Playwrites News: NYC Theater
NYT > TheaterThe Encores! ?No, No, Nanette? is secondhand nostalgia, a reworking of a 1970s take on the 1920s.
?The Fever Chart,? a well-made trilogy by Naomi Wallace, explores that cauldron that is the Middle East.
In the Acting Company production of Orson Welles?s ?Moby Dick Rehearsed,? gung-ho actors bring everything to life with no more than some crates and ladders for scenery.
In his furious satire ?The Unconquered,? part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright Torben Betts shakes the daylights out of the smarmy idea of freedom.
This tale of a beleaguered honeymoon exposes its characters? foibles with gentleness and compassion.
With two gripping productions of ?Macbeth? in New York right now, the good news is, there?s no need to choose.
A major selling point of this ?Camelot? is the chance to hear this winning 1960 score sumptuously performed by the New York Philharmonic under the musical theater maestro Paul Gemignani.
The actor John Lithgow brings his family?s tradition of storytelling to the stage in a one-man show called ?John Lithgow: Stories by Heart.?
Kristin Griffith gives a commanding performance in this inventive play about President Richard M. Nixon?s loyal-to-the-end secretary.
One of the pleasures of this excellent production is how clearly and sympathetically it renders the character of Alma.
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
Caryl Churchill?s ?Top Girls? opened in a well-acted revival directed with intelligence and sensitivity by James Macdonald.
Deep in the third act of the Pearl Theater Company?s entertaining production of ?The Importance of Being Earnest,? I realized how much the sitcom ?Frasier? owes to Oscar Wilde.
David Grimm?s annoying new play is a self-indulgent work about how hard it is to be a writer.
A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
?Glory Days,? a callow portrait of four friends on the cusp of manhood, manages to seem fresh and seriously stale at the same time.
The musical ?Glory Days? announced its immediate closing just a day after it opened on Broadway to a raft of bad reviews.
Mr. Colt was a Tony Award-winning costume designer who created both serious and amusing costumes for more than 50 Broadway productions.
The two new plays at the center of the 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival consider how far men and women will go to get the money for what they want.
?Alice: End of Daze,? which takes its inspiration from Lewis Carroll?s ?Through the Looking Glass,? is a true and often graceful blend of forms.
This production infuses its potentially harrowing tale with a childlike vigor, wonder and sense of humor, spiced with exuberant African music and dance.
Pummeled by the critics, the London production of ?Gone With the Wind? will have its running time trimmed by 15 minutes to three and a quarter hours.
The Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical planned for next season in Atlanta in preparation for a Broadway run has run into an obstacle.
Harry Connick Jr., will return to Broadway in March as the star of a new musical comedy.
?All Eyes and Ears? is an interesting but overstuffed new play.
A new, touring version of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular will hit the road in November.
?Boeing-Boeing,? a creaky French comedy that has been given the makeover of the season by the director Matthew Warchus, has no earthly right to be as funny as it is.
Jan Maxwell?s compelling, unsentimental performance is the centerpiece of Anton Dudley?s ?Substitution.?
This spring the barrier between the worlds of Off and Off Off Broadway is becoming more porous.
Christopher Hampton, whose 1985 play, ?Les Liaisons Dangereuses,? is being revived by the Roundabout Theater Company, is very much a man of the hour.
Stephen Greenblatt, one of the country?s top Shakespeare scholars, has written his first play, ?Cardenio,? a collaboration with Charles Mee.
Hanging out with Kathryn Hahn, Mary McCormack and Gina Gershon, the three women who play flight attendants in the farcical play ?Boeing-Boeing.?
Mr. Howard arranged the dance music, composed the incidental music or conducted the orchestra for many of Broadway?s biggest hits of the last half-century, and sometimes did all three.
After a two-year and $12 million reconstruction, the Longacre Theater has been given an entirely renovated interior and a spruced up exterior.
