Wednesday, 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 10:18AMSaturday, February 27, 2016
It's always a bright day on Broadway when brave souls pen a new musical. These brave souls are famous in their own right - none other than Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:32PMFriday, February 19, 2016
Playwright, Danai Gurira, can have it any way she likes, but she will get some friendly advice here. She's penned a terrific story, Familiar, about the emotional struggles of an Africa…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:02PMFriday, February 12, 2016
In likely his most personal work, John Patrick Shanley bring us his own coming of age story in a touching, moving story of his years in attendance at a small private school in New Hamp…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:51PMThursday, February 11, 2016
The bad ones are easy to write. The worse they are the easier it is. This one is simple. Do not pay Broadway prices (the box office lists the ticket prices for REGULAR seat…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:37PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Second Stage has chosen to present likely the most self-absorbed, un-interesting, and indulgent play by what can only be described as a bitter, angry, ivy-leaguer stuck in academia-land with…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:09PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Over at the cozy stage at the Metropolitan Room, where we usually hear them crooning away into the night, this past weekend saw a giant of TV and Movies get back in the saddle and give a "te…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:16PMFriday, January 15, 2016
In what might be the most anticipated production of the season, Roundabout's 50th Anniversary, Noises Off hits the boards this week at the American Airlines Theatre. I saw the last NYC incar…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:49PMDoing what they do best, The Atlantic Theater Company is beginning a run of what might be the most compelling and culturally relevant play of the season. Written by Dominique Morisseau, Skel…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:22PMSaturday, January 9, 2016
Over at the gorgeous Broadway Theatre we have another revival of a beloved classic. I've seen a prior revival - the Alfred Molina production last in NYC. This time around we have Bartl…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:20PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Hot off the press, Richard Greenberg's tender relatively new work hits Broadway's nail square on the head. An almost perfect fit for the subscription theater crowd. An old Jewish…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 07:46PMI may likely have had the most fun at what I perceived as the least anticipated show of the season. (Ok, The Color Purple may be the actual show at that rung of the ladder, but I digre…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:34PMSunday, December 13, 2015
The wonderfully talented writer, Stephen Karam, has penned yet another potent work now on stage at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theater. The Humans is a bare bones expose of the titular con…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:44AMSunday, December 6, 2015
New York Theater Workshop is known for its bold, interpretive, and artistic productions. This latest installment is no different. Based on a 1963 novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:07PMNow rockin' the stage over at the Linda Gross Theater of The Atlantic Theater Company is a play with music that has more effervescence than some musicals. The title and origins of the …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:07PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Jordan Harrison has penned a compelling futuristic tale where artificial intelligence may just keep us company, attempt to provide comfort, and companionship in our elder years. But h…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:51AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
BAM! What is playing over at the Lyceum Theatre just may be some of the best theatre of the decade. This is no joke. The Young Vic Production (straight from the UK) of Arth…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:34AMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Now playing over at Studio 54 - Cousins marrying, murder, ghosts, an overbearing mother, sex, a stroke, and a double poisoning. Just your average evening in the theatre for …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:02PMSunday, November 15, 2015
A touching and warm trip down memory lane, both for the actors in the play as well as an audience old enough to have experienced or perhaps only young enough to have heard about it. Th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:32AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
My reaction after about 10-15 minutes of bewilderment in Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II at NY City Center was one of utter confoundment (if that's a word). What on earth possessed M…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:45PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Just beginning its run at Second Stage Theatre for the kick off of the 2015-2016 season, Invisible Thread (f.k.a. Witness Uganda) is already blowing the roof off the joint. Sheph…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:39PMSunday, November 1, 2015
Now playing over at Playwrights Horizons is quite the eyebrow-raising new work by Taylor Mac. Some even say subversive. I say entertaining and hovering right at the top without o…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:07PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Well this one was a doozy. I could spend a few dozen hours down the rabbit hole trying to analyze this wacka-doodle "show" now running at the New York Theatre Workshop . But instead I …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:35AMOld people are usually a funny topic. And Marilyn Dunn (Marylouise Burke) and Abby Binder (Hollad Taylor) are no exception in David Lindsay Abaire's clever new romp over at Manhattan T…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:35AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Investing in Broadway and an exciting and risky business. I am hoping my latest investment will attract a new audience to the theater and at the same time entertain existing ones. &nbs…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:33PMJoe DiPietro has penned a remarkable little gem currently running off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. It's a clever title because as it turns out not everything that plays out is one…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:33PMHaving seen one of Caryl Churchill's other plays (Top Girls), I was prepared for the jolt of anachronism, intentional gender bending casting, and other theatrical devices. Ms. Caryl do…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 03:33PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Lucas Hnath just might have hit the nail squarely on the head with his new provocative and thought provoking work, The Christians now playing over at Playwrights Horizons.Mr. Hnath was suppo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 06:09PMSaturday, September 19, 2015
I'm going zero for two here. This time a 70 minute Harold Pinter play. I'm all for a mysterious and mesmerizing evening in the theatre, but this play is just flat out obtuse…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:43PMFor the opening installment of the fall semester of the 2015/2016 season it certainly was in line with my expectations of the overall season - and that would be crappy. Fool for Love i…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:37PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
A heartwarming, brilliantly-executed one-man show about a real topic and a not-so-real set of characters - although we've all probably known one or more of them in each of our lifetimes.Jame…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 02:22PM 
