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) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:33:54 EDT Behind the Bullseye and be prepared to have that myth blown to smithereens right before your eyes. This performance art investigation of consumer culture and all that it implies, as exemplified by the collisions of classes at a Target store in Brooklyn, is sharp and incisive and brilliantly funny.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=behi8535 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=cauc7903 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:01:01 EDT Third Wing (Tercer Cuerpo) retains a feeling of a long improv piece, with interactions between quirky characters serving as the driving force. The play takes place in a crumbling office in an obsolete department; we gradually learn the secrets each of the office workers within is hiding. While the dramatic heft of this device is needed to move the plot along, the real delight lies in the nuance and insight the company brings to the banal space of the workplace.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=thir8542 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT December (Diciembre) is ambitious in its scope, but relies equally on the strength of the characters established. The play takes place on Christmas Eve, 2014, in a Chile at vicious war with Peru and Bolivia. Such themes as national character, violence, racism, and history are passionately approached through the point of view of three siblings.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=dece8543 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT Brief Shorts presented by the company was just the thing to begin a fine evening. They will be all over Manhattan and Queens in libraries and in parks through July 20th, so bring a picnic and even the kids. It's just the thing to fill an hour of your summer evening (or afternoon) with a bit of culture, color, and fun.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=brie8522 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT Reed in the Wind has the potential to be riveting and original theatre. Unfortunately, the lasting impression that this current production leaves is just that: potential. Billed as an "unusual Irish love story," the author has offered up the bones for a unique play, grounded in varying degrees of love, violence, metamorphosis, and a quest for understanding. Yet by the time the excessive, and under-directed, scenes have come and gone, shrouding the earlier story with a less compelling subplot of religious intolerance, one is left wondering exactly what McDonald wants his audience to see.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=reed8519 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT Darling it does not work to her advantage.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=darl8523 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT The Trouble with Doug, a new musical by Will Aronson (music and book) and Daniel Maté (lyrics and book), is billed as a "modern-day Metamorphosis," referring to the famous story by Kafka in which a man awakens one morning to discover that he's turned into a giant bug. Here, the title character turns into a human-sized slug, and the transformation doesn't just happen overnight. But don't come to this remarkable and heartfelt new show expecting either Kafkaesque alienation and angst or snarky postmodern spoof.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=trou8513 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT The Full Monty at Paper Mill Playhouse, directed by Mark S. Hoebee with choreography by Denis Jones, has a fun, playful cast with great comedic timing and—pardon the saying—great big balls. Though overlong at almost three hours and hampered by Terrence McNally's meandering book, The Full Monty is an enjoyable romp.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=full8344 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT Twelfth Night, or What You Will, the Bard's romantic comedy of mistaken identity and cross-dressing? With Hathaway, director Daniel Sullivan has assembled a cast so exiting that it could only be for a limited summer run at the Delacorte. Raul Esparza and Audra McDonald are Orsino and Olivia to Hathaway's Viola; Michael Cumpsty is the puritanical Malvolio; David Pittu is Feste the Clown; Jay O. Sanders and Julie White are the feisty Sir Toby Belch and Maria.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=twel8045 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT FUBAR is a play by Karl Gajdusek that has been brought to New York by 59E59 as the final entry in their Americans Off Broadway festival (this production comes from Project Y Theatre Company; it's their NYC debut). It tells the story of David and Mary, a married couple who have just moved to San Francisco from some unspecified other place, following the suicide of Mary's mother, Judith. Judith has left behind a house for them to live in, and a large collection of boxes for them to unpack, presumably containing her possessions, each of them labeled with a title like "Something I Did For Another Person" or, more simply, "For David."]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=fuba8349 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT Unmitigated Truth is hard to categorize or to pin down. In that way, it very much reflects the life and life choices of its creator-performer, Melvin Van Peebles. His program bio suggests that he's the guy the word polymath was coined to describe: in addition to his famous film Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song (which he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in), he is the author (book, music, and lyrics) of two Broadway musicals (Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death and Don't Play Us Cheap!) as well as mystery novels in French, cartoons, and a children's TV show (for which he won an Emmy Award). He's been a cable car driver and a stockbroker in Wall Street. Now, at the age of 76, he's giving audiences his version of a retrospective solo show. It's a marvelous theatre experience and not quite like anything I've ever seen before.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=unmi8570 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT The Full Monty is nytheatre.com's Pick of the Week: Elaine Stritch and a host of other great performers make this revival of the musical about six unemployed guys who become strippers a very entertaining evening of theatre.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/the_list.php Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/voices.php?t=freshfruit Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8650 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:08:25 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8609 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:08:25 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8649 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:08:25 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8648 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:08:25 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8622 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:18:31 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=8113 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:18:31 EDT Read brief interviews with participants in the Fresh Fruit Festival about their shows http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/voices.php?t=freshfruit Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/new.php Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:54 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coming.php Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:54 EDT