Saturday, June 20, 2015
How do you describe a play that is so surprising -- and so excellent -- that you don't want to give readers an idea of what they are in for?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Playwright Joshua Harmon burst into view in 2012 with Bad Jews, one of those plays that sounds like a bad idea but turns out to be very good.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:55PMMonday, 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 10:39PM 
