Carrie Cracknell’s ‘A Doll’s House’ restores Ibsen’s power

It takes only minutes for this outstanding production of "A Doll's House" to grab you — and that's before a word of Ibsen's 1879 classic about an increasingly desperate housewife is spoken. For this London import, director Carrie Cracknell placed the...

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Mormons say faithful aren’t taught they get their own planets

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon Church is pushing back against the notion that members of the faith are taught they'll get their own planet in the afterlife, a misconception popularized in pop culture most recently by the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon."...

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Bill goes ugly

In cheering the mayor's decision to take away space promised to three charter schools run by Eva Moskowitz — leaving hundreds of children without a school for next year — Bill de Blasio ally Bertha Lewis hailed it as justice: "Eva Moskowitz got away...

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Casino advantage

We've long been dubious about casinos — especially when promoted on the grounds that they will revitalize economically depressed upstate areas. We now we have new reason for skepticism: Turns out the casinos may not be built in the areas they are supposed...

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A cop-killer’s flack

As director of litigation for the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, Debo Adegbile put himself at the center of a public campaign on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Now President Obama has nominated this man to head the civil-rights division...

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Funds underperform, but hedge fund kings rake in $24.3 billion

Hedge-fund titans are still the kings of Wall Street. Last year, the top 25 hedge-fund earners pulled down $24.3 billion, up about 50 percent from 2012, according to a report Wednesday. The mouth-watering moolah poured in while most hedge funds in...

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Facebook tries to woo advertisers away from TV

Facebook highlighted on Wednesday two advertising campaigns in an attempt to persuade advertisers that its massive membership base and ability to hone in on specific audiences makes it a more effective advertising platform than broadcast TV. The No....

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Dream Homes

$17.4 million | 177 E. 71st St. A three-year nip/tuck has transformed this 20-foot-wide, eight-bedroom, six-bathroom, 6,700-square-foot red brick Neo-Federal townhouse into modern greatness, while preserving its early 20th-century charms. It boasts...

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Herbalife donated money to 5 supportive Hispanic groups

Herbalife recently donated money to five of the seven Hispanic groups that signed a letter last week supporting the company, The Post has learned. The donations were not disclosed and were only admitted by Herbalife after a reporter contacted three...

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Irish eyes are smiling

Count the New York City Council "out" — of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, that is. This week, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, announced the council will not have an "official presence" at next month's annual parade up Fifth Avenue. But, she added, "individual...

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Mayor cuffed by his own crusade

One problem with getting yourself arrested for a principle is that you wind up stuck with a record. So it was with Bill de Blasio, who accepted plastic wrist restraints on behalf of Long Island College Hospital last summer — and so acquired full moral...

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New York & Company to move as part of Penn Plaza surge

Women's-apparel retailer New York & Co. signed a new lease and will move its headquarters to nearly 180,000 square feet in the Vornado Realty Trust building at 330 W. 34th St., The Post first reported on its website Tuesday. The real-estate investment...

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Target Newark

Another front in the war against stop-and-frisk opened across the Hudson this week in Newark. It reminds us that the damage federal Judge Shira Scheindlin did when she dishonored our police will not be limited to New York if her ruling is allowed to...

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Pair of publishers join Modern Luxury’s sales team

Modern Luxury, the regional magazine publisher, has landed two veteran publishers to bolster its national sales team. Marcy Bloom, who headed to Ghana to work with orphans after her job as publisher of Lucky magazine ended a year ago, has landed as...

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Another exit at Time Inc.

Fran Hauser, one of the top digital people at Time Inc., is exiting. The well-respected executive had been president of digital for the old Entertainment & Style Group that included People and In Style, as well the Lifestyle Group that included...

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Bloomberg’s Bolton signs off, heads to Fox

In the continuing shuffle of business news networks' anchor chairs, on Friday Bloomberg TV lost Deirdre Bolton to Fox Business Network, sources tell On the Money. There is believed to be an announcement in the next few days detailing Bolton's assignment,...

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Millennials have little tolerance for stocks, risk

The Great Recession is haunting today's millennials. New York public high-school teacher Brian Heiss is hardworking and as financially conservative as someone born during the Great Depression —and a surprising new study reveals that his approach is...

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Shut the Buc up: Sapp silenced

Warren Sapp's bust in Canton would be wise to shut its yap now. And make room for the gap-toothed bust representing the New York Football Giants. Michael Strahan wasn't the dynamic force of nature Lawrence Taylor was. Strahan didn't revolutionize the...

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Christie blasts Bridgegate accuser amid new accusations

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Saturday blasted "Bridgegate'' accuser David Wildstein as someone who'll "do and say anything to save David Wildstein." Christie criticized his high school classmate for claiming that "evidence exists" that the governor...

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Italian wine company working to snag de Blasio

A mayor who eats pizza with a knife and fork must have a weakness for a good bottle of Barolo. That, at least, was the thinking at Vinitaly, a Verona, Italy-based group that promotes Italian vino worldwide. For the past month and a half, Vinitaly has...

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Amanda Knox: I’ll be a fugitive

Amanda Knox risks extradition to Italy if she leaves the United States following her new murder conviction by an appeals court in Florence. In the US, many who followed the seven-year case view her as the victim of an out-of-control legal process. She'll...

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Strahan on the cusp of scoring his Hall-of-Fame nod

When Jim Fassel was the offensive coordinator for the Cardinals, he had to figure out a way to block Michael Strahan not once, but twice a season. This was a young Strahan, not yet a finished product, and yet Fassel often found himself stumped. "I had...

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Mets loan restructuring shows team’s finances are healing

To build upon what already had been a successful Mets offseason, surely their long-suffering fans would have preferred a Stephen Drew signing or a veteran bullpen arm to provide some coverage for Bobby Parnell's return from neck surgery. Instead, when...

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Inequality obsessions

During a recent lunch in a ­restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume, even though we'd been in a car together for about half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My...

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Pro-choice advocates poorly defending their cause

Wendy Davis, a Democratic state senator running to replace Rick Perry as governor of Texas, owes her political stardom to two things: a pair of pink sneakers and her unstinting support for a woman's right to terminate a late-term pregnancy in a substandard...

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