Sing Street-- unites creatives from One-- at NYTW

New York Off-Broadway

Sing Street - based on John Carney's 2016 feature film of the same name Sing Street teams up many of the creatives from Once which was also launched at New York Theatre Workshop Read More

Harry Towsend's Last Stand- N

New York Off-Broadway

Harry Towsend's Last Stand- Nothing in Eastman's play, directed by Karen Carpenter, comes close to the meticulousness of the stage itself. Read Mor

Jagged Little Pill review at curtainup.com

Broadway Jagged Little Pill The latest Broadway jukebox looks great, sounds great, but rings hollow. Read More

Judgment Day --at the Park Avenue Armory

New York Off-Broadway

Judgment Day - Descriptive Excerpt: A 1937 play that feels very much of the moment is given an operatic staging at the Park Avenue Armory Read More

Review of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven HalfwHalfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven -ay Bitches Go Straight to Heaven -

New York Off-Broadway

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven - Atlantic and LAByrinth Theater Companies team back up with Stephen Adly Guirgis for the playwright's first new work since the Pulitzer-winning Between Riverside and Crazy in 2014Read More

The epic two-parter, The Inheritance reviewed at Curtainup

Broadway
The Inheritance, Part One & Part Two -This award-winning production of a new American play arrives from London ’s West End with a top-notch cast, almost seven hours of engrossing dialogue, and an array of challenging themes. Read More

Cyrano-- the New Group's musical stars Peter Dinklage-- he sings, but no big nose. . .

1/05/20! Read More
New York Off-Broadway

Cyrano -Peter Dinklage does Cyrano without that famous appendage. . .but his Cyrano does sing. Read More

Dr. Ride's American Beach House -- historicaly inspired off-Broadway debut for Liza Berkenmeier

New York Off-Broadway

Dr. Ride's American Beach House - Liza Berkenmeier's historically inspired play offers a meditation on queer desire and repression. Read More

Little Shop of Horrors-- back to its Off-Broadway roots-- better than ever

New York Off-Broadway

Little Shop of Horrors - Mayer convincingly sells Little Shop of Horrors as a near-perfect piece of musical theater writing. Read More

The Michaels-- anoher dinner in Rhinebeck play

The Michaels: Conversations During Difficult Times - beautifully acted and meticulously directed by its author Richard NelsonRead More

A pared down Maxbeth at Classic Stage

Macbeth - Though John Doyle breaks the rules in all the right ways, newbies to the play are likely to t become confused at times by its gender-blind casting and the nine cast members who play multiple roles in this all-hands-on-deck production

Seared-- A tasty theatrical treat by Theresa Rebeck

w York Off-Broadway

Seared - Theresa Rebeck's literslly tasty comic take on art versus commerce is having its New York premiere at the beutiful new MCC Thesters's intimate Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater. Read Mor

Is This A Room -- our review of new documentary at the Vineyard Theater

New York Off-Broadway

Is This A Room - As an animation of a single document, that feels like a refreshingly innovative concept. Read More

Scott, PA -- an occasional clever version of Macbad as a musical

New York Off-Broadway

Scotland, PA - It's all very irreverent, casual, and American-- but is there enough Shakespeare to go along with its ambience? After all, the language has almost entirely gone missing here, so that the show counts on the spirit of the original to live in this equal-opportunity approach to Shakespeare. Still the Bard doesn't belong to any single class, race, creed, or geographical locale. He belongs to anybody with the imagination to transplant his tales to fresh new places. And, thanks to the musical's creative team that now includes the little town of Scotland, PA Read More

A welcome return of: for colored girls for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

1/05/20! Read More
New York Off-Broadway

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - Director Leah C. Gardiner has crafted a production nourished by the affection shown and attention paid across this rainbowed community Read More

Bella Bella timely solo play about Bella Abzug that doesn't quite make it as a play

New York Off-Broadway

Bella Bella - Harvey Fierstone's biographical solo play is filled to the brim with Bella Abzug's trenchant wit and wisdom. For older theater goers, it's a trip down memory lane that spans many administrations, detailing presidential good deeds as well as the all too frequent surrenders to political expediency. . . for millenials it's an enlightening history lesson Read More

forbidden bway Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation - STILL GREAT FUN

