Reviews and comprehensive listings of theatre in New York City http://www.nytheatre.com Copyright (c) 2009 by The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.nytheatre.com http://www.nytheatre.com/images/logo_web_feed.gif Reviews and comprehensive listings of theatre in New York City 25 88 en-us listings@nytheatre.com (Martin Denton) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:22:12 EST Idiot Savant leaves its audience with more questions than answers. Its unique and original nature, while almost never crystal clear, forces us to think, and see, in ways rarely required by traditional narrative.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=idio8687 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST The Hypochondriac may very well be the funniest play in New York right now. This is the latest incarnation of a contemporary re-imagining of Moliere's 1673 farce Le Malade Imaginaire undertaken by director Matthew AJ Gregory and three collaborators, Shira Gregory (his wife), Chris Harcum, and Greg Tito. Their work, which respects the original's framework, brings the piece thoroughly up to date.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=hypo9199 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST The Misunderstanding.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=misu9165 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Duchess in the Dark is a slimmed-down adaptation of John Webster's seminal revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (1613), deftly cut and directed by artistic director Mary Birnbaum. Exemplary of Jacobean revenge plays, Malfi tells the bloody story of the recently widowed titular Duchess and her ill-fated love with a court steward, Antonio. Her brothers, wanting to protect their claim to the inheritance and driven by incestuous jealousy of their sister's suitor, concoct a series of elaborate schemes that start with spying, escalate to murder, and end up destroying most everyone involved in a bloodbath ending typical of the genre. Also there is a werewolf--I love Jacobean drama.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=duch9253 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=lily9009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Embraceable Me is an affable "He said – She said." It is a charming, smart two-hander and is ably, if a bit conservatively, directed by Eric Parness.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=embr9187 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Brecht on Brecht in their intimate space on Eighth Avenue, and the result is unlike any public presentation of theatre I've ever witnessed. With six of its actors propped on high bar chairs behind music stands (and the seventh, who serves essentially as the "conductor" of the show, stationed nearby), each in a casual variant of rehearsal/audition garb, and with the audience seated just a few feet away in two rows of folding chairs--well the feeling overall is of a recital among close friends.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=brec9195 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST El caballero del milagro launches itself at the audience at the speed of a flight of bumble bees, never to stop until its positively charming conclusion. For the thing about bumble bees is that they make honey. And this is a honeycombed production of the play, sweet, spirited, and joyful.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=elca9247 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Monster Uprising. The young theatre troupe has obviously worked overtime with most of the members pulling multiple duties to craft the production from soup to nuts (and these pieces most certainly are).]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=mons9174 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Made in Heaven seems decidedly silly: two fraternal twins named Max and Benjie who are conjoined at the penis are planning to propose to their mutual girlfriend; except that one of them is straight, and one of them is gay. What we end up with is literally a big, long, pointless dick joke. It's a setup suitable for a seven-minute sketch comedy routine, maybe; but impossible to sustain for an hour and a half.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=made9133 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST Love Child, in its current state at New World Stages, is pretty perfect theatrical entertainment.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=love8963 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EDT Brighton Beach Memoirs will close after just one week of performances, and that its companion piece, Broadway Bound, won't materialize at all. This is sad news, but I have to tell you that even though Brighton Beach is a very funny and very warm-hearted play, seeing it made me feel sad too.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=brig8591 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EDT Antigone is a modern, edgy, and poignant reinvisioning of the classic Greek tragedy. ]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=anti8935 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:01:01 EDT bauhaus the bauhaus, certainly illustrates some of these ideas: thematically, it roams through subjects related to art, craft, and the popular culture that often informs/is informed by art; and formatically, it lays bare the nuts and bolts of theatre production so that the audience witnesses not only the art being made but the technical and technological processes necessary to its making. The result is an entertaining and often edifying--if sometimes frustratingly abstract--hour of theatre. http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=bauh8948 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=bloo9153 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:01 EDT Love Child is nytheatre.com's Pick of the Week: In this very funny show, Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton play all of the people in a theatre--on stage and off--during a disastrous performance of an obscure Greek tragedy.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/the_list.php Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:01 EST http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=9240 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:38:02 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/new.php Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:22:12 EST http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coming.php Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:22:12 EST