Thursday, 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 03:54PMSunday, March 26, 2017
This one by Zayd Dohrn creeps up on you. In the beginning you are quite sure there will be some cultural issues - but even up to intermission you are not entirely sure with whom they w…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:42PMSaturday, March 25, 2017
A very interesting concept to promote off-off-Broadway. Multiple theatre comanies perform skits and short performances in a large space where the audience roams around and sees differe…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:32PMFriday, March 17, 2017
The larger story here is that the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, which is a remarkable organization on Bleecker Street in NoHo, is presenting a series called Convergenc…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:18PMMonday, March 13, 2017
What could possibly go wrong? In Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields' new play, just about everything is the correct answer. Costumes, props, sets, and lighting …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:54PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Powerhouse Tracy Letts penned a killer show several years ago - August Osage County - family drama - intense - drug fueled. Wowza. His latest installment off-Broadway, Man From N…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:54PMFriday, February 17, 2017
It seems the entire season at New York Theater Workshop is one full of "alternate theater". In the latest installment - once again - we have a non-theater, a non-play, and an "experien…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:48PMThursday, February 16, 2017
A classic David Mamet subject without his signature style of endless cursing. Mr. Mamet has penned a moral and ethical dilemma that really has no answer but leaves lots of questions. &…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:18PMThursday, February 9, 2017
She's a power player. She's stunning at 50 - always was and will be for quite a while longer. She's successful, strong, and confident. She was on a mission when she started…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:12PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
This is a slice through and through of one small ally in Puerto Rico but represents so much more. An entire ethnic cast with a uniquely ethnic subject. The bowels of Puerto Rico …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:12PMSunday, December 4, 2016
It's not really that good, but it's light hearted, silly, and delivers what it promises - entertainment. It's not really a musical, nor is it a play - it's really just like an extended…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:18AMFriday, December 2, 2016
It's a hoity-toity theatre event. The East Village. New York Theatre Workshop. Shakespeare reimagined. Sam Gold directed. Stars. The audience physically c…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:42PMThursday, December 1, 2016
One of the things I most enjoyed about Mike Bartlett's play is the ease at which he gets the audience just before he slides the knife in. Biting, cunning, humorous, and genuinely quite…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:18PMSunday, November 27, 2016
I did not see this show in Chicago or elsewhere, however after reviewing the photos and old new articles and reviews, it is evident to me just how much a show grows as it steps through…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:24PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
We have a new incarnation of a show I saw off-Broadway in 2010 at 59E59 Theater. It really does take time to stew, to mature, and frankly to get the funds to mount an attack on Br…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:54PMThursday, November 24, 2016
Richard Greenberg has penned yet another fascinating character study - this time 1960's Long Island - Levittown, specifically. There's quite a storied history to Levittown and apparent…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:02PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Where do I start? It was Awful, with a capital 'A'. Underlined 3 times. No, it was not the too-late-to-leave notice given by the director (Daniel Aukin)before the show star…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:31PMThursday, November 17, 2016
This Atlantic show was supposed to be a Hal Prince directed musical. Schedules conflicted and alas, we have a David Cromer directed, Itmar Moses penned, adaptation of the Eran Kolirin …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:42PMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Upon a bit of reflection this was not the Nicky Silver play I expected. However, that is not to say that I didn't enjoy it or it wasn't good. I think Mr. Silver tried some new th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:48PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
In another one-woman show coup - the indomitable Sarah Jones brings her cadre of characters to life in a creative, clever new show Sell/Buy/Date. Mrs. Jones brings a wide variety of characte…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:24PMLadies and Gentlemen, we have a revival of a much loved show now playing again on Broadway after a long rest. Falsettos, a book by James Lapine with music and lyrics by William Finn re…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:24PMWhile they have cut the inappropriate sub-title from the playbill, they have not cut it from the marketing material. While this play touches on education is is absolutely not about "do…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:24PMSunday, October 16, 2016
In what I believe is the first off-Broadway revival since its original 2001 incarnation, Keen Company has brought back Jonathan Larson's pre-rent work, Tick, Tick...Boom! in a magnificent, r…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:26PMFriday, October 14, 2016
Now playing over at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I at City Center is a remarkable tale - the other side of the proverbial coin - a story about the Vietnam War - told through the eyes o…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:13AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
A well acted, heavy two hander (well really 3 but it's only two actors) is playing down at New York Theater Workshop. Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Virginia, not Israel) is a fictional…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:19PMA powerful, humbling new play, A Life, by Adam Bock is now playing over at Playwrights Horizons. Mr. Bock explores life through a lonely, gay, introverted, quirky, and obsessive …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:19PMSaturday, October 1, 2016
It just goes to show you that not every work by great writers is a hit. The writer of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Simon Stephens) wrote a shorter bit that deals with…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:39PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
The stellar cast in this what's old is new again production far outshines the material itself. Director Jack O'Brien is forced to fill almost 3 hours (including 2 intermissions) with a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:46PMSaturday, September 24, 2016
The Atlantic Theater Company and Neil Pepe have created a near pitch perfect, smart, toe-tapping, bio-play about a less well known musician who is often coined the original soul sister. &nbs…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:37PMI'm glad I got just a TDF priced ticket to see this show. And by show, I really mean performance art in a Broadway theater. I feel sorry for people buying full price tickets (Ove…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:37PMThursday, September 15, 2016
In what can be described as a somber, quiet, and delicious entree, Julia Cho's new play, Aubergine, has made its debut over at Playwrights Horizons. It's about food, memories, family, …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:00PM 
