At one point in Yussef El Guindi's brilliantly surprising play Threesome, Leila (Alia Attallah), author of a book on sexual and racial politics, says to the man about to photograph her …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:42AMI believe this is the entire list.OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLEAnd If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey, Lauren Rayner ProdutionsMaha Chehlaoui, Nick Choksi, Damon Daunno, Rach…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:07PMWell-done political theatre can be invigorating, inspiring, and infuriating in the best way. Not-so-well-done political theatre, however, can be pretty tedious, as shown by the pair of one a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:07PMIn the first act of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Winnie is buried up to her waist in a large mound of barren earth. In the second act, she is buried up to her neck. The mound of earth can be…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:21AMIn Clubbed Thumb's production of Jaclyn Backhaus's extraordinary Men on Boats, perfectly directed by Will Davis, it is 1869, and ten men are canoeing down the Colorado River in search o…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:12AMHere is how My Perfect Mind is described in press materials and on the 59e59 website:Petherbridge, HunterPhoto: Manuel HarlanAcclaimed classical actor and two-time Tony Award nominee Ed…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:52AMThe Qualms, by Bruce Norris, focuses on a bunch of friends who get together periodically to have sex with one another in twos and threes. They are mellow, sure of what they want, and loving.…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:51PMTech rehearsals occur in the days immediately preceding actual performances. They allow the set, lighting, and sound people, along with the stage management team, to practice, polish, and so…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:51PMThis post discusses the accuracy of the predictions we made here at Show Showdown. Suffice to say that none of us should leave our day job and go into fortune-telling. Mind you, we did all g…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:04PMIn many ways, it's a familiar story. An adult child continues to care for her elderly parent despite never receiving simple acknowledgement and acceptance of who she is. The adult child migh…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58AMWhat does it mean to be a "nice girl"? And is it really a positive label? In Melissa Ross's Nice Girl at the Labyrinth, Jo (the smart and subtle Diane Davis) doesn't feel nice at all. S…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:38AMThe King and I is an odd classic. Full of wonderful songs, it features a dumb plot with a cutesy approach to female enslavement, a condescending view of Siamese culture, unconvincing sc…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:33AMReviewer Wendy Caster discusses why she is now specifying where she sat--and how much she paid to sit there--in her reviews.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMExtremely entertaining, breathtakingly imaginative, and quite funny (especially in the second act).
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMStageGrade provides an important public service for New York theatre-goers: it assembles reviews of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway shows.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMUntil this production, Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower had not had a major New York revival. That was a good thing.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMThe Changing Room, by David Storey, is not big on plot.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMThe questions asked by Blood Red Roses: The Female Pirate Project are fascinating ones. How did certain women in history to break away from stifling expectations and become pirates…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:48PMThe Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is presenting an excellent production of Merrily We Roll Along, and you've got two more weekends to catch it. With a top ticket price of $18, it's q…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:06PMSince Encores! Off-Center is presenting Little Shop of Horrors in July, I thought it would be an interesting time to revisit the movie and see how it holds up.It holds up very well.Ellen Gre…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:25PMWhen all is lost, what is left? What can be salvaged? In the Flux Theatre Ensemble production of August Schulenburg's new play, Salvage, these questions are faced by survivors of a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:30PMThe brilliant Fun Home opens at the Circle in the Square on April 22nd, and the big question is, "How does it fare in the round?"This is a classic glass-half-full, glass-half-empty situ…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:03PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company production of Wolf Hall is a simple yet gorgeous production based on Hilary Mantel's best sellers Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Gracefully&n…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:02PMThere are two sorts of lovers. (This is simplified, but bear with me.) The first focuses on one thing at a time, giving it full and lingering attention. The other is more varied, changing po…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:35PMIf I hadn't seen the original production of On the Twentieth Century, I suspect I would have been as blown away by the revival as were my co-bloggers Liz and Cameron. But I did see the origi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:33PMWhen a show covers 50 years, difficult decisions must be made about what to include and what to leave out. Long Story Short, which covers five decades of a love relationship, omits showing u…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:32PMI stumbled across this casting call for Doctor Faustus on Playbill.com, and a fascinating document it is. It gives the salary for actors doing shows at CSC (not much), discusses ho…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:02PMBravo to the Mint!Once again, the Mint has revived and revitalized a neglected play with respect, creativity, fine acting, excellent direction, and knockout scenery and costumes. This time a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:19PMIt is a wonderful thing that John & Jen exists. Written in the early 1990s, it was never going to be a huge hit or a big money-maker. Clearly Andrew Lippa (music and book) and Tom G…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:34PMHere are some of the shows that have excited me as much as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton:A Little Night Music (original Broadway production)Pacific Overtures (original Broadwa…
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