Read more theater reviews stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/38288/theater-reviews.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-12T19:32:32http://www.newser.com/story/79066/johansson-wows-in-a-view-from-a-bridge.htmlScarlett Johansson is getting rave reviews for her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge . Here’s what the critics are saying: Scarlett Johansson proves to be “this season's most inspired piece of movie-star casting,” writes Elysa Gardner of USA Today . Her “youthful sensuality and capacity for good-natured...http://www.newser.com/story/79066/johansson-wows-in-a-view-from-a-bridge.html2010-01-25T13:19:00http://www.newser.com/story/78606/obama-musical-silly-propaganda-and-bad-songs.htmlHope—The Obama Musical Story is not political, insists its composer—“Right, but only in the sense that Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will was just a documentary.” The musical premiered in Germany (where the president is still a “messiah”), and it’s pure “political propaganda”—not to mention “premature,” writes...http://www.newser.com/story/78606/obama-musical-silly-propaganda-and-bad-songs.html2010-01-19T17:29:04http://www.newser.com/story/76115/zeta-jones-broadway-debut-luminous.htmlCatherine Zeta-Jones returns to the stage—and makes her Broadway debut—in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music , which opened last night to mixed reviews: The musical, which centers around “the complexly amorous adventures of a group of upper-class characters” in turn-of-the-century Sweden, was long overdue for a revival, and...http://www.newser.com/story/76115/zeta-jones-broadway-debut-luminous.html2009-12-14T18:00:00http://www.newser.com/story/72435/sienna-miller-on-broadway-legs-10-acting-0.htmlCritics agree on one thing when it comes to Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut: She looks hot. Her performance in After Miss Julie , however, wowed exactly no one: Ben Brantley was rooting for Miller from the start, but ultimately she “registers as a healthy, sane young woman with good diction, good...http://www.newser.com/story/72435/sienna-miller-on-broadway-legs-10-acting-0.html2009-10-23T15:50:50http://www.newser.com/story/62894/hathaway-stuns-in-twelfth-night-under-the-stars.htmlNew York theater critics are giving raves to this summer's free outdoor production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night , starring Anne Hathaway. For Charles Isherwood of the New York Times , Hathaway has "the unmistakable glow of a natural star" and invests the shipwrecked Viola with "a bright humor that feel spontaneous and...http://www.newser.com/story/62894/hathaway-stuns-in-twelfth-night-under-the-stars.html2009-06-26T13:08:25http://www.newser.com/story/60972/jude-laws-hamlet-slays-critics.htmlJude Law took to the stage last night for the opening performance of Hamlet in London, and newspapers were largely impressed by the actor's take on the melancholy Dane. In the Telegraph , Charles Spencer writes that Law showed "rare vulnerability and emotional openness" in Shakespeare's toughest role. Dressed in black...http://www.newser.com/story/60972/jude-laws-hamlet-slays-critics.html2009-06-04T16:03:39http://www.newser.com/story/53890/new-bilingual-west-side-story-tender-uneven.htmlThe highly anticipated revival of West Side Story on Broadway opened last night to solid reviews, with critics applauding an unusually tender interpretation in which the women rule. Highlights: “Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur Laurents’s startlingly sweet...http://www.newser.com/story/53890/new-bilingual-west-side-story-tender-uneven.html2009-03-20T16:44:34http://www.newser.com/story/50133/no-misunderestimating-ferrell-as-dubya.htmlIt’s not quite a landslide, but critics mainly agree that Will Ferrell gets his mission accomplished in lampooning the 43rd president with his Broadway show, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush . Though Saturday Night Live viewers will see the “retread” in Ferrell’s “loopy extrapolation” on Bush,...http://www.newser.com/story/50133/no-misunderestimating-ferrell-as-dubya.html2009-02-06T19:05:49