Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Happy Birthday
The TACT company unearths an Anita Loos play from 1946, Happy Birthday, then stops in front of the obstacle. My review of this missed opportunity is here.
Friday, March 22, 2013
It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Superman
Encores! brings back Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' goofball musical about the Man of Steel. Goes to show that even a lesser Encores! is great fun. Click here for my review.
Hands on a Hardbody
So much potential in Hands on a Hardbody, so much self-sabotage. Yes, it's the musical in which people try to win a truck by keeping a hand on it at all times opens on Broadway, and it's better than you think it is, but not as good as it could have been. My review's here.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Maybe it's because I don't fetishize either Holly Golightly or Game of Thrones, but I liked Emilia Clarke in the new Breakfast at Tiffany's adaptation. My review's here.
Monday, March 18, 2013
The Mound Builders
Signature's revival of Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders is the epitome of meh. My review's here.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike redux
Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is the rare example of a show that's better after its transfer to Broadway. My review's here.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Detroit '67
Dominique Morisseau's play Detroit '67 overcomes its stereotyped characters to be an appealing show. Full review here.
The Lying Lesson
I suppose there's a point in Craig Lucas' new play, The Lying Lesson, but it's just not all that interesting. My review's here.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Friday, March 08, 2013
Thursday, March 07, 2013
The North Pool
There's no delicate way to put this: Rajiv Joseph's new play, The North Pool, is embarrassingly bad. More details on this fiasco here.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Talley's Folly
An old-fashioned romance blooms in Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly, just revived by the Roundabout with Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson. My review's here.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Monday, March 04, 2013
Belleville
Amy Herzog's latest, Belleville, opened yesterday at New York Theatre Workshop. I still think 4000 Miles is her best play to date. Click here for the full review.
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, originally written for a 1957 CBS broadcast, had its belated Broadway premiere yesterday -- with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane. My review's here.
Friday, March 01, 2013
The Revisionist
Hard to think of Jesse Eisenberg's new play The Revisionist as anything other than a perverse vanity project: He cast himself in a caricature of an Eisenberg role then added Vanessa Redgrave to the mix, even though she was wrong for her own part. My review's here.
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