Reviews and comprehensive listings of theatre in New York City http://www.nytheatre.com Copyright (c) 2008 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, 09 May 2008 09:47:42 EDT The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, Irish by Birth, English by Blood, and American by Inclination. The style of the show is embedded in that mouthful: here is a play that mashes up classic swashbuckling romance (the part of the title before the colon) with classical Greek tragedy, and playful meta-theatrical parody with a serious investigation of what it means to be an American (both in the 1770s, when the play is set, and today).]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=acci6605 Thu, 08 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Endgame is funny; but it is also uniquely unfunny. The famous line, spoken by Nagg, is "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." It's a truth, but it's not a solution. How then, to approach delivering the laugh lines in Endgame? Are they punchlines? Or should they be sent into the ether like puffs of smoke? In the production current running at BAM, the focus seems to be on a muscular and vibrant version of the play, which works intermittently.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=endg5688 Thu, 08 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT The Unconquered, with enough wry humor to easily transfix the audience for an uninterrupted 75 minutes. Using his own blend of parody, Greek chorus, June Cleaver, and teenage rage, Betts comes up with a potent brew that is surprising, compelling, and unpredictable.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=unco6676 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East might help me see things in a new way, understand the situation differently, maybe even awaken a new feeling about what's happening in this political hotbed. Sadly, I was disappointed by how little I felt in response]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=feve6383 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT The 5 Borough Plays is a 75-minute ode to a beloved New York by an adoring New York theatre company. For this program, five playwrights were randomly assigned a borough. The results are inspired and highly entertaining.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=5bor6719 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT All Eyes and Ears, playwright Rogelio Martinez brilliantly uses this fear to create a dynamic power struggle that stirs your senses scene by scene.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=all6472 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Fans of Tennessee Williams are in for a treat. The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) has revived The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Williams's rewrite of Summer and Smoke, not seen in New York for thirty years. Williams, who compulsively rewrote his plays, preferred this version, although Summer and Smoke, which was filmed with the great Geraldine Page, is far better known.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=ecce6504 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Me feels like the most important new American play of the season; anybody who is interested in the future of the theatre and/or the future of the world really needs to see it. Me is a happening—the kind of immersive, involving theatre event that we hear about from the '60s but almost never experience nowadays. It marks a new and remarkable direction for playwright Kirk Wood Bromley, and it reflects an exciting collaboration with director Alec Duffy and composer John Gideon.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=me6735 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Elections & Erections is a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, at La MaMa for three nights only (and as I write this, you've already missed the first one). It's a great cause, and a great show; it's one of those win-win situations where no matter why you've come to see it, you will be a better person for having done so.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=elec6686 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Phallic Fables: A Rabelaisian Epic is about the absence of sex, though erect cardboard penises do play a prominent role in the production.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=phal6722 Mon, 05 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Pokin the Bears in a Zoo almost feels like a mashup of Sam Shepard, Tracy Letts, and Harold Pinter. As these sources/antecedents should suggest, it's about an extremely dysfunctional family, though unlike the ones typically found in works by those three gentlemen I named, the Sternos clan actually really cares deeply about one another, although sometimes they show it in scary ways.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=hey6617 Mon, 05 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT Thurgood was anything other than perfunctory.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=thur6417 Mon, 05 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT The Devil and Tom Walker is nytheatre.com's Pick of the Week: Washington Irving's lighthearted morality tale about a miser who sells his soul to the devil is the basis for this delightful new musical from Metropolitan Playhouse. The songs are by Rob Kendt; text is by Anthony P. Pennino.]]> http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/the_list.php Sun, 04 May 2008 01:01:01 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=6834 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:23:55 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coupon.php?t=6331 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:17:44 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/new.php Mon, 05 May 2008 09:47:42 EDT http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/coming.php Mon, 05 May 2008 09:47:42 EDT