176 stories from Curtainup Blog Annex
Amas Musical Theatre at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. on Thursday, April 26st at 4:00pm, Friday, April 27th at 3:00pm and 7:30pm, and Satur…
New YorkNo Place to Go- The financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe's Pub with Ethan Lipton's funny personal ode to the unemployed. . . .The Big Meal- Though Thornton Wilder is very muc…
Once - This small musical has transferred with its charm and big heart very much intact . . .Once was of the best screen ti stage…
New York theater goers can currently see two plays permeated with steamy sado-masochistic games. One made new again by its star an…
Here's the lineup for the York Theatre Company's FREE Developmental Reading Series: Stranger, Guess Who's Coming to Seder? and Dirty Little Secret. All wi…
Here's the lineup for the York Theatre Company's FREE Developmental Reading Series: Stranger, Guess Who's Coming to Seder? and Dirty Little Secret. All&nb…
New York Slings & Arrows- view 1st episode freeADVERTISING AT CURTAINUP Painting Churches- The Keen Company's revival of …
What's a flop-around? According to the dictionary, there's no such word. Still, it's a term that deserves a plac…
This week's Off-Broadway Tweet links. . . Robert Hogan as Rutherford …
How I Learned to Drive- Paula Vogel's Pulitzer winner passes the test of time with flying colors and a spectacular Uncle Peck . . .The Broken Heart -- According to Theatre for a New Aud…
The Living Theatre will offer a free encore performance of its production of Judith Malina's The History of the World, February 27 at 7 pm. Judith Malina, who's so…
Fans of Downton Abbey take heart: Instead of succumbing to withdrawal pains when the last of the current series ends, you might want to consider another upstairs/downstairs costume drama, …
Smash, Episode 1-- To paraphrase the cliche about not judging a book by its cover, don't judge this show's future by its first episode Everybody seems to be talk…
Poor Jimmy Porter.-- that's the angry young man of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger. Jimmy's been put down as a hopeless misogynist&nbs…
Look Back in Anger- Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism . . .Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville- The return of…
Morris Spector as the sexy but sinister uncle in Erika Sheffer's Russian immigrant variation on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge Russian Transport- …
Delia Ephron's funny but, sadly, all too true, Op-Ed piece Banks Taketh, but Don't Giveth in the January 27, New York Times, credits her…
In New YorkThe Philanderer- With excellent production values and acting, even at a somewhat too long 2 1/2 hours, this witty production of minor Shaw play is qui…
Norm Lewish with Audra McDonald-- Kevin Spacey as King Richard III During the past week I've seen two actors portraying …
My favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
My favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
Tweet Peeks at Off-Broadway show reviews. . Curtainup Broadway reviews coming this week: The Road to Mecca & The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Leo - Whether this mult…
Just a few days after I saw Outside People by Zayd Dohrn, the latest play about Americans in China, and just&nbs…
LABrynth Theater Company continues ts FREE Barn Reading Series at the Bank Street Theater (155 Bank Street). Admission is free and LABPASS members ($35 for a pass) can make advanced reserv…
Long before theater goers embrace plays running just 90 minutes without an intermission magazine readers …
