Friday, March 17, 2017
- Author Rachel Bonds calls it a "Nighttime Play with Songs," and much of its dramatic struggles do take place in the dark . . .
SOURCE: at 09:06PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Jeff Talbott's play having its world premiere in an admirable production by TACT, is as simply-structured as a parable and haunting as a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay. .
SOURCE: at 12:20PMThursday, March 9, 2017
James Anthony Tyler's play is at once an old-fashioned chronicle of office intrigue and an up-to-the-minute picture of conditions at the lower end of the urban food chain. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:09AMThursday, March 2, 2017
a comedy-drama of vulnerability and longing. The characters' awkward, sometimes desperate stabs at sexual expression are touching, believable, and a trifle horrifying.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:16AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Caryl Churchill play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music concerns four unremarkable English women embodied by truly remarkable actors. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:05PMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Paola Lazaro's mosaic of scenes involving characters with little in common beyond being fellow denizens of a few blocks around a convenience store in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:16PMMonday, January 23, 2017
Like so many wistful, small-cast memory plays about dysfunctional families, Basil Kreimendahl's play co-produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Page 73, reflects the influence of The…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:01AMFriday, January 20, 2017
With its multitude of props, ever-busy stage business, and dynamic projections, this production from the Poets' Theatre of Boston seems determined at all costs to rescue The Rime of the Anci…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:30AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Druid Theatre Company engrossing revival of Martin McDonagh's horror tale with humor makes a stop in Brooklyn to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the play's 1996 premiere,
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:52PMFriday, December 16, 2016
There are surprises aplenty in this new take on the classic struggle of a human and the Devil, which is raising the roof at the Heath, a performing space and pub in the McKittrick Hotel. . .…
SOURCE: at 06:20PMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Cheek by Jowl presents Shakepeare's late-career romance at BAM, exquisitely designed by Nick Ormerod
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:27AMSaturday, November 26, 2016
Molly Ringwald as the flamboyant widow Aurora Greenway is the chief attraction in Dan Gordon's stage adaptation of the movie that won the 1984 Best Picture Oscar
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:44PMSunday, November 20, 2016
TNFA's production of Carlo Goldoni's farce will be heaven for spectators swept up in its silliness . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:46PMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Except for the Dutch dialogue (and those supertitles), director Ivo van Hove's evening with these kings is like a binge-session of House of Cards. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:44AMMonday, October 24, 2016
The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's resourceful staging of Bertolt Brecht's 1941 epic cartoon
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:40AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Oliver Goldsmith's great farcical comedy given a crisp but true to its time revival by TACT
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:13AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
this provocative theater piece by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard, has arrived at a turbulent juncture in relations among this country's varied communities
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58AMFriday, September 16, 2016
What's on display at 59E59 is an intriguing amalgam of the late English novelist and her 21st century interpreter, Conor McPherson.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:35AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Christopher Chen's surprise-filled comedy
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:27AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Daniel Sullivan reinforces the anti-heroic themes of Shakespeare's text throughout the evening, debunking chivalric ideas and stressing the futility of war.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:03AMMonday, August 1, 2016
playwright Jaclyn Backhaus applies a wildly ribald sensibility to the saga of the first U.S. sanctioned expedition through the Grand Canyon.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:36PMMonday, July 18, 2016
Both these plays are ripe for New York revival, and PTP is the ideal organization to spur reappraisals.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:27AMSunday, June 12, 2016
True to Adam Rapp, there are misfits, ruffians, and malcontents hanging around in seedy surroundings. . . menacing personal dynamics. . . an off-beat kind of lyricism. There's also something…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:29AMThursday, June 9, 2016
In the course of its two-or-so hours, Gregory S. Moss's comedy is as much about love — familial, platonic and, of course, romantic — as it is about longing and loneliness. It's touching …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:04AMSaturday, May 28, 2016
There's plenty to debate about John Doyle's streamlined Peer Gynt. What's incontestable is that he and Gabriel Ebert are an explosive combination.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:08AMMonday, May 23, 2016
As studies in loneliness, alienation, and unease, these one-acts fit together nicely as a single evening. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:47AMThursday, May 19, 2016
Biographical dramas are common on the New York stage, but they're usually about dead people. Comedian Dick Gregory, the protagonist of Gretchen Law's play, is going strong at 83.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:25PMWednesday, May 18, 2016
The protagonist of Wendy Beckett's far-fetched comedy is confident that the family in the apartment with no curtains across the way is rich and happy. If he were right, Ms. Beckett wouldn't …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:33PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Richard Bean's first play presented as part of 2016 Brits Off Broadway
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:54AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
a new family friendly musical, adapted fro Natalie Babbitt's popular young adult novel. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10PMFriday, April 22, 2016
This brief piece marks Alice Birch as a writer worth following. . .Read More
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