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

Saturday, April 21, 2012

The critics  agree  Clybourne Park  is  a  terrifi neighborhood. . .
Clybourne Park- if you havent seen Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize winning play, don't miss its Broadway production. If you saw it at Playwrights Horizon, you'll find a second viewing just as rewarding 

 www.curtainup.com/clybournepark.html
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The critics  are also laughing their heads off at Richard Bean's farce. . .
One Man, Two Guvnors
- American audiences get an A-class taste of British humor via Richard Bean's coup-de-farce . . .
www.curtainup.com/onemantwoguvny.html 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

New On/Off Broadway this week

New York
End of the Rainbow- Peter Qulter's bioplay with music is an acting tour-de-force but don't expect the Judy everybody adores . . .

4000 Miles— Amy Herzog's 2-hander bets another run at the Mitzi Mewhouse. . .

Gore Vidal’s The Best Man - What could be more amusing in this election year than oodles of snappy and insinuating dialogue that earnestly and humorously recalls a time when the delegates at a convention could actually surprise us with their votes? . . .

The Taming of the Shrew- Theatre for a New Audience’s production takes us back to the American frontier of the late 19th century, and gives Shakespeare’s knockabout farce a fresh pioneer spirit. . . .