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"Safe House" gives us a story on a grand scale reduced to it's essence. It is a tragedy that stretches beyond its own boundaries. This is a play that will make you think about what truly …
The band's sound, exquisite. The songs, iconic.
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To walk the grounds alone would be a worthwhile visit to this theater. A stunning production of Les Mis makes it doubly worth it.
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Summer’s not over yet at A.R.T/New York Theatres, where Smoking Mirror Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s iconic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, will be playing through…
In Spellbound you will walk away wondering if what you think you know about how things work in life is completely false. You will walk away in wonder as to how any of this can be accomplishe…
“What if marrying is not actually the total death of your identity?” This is the question writer and star Laura Lapidus poses in her new play To Have and To Hold, running off-Broadway th…
Magnificent! From beginning to end!
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By David Walters Some nights you walk into a theater and within ten minutes you know you’re in good hands. That ten minutes came fast watching The Real Ivanov at the Lynn F. Angelson Theat…
Slowly, the life of a cowboy and the life of a dancer started to meld together, blend into one.
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This is a great premise for a play. In this case, however, elements have not conspired for a successful story telling.
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As part of Bryant Park’s continuing summer Picnic Performances concert series, WNYC radio personality, John Schaefer, hosted the New York Guitar Festival last Friday and Saturday evening (…
The Bathroom Attendant, by Tom Kelly, is truly a "pulp fiction" rollick through the lives of the down and out doing what they can to drag themselves out of the quicksand of life that keeps p…
The Battery Dance Festival explored connection, nature, and movement through an eclectic lineup of performers. Quirky choreography and a stunning sunset over the Hudson made for a memorable …
How much real life can fit into fifteen minutes? Love and Foreclosure explores the golden child, the black sheep, family expectations and the complicated price of choosing your own path—an…
The Last Stop manages to make you laugh, cry and contemplate the meaning of life in just 40 minutes. A beautifully layered story about grief, forgiveness and the moments we allow to define u…
Sukkot uses one of Judaism’s most joyful holidays as the backdrop for a complicated family reckoning filled with grief, secrets and old wounds. With an exceptional cast and beautiful produ…
ISLA is a bilingual miracle of shadow puppetry, live guitar, and three-part harmony — the true story of three sisters who fled Cuba on the 1969 Freedom Flights, told through their own reco…
By Holli Harms It was, from beginning to end, mesmerizing, transforming, and gorgeous, at 54 Below! Ryan James Monroe and his rockin’ band, including back up vocalists Stephanie Ainsworth …
...the play then sings for the next almost three and a half hours across the stage. For both Shakespeare aficionados and inductees alike, the audience oohs and aahs along with the script, …
It was 1996 the first time that Wendy Wasserstein’s play An American Daughter was performed.
At that time Proclamation 7017—Women's Equality Day was proclaimed. It was a time when wom…
Subtitled, “She Built the Bridge,” director, lyricist and book-writer, Ray Roderick, ostensibly sets out to tell the story of Emily Roebling, a fascinating real historical figure who pla…
Masticate at The Players Theatre written by Madison Fargo and directed by Kristen Kelso, gives us a view of the back of house, beyond and behind the familiar: “your table’s ready - right…
Once In a Lifetime, Again” is that rare festival discovery worth crossing town for: a tender, funny, rock-and-roll-hearted musical about grief, therapy, and the terrifying comedy of dating…
Safi is a performer who has created a show that lives, breathes, and thrives in and among its diversions. This show does not take a particularly linear path. It lets “the outside world” …
“I feel like I’m in my living room with a bunch of friends,” Hancock exclaimed, taking a seat at his keyboard.
The crowd laughed and clapped, and I sat back in delight, realizing how m…
