Cagney: entertaining big-little musical about tough guy movie star James Cagney

Cagney - This small musical about one of Hollywood's favorite tough guys is big on top-drawer acting, choreography and witty direction. . . . Read More

3 new reviews from Curtainup's London critic

McQueen British designer #Alexander McQueen is celebrated in this stylish new play by James Phillips but . . . Read More

High Society An unusual production from Maria Friedman of this #Cole Porter musical on the Old Vic's reconfigured circular stage . . . Read More

Communicating Doors A#lan Ayckbourn's clever time travelling farce gets a revival at the magical Menier . . . R

Nice Girl-- Meliss Ross's touching look at lives of quiet discontent

Nice Girl - The nuanced acting and moving dialogue make you overlook that #Melissa Ross seems to have set her play in the wrong decade . . . Read More

CurtainupNewLinks: OCC"s awards ceremony is actually fun

CurtainupNewLinks: OCC"s awards ceremony is actually fun: An Awards Ceremony Without Tension . . . and That's Actually Fun By Elyse Sommer ...

OCC"s awards ceremony is actually fun

An Awards Ceremony Without Tension . . . and That's Actually Fun

By Elyse Sommer

Lin-Manuel Miranda, this seasons superstar with audiences and critics. It seemed as every OCC party guest wanted to shake hands, take his picture and get his signature on their program which listed him for Outstanding Book and New Score of a Musical.

  . . .unlike so many entertainment industry awards events, the Outer Critics Circle awards party has a cozy aura of informality and lack of tension that has earned the organization its designation as the best and most fun awards party in New York. . . .

Our Berkshire summer coverage begins with Butler

Berkshires

Butler - #Barrington Stage Company opens its 2015 second stage season with the unusual production of #Richard Strand's play based on an actual historical event of the American #Civil War. . .

A classic as only #Elevator Repair Service can stage it

ew York Off-Broadway

The Sound and the Fury - Elevator Repair Service is back at the Public with its highly kinetic staged reading of a portion of William Faulkner's novel. . . Read More

Hand to God author taks had to female butts in Permission

Permission - No puppet to buoy Robert Askins' new play about another offbeat Christian practice . . Read More

Annie Baker's not to be missed The Flick back in NY

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The Flick - Another chance to see #Annie Baker's ground breaking Pulitzer prize winning play . . Read More

The Way We Get By seesNeil LaBute in a romantic mood

New York Off-Broadway

The Way We Get By - Neil# LaBute in a romantic mood, though still with a twist, at Second Stagee. . Read More

Athol Fugard on rocks with stories to tell

The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek - Athol Fugard is one of our most successful contemporary pliaywrights. Yet he feels a close kinship to outsider artists like the South African rock painter at the center of his new play . . . Read More

Toast- brings back famous prison riot

Toast - Attica, 1971. The famous prison on the eve of its infamous riots is the setting for Lemon Andersen's play.

Forever -- a monologue powered by its narrator-writer's strong presence

Forever - Dael Orlandersmith's soul-baring and often lyrical solo arrives at New York Theatre Workshop. . . Rea

Bring back the "earworm musical"?

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New Feature: Why We Shouldn't Get Rid of Earworms As Part of the Musical Theater Experience