Time is a bitch. That’s pretty much the gist of Time and the Conways, J.B. Priestley’s 1937 drawing room meditation on the concept, which opened in a muddled and bizarrely outfitted revival last night at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre. Despite…
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ Shows Plenty of Skin, Skimps on Danger Off-Broadway: REVIEW
New York’s latest hot spot has arrived off-Broadway. It’s got everything: indie club beats from the likes of Bowie and Gossip, a crowd sprinkled with your Grindr faves, and of course, ripped, half-naked men shouting so as to be heard but only partial…
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No Tea, No Shade — Off-Broadway’s ‘Charm’ Wants You to Behave: REVIEW
Listen up, children — class is in session. But this isn’t like any school you’ve enrolled in before. Your teacher will be Miss Darleena Andrews; you can call her Miss Darleena, Miss Andrews, or simply: Mama. Lesson No. 1? Mama does not play. The lead…
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Off-Broadway’s ‘Afterglow’ Asks If Sex Is Ever Without Strings: REVIEW
From moans that arise in the dark, to the tangle of naked men revealed when the curtain disappears, it’s immediately clear that Afterglow aims to be frank and explicit about sex. But the insightful new play, which opened June 23 in the intimate Loft…
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Broadway’s ‘1984’ Won’t Make You Vomit — At Least Not for the Reason You Think: REVIEW
Audience members are reportedly puking and fainting at the Hudson Theatre, where a stage adaptation of 1984 opened June 22. It’s true that watching a protagonist for the resistance get brutally maimed by the state is not for the faint at heart. But t…
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Matthew Perry Is the Drunk Who Gets the Girl in ‘The End of Longing’ Off-Broadway: REVIEW
The End of Longing is banking on your love of shiny things. Chief among them is Matthew Perry, who wrote and stars in the four-person play, which opened off-Broadway last night at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The former Friends star also says that the…
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Michael Urie Will Keep You Laughing About Russia in ‘The Government Inspector’ Off-Broadway: REVIEW
The last time we saw Michael Urie off-Broadway, he was trapped in Barbra Streisand’s basement. (How innocent we were then!) Now, like the dignity of most White House advisors, he’s in Russia — where his boozy lothario is mistaken for the title…
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‘Angels in America’ a Career High for Andrew Garfield: REVIEW
As the first half of the U.K. National Theatre’s new production of Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner’s two-part theatrical epic, draws to a close, Andrew Garfield’s AIDS patient Prior Walter has a fever dream in which an angel comes to him w…
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A Queer Conman Disrupts Social Boundaries in Tame Revival of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ – REVIEW
By the time a naked hustler tumbles onto the stage of the Barrymore Theatre, where a stylish but tame revival of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation opened last night, the man who snuck him into a couple’s posh Manhattan apartment ought to seem li…
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‘Anastasia’ the Musical Might Just Make a Princess Out of You Yet: REVIEW
Who doesn’t want to discover they’re secretly a princess and lead that glamorous life? (If anyone tries to deny this flat-out, I’m sorry but they’re lying.) Such is the cloying lure of Anastasia, a new musical that opened on Broadway last night, base…
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