Thursday, 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 12:00PMSunday, August 14, 2016
In its summer installment (delayed no doubt due to Second Stage's introduction of Dear Evan Hansen) we are presented a delicious yet bizarre "3-Act" play. I say 3 acts as oppose…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:20PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Look out New York - here comes two powerful women. I say this about both the characters and the actresses portraying them. In their latest installment, War Paint, Doug Wright (Bo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:16AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
The all female dynamo creative team of Sara Bareilles (Music & Lyrics), Jessie Nelson (Book), and Diane Paulus (Director) have turned Adrenne Shelly's (Motion Picture) work into a divine…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:01PMFriday, July 15, 2016
In a new work by Norman Shabel over at the New World Stages, we are treated to a legal gem. Well written such that the audience understands the way a class action lawsuit works a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:46PMSunday, June 26, 2016
Now Playing over at the Cherry Lane Theater hidden down on a charming Greenwich Village street is a gem of a situation comedy written by Israel Horovitz. The story revolves around a de…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:55PMSaturday, June 25, 2016
Now running in its second year, this little-known show, Imbible, A Spirited History of Drinking, set in the speakeasy downstairs at the Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street is an appeal…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:39PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
In their latest installment for the stage, Stew along with Heidi Rodewald will fill your soul with music. This show is starting much like their last - at The Public Theatre. &nbs…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18AMThere's something playing over at the Vineyard Theatre that is nothing short of spectacular. Paula Vogel has penned a superb play-within-a -play based on a true story of a Yiddish thea…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18AMAs far as one man shows goes - this one is a romp. Spoiler alert - it appears that God might be gay. Don't go expecting an outer body experience. This one rakes religion ov…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:18AMSunday, June 5, 2016
So... Lucy Prebble has a knack for details. You might remember her for the musical, Enron. It was a hit in London, but not so much here. (Those Brits love their American flo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:19PMSaturday, June 4, 2016
The first 20 minutes of Adam Rapp's play are the creepiest. Although the creepy factor never dissipates, given the subject matter it never quite goes away. A bi-polar man with ps…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:00PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
Quite possibly one of the most mysterious, unique, and highly secretive show running today, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, for the un-initiated, is a play performed sight-unseen by an actor only o…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:51AMGregory S. Moss is indeed a talented playwright. In his latest installment at Playwrights Horizons we are treated to a summer romance between two innocent high school kids. Of co…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:51AMSaturday, May 14, 2016
Nick Payne certainly has a niche genre that has been playing out on the stage at Manhattan Theatre Club. Neuro-cognative science and memory are the unique and intriguing substance for …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:49PMDespite several decent aspects of this show, I could not shake the feeling that I was mis-sold on what I was going to see and it was not overcome by what I actually saw. The show is sold as …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:49PMLike many of the productions at New York Theatre Workshop, Hadestown is a superbly interpretive and entertaining work of story told through music. With a musical score by Anais Mitchel…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:49PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
I've never felt so torn about the review of a show as I have after attending an evening at Second Stage to watch Dear Evan Hansen. The title represents a key document in the teen-angst…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:49PMMonday, April 4, 2016
I thought I'd be rolling in the aisle. I thought my sides would hurt from laughing too much. How could it not be good? A cute, funny, gay-boy playing the part of a haggered high-…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:02PMPeter Mills, a multi award-winning composer, is responsible for this magnificent, sweeping, and lush musical along with the artistic director of Prospect Theater Company …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:02PMSunday, April 3, 2016
The producers (and there are many) of this show have assembled perhaps the finest creatives available on Broadway and have made the best casting decisions possible. Book writers Claudi…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:42PMSaturday, April 2, 2016
Playwright Andrew Massey stumbled onto Robert Moses in a car ride in the Bronx. He stumbled on Joseph Papp in his college drama class. I bet he never thought he would write a pla…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:28PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
In the rehearsal room this show must come off like a a giant snooze fest with little entertainment value. The fact that is is even on Broadway is a testament to the people who sold thi…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:51PMFriday, March 25, 2016
The pure joy and toe-tappin' excitement over at the Laura Pels Theatre at Roundabout Theater Company is absolutely not to be missed. Brilliant director, Alex Timbers, brings …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:21PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
I never doubted for one second that Langella would shine. In its American debut at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Father, by Florian Zeller is a master class in acting and story telling. …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:51PMThursday, March 17, 2016
Anne Washburn is at it again. I did not see her last play, Mr. Burns, which has been described as leaving you "dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas". Antlia Pneumatica se…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:04PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Sometimes you have to venture out of milquetoast midtown to get a re-grounding in what it means to educate in the theatre. Having ventured up to the Harlem School for the Arts this Sun…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:18PMSaturday, March 12, 2016
After a tremendously impactful showing at Playwrights Horizons this fall with Christians, Lucas Hnath bring another of his works to the New York Theatre Workshop stage with less than impress…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:32PMSunday, March 6, 2016
A true very raw and tender story penned by Anna Ziegler is being presented on stage by Keen Company at The Clurman Theater on Theater Row. At just over 90 minutes, this show packs a po…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:40PMRoundabout Theatre Company has taken a musical theater gem, polished it up in a new, delightful production, and is presently dazzling audiences nightly over at Studio 54 with a star-studded …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:26AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
In its latest installment, The Atlantic Theatre Company is presenting a modern day tale of celebrities, their decisions, the bubble they live in, the people who surround them, and those that…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:18AM 
