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A Broadway show about foul-mouthed hand puppets . . . could such a thing ever work? Ask the producers of "Avenue Q" (which is still running in its off-Broadway transfer). Okay, but can anoth…
The path to the Tony Award season took a curve last night as Richard Askins’ original play, “Hand to God,” was such Categories:
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Booth Theater, New YorkA sock puppet turns Satanic in this savage, profoundly irreligious satire which is at its funniest when it's at its most purile, and contains a masterful central perfo…
Robert Askins's dark comedy Hand to God has already had two productions Off Broadway, at Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC Theater. Now it's making the leap to the big time, opening on Broadwa…
Robert Askins' "Hand to God" is completely outrageous and outrageously funny...
Praise be to the angels behind it: Hand to God has made it to Broadway. No need for heavenly choir music, though, because the reception the play deserves is the one it gets nightly at the Bo…
This Robert Askins black comedy about the divided human soul stars a ruthless sock puppet.
Don’t let his big eyes, tuft of red hair and argyle sweater fool you: Tyrone is a profane, horny, violent little psycho " and funny as hell, too. He's found...
Robert Askins' "Hand to God" is a rare truly communal dramatic experience, with the power to make an audience collectively shake with laughter, gasp in shock and rise to a giddy ov…
NEW YORK " Ever since there have been ventriloquists with their arms up dummies, there has been truth-telling by puppet. Fred Russell had Coster Joe. Edgar Burton had Charlie McCarthy. And o…
Robert Askins' play about demonic puppets makes Avenue Q look like Captain Kangaroo.
Last spring Off-Broadway, "Hand to God" was a wicked little church satire about a small-town Texas teen whose sock puppet is possessed by the devil.
Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, officially opened April 7 at the Booth Theatre, marking the Broadway d…
The stars came out for the opening of HAND TO GOD tonight
God may have created the heavens and the earth and all living things — but the Devil surely created Tyrone, the filthy-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet that has audiences howling at &#…
Let's see what the critics had to say...
There are many reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of Hand To God. It wraps its seriousness in a veneer of XXX-rated irreverence. I don’t know which I want to do more: Sing Ha…
Did critics love it? Reviews are now coming in for the Broadway premiere of Robert Askins' irreverent and outlandish comedy Hand to God, which opens tonight at the Booth Theatre.
For centuries, theatrical antiheroes have vied for attention by going to extremes, but Tyrone, in Robert Askins's Hand to God, may be the first, onstage at least, to bite off an ear. He's as…
A foul-mouthed Satanic sock puppet unleashes hell in a Texas church basement in Robert Askins' gleefully heathen comedy about the divided self.read more
Did critics love it? Reviews are now coming in for the Broadway premiere of Robert Askins' irreverent and outlandish comedy Hand to God, which opens tonight at the Booth Theatre.
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's one character who doesn't get any bio in the Playbill at "Hand to God" but probably should. That would be Tyrone....
Is there any excuse more popular, or more vapid, than "the devil made me do it"?
Tyrone is a puppet with sharp teeth that lives at the end of the right arm belonging to timid Jason (Steven Boyer). The fabric...
In “Hand to God,” good-hearted teenager Jason is forced to confront Tyrone, a violent, foul-mouthed bully, who just happens to reside on Jason’s left arm. Tyrone is a hand …
