82 stories by "AILEEN JACOBSON"
A reprise at the Bay Street Theater of a comedic theatrical treasure, with Peter Scolari in the Zero Mostel role, has high-spirited antics and zany gags.
An ingeÌnue becomes a star as "Singin' in the Rain" comes to the Patchogue Theater.
Three of the 10 one-act plays in a cycle collectively titled "Tonight at 8:30," at the John Drew Theater, display Noël Coward's wry commentary on class and colonialism. &…
With just two actors playing multiple characters, "The Mystery of Irma Vep" comes to life in all its convoluted intensity at Bay Street Theater.
Without its Broadway hype and high ticket prices, Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein" at the Gateway Playhouse is free to be delightfully entertaining.
"Lend Me a Tenor," Ken Ludwig's clever farce set in 1934, is filled with manic disagreements, elaborate subterfuges and broadly telegraphed attempts at seduction.
With romance, racism and a timeless score, the musical "South Pacific" at the John W. Engeman Theater creates a vibrant portrait of life during wartime.
"Grease," an enduring tribute to adolescence, comes alive during its musical numbers at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.
In "Boeing-Boeing," now onstage at the Engeman Theater at Northport, one bachelor has a trio of lovers, each one thinking she is his one and only.
The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport presents yet another version of "A Christmas Carol," which has proved among the most enduring and endearing of holiday entertainments.
"Sweet Charity," the musical about an optimistic dance-hall hostess who keeps falling for no-good men, is at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport through Oct. 28.
"Phantom," which was written five years before Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" made its debut on Broadway, is not as famous as its counterpart, but is no pale imitation eith…
"Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues," a semibiographical play by Paul Levine, is having its world premiere at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
The audience at "9 to 5: The Musical," in Patchogue, cheered whenever one of the central characters triumphed over, or even threatened, her oafish boss.
"Men's Lives," by Joe Pintauro, which tells the story of the Bonackers, or baymen of the East End of Long Island, is being staged at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor through July 29.
"Luv," an absurdist comedy by Murray Schisgal that was a Broadway hit in the 1960s, is being staged at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton.
Strong voices lift "My Fair Lady," a Lerner and Loewe masterpiece, above some awkward scenery and acting at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.
In the American premiere of "My Brilliant Divorce," Geraldine Aron's one-woman play, Polly Draper gives an intimate and engaging performance at the Bay Street Theater.
"Uncle Vanya," a play known as much for its light comic notes as for its sense of woe, has come to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton.
The terrific opening number is a harbinger of things to come in the John W. Engeman Theater's production of "42nd Street."
"The Sunshine Boys," by Neil Simon, is onstage at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport through March 25.
A minor character in "Camelot," Mordred, steals the show in a production at the John W. Engeman Theater.
Gateway Playhouse in Bellport tackles "Sweeney Todd" with soaring voices, twisted comedy, gripping melodrama and squirting blood.
Josh Grisetti portrays a young man trying to break into show business in a revival of "Enter Laughing, the Musical" at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
The Mulford Repertory Theater presents "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" and "Miss Electricity" in a barn built in 1721.
