85 stories by "Charles Wright"
Both these plays are ripe for New York revival, and PTP is the ideal organization to spur reappraisals.
True to Adam Rapp, there are misfits, ruffians, and malcontents hanging around in seedy surroundings. . . menacing personal dynamics. . . an off-beat kind of lyricism. There's also something…
In the course of its two-or-so hours, Gregory S. Moss's comedy is as much about love " familial, platonic and, of course, romantic " as it is about longing and loneliness. It's touching with…
There's plenty to debate about John Doyle's streamlined Peer Gynt. What's incontestable is that he and Gabriel Ebert are an explosive combination.
As studies in loneliness, alienation, and unease, these one-acts fit together nicely as a single evening. . .
Biographical dramas are common on the New York stage, but they're usually about dead people. Comedian Dick Gregory, the protagonist of Gretchen Law's play, is going strong at 83.
The protagonist of Wendy Beckett's far-fetched comedy is confident that the family in the apartment with no curtains across the way is rich and happy. If he were right, Ms. Beckett wouldn't …
Richard Bean's first play presented as part of 2016 Brits Off Broadway
a new family friendly musical, adapted fro Natalie Babbitt's popular young adult novel. .
This brief piece marks Alice Birch as a writer worth following. . .Read More
Lacking the acute sense of danger that effective horror stories must have, the musicalized bersion of the Bret Easton Ellis novel relies for thrills on the Grand Guignol pleasures of its top…
This 18th century pla is an admirable valedictory for Classic Stage Company's Brian Kulik, demonstrating as it does his dedication to first-rate acting, devotion to underappreciated texts, a…
the choral passages are the most engaging aspect of this fact-based musical by the Prospect Theater Company .
Mona Mansour aptly characterizes her play as "tall-tale realism". . .it's also a distaff True West and a state-of-the-nation play with bad news about life in the years since the economic cri…
- a new drama by Marco Ramirez, is inspired by the career of Jack Johnson, the heavy-weight fighter whose life was fictionalized, almost 50 years ago, in The Great White Hope
Barry Malawer portrays the fallout from a confrontation between a white police officer and an African-American youth, 13 years of age, in a seedy park in Washington Heights
Despite game performers this fails to provide a sense of the cumulative power of O'Neill's magnum opus or the complexity of the Mannons.
New York actor Jared Reinmuth has embraced the challenge of adapting Dumas' literary behemoth.
the most striking aspect of Lauren Gunderson's play is the the ex machina device with which she ties things up, though audience members are bound to differ as to the effectiveness of this na…
Kecia Lewis, hurriedly recruited to replace Tonya Pinkins, is not yet in command of all her lines; but she is offering a resolute sketch of the formidable Mother Courage she's capable of cre…
Steven Friedman combines aphoristic justifications for philosophy with autobiography
a family-friendly entertainment tailored to the season and appropriate food for reflection at the outset of a new year.
a traditional book musical featuring a vibrant score with African, African-American, and Broadway sounds. The libretto conveys Griffin's odyssey with utmost economy, one scene blending fluid…
This long running romp is now storming the barricades of Off-Broadway with hurricane velocity.. . . . Read MoreThis long running romp is now storming the barricades of Off-Broadway with hurr…
Lloyd Suh's play commissioned by NAATCO evokes plenty of laughter with its portrayal of ignorance and bigotry but, ultimately, in this mystery, it's the age-old stereotypes that are put to d…
