Blogger Roundup: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices.
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BWW Review: TRUE BLOOD Star Tackles Veteran Neglect and Military Sexism in ONE NIGHT
As Tara Thornton in True Blood, Rutina Wesley has survived an abusive alcoholic fundamentalist mother, a murdered boyfriend, and a sadistic vampire.
BWW Review: HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER Amuses Tourists and Natives Alike at Planet Hollywood Times Square
Do you know what a knish is? Can you pronounce Houston Street the way New Yorkers do? How about the way we say 'forget about it'? If you are the member of the audience picked to answer these questions on stage in the newly-opened Screen Room Theater at Planet Hollywood Times Square , you will win a
Blogger Roundup: THE SNOW GEESE
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices.
BWW Reviews: All-Female Julius Caesar Brings The Bard's Backstabbing to Brooklyn
Fans of the Netflix drama 'Orange is the New Black' might feel in familiar territory with the Donmar Warehouse production of 'Julius Caesar,' which director Phyllida Lloyd is presenting as if performed by the inmates of a women's correctional facility.
BWW Reviews: A More Engaging Romeo and Juliet, 3 Blocks from Broadway's in R+J: STAR-CROSS'D DEATH MATCH
Orlando Bloom, park your motorcycle, and walk three blocks to a bar that used to be called Harley's, where there is a weird, well-acted, fun, immersive boozy bro party production of Shakespeare's tragedy that is, in several ways, more engaging and far more original than your Romeo and Juliet on Broa
BWW Reviews: Lesbian Couple Conspires to Create a Child in Ethan Coen's 1st Full-Length Play WOMEN OR NOTHING
A lesbian couple plot to trick a man out of his sperm in filmmaker Ethan Coen's first full-length play, a slight, blunt and improbable comedy full of one-liners, which rescued from complete silliness by sharp, funny dialogue, and some thought-provoking themes.
BWW Reviews: Chess champion Garry Kasparov Matches Wits with IBM Computer Deep Blue in THE MACHINE
The play turns the story of the 1997 chess match between the world's number one chess player and a computer into a nearly mechanical bio-drama masquerading as a gladiator sport, staged at the cavernous Park Avenue Armory with arena seating , mock Jumbotron video projections and sports commentators,
BWW Reviews: THE RECOMMENDATION Explores American Myth of a Classless Society at the Flea
The chance meeting between privileged Feldman and imprisoned Dwight sets in motion this well-acted if implausible play by Jonathan Caren that considers the nature of friendship, and attempts to offer us a glimpse at the class system in America.
BWW Reviews: NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE Revisits Israeli/Palestinian Conflict in Romeo and Juliet Love Story
The strength of this swift, well-cast modest Romeo and Juliet love story between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian student is in the depiction of the two families, cleverly portrayed by the same actors in dual roles.
BWW Reviews: Two Understudies Wait to Perform Beckett's Famous Play in the Very Funny WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT
Waiting for Waiting For Godot is less a spoof of Beckett's play than it is a knowing comic riff on the life of an actor.
BWW Reviews: National Asian-American Theater Company Revives Clifford Odets' AWAKE AND SING
The National Asian American Theater Company's solid if unexceptional production of Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets 1935 drama of a struggling immigrant Jewish family in The Bronx, is opening just a few days after the 50th anniversary of the death of Odets
BWW Reviews: TIMMY THE GREAT, 'Madcap Musical for Revolutionaries of All Ages', Entertains Too Much
Timmy The Great bills itself as 'a madcap musical for revolutionaries of all ages.
BWW Review: Mad Men Goes Musical With SOMEONE TO BELONG TO
If 'Someone To Belong To,' a musical about advertising copywriters in the 1960s, seems to be capitalizing on the popularity of 'Mad Men,' the story behind this Fringe show is actually far more interesting than that.
BWW Review: NY Fringe Show: RUBBLE Offers One-Liners from The Simpsons, The Sopranos and Hollywood Squares vets
Rubble,' written by 'The Simpsons' long-time staff writer and producer Mike Reiss and starring 'Hollywood Square' Bruce Vilanch, has more one-liners than a comedian's stand-up routine, and not much more of a plot.
BWW Review: New York Fringe Show: BRADLEY COLE Tells Tall Tale of Fame on Twitter
A show about Twitter fame, 'Bradley Cole' is a lively 80-minute musical at the Fringe Festival with 16 tuneful songs, an energetic cast, and a plot that applies the gloss of the Twitter-topical to what feels like a mash-up of every predictable show known to mankind: a romantic comedy, a coming-out s
BWW Review: NY Fringe Show: THE SPIDER Tells Haunting Tale of Naked Conjoined Twins
The play from Bulgaria about two conjoined twins presents enough brutal twists and haunting turns to keep our attention, helped along by the bravura acting of the two-member cast
BWW Reviews: GERTRUDE STEIN SAINTS at the Fringe Turns Avant-Garde Opera into Glee (in a Good way)
Dressed all in white, singing like angels and dancing like the devil, the 13 performers of "Gertrude Stein's Saints" are young, energetic, talented, and, let's face it, hot enough to be cast in Glee.
BWW Reviews: THE GREAT SOCIETY Offers History Lesson on LBJ
One of two plays about LBJ aiming for Broadway, 'The Great Society' is a three-hour history lesson about the Johnson Presidency, from the shot that killed JFK, giving Johnson the office he'd always wanted, to LBJ's televised speech five years later announcing that he would not run again.
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