987 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
Besides Mr. Skittles, there are 18 other characters of different races, ages, genders and sexualities. They're a cross section of the downtrodden and those involved with aiding them. Ex-conv…
Possessed of an awesome soaring tenor voice, the magnetic Dutch-German Mr. Ratzke offers not a conventional cover band-style tribute show with slavish imitation, but instead a thrilling perf…
After pillaging Ibsen in "A Doll's House, Part 2" and lampooning the former First Couple for "Hillary and Clinton," vaunted playwright Lucas Hnath's latest piffle, "The Thin Place" is a Wall…
Fabulous technical elements and spirited performances from a large ensemble of actors, singers and dancers cannot overcome the authorial negligence of the musical science fiction pastiche, "…
Cariou is now appearing Off-Broadway as the titular character in playwright George Eastman's slight though moving two-character work, Harry Townsend's Last Stand. Sharp one-liners, funny set…
Prominent Georgia attorney Dep Kirkland "decided to listen to his own voice, and walked away from the legal field altogether to pursue his previously private dream of acting, writing, and di…
Maddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, Â "A Bright Room Called Day"Â is author Tony Kushner's reimagining of his 1…
Yes, Mr. Foote's eloquent take on the souring of the American Dream has shades of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," but with his idiosyncratic and powerful command of dramatic writing h…
An old man who is an homage to Noam Chomsky is metamorphosed into an owl through the aid of a cloth mask and a print costume with a technician behind him flapping the wings, accompanied by t…
The late NYC performer's 60th birthday was commemorated by a lovely concert at The Duplex with the proceeds benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
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Following a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There's a hu…
Solea Pfeiffer in a scene from New York City Center's revival of "Evita" (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Darryl Reilly, Critic Abandoning elaborate scenery and projections for her spirited decon…
The Reverend Al Sharpton, Angela Davis, and Sonny Carson are among the two dozen celebrities, cross section of New Yorkers, and male and female integral figures of diverse ethnicities that a…
The life of the prolific theater producer whose career began in the 1940's is chronicled in this eventful and entertaining show business documentary.
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Seven vibrant and diverse women of color take the stage and speak, sing and dance at the start of this shining revival of author Ntozake Shange's landmark play, "For Colored Girls Who Have C…
Revolutionary War patriots Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin are eerily represented by male and female black performers wearing tweaked 18th…
A seated actor dressed all in black wearing a beret beats a conga drum on a confined playing area. Other actors in period costumes sit at small cabaret tables and chairs as thick wafts o…
LBJ's ambitious social programs in the United States of the 1960's being sidetracked by the folly of the Vietnam War and his mishandling of the unrest caused by the Civil Rights Movement, ha…
The enduring resonance of its source material is evident in "An Enchanted April" during this uneven stage musical adaptation. Lasting two hours and 45 minutes with an intermission, its initi…
Mr. Burnam's futuristic conceit is engrossing and the theme of a repressed figure looking back at a more joyous way of life is potent. The present day portions are amiable but only fitfully …
Hillary Clinton wearing a glittery red pantsuit leading a Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-style production number set in a Busby Berkeleyesque recreation of a McDonald's with giant sparkling French…
Searching Facebook recently, I discovered that a brilliant, colorful and unsung creative figure I encountered in my youth, died earlier this year.
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"The Cosby Show," "Home Improvement" and "Roseanne" are among Mr. Williams' prominent credits as a television writer and producer. Williams also has had several plays produced and has direct…
As is Mr. Friel's The Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is a monologue play. Here, instead of being separated in individual acts, the three characters appear on stage together without interacting,…
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
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