Bruce at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

This is essentially a plot-less, character-driven play about a notably incompatible married couple, trapped in a surreal-existential world of their own making.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:41AM
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Review: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

Daniel Radcliffe's performance is certainly and purposefully predicated on the need for hisJ. Pierrepont Finch, to beguile us with his opportunism. He does

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:34PM
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Review: Three Men on a Horse at curtainup.com by Simon Saltzman

an amiable antique offerd by TACT to audiences willing to be jockeyed into a receptive position . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:18PM

Review: Book of Mormon at Curtainup by Simon Saltzman

the irresistibly compulsive irreverence that pervades the show becomes increasingly endearing and even (dare I say it) spiritually empowering

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:15PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Review: Between Two World at Curtainup by Simon Saltzman

No matter how one may attempt to define this exhilarating fusion of sensual dancing and stirring drumming, it is unlike anything that you are likely to have seen befor

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:33PM
Monday, March 21, 2011

Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at curtainup.com/NJ by Simon Saltzman

As Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart's book aspires to give burlesque a bad name, director Mark Waldrop aspires to amuse us with the madcap chases and the obligatory parade of courtesans dele…

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:11PM