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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Mother Emanuel (The New York International Fringe Festival 2016) by Darryl Reilly

The dynamic cast is made up of Marquis Gibson, Lauren Shaye, Nicole Stacie and Christian Lee Branch. These four very talented performers all portray numerous characters during this 75-minut…

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Naked Brazilian (The New York International Fringe Festival 2016) by Darryl Reilly

Writer Gustavo Pace is the handsome, youthful and animated performer of this autobiographical exploration. He loudly rattles on in Portuguese and English while adequately portraying himself…

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Crimes and Crimes by Darryl Reilly

The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre presents this production. Since 2012, they have produced a number of the author's works in New York City and for this one it was decided to condense …

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Monday, August 8, 2016

Aaron Frankel: A great acting teacher by Darryl Reilly

Darryl Reilly, Critic "Speak up! Don't look at the floor! When you're onstage I want to see your talent not your training!" were among the sharp comments that Aaron Frankel bellowed at stude…

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Friday, August 5, 2016

Austin by Darryl Reilly

Thomas G. Waites has a long list of major credits that go back to the film "The Warriors" in 1979. As Austin, he gives one of the strangest performances in memory. It's a monotonously upbe…

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Monday, August 1, 2016

BenDeLaCreme's Inferno A-Go-Go by Darryl Reilly

"We're actually going to be talking about 14th century Italian literature," proclaims BenDeLaCreme near the start of his/her entertaining multimedia solo show" BenDeLaCreme's Inferno A-Go-Go…

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Darryl Reilly

The charming and charismatic Broadway leading man Santino Fontana performs the role of Elliot Rosewater with as much commitment as if he were playing J. Pierrepont Finch. Mr. Fontana's perf…

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Quietly by Darryl Reilly

"The characters in this play both the living and the dead are completely fictional." This statement explains the play's overall contrived quality. Both of the lead characters have such str…

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Strange Country by Darryl Reilly

These are among the choice zingers in playwright Anne Adams' emotionally raw, earthy and often very funny contemporary dysfunctional Texas-set, family drama, "Strange Country." This enterta…

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender by Darryl Reilly

Dressed in black slacks, a white shirt and a black vest, Ms. Wolpe demonstrates a fluid physicality and a soothing vocal expressiveness. Wolpe quite adeptly offers rich characterizations of…

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Friday, July 22, 2016

No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming by Darryl Reilly

Director Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…

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Monday, July 18, 2016

The Red Room by Darryl Reilly

After a less then engrossing hour of prattling and a too stylized presentation, in its last thirty minutes "The Red Room" becomes the powerful family drama it intends to be. The post The Red…

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Friday, July 15, 2016

Pillars of New York by Darryl Reilly

The score that Mr. Antin composed and wrote the lyrics for is a serviceable collection of songs that could possibly have succeeded in a show about the conflicts among married couples. Wedge…

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle) by Darryl Reilly

It is August 11, 2033, and there's a wild party happening because the world is ending. That's the setup of the exuberant one-hour multimedia fantasia "HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle)." Th…

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Out of the Mouths of Babes by Darryl Reilly

At one point stumbling around in a sleep mask and wearing a colorful nightgown, the 88 year-old Estelle Parsons has a field day as the 88 year-old Evelyn, a former journalist for The Interna…

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Thursday, June 30, 2016

WHO AM I by Darryl Reilly

A leggy dark blonde young woman with her hair pulled up, wearing a black skirt, a patterned short gray blouse and high heels walks through the audience and onto the bare black stage. She be…

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Romeo & Juliet (2016) by Darryl Reilly

The Wheelhouse Theater Company presents this fast-paced and faithful version of the romantic classic. Co-directors Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington have inventively pared down William Shakespea…

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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

STET by Darryl Reilly

Rolling Stone magazine's 2014 controversial article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house se…

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Monday, June 27, 2016

Woman in the Auditorium by Darryl Reilly

Darryl Reilly, Critic Paul Newman as The Stage ManagerCredit: Westport Country Playhouse/Everett Collection Recently on one of the NYC Subway Art Tours that I conduct (www.nycsubwaytour.c…

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

No-No Boy by Darryl Reilly

Chris Doi winningly conveys Ichiro's anguish and holds attention as this leading character with his emotional performance. The personable Glenn Kubota is deeply gentle as Pa, and Mr. Kubota…

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City by Darryl Reilly

Ms. Feiffer's rudimentary characters communicate by the sledgehammer approach to comedy. Until the mawkish finale there is a barrage of zingers, one-liners and vulgarisms. If a theatrical …

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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays by Darryl Reilly

"Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays" is produced by the theater company A Pixie Theory and is presented as part of The Planet Connections Festivity.The stated theme of the three plays is…

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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Confusions by Darryl Reilly

First performed in 1979, this is a relatively early work by the supreme British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) who is as of this writing up to his 79th play, "Hero's Welcome.' The new pl…

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Shining City by Darryl Reilly

Since his youthful career heyday of the 1980's with major roles on Broadway in Neil Simon plays and starring in the enduring cultural touchstone film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Mr. Broderic…

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Then Silence by Darryl Reilly

There's a cascade of military interrogations, implied torture, romantic interludes, sex talk, political sloganeering, vague reminiscences, and other semi-comprehensible digressions that fill…

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Darryl Reilly

This production combines the simplicity of the 1967 Off Broadway original version with the additions from the 1999 Broadway revival, using two of Mr. Lippa's songs and much of Mr. Mayer's ad…

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Half Moon Bay 2016 by Darryl Reilly

That's the familiar set up of author Dan Moyer's engaging contemporary romantic comedy of the two-character "Half Moon Bay." As Mr. Moyer's lost souls get to know each other, personal secr…

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future by Darryl Reilly

The book is an in-depth exploration of the lives, mentalities, and views of notable writers about theater criticism in the present. It's really only for those readers fascinated by an insid…

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92nd Y's Lyrics & Lyricists Series: I Have Confidence: Rodgers After Hammerstein by Darryl Reilly

Above the stage on a screen throughout the presentation were projected photographs illustrating Rodgers' career and appropriate backdrops for the locales of the shows. Brief insightful video…

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Cal in Camo by Darryl Reilly

Playwright William Francis Hoffman offers a quirky, weirdly compelling if not totally satisfying take on contemporary American life. Mr. Hoffman's dialogue is richly expressive bordering on…

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Turn Me Loose by Darryl Reilly

Wearing a black suit, white shirt and black tie, the mature Morton with his expressive face, smooth resonant voice and fluid physicality, vividly captures the essence of "The black Lenny Bru…

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