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The term “world music” has never been adequate to the task we’ve set it—even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:15PMMonday, September 26, 2016
Should Maresca’s Broadway dreams come true, Broadway would only be richer for it.
SOURCE: theaterscene.com at 04:11PMMonday, May 25, 2015
The music is admirable, but a cadre of amazing puppets make this elaborate chamber opera production totally irresistible.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis anti-war musical doesn't score total victory, but it wins many skirmishes.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMSenior citizens certainly have a right to romp around in romantic comedy, but they can use more verve and freshness than this middling script offers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIf you're interested in typefaces, you'll love the start of this show, but the rest of Jordan Harrison's dystopian tale could use some redesigning.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe tension peters out fast in this story of two spooky little orphans and their hapless overseer, but the performances bring the two kids vividly to life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMatt Pelfrey's tightly written drama works as a metaphor for today's bellicose political climate, but Joe Tantalo's expressionistic staging undercuts its emotional effectiveness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe groundbreaking Negro Ensemble Company hits a pothole with this vapid double bill dealing ineffectually with the theme of bigotry.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMVocal pyrotechnics and a deft script make for a lively retelling, framed in an old-time radio format, of this classic science-fiction tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWriter-director John Jahnke's visually arresting but dramatically obscure accounting of the story of a minor figure in Greek mythology is mostly concerned with sex and spectacle.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMCharm, smarts, and delightful performances make the familiar terrain traveled by this romantic comedy seem suddenly fresh.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBudding playwright Michael Henry Harris doesn't give birth to a championin this play about pregnancy and other marital pressures, but theproduct has promise.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMonday, August 13, 2012
There's a lot of plot but little hilarity in Gary Morgenstein's "Right on Target," a Fringe political comedy about a mixed-race couple in Washington, D.C.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:58AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" gets a crackling airing in this Fringe show as two terrific actors take on all the characters in a fast-moving hour.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:12AMJessica Liadsky's "Canon in D Minor," a Fringe entry, overflows with emotion, with three actors playing one grieving heroine, but is nevertheless affecting.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:52AMThe title of this Fringe show is "An Evening With Kirk Douglas," but the character serves as little more than a plot point for some very uneven comedy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:46AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
his New York Musical Theatre Festival offering has beguiling elements, but the fairy tale "Le Cabaret Grimm" spins is distressingly inane.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:09AM"The Groove Factory," at NYMF, dredges up with little charm the last days of disco as the titular club celebrates the threatening Y2KNew Year's Eve in 1999.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:06AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
This rendering of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," from Australia's Sydney Theatre Company, starring Cate Blanchett, is a clear triumph for Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:07PM"Black Milk," from Palo de Agua and High Stakes Theatre, is the New York debut of acclaimed Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev, but the production falters.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:11AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
"Arnie the Doughnut" is a well-executed children's musical, but there's not enough magic in this NYMF show to keep its hero from straining credulity.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:55AMFriday, July 13, 2012
"Flambé Dreams" is a lighthearted NYMF entry, filled with gags, serviceable music, and a story about a young man's ambition to become a great maitre d'.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:36AMFriday, July 6, 2012
The Flea Theater presents new and youthful Ethikos Productions in three short works by veteran dramatist Israel Horovitz, with "Beirut Rocks" the highlight.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMSunday, June 24, 2012
Despite the distractions of Central Park, Boomerang Theater's "Hamlet" is a solid affair, with Zack Calhoon bringing a contemporary freshness to the prince.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:26AMThursday, May 31, 2012
A solo show written and performed by Dulcy Rogers, “I Am a Tree,” at the Theatre at St. Clements, registers more forcefully in its acting than its story.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
“Take What Is Yours,” from Anecdota at 59E59 Theaters, looks at the formidable U.S. suffragette Alice Paul with imaginative daring and poetic storytelling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:15AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Ed Hime’s “The Electric Lighthouse,” part of the New Play Festival at the Flea Theater, is a glowering comedy-drama about media-obsessed 20-something Brits.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:04AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Aquila Theatre’s “Macbeth” is a respectable but unsurprising rendering of Shakespeare’s classic, lacking the outsized portraits that elevate the play to tragic stat…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMSunday, April 15, 2012
There's much to admire in Blessed Unrest's experimental production of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's classic drama, at Interart Theater, but also too much technique.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:00AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Greg Mullavey stars in National Jewish Theater’s “The Soap Myth,” Jeff Cohen’s Holocaust drama, which has intelligence but seems too much a lecture.
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