WHAT MAKES A FAMILY What makes a family? What keeps one together? And what do you do when you're stuck in one that doesn't fit in with how you want yourself or your life to be? These are the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:25PM[SHARE]THE RIGHT GIRL IN THE WRONG VENUE Created by Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker, The Girl I Left Behind Me " which is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival " is a tribute to British and Amer…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:45PM[SHARE]WHITE-COLLAR BULLYING Mike Bartlett's play Bull begins with a team of three white-collar salespeople, Tony (Adam James), Isobel (Eleanor Matsuura) and Thomas (Sam Throughton) awaiting the ar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52AM[SHARE]ALMOST MAGIC Although the magic tricks in Bullet Catch are not so much ends in themselves as they are tools used to help explore the show's themes, the effectiveness of the play " named a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:12AM[SHARE]SEEING ISN'T FEELING Blythe Duff and Andrew Scott-Ramsay deliver rich, convincing performances in David Harrower's worthwhile if not completely satisfying play Good with People. Part of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PM[SHARE]A SHOWCASE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS When watching Artistic New Directions' presentation of An Eclectic Evening of Shorts: Boxers and Briefs VI, a collection of six ten-minute plays, plus three s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02PM[SHARE]SUGAR RUSH An adorable piece of clever and very funny fluff, Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike takes spoonfuls of ingredients from Chekhov's plays and mixes them into …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]THE BEAUTY OF MAKESHIFT THEATER Even with all its flaws Bedlam's revival of George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. Unde…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PM[SHARE]A LESSON IN CHARACTERIZATION Carol Kane's magnetic performance turns Craig Lucas's dramatically thin comic thriller The Lying Lesson into compelling entertainment. Ms. Kane plays Bette Davis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52PM[SHARE]A DULL DESCENT INTO HELL The charisma and passion Ethan Hawk brings to the title role, Vincent D'Onofrio's powerful stage presence, a gnarly set by Derek McLane, lovely songs by Latham and S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]FUNNY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH Hamish Linklater's very funny, sharp and tender new play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09AM[SHARE]THE ANTICHRIST IN A COLLEGE DORM The Amoralists' staging of Lyle Kessler's new play Collision, directed by David Fofi, is an admirable but flawed effort to explore the motivations of a young…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:12AM[SHARE]AS HARMLESS AS A PICNIC Roundabout Theater Company's revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic is the perfect show to take your mom to. I know because I did. An excellent …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PM[SHARE]LAURIE METCALF BELONGS IN THE OTHER PLACE In The Other Place, Sharr White's riveting and affective play, Laurie Metcalf delivers a poignant and masterfully crafted performance as Juliana, a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PM[SHARE]CHEKHOV REINVENTED, SORT OF The whimsical premise behind Kristen Kosmas' brilliantly conceived and deftly executed creation There There is this: Christopher Walken, while touring Russia in a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PM[SHARE]I THINK I HEARD BELLINI TURNING IN HIS GRAVE Imagine yourself sitting tied to a chair in a stuffy, dark room with a very dull senile old man who talks on and on and on and on and on and on a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM[SHARE]HALF & HALF Australian Made Entertainment's new production of Andrew Bovell's well-crafted relationship thriller Speaking in Tongues really gets going in the second act. The play, direct…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:52PM[SHARE]DARK AND DELIGHTFUL A liberatingly surreal and exquisitely poetic masterwork, Fernando Arrabal's Garden of Delights is a sinister fairytale that concerns itself with the inner struggles of L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PM[SHARE]AFLOAT ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS Many positive things can and should be said about Sheila Callaghan's Port Out, Starboard Home, a play about a three-day cruise at the end of which the passengers p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PM[SHARE]NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT I LIKE IT Staged in the basement of The Chocolate Factory, with exposed pipes, beams and support columns, the drawbacks of Sibyl Kempson's wonderfully inventive new s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]A BAD DAY FOR A GREAT PLAY It's a problem when the most effective elements of a dramatic show are the sound and visual effects, but such is the case with Cherry Lane Theater's production of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:00PM[SHARE]WELL INTENTIONED, ILL-CONCEIVED Whispers of "pretentious" could be heard in the audience of Paul David Young's new play In the Summer Pavilion, which doesn't seem like a fair assessment. Cal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:37PM[SHARE]PUT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION Anticipating having to review Owen Dunne's new play Positions, the feeling I had while watching it " knowing the production to have travelled 600 miles to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:38PM[SHARE]AN AMUSING TRIFLE A.R. Gurney's entertaining, dynamic but trivial new play Heresy reinvents the story of Jesus Christ (in the play he's called Chris), changing the setting from 33 A.D. Jerus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM[SHARE]HOW LOVE DIES: TWO VERSIONS Brian Friel's excellent 1968 play Lovers is actually two separate plays with similar themes and settings. Both take place in a small town in Ireland in the mid 19…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:39PM[SHARE]NOTHING WILD, EXCEPT… Tess Frazer gives a stellar performance as Willie in Tennessee Williams' This Property is Condemned, a play about an orphaned girl living alone in her family's di…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49PM[SHARE]THEATRICAL ADVOCACY, THE GOOD KIND The Exonerated is theater as activism and proud of it, so it's difficult to speak about it from a purely artistic perspective as mixing art and politics ca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PM[SHARE]GUILT OF HOPE AND DESIRE The idea that the amount of guilt one feels depends more on one's character than one's crime is the subtext of Marie Jones's play Fly Me to the Moon, an entertaining…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PM[SHARE]IT AIN'T MOZART Louis Nowra's Cosi tells the story of Lewis (Adam Zivkovic) a recent college graduate with a theatrical background who gets a job in an insane asylum. There, he find himself …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:50PM[SHARE]EXPLOSIVE AND EXQUISITE "I'd rather be unhappy in her world than happy in another," says the Man about the Woman, in Philip Ridley's outstanding new play Tender Napalm, about a couple's love…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]FUN, FRIVOLOUS, FLAMBOYANT, ANDÂ FULLY FORGETTABLE The remarkable thing about Bullet for Adolf, the new play written by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, is how entertaining it is despite…
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