Wednesday, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 07:57PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
★★ Audience members get to participate in the six-actor send-up, directed and choreographed by Lorin Latarro
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:13PMFriday, July 26, 2019
★★★★ Elaine Murphy's engaging play features Marsha Mason, Brenda Meany, and Lauren O'Leary
The post Little Gem: Three Generations in One Family Work It All Out appeared first on New …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMThursday, July 18, 2019
★★★ Isaac Gomez asks Kate del Castillo and director Jo Bonney to make his overdone drama lucid
The post the way she spoke: Abuse of Women in Mexico Urgently Exposed appeared first on N…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMThere must be method to playwright Halley Feiffer's current madness.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:12PMMonday, July 15, 2019
Despite predictable drawbacks, Chris Urch's theatrical indictment is an important work of art.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:26PMThursday, July 11, 2019
★★★★★ An over-the-top universe, directed by Laurie Woolery and choreographed by Hope Boykin
The post Promenade: Al Carmines, Maria Irene Fornés Commit the Perfect Tuner appeared f…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:58PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
★★★★ Dick Scanlan directs, Todd Almond music directs a longed-for, honest show-biz reunion
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00PMThursday, June 27, 2019
★★★★ Studs Terkel's classic interviews with Tilly the Toiler, Tommy the Tiller, and others are musicalized with class and concern
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:35AMThursday, June 20, 2019
★★★★ Micheál mac Líammoír's couldn't-be-more-Irish play, keenly directed by Aidan Redmond
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:31PM 
