When the superb actor Byron Jennings looks awkward and uncomfortable on stage, something is wrong. In this dreadful production of Jeffrey Hatcher's Ten Chimneys, directed by Dan Wackerman, t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:00PMReviewers are generally embargoed from writing about shows until their opening nights. The producers of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opted for a different approach, inviting theatre blogg…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:55AM(winners are in bold and underlined)Artistic Achievement Award: 5 Lesbian BrothersEllen Stewart Award: The Theatre Development Fund (TDF) Caffé Cino Fellowship Award: Astoria Performi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:22PMWhen a show is deeply sincere and takes genocide as its topic, the idea of criticizing it feels churlish and in bad taste. Therefore, let me stipulate that I recognize that Red Dog Howls was…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:00PMBy deciding to present in one evening three grueling Tennessee Williams one-acts--27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Hello From Bertha, and This Property Is Condemned--director Ken Schatz has set a m…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:44AMSean McIntyre, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard Photo: Hunter CanningThe story of Job in the bible is one of the weirder episodes in a book full of weird episodes, and in The Flea Theater's produc…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:18PMJanie Brookshire, Roderick HillPhoto: Carol Rosegg1911. The upper-crust Timbrells gather in the drawing room to discuss the wedding of Edgar, the oldest brother, to his beloved Sheila. As al…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:00PMYou walk into the theatre carefully, skirting the floor-level stage, which is covered with gorgeous patterned silks and parasols and glittering chains of reflective circles. You take your se…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:00PMThe Original Cast Recording of The Queen of the Mist, Michael John LaChiusa's tale of the stubborn Anna Edson Taylor and her trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901, is a well-done repre…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:05PMI once saw a demonstration of second-tier gymnasts, people who were just below Olympic level. Watching their strengths and weaknesses made me understand and appreciate gymnastics more deeply…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:18PMSlowgirl is a lovely piece of theatre, small, quiet, simple-yet-complex, and real.Photo: Erin BaianoA 17-year-old goes to visit her uncle in the jungles of Costa Rica. She hasn't seen him si…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:26PMWhen it comes to making theatre--or any sort of art--sometimes "no" is even more important than "yes." Take The Last Smoker in America, an amiable, mediocre musical that opened last night at…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:23PMThirty-two separate characters are listed in the program for Baby Case, and I didn't care about any of them. The show is a descendant of Chicago, Ragtime, and Assassins, but without any cent…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:30PMI thoroughly enjoyed Triassic Parq: The Musical in an earlier incarnation, when it was known as Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical. This time around I enjoyed it less. Part of the pro…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:15PMIt's always dangerous to see a show after hearing weeks of hype. Expectations are tricky things. But Tribes is every bit as good as everyone says it is. Billy is the only deaf person in his …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:03PMThe Columnist, by David Auburn, is a smart, straightforward bio-play, with the juicy, juicy starring role of Joseph Alsop, the nationally syndicated columnist who both reported and made hist…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:29PMI love gossip. I love knowing who's sleeping with who and why X isn't talking to Z. But there is a limit. And, in his new memoir, Dropped Names, Frank Langella goes well past it.The book is …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:55PMWhat were they thinking?There are two ways to interpret this question. In the first, it's preceded by a silent "Are they nuts?" And that interpretation is certainly apt in relation to David …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:15PMJordan Tisdale, William Apps Photo: Monica Simoes The Amoralists love to yell, and they do it well. In their shows, usually written by the smart and wry Derek Ahonen, people live operaticall…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:26PMStephen Heskett, Hanna CheekPhoto: Deborah AlexanderWith Sovereign, playwright Mac Rogers and director Jordana Williams bring home the wonderful Honeycomb Trilogy with verve, humor, and a b…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:26PMThe InViolet Rep is presenting a little gem of a play down at the Cherry Lane. It's called This Is Fiction, and it's written by Megan Hart and directed by Shelley Butler. It's not a perfect …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:00PMIf you are a Kaye Ballard fan and didn't get to see her Sunday, now is the time to bug her and Feinstein's about her coming back for a week or two. Because, really, you have to see her.From …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:32PMImagine that someone told you that you were about to see a play about female war correspondents in World War II, written by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, who had actually been female …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:30PMIf anyone had any lingering doubts that the real theatrical action is Off-Broadway, the New York Theatre Workshop's well-deserved 13 wins last night (eight for Once and five for Peter and th…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:54PMWe're proud and excited to announce that our own Sandra Mardenfeld won first place in the "Online, Arts" category of the Press Club of Long Island Media Awards for her wonderful review of Sn…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:02PMSometimes it's possible to confuse an event and a show, and it is only when the event disappears that the show's full merits can be judged. Take The Lion King. Would it have run for more tha…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:36PMPatrick Lee, a Founderof ITBA and This Blog--AndMuch MissedThe Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the “ITBA”) is proud to announce the 2012 recipients of the Fourth Annual Patrick…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:30PMThe Drafts, the acting company of the Horse Trade Theater Group, recently presented When Half the Sphere Is Visible, an unusual collaboration among four playwrights, five directors, and nine…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:39PMLorinda Lisitza is amazing. And she was born to sing the songs of Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock, who are pretty darn amazing themselves.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:57AMTom Dudzick's lovely and touching comedy, Miracle on South Division Street, focuses on the working-class Nowaks of Buffalo--Clara and her three adult children--a close-knit family who nevert…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:46PMJohn Jasperse's one-hour dance piece, Fort Blossom Revisited, begins when an attractive, curly-haired, and completely nude white man walks calmly onstage and lies face down, hands at side. H…
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