Monday, June 15, 2015
The play itself, an LCT3 offering at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow playhouse, turns out to be an intriguing, challenging evening of theatre.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Kate Arrington, Jeremy Shamos and Sarah Goldberg in The Qualms.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Bruce Norris, who has given us...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:13PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Since achieving stardom in 2010 as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg has diligently applied himself to writing plays. The Spoils, his third off-Broadway offering in five…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PMMonday, May 25, 2015
We listen to "Quiet Please," a collection of standards and jazz from Steven Blier and Darius de Haas, and the cast album of the award-winning 1959 West End musical Make Me an Offer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to "Quiet Please," a collection of standards and jazz from Steven Blier and Darius de Haas, and the cast album of the award-winning 1959 West End musical Make Me an Offer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in "Two-Faced Woman"; Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"; Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; and Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in "Two-Faced Woman"; Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"; Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; and Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to "Originals — Musical Comedy, 1909-1935," a collection of old recordings by old stars; and "Another Openin' Another Show," Lehman Engel's 1958 album of 12 Broadway overture…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through the Fourth Edition of "American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"; newly published librettos of Oklahoma!, Sound of Music and Avenue Q; and a biography of Serge Diaghilev.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through the Fourth Edition of "American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"; newly published librettos of Oklahoma!, Sound of Music and Avenue Q; and a biography of Serge Diaghilev.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to two Off-Broadway musicals, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, from the Roundabout in 2009, and the 1964 adaptation of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to two Off-Broadway musicals, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, from the Roundabout in 2009, and the 1964 adaptation of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen the classics "All About Eve" and "An Affair to Remember"; John Gielgud's Shakespearean recital series; Alan Ayckbourn's Norman trilogy; Woody Allen's latest; and "Glee: Season Two …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen the classics "All About Eve" and "An Affair to Remember"; John Gielgud's Shakespearean recital series; Alan Ayckbourn's Norman trilogy; Woody Allen's latest; and "Glee: Season Two …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to the new live recording of Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein's cabaret act "Cheek to Cheek," plus the 1960 London cast album of Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's Once Upon a Mattr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to the new live recording of Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein's cabaret act "Cheek to Cheek," plus the 1960 London cast album of Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's Once Upon a Mattr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through Thomas S. Hischak's guide to "Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919"; a problematic survey of "The Golden Age of the Musical Theatre"; a cornucopia called "The American Stage"; an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through Thomas S. Hischak's guide to "Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919"; a problematic survey of "The Golden Age of the Musical Theatre"; a cornucopia called "The American Stage"; an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Like Hand to God, Permission is outrageous and profane; like its predecessor, it can be seen as a sledgehammer attack on religion featuring violence and sex, albeit without as much bloodshed…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Annie Baker, in The Flick, has drawn three disparate loners in dead-end menial jobs; engaged them in often aimless-seeming banter, as opposed to meaningful discussion; and keeps them at it f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:49PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Noah Galvin in A.R. Gurney's What I Did Last Summer. Photo: Joan Marcus
If you have written upwards of fifty plays over...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:20PMThursday, April 23, 2015
Not enough. An interesting show, to be sure; but in this crowded April, with at least ten intriguing new productions on view, I wonder whether this Visit is quite worth the visit.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Something's rotten on the stage of the St. James, and it smells like a hit.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:49PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Seekers of provocative, invigorating and entertaining theatre--musical or dramatic--will find it at Circle in the Square. To those who think that Fun Home doesn't sound like their sort of en…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:34PMThursday, April 16, 2015
In a day and age when producers, directors and author's executors think nothing of imposing their so-called artistic vision on Broadway masterworks that were pretty good to begin with, it is…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:00PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
If you can predict that "blue-ish"--in the new musical, It Shoulda Been You--rhymes with something like "it's true-ish when you're Jewish," then you're two (or five) step…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:01PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Lesley Manville in Ibsen's Ghosts. Photo: Stephanie Berger
Dedicated theatergoers who try to see the best of the best are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PMFriday, April 10, 2015
You have six actors sitting silently, listening and observing; and you have ninety theatergoers sitting silently, listening and observing. The combination turns out to be an exhilarating ad…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:57AMThursday, April 9, 2015
There's a rip-roaring, malevolently Machiavellian, viciously nasty, blood-letting saga of intrigue and incest on view just now. No, not in the cloistered cloakrooms of the U.S. House of Repr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:39PMThursday, April 2, 2015
We cannot at this point state that the Stephen Daldry revival of Skylight will be the finest of the group, no, but it is likely to be near the top of the list. This is a smashingly good pro…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PMThursday, March 26, 2015
Since the place was reborn in 1979 under the direction of the new Radio City Musical Hall Productions, the Spring Spectacular has been reliably perky, friendly, and leaning towards mass-mark…
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