Wednesday, October 30, 2019
★★★★ Kathleen Chalfant radiant as poet Dickinson's friend(?) Mabel Loomis Todd
The post A Woman of the World: Emily Dickinson Well Remembered, Almost appeared first on New York Stag…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
★★★ The plot is nothing to rave to friends about, but the songs have the rich Yalie's gossamer sound
The post Panama Hattie: Klea Blackhurst Swell as Cole Porter’s 1940 Heroine appea…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:28PMSunday, October 27, 2019
★★★ John Doyle directs Corey Stoll's title warrior as too full of the milk of human kindness
The post Macbeth: Do Too Many Witches Spoil the Theatrical Brew? appeared first on New York…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:29PMMy, my -- how can I resist Harvey Fierstein in his new play, "Bella Bella"?
The post Abzug, Abzug — There She Goes Again! appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:57PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
★★ The McBeths, as they're now called, in a Lonny Price-directed Macbeth musical with an Adam Gwon score
The post Scotland, PA: Shakespeare’s Scottish Play as an Updated So-So Tuner ap…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★★★ Jonathan Silverstein directs the deceptively quiet three-hander with surgical care
The post Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel’s Drama About Sight Has Vision appeared first on New …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
★★★★★ Ntosake Shange's 1976 success revived with highest standards benevolently applied
The post For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: Much More Than Enuf appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PMMonday, October 21, 2019
★★★ Dina Shihabi give a strong performance as a woman forced from Damascus, attempting to survive by any means
The post Power Strip: Sylvia Khoury’s Mostly Cogent Look at Syrian Ref…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMThursday, October 17, 2019
★★★★ Mary-Louise Parker is strong as a creative-writing teacher with a talented, troubled student
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
★★★★ Gerard Alessandrini is back with his usually delectable vengeance
The post Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation: Musical Comedy Takes It on the Chin appeared first on New York…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
★★★ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it's more than that
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMMonday, October 14, 2019
★★★★ The 1965 Ben Bagley revue well treated by director Pamela Hunt, with Lee Roy Reams
The post The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter: The…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 04:01PMFriday, October 11, 2019
★★ The Coop's introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols
The post Terra Firma: Sally Hammond’s Comedy(?) Not on Firm Ground appeared first on New York…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
★★★ Paul David Young's drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit
The post All My Fathers: Sometimes You Can Go Home But Maybe Shouldn’t appeared first on New York Sta…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PMMonday, October 7, 2019
★★★ Ross Golan's original musical looks at injustice but not with sufficient insight
The post The Wrong Man: How Wrong a Wrong Man Can Go in Song and Dance appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:21PMSunday, October 6, 2019
★★★ Liba Vaynberg's (autobiographical?) play views troubled romance during two disparate eras
The post Round Table: King Arthur Sort of Remembered Then and Now appeared first on New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:30PMHarris' play is so scattershot that his many points, and the fireworks that generate, remain unhappily in chains.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:01PMFriday, October 4, 2019
★★★ Jeff Augustin's play doesn't quite get to the bottom of a family's incipient dysfunction
The post The New Englanders: Mixed-Race Gay Couple with Daughter Clash appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:42PMMonday, September 16, 2019
But why salt so much dialogue with, like, annoyingly contemporary expressions?
The post In ‘Wives,’ Playwright Backhaus Tries Comedy — and #MeToo appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:00PMFriday, September 13, 2019
★★★ How the onetime headline grabber deals with bipolar disorder and other exigencies
The post Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age: Former First Lady Tells All appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:33PMThursday, September 12, 2019
★★★★ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off
The post Only Yesterday: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Caught in the Rain appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:15PMSunday, September 8, 2019
★★★ The playwright/actor questions how effective any understanding between the races can be
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★ Writer-director Beth Ann Hopkins fools with Shakespeare's King Lear for intriguing changes
The post Lear: That Old Man I Used to Know: Not the Tragedy You Used to Know appeared fir…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Actors Zawe Ashton and Charlie Fox add immeasurably to the playwright's most biographical work.
The post On Broadway, ‘Betrayal’ Is the Only Constant of Life appeared first on Clyde Fitc…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:13PM★★★★ A raw look, directed by Sara Joyce, at what happens after a death that isn't exactly final
The post Dust: Milly Thomas Wrote, Performs an Ashen but Lively Monologue appeared fir…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:44PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
★★ Playwright Jessica Hagedorn, composer Juan Obispo take on questionable healing clumsily
The post Felix Starro: Musical on Philippines Psychic Surgery Needs Gurney appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:59PMMonday, September 2, 2019
★★★★ The 1997 Disney cartoon with Alan Menken-David Zippel score transfers under Lear deBessonet
The post Hercules: The Strong Man and Huge Cast Sing Lustily on Stage appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:25PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The zeitgeist doesn’t bode well for top-flight musical theater scores. Unless...
The post Musical Malaise: The Twilight of the Original Score? appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:00PMSunday, August 25, 2019
★★★★ The Mitu Theater Group reworks Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" for emphatic new meaning
The post House, or How to Lose an Orchard in 90 Minutes or Less: No Ax Needed appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMThursday, August 8, 2019
★★★★ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
The post Sea Wall/A Life: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge in Great, Nervous Shape appeare…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PMThursday, August 1, 2019
★★★★★ Charlotte Moore directs the praise-worthy Barry Day-devised-and-written compilation
The post Love, Noël: Steve Ross, KT Sullivan Honor the Great Coward appeared first on New…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:57PM 
