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Category: Theater
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As leading man to the pounding disco drama, American Psycho at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Benjamin Walker is all abs and six pack. Sinfully envious, his Patrick Bateman embodies the ethos of the bygone late century: what he cannot have, he seeks to destroy. His body, and apartment’s walls are often red splattered as if this…
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Arthur Miller was well served on Broadway this season with revivals of A View from the Bridge and The Crucible, both brilliantly directed by Ivo van Hove. At the Walter Kerr Theater, the spirits in The Crucible come alive, and for a moment the girls possessed by demons and led by Saoirse Ronan’s Abigail look…
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Forget Cats. So much has spun off T. S. Eliot’s poetry, the Wasteland and Four Quartets scribe would be especially laughing from the grave with Noah Haidle’s surreal play Smokefall, a MCC production at the Lucille Lortel Theater. If you pay attention to the Playbill’s author note where Haidle claims to be living in Detroit…
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A local Liberian warlord’s women in a bare hut in Eclipsed at the Golden Theater are called wife #1, #3, and #4, but as written by Danai Gurira, they could not be more individual if you knew them by their mother-given names. Unseen, when he comes by, “C.O.” beckons them. Each returns to the room,…
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At first inRichard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair, as described by her son Seth while she is on her deathbed, Linda Lavin’s Anna appears to be cut from the familiar cloth of Great Neck moms, ambitious for their children and somewhat lost in suburban torpor. But Anna has a secret, actually two, that she needs…
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Opening night for Erin Markey’s new musical, A Ride on the Irish Cream at the Abrons Arts Center was so packed, cushions had to accommodate viewers on the floor. Okay, an opening is usually friends and family, and judging by the crowd, Markey and her partner Becca Blackwell have an ample supply, but now this…
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First the announcement: the kids in School of Rock bringing down the house at the Winter Garden Theater are playing their own instruments. As this rousing show hews close to the 2003 Richard Linklater movie on which it is based, everyone knows the terrain. Rock is freedom, man, and the joy of School of Rock…
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Don’t expect Die Hard Bruce Willis in his Broadway debut in Misery at the Broadhurst Theater. As best-selling author Paul Sheldon in the play based on a beloved if frightening film based on a beloved if frightening Stephen King book, Willis drops the tough guy pose, making most of his moves in a vertical position.…
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The stage at the Lyceum Theater for this exceptional theater event, the current revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge looks like a set for a boxing match, with audience on three sides, not the more traditional sitting room of a Brooklyn apartment. Director Ivo van Hove’s vision goes for the iconic: a…
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Aaron Mark’s play, Empanada Loca, a dramatic monologue that zips by in 95 minutes, starts in the dark. A voice, a light, and then Dolores! As Dolores, Daphne Rubin-Vega, her cheeks hollow as a skeleton, framed by her hoodie, recounts her life story, how she came to live here in the lowest recesses of a…
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The travel posters adorning the intimate tent, the signature locale of the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center, promise trips to Marseille, Lille, Paris, London, and the Orient. Evoking the Roaring ‘20’s, and the modern voyage from the dawn of airplane travel to such conveyances as train and camel, “The Grand Tour” featuring aerialists, acrobats,…
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Wildly wacky and whimsical, Sister Follies: Between Two Worlds, rests on a singular, spectacular conceit. For the centennial of the Abrons Arts Center, a gem of a theater on the Lower East Side, Basil Twist, winner of a recent MacArthur Prize, imagined the ghosts of the Lewisohn sisters, performers and patrons of the arts from…
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When Patti Smith met Sam Shepard back in the day, she thought he was a drummer cowboy named Slim Shadow, until Jackie Curtis set her straight, “He’s the biggest playwright off-Broadway. He won five Obies!” Now his Fool for Love is on Broadway under Daniel Aukin’s expert direction at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, an…
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Broadway luminaries attended the American Theater Wing gala on Monday night at the Plaza Hotel to honor James Earl Jones: Angela Lansbury, Tony Bennett, and Cecily Tyson, who is starring with Jones in The Gin Game. The annual event always features performances in the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom: among other performers, Norm Lewis blew everyone away…
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MCC’s production of Matthew Lopez’ The Legend of Georgia McBride at the Lucille Lortel in the village, like Kinky Boots on Broadway, features stunning high heeled footwear and over-the-top pastel wigs. Add to that padded rumps and sequined brassieres, sized triple D! Backstage at the Cleo bar in Florida’s Panhandle, a sweet-faced Elvis impersonator, Casey…
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When Michele Lee did her show at 54 Below this past June, celebrating Cy Coleman just a stone’s throw from Broadway, she was secretly planning to return to star in Wicked as Madame Morrible—a schoolmistress cum sorcerer. As the character’s name suggests she’s marvelous as she is horrible. With a look that channels Effie Trinket…
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Grey Gardens: The Musical was made for a run at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, just a few miles from the original East Hampton real estate that inspired the Maysles’ Brothers classic documentary film. Starring the two Edies Beale, inseparable mother and daughter, the nonfiction film spawned an HBO movie from the Broadway play, book…
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