New York Off-Broadway
.
Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation - How did we survive this long interval without Alessandrini's insightful satirizing and inspired spoofing of Broadway shows both current and on occasion recent past? This corner welcomes it back as it again demonstrates that it has what it takes to mock the mediocre even as it also joyously celebrates the parodic life upon the wicked stage Read More

The Sound Inside-- a beutifully written 2-hander

Broadway
The Sound Inside - beautifully written/emotionally involving play by Adam Rappl Starring Mary Louise ParkerRead More

Linda Vista-- Trcy Leets takes on a modern misanthrope's mid-life crisis

Broadway
Linda Vista - Descriptive Excerpt: If the title were not already taken by a much produced French classic, Tracy Letts might well have called his play about a middle-aged guy who hates everything and everyone — including himself Read More

Soft Power: Flawed but fun and unquesionably original

New York Off-Broadway

Soft Power - With the key cast members as well as director, choreographer aboard , David Henry Hwang's and Jeanine Tesori's genre busting Soft Power has arrived in New York. I can't think of a better place than the Public's Newman Theater for it to find an audience ready to buy into Hwang's dazzlingly original but flawed mash up of fact and fiction.Read More

The Great Society --the 2nd of Robert Shenkkan's LBJ plays

Broadway
The Great Society - If you invest the time and money to watch Cox's LBJ get all these bills that made America greater than ever passed, I suspect you'll exit the theater fervently hoping that Robert Shenkkan — or some playwright — - will soon have the facts to write a play to fit the title The Rise and Fall of Donald J. Trump. Read More

There's plenty right about The Wrong Man

New York Off-Broadway

The Wrong Man With the help of Hamilton's director Thomas Kail and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire, Ross Golan's almost two dozen story telling songs became the musical, The Wrong Man, now premiering at MCC's beautiful new theater in Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan. Read More

Slave Play now on Broadway

Broadway
Slave Play - Jeremy O. Harris's uncompromising, graphic, sexually explicit play Read More

Free Style Love Supreme-- hip-hops to Broadway

Broadway

Free Style Love Supreme - This isn't an introspective show. No group member attempts to persuade you that anything done on stage is IMPORTANT. What IS important, however, is the shared theatrical experience between the artists and audience members and finding truth in the moment.Read More

The New Englander-- new look at fa,mily drama with too many plot threads

New York Off-Broadway

The New Englanders - The changes in the typical American family (if ever there really was one outside of Rockwell's famous idyllc canvases and 1940s movies) are indeed welcome. But these now acceptable new family units have brought on new new issues to deal with. And it t should thus not come as a surprise that the marriages possible in our more open minded societies don't all follow a blissfully ever after path Read More

Broadway The Height of the Storm - Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce manage to turn Florian Zeller's overly clever script into a truly unmissable point counterpoint duet. Read More

The Height of the Storm-- Florian zeller is blessed to have Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce on board

roadway

The Height of the Storm - Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce manage to turn Florian Zeller's overly clever script into a truly unmissable point counterpoint duet. R

Shaw's Caesar and Cleopara in a witty, engaging new production

Caesar and Cleopara -Shaw is always Shaw, and in a way his work always speaks for itself. Viewed through that lens, this Caesar and Cleopatra is a witty, engaging, and thought-provoking success. Read More

Sunday -- by Jack Thorne but without any of Harry Potter's magic. . .

New York Off-Broadway

Sunday - Expectations for any play written by Jack Thorne. . .but the magic of Harry Potter is missing from his take on a book group that brings together a group of 20-something friends. . Read More

Kingfishers Catch Fire Kingfishers Catch Fire - at the Irish Rep

Kingfishers Catch Fire - Although superbly staged and acted, this is not light entertainment. However, who go will have a rare theatrical experience that will linger after the house lights go down.Read More

runboyrun & In old Age consitinues Mfoniso Udofia’s play cycle

runboyrun & In Old Age - The latest addition so Mfoniso Udofia’s unquestionably compelling cycle of plays Read More

Sunday, a new play by Jack Thorne, could use some Harry Potter Magic

New York Off-Broadway

Sunday - Expectations for any play written by Jack Thorne. . .but the magic of Harry Potter is missing from his take on a book group that brings together a group of 20-something friends. . Read More

Our review Novenas for a Lost Hospital at the Rattlestick

New York Off-Broadway

Novenas for a Lost Hospital - Small miracles bookend Rattlestick Theater's Novenas for a Lost Hospital in Greenwich Village. Read More

