Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Playwright Robert O'Hara should never be accused of being timid. In his bold, audacious new play, Mankind, he envisions a world with no women where men who get pregnant invent a religi…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:24PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Those Brits have a unique taste in musicals. We Americans like sappy stories and saccharine musicals. We like sad and depressing usually only in our plays. Those Brits tore…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:37AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Even if this was a High School production, it was a play that I had heard of but not yet seen. The play, written by, now, Broadway musical star, John Cariani, (Something Rotten), just …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:36PMThursday, October 26, 2017
A touching new play by a terrific American playwright, Max Posner. The Treasurer tells the tale of an elderly mother, Ida Armstrong (Deanna Dunagan) who is slowly losing her mind, spen…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:48PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Sarah Ruhl has a tender, touching new play running over at Playwrights Horizons. For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday is a story about death and dying, family (the Catholic version of on…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:36PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Self promotion with a purpose. Theatre? Only in the abstract sense. Entertainment, most certainly. Michael Moore, an unconventional choice for the Broadway stage, mak…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:24PMOne of the few magical plays out there this season. Bruce Norris is a master of subjects tangled up in mystery and time. A Parallelogram is no different - can we change the outc…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
The master or parody strikes again. Gerard Alessandrini has penned yet another spoof - this time based on one show - Hamilton. However, his shtick involves making fun of the ind…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:48PMMonday, July 3, 2017
Wow, Wow, Wow. Dancing waiters, gorgeous gowns with gloves, gorgeous sets, fun, frivolity, and a magnificent score by Jerry Herman! What more could you ask for in a decadent even…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:24AMFriday, June 30, 2017
With a name like this somehow you expect it to be it's namesake - fulfilling. On the contrary, the play by Abe Koogler, performed on a too narrow runway stage by actors in ordinary str…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:42PMSaturday, June 17, 2017
In what can only be described as a first-ever theatrical event - the indomitable Kevin Spacey (fresh off hosting the Tony Awards in New York City) put on a one man show depicting the life of…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:06PMA new musical isn't easy to nurture and bring to the stage. Andrew Lippa has penned music and Lyrics to the book by Jules Feiffer to produce a kid-focused yet very adult musical. …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:06PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
This revival of Marvin's Room may leave you wondering why people revive plays at all - especially when there have been a very successful movie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and had well received origi…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:42PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
Bella - or Isabella Patterson (Ashley D. Kelley) has a vivid and wild imagination indeed. When she gets on a train to escape the pursuit of the law and heads west to New Mexico it real…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:54AMMonday, June 5, 2017
What do you get when you combine a 200+ year old play, a movie musical with Danny Kaye, and really good contemporary comedic actors? Most likely something like Nikolai Gogol's The Gov…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:54AMThis is a revival of an older play. I'm not entirely convinced that it screams "revive me" or "this is all happening again", but it is certainly an interesting, politically relevant, a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:54AMMonday, May 29, 2017
George Orwell's dystopian novel brought to the stage - first in London on the West End, now on Broadway. The technology and video employed was magnificent. The direction was cris…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:24PMIn this new play by Claire Lizzimore, you are expected to think... and connect dots... and solve her riddle.... It's not that complicated but it is open to interpretation to a large de…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:24PMIn Martyna Majok's new play, Cost of Living, we come to realize the cost she is speaking of is mostly the emotional one. What does it cost a handicapped person? Is it cheaper to …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:24PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
It's official - I just saw the Tony award winning play of the year. Oslo, a new docu-play by J.T. Rogers being presented at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center is a bold…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:48AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Now playing over at the basement black box Theater at St. Luke's - Baghdaddy. This show has a bit of a split personality disorder. Act I - over the top silliness and slap-stick comedy.…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:54AMSunday, April 30, 2017
This is Part II (actually we skip a few of her plays to #4) of Mfoniso Udofia's The Ufot Cycle - Her Portmanteau. On a creative note - the title is a word that means both a large suit…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:48PMNYTW has chosen a multi-part play by Mfoniso Udofia as its final installment of the season. After much debate we decided to see the "marathon" presentation on a Sunday - the two parts …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:48PMOh, I'm keeping this one a secret for sure. You see, when I subscribe to a theater company, a non-profit theater company like the Atlantic Theater Company, I expect to see theater. &nb…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:48PMWith all the hype this will be quick. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius. To be fair I did not pay $800 for a ticket. I waited and waited and finally won the lottery! My …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:48PMThursday, April 27, 2017
In it's latest installment, it seems that Second Stage Theater either had a "budget gap" that they couldn't afford to produce their own show or just saw an opportunity to bring someone else …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:18AMSunday, April 16, 2017
In today's political environment, I'm surprised this show is not getting more airtime and exposure. Part experiment, part theatrical experience, Her Opponent seeks to open eyes and get…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:06PMThursday, April 6, 2017
I just had to see the first preview of John Guare's theatrical classic, Six Degrees of Separation on Broadway. After all, I never saw the movie and knew almost nothing about it except t…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:12PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
The only thing I did not like about this production was its title. I hate it when an author feels that their name needs to be attached to the title - ala Edward Albee. Now, onto …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:02PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Who on earth WOULDN'T want to marry (Ryan Spahn).... um... i mean Daniel Bixby? In Michael McKeever's play now in previews at the Cherry Lane Theatre, that would be Daniel's partner, M…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:02AMThursday, March 30, 2017
It's not often that a play grabs you and shakes you to the core. Church & State by Jason Odell Williams is one such play. Presented 8 times a week over at New World Stages, Mr. Wil…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:54PM 
