15 stories by "Tom Storch"
This is a play full of big emotions, but this production could go bigger.
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Unlike the cheeky title might suggest, Hill actually offers a sensitive and almost anthropological look at the dark side of fan culture.
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It’s fun as a ride, and I can see how it would appeal to a teenage audience. But as an experience, it’s not that deep.
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For those who don’t have the patience for Delacorte’s lottery system, this production of Taming of the Shrew provides a worthy Shakespeare in the Park alternative.
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If you’re looking for a faithful, straightforward production that tells the story in a clear manner, Atlas’ version will do the job.
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Uncle Vanya is a play driven by emotions, where characters give in so sincerely to their worst impulses that it becomes cathartic to watch. That’s what I felt at Shakespeare Downtown’s o…
DeCotis muses on a whole range of subjects, based around the themes of love, sex and gender dynamics. She also throws in three Broadway-style show stoppers. It all makes for a fun night full…
Despite a promising start, right away something feels off. Instead of sparse and haunting, Maggie Cino and Scott C. Sickles’ busy script populates the play with competing storylines.
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The story itself is nothing that interesting, but what’s novel here is the approach. For not only is this show interlaced with frequent historical asides, but it also incorporates heavy do…
Altogether, Broken Snow offers a competent production with solid performances and some memorable moments, but nothing revelatory.
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In 1943, the day before the Allied Invasion of Italy, photojournalist Robert Capa parachuted into the Sicilian countryside, where he met a local farmer who took him in. This real-life event …
"It's amazing what you can hear on the Subway. Even if you don't want to," so starts Fabiana Mattedi's one-woman show "Notes on Collagen" (now playing in the Under St. Mark's Theater through…
What do you do when you realize you're living a lie? That is the question nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen asked in A Doll's House, which follows the bourgeois Nora as sh…
Gotta Dance! a good time. If you like dance or musical theater, you will enjoy yourself. Should you go? Sure. But I don't know if you gotta!
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Since 2003, director Jesse Berger and his Red Bull Theater have revived lesser-known works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Now, along with Broadway legend, Patrick Page (he originated…
