Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Holiday Guys: What Fun!!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Amy Herzog explores the tricky terrain of memory
Thursday, December 13, 2012
5 Fun Off-Broadway shows. . .
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
The "Al Pacino Show" finally opens officially
Friday, December 7, 2012
75-- and still Broadway worthy
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
an odd-ball but entertainment new solo show
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
As always-- the best theater is OFF Broadway
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Graeter's Ice Cream: The real star of Dead Accounts
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A Kosher Story with Universal appeal. . .
Friday, November 23, 2012
Curtainup'.com in London
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
A winning revival of Augustw Wilson's Pulitzer Prize Winner
Saturday, November 17, 2012
We review Cusi Crum's new play
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Friday, November 16, 2012
A thriller that fails to thrill
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At last, a substantial new musical
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
My candidate for the best theatrical bargain around
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Hwang's play better now than the original
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My candidate for the most fun new/old show
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My candidate for most unnecessary new play
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Chekhov's first play well worth seeing
Monday, November 5, 2012
A whale-sized man is hard to look at-- or away from
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Movie & Masterpiece stars Make The Heiress new again
Monday, October 29, 2012
A Connecticut musical that could be Browadway bound. . .
You won't go broke seeing Sowa's Red Gravy
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Philadelphia premiere review
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Philadelphia premier review
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Friday, October 26, 2012
For escapist fun, see The Other Josh Cohen
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Norwegian playwright premieres in West Village
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
theater goers invited to odd "open house"
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Terrorism could be but isn't funny. . .
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Tolstoy to an electro pop beat. . .
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
A painful story, well dramatized in DC
Sunday, October 14, 2012
A bravura Michal Cristofer in new off-Broadway play
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An exciting Brial Friel from the Irish Rep
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Another up and coming Brit fnds an American home
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The Footr playwriting legacy continues
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Our London critic's been a busy bee. . .
Here are links our busy London Lizzie's latest postings
Our Boys
- Television and film stars Arthur Darvill , Laurence Fox and Matthew
Lewis are in a revival of Jonathan Lewis’ 1993 play set in the Queen
Elizabeth Military Hospital in Woolwich in 1984 where the British army
would treat its sick. Some were wounded in conflicts, some in the
Faulklands, other victims in Northern Ireland or of bombings on the
mainland as well as army personnel or their families needing medical
intervention. . . .
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The Enquirer
- Directors and Editors, Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany with
author Andrew O’Hagan have the imagination and skill to have turned this
mass of words into exciting theatre as they explore the theme of “how
British journalism has fallen so low?” . . .
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Fireface
- Marius von Mayenburg’s early non-compromising study of two German
teenagers in a dysfunctional family whose dysfunctional behaviour spills
into outside society with terrible consequences. . . .
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Berenice>
Alan Hollinghurst’s blank verse translation makes Racine accessible as
opposed to those interminable speeches in French . . .
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Paul Merton's Out of My Head -Paul Merton’s strength is working off script, something difficult to recreate on the West End staged . . .
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Broadway takes a look at faith. . .
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