The use of an old jukebox with calculated selections from Hank Williams and Jon Campbell's, er, hellacious wind sound design top off this welcome addition to terrific theater staged without a theater.
Bess Rowen | Posted 05.18.2012
I am not saying that cross-dressing can't be funny, but I am saying that it is not a joke in and of itself. It is also simply old hat to laugh at a male character who seems emasculated. Haven't we moved past this?
Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.18.2012
Mike Bartlett's buzzed about new play, Cock, from the Royal National Theatre opened to a thunderous and mostly deserved standing ovation at the Duke Thursday night.
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.18.2012
If you call your play Cock, it better be a button-pushing bit of provocation that toys with gender and sexuality in ways both funny and shocking. We keep waiting, not unreasonably, for Cock's big moment, a soliloquy to sex, a panegyric to the penis, a colloquy on cock.
Josh Getlin | Posted 05.11.2012
It had to happen. With all the attention focused on bullying -- in books, newspaper and magazine stories, in a documentary film and television specials -- it was inevitable that a New York musical on the subject would also appear.
Liz Smith | Posted 04.27.2012
This work by Richard Bean is based on the old "Servant of Two Masters," a hoary comedy of greed and gut-busting humor right out of Commedia dell'Arte. But don't let that put you off; this is comedy for the ages and for everybody.
Jody Christopherson | Posted 04.12.2012
Playwrights like these, clearly passionate people who are willing to risk, willing to do things the hard way -- they have the important and difficult task of sharing what they've seen. How do they begin to speak the unspeakable?
Chris Kompanek | Posted 04.04.2012
It's heartening that one of the hottest theater tickets of the season is a word-for-word staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Cara Joy David | Posted 05.23.2012
I'm very attached to Love, Loss and What I Wore. I don't think I've ever sent as many people to an off-Broadway show as I have to this play. So it is with sadness that I reflect on its closing this weekend.
AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 03.20.2012
NEW YORK -- Linda Lavin knows what she'll be doing after she takes "The Lyons" to Broadway – another Broadway show. Producers of "Prince of Bro...
Fern Siegel | Posted 05.01.2012
"The narrative structure of the Jewish holidays and the narrative structure of the classic Broadway musical are the same. They both almost always feature a larger-that-life character up against insurmountable odds."
Michael Giltz | Posted 04.29.2012
The winter theater season in New York has a certain rhythm. A few shows open on Broadway and then there's a lull until the crush of big names in March, April and May. Here are three shows, all of them aiming high though not succeeding for one reason or another.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lori Fradkin | Posted 02.28.2012
When the raunchy "Bachelorette" debuted at Sundance this year, audiences were quick to note that, yes, the comparisons to "Bridesmaids" were inevitabl...
Michael Giltz | Posted 04.09.2012
I suppose The Ugly One has some comment on beauty and superficiality to make but it's too straightforward and unsurprising to offer even modest insight.
Bess Rowen | Posted 04.02.2012
I'll admit it, I get crushes on shows. In these past couple of months I have had the privilege of being able to see some of my favorites more than once. Am I going back to see the same thing, or to see what is different?
AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 02.01.2012
NEW YORK -- In a season where little grows in the Northeast, something in Brooklyn is doing just that, foot by foot. The metal guts of what will be a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.10.2012
NEW YORK -- In the first scene of "Outside People," a new play opening Tuesday at New York's Vineyard Theatre, a young American man named Malcolm meet...
Brad Schreiber | Posted 02.28.2012
When one walks out of a play shaking slightly from its effect, there is an element of criminality in trying to assign it a numerical rating. Thus, all of these works deserve the highest praise, on equal footing.
AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 12.28.2011
NEW YORK -- Hanging around outside The Public Theater next week could turn you into an unanticipated actor. An hour or so before the group known as t...
Vera Haller | Posted 02.13.2012
Ray Cullom, who came to Queens from the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., wants to change the Queens Theatre from a venue that mainly books touring performing arts shows into a staging ground for new productions.
Russ D’Souza | Posted 02.11.2012
New York City is a competitive place, with many marquee attractions vying for attention, so how can these small and mid-size art organizations capture the attention of the average visitor to the city?
HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 11.26.2011
Michael Urie happens to really, really like New York. At least by Hollywood standards, the 31-year-old Urie's almost exclusive devotion to the Of...
Tony Bartolone | Posted 01.14.2012
Poison Apple is Sean Galuszka's one-act play
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.13.2011
A common rookie mistake in playwriting is to leave your audience in the dark. Some plays are about plumbing a mystery, of course. But when everyone on stage knows the painful secret yet simply avoids it, it's merely frustrating.
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.10.2011
This clever, crowd-pleasing production of one of Shakespeare's shakiest plays ran for two sold-out weeks in January. Now in a rare and worthy gamble, the Theatre For A New Audience revival is getting a limited run Off Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. No excuses for missing it this time.
Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.24.2012