Thursday, June 5, 2014
Kenneth Branagh in Macbeth
(©Stephanie Berger)
It’s doubtful you’ll ever see as compelling and visceral a interpretation of Macbeth as the one being performed for much too…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:55PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(©Joan Marcus)
The colorful title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be described as many things, but loveable is not usually …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:08AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan
(©Johan Persson)
His face may be prominently displayed on the Playbill cover and theater marquee, but Daniel Radcliffe melts seamlessly i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:37AMThursday, April 17, 2014
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in Of Mice and Men
(©Richard Phibbs)
Review: Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a beloved classic that is a staple in high scho…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:30AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Audra McDonald doesn’t look or sound anything like Billie Holiday. So it’s a credit to t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:24AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Marin Mazzie in Bullets Over Broadway
(©Paul Kolnik)
Imagine a splashy Broadway musical comedy based on a beloved film, written by its original creator who once toiled for Sid Caesar …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:30AMFriday, April 4, 2014
David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaYTanya Richardson Jackson,
Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo
in A Raisin in the Sun
(©Brigitte Lacombe)
If director…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:05AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Idina Menzel in If/Then
(©Joan Marcus)
When a performer’s mere opening utterance of “Hello, it’s me” garners huge sustained applause, you know you’re in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:26AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller, Grayson Taylor, and Tyne Daly in Mothers and Sons
(©Joan Marcus)
There’s a distressing air of familiarity about Terrence McNally’s Mother…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:00AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Ramin Karimloo in Les Miserables
(©Matthew Murphy)
Les Miserables could well refer to more than a few theater critics, this one included, faced with the prospect of yet again seeing …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Courtney Reed and Adam Jacobs in Aladdin
(©Deen van Meer)
When James Monroe Iglehart sings “Friend Like Me” in Disney’s new Broadway musical adaptation of its classi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:19AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Andy Karl in Rocky
(©Matthew Murphy)
You’ll leave the new Broadway musical Rocky humming the score. Unfortunately, it won’t be the wholly unmemorable one by veteran compos…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:27AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Michael McKean, Bryan Cranston, and Brandon J. Dirden in All the Way
(©Evgenia Eliseeva)
Playing Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s ambitious historical drama All the Way, …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Frances Jue and Cole Horibe in Kung Fu
(©Joan Marcus)
The title of David Henry Hwang’s bio-play about Bruce Lee is ironic in a way that the screen icon would surely have appreci…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in The Bridges of MadisonCounty
(©Joan Marcus)
Is it too much to ask of a show called The Bridges of Madison County that we actually see one of the co…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:46AMThursday, February 20, 2014
A scene from Love and Information
(©Joan Marcus)
Caryl Churchill’s new play Love and Information features more than a hundred characters in some fifty short scenes ranging in le…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:56AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Laura Esterman and Keith Randolph Smith in Intimacy
(©Monique Carboni)
For a play that features, among other things, masturbation, ejaculations, fellatio, anal sex, suggestions of inc…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:03AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Brian F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing in Outside Mulllingar
(©Joan Marcus)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley pours on the Irish blarney in Outside Mullingar, which strains mightily for Moo…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:09AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Frank Langella in King Lear
(©Richard Termine)
Following in Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s recent footsteps in playing King Lear at BAM’s Harvey Theater, Frank Langella p…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:10AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Rebecca Hall (foreground) with Jason Loughlin and Ryan Dinning (background) in Machinal
(©Joan Marcus)
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of Sophie Treadwell’…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:28AMSunday, January 12, 2014
Jessie Mueller and Jake Epstein in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
(©Joan Marcus)
Baby boomer musical nostalgists have a lot to choose from on Broadway these days. Th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 11:19PMFriday, December 6, 2013
Kyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
(©Eric Ray Davidson)
Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:58AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night"
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:45PMMonday, November 4, 2013
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight
(Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:07AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Daniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:17AMSunday, April 14, 2013
It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:17PMFriday, April 12, 2013
It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:06AMFriday, April 5, 2013
Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 01:16AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:24PMThursday, January 24, 2013
If the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Thea…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:31PM