Fern Hill--Good cast but over-ambitious play

New York Off-Broadway

Fern Hill - Michael Tucker's dramedy adds up to a pleasant two hours, thanks to excellent actors and helpful staging by director Nadia Tass. . .Read More

. American Moor - Red Biull Theater's new production

New York Off-Broadway

American Moor - There's a white man sitting in the audience taking notes at this American MoorRead More

A Very Expensive Poison-- Our London critic reviews Lucy Prebble"s political drama

London


A Very Expensive Poison - Lucy Prebble's new play exposes a political, murderous regimeRead More

Correction on my Part 2 Binge feature

 Correction:   The  intriguing  Israeli   show  is  about  the Shtisel  family!

 

Thursday, September 12, 2019

More binging at Curtainup: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & Shitsel

More  binging  at  Curtainup com
www.curtainup.com/streamingpart2.html
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  & Shitsel

at 7:43 AM No comments:

More binging at Curtainup: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & Shitsel

More  binging  at  Curtainup com
www.curtainup.com/streamingpart2.html
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  & Shitsel

Harvey Fierstein's iTorch Song in new London theater

London


Torch Song In the brand new Turbine Theatre in the shadow of Battersea Power Station, Drew McOnie directs Harvey Fierstein's iconic Torch Song with a star performance from Matthew Needham . .

Pinter's Betrayal with impressive Broadway debuts. . .

roadway

Betrayal - Jamie Lloyd directs a compelling, minimalist take on Pinter's play with impressive Broadway debuts by Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston. Read More

Felix Starro-- a musical about Filipino Americans by Filipino Americans

New York Off-Broadway

Felix Starro - The world premiere of Jessica Hagedorn and Fabian Obispo's new musical, kicks off Ma-Yi Theatre Company's 30th anniversary season. Its being the first created by Filipino-Americans about Filipino-Americans is indeed a milestone worth celebrating. . . Read More

How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

FEATURES
How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

FEATURES
How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

Make Believe--our critic liked the kids better than the grown-ups they became

New York Off-Broadway

Make Believe - In Bss Wohl's new play a shimmering quartet of young performers (all under 14, two of them under 10), kids marking time in their playroom attic while they wait, much too long, for their mom to come home. Read More

Moby Dick-Rehearsed-- hits choppy waters in LA

California

Moby Dick - Rehearsed - Even with the Theatricum's considerable playmaking resources and expertise, it's an underwhelming end to an epic tale. Kudos certainly to the Theatricum for taking us out to sea. Would that the waters were smoother. Read More

Topdog/Underdog revived at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox

Berkshire Reviews

Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize winning play at Shakespeare Company in Lenox Read More

Fall Springs -- the Berkshire Lab's latest musical

Berkshire Reviews

Fall Springs - this musical's story is politically pointed and the acting and music campy enough to make for what is probably the most entertaining evening about hydro fracking that anyone could ever imagine. Read More

Before the Meeting--a world premiere at Williamstown

New Post
Berkshire Reviews

Before the Meeting - Williamstown Theatre Festival's premiere at the intimate Nikos Stage, is a 70-80 minute visit with four addicts prior to their daily 12-step meeting in a church b

Befpre the Meeting-- a world premiere at Williamstown's Nikos Stage

Berkshire Reviews

Before the Meeting - Williamstown Theatre Festival's premiere at the intimate Nikos Stage, is a 70-80 minute visit with four addicts prior to their daily 12-step meeting in a church basement. Read More

The Acting Company pairs Shakespeare and Richard Wright

ew York Off-Broadway

Measure for Measure and Native Son - Descriptive Excerpt: Richard Wright and William Shakespeare are justly praised for their depth and breadth of thought; I wish that in the zeal to focus them on single concepts, these productions didn't reduce their works as much as they do. Read More

Sea Wall/A Life-- A star Driven Broadway Transfer

Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway - It would be nice to see these linked monologues by Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in an intimate setting. In stead, the actors' star power have now brought it for a limited run to the even larger Hudson Theater on Broadway Read More

Bat Out of Hell -- from hit albums to the musical stage

New York Off-Broadway

Bat Out of Hell: The Musical - this is a rock concert for rock lovers repelled by rock concerts. Read More