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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Broadway Review: TAKE ME OUT (Second Stage’s Hayes Theater) by Logan Harriott

PLAY BALL! Get your popcorn and peanuts and Cracker Jack. Grab your Empires pennant and Empires cap and maybe your Empires team jacket. Then head on down to the ballpark or, in this case, th…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:12AM

Monday, March 28, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: GONG LUM’S LEGACY (Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre at Theatre @ St. Clements) by Logan Harriott

GONG WITH THE WIND In Charles L. White’s new play Gong Lum’s Legacy, currently running at Theatre @ St. Clements in New York City, things happen very quickly. A young Chinese man, a rece…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:59AM

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: THE LAMENTABLE COMEDIE OF JANE ANGER, THAT CUNNING WOMAN, AND ALSO OF WILLY SHAKEFPEARE AND HIS PEASANT COMPANION, FRANCIS, YES A by Logan Harriott

A NOT SO PLAIN JANE Did you know that William Shakespeare was a narcissistic, whiny, pansexual, selfish, misogynistic, plagiarizing, womanizing fop? Scholars may debate the accuracy of this …

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:54PM

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: THE CHINESE LADY (The Public Theater) by Logan Harriott

DECORATIVE CHINA Immediately upon entering The Shiva Theater within The Public Theater building, the audience for The Chinese Lady is greeted with an onstage shipping container that fills th…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:13AM

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: MADE BY GOD (Irish Rep) by Logan Harriott

VIRGIN PLAY GETS TESTED AT IRISH REP Ciara Ní Chuirc’s new play Made By God, now being given its world premiere run by Irish Rep, is described in the show’s promotional materials thusly…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:33AM

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: BLACK NO MORE: A NEW MUSICAL (The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center) by Logan Harriott

THIS IMPRESSIVE WORK IS STILL A BIT IN THE DARK George Schuyler’s classic novel Black No More — written during the famous Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s — is a funny, absurdis…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:15AM

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Off-Off-Broadway Review: THE HANG (Taylor Mac at HERE) by Logan Harriott

MAC’S MULTI-TALENTED TRIBE AND FABULOUS PHILOSOPHERS HANG AT HERE Taylor Mac is nothing if not creative. Perhaps oppressively so. Mac’s latest on-stage extravaganza is titled The Hang an…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:30PM

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Conrad Ricamora joins cast at the Westside Theatre) by Logan Harriott

CONRAD RICAMORA OFFERS A NEW SEYMOUR Audrey II is back and New York’s got……Him? Her? It? Hard to tell, especially since this giant-alien-Venus Flytrap has an insatiable appetite for hu…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:36AM

Monday, February 7, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC (Manhattan Theater Club) by Logan Harriott

A PRAYER GRANTED FOR THE THEATER “Exquisite” is probably a devalued and over-used descriptive at this point is our society. However, Manhattan Theater Club’s current production of Pray…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36PM

Friday, January 28, 2022

Broadway Review: SKELETON CREW (Samuel Friedman Theatre) by Logan Harriott

A GREAT CREW OF ACTORS BRING THIS SKELETON TO LIFE There is a family onstage in Dominique Morisseau’s expertly crafted new play Skeleton Crew, which had its Broadway opening at the Samuel …

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AM

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Off-Broadway Review: CRAZY MESHUGGA HURRICANE EARTHQUAKE (New Yiddish Rep at Theater for the New City) by Logan Harriott

A PLAY TO MAKE YOU KVELL AND KVETCH Crazy Meshugga Hurricane Earthquake by Amy Coleman is a play about parallels. Parallel religious practices. Parallel childhoods. Parallel abuses. Parallel…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:49PM

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Broadway Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (The Lyric Theatre) by Logan Harriott

A MUST-SEE MARVEL OF MAGIC Harry Potter, named “The Boy Who Lived” by the wizarding world, is alive and well and back on Broadway at the Lyric after having been shuttered by the evil wor…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:10PM

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