987 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
"The Bigot"'s mouthpiece is the splendid Stephen Payne. Scruffy and silver-haired, Mr. Payne revels in Jim's cantankerousness and physical decrepitude. Bellowing in his resonant twangy voice…
"Kinky Boots" ' uplifting finale "Raise You Up/Just Be" was a euphoric highlight of The New York Pops' marvelous tribute concert "Hat Full Of Stars: The Songs Of Cyndi Lauper. " The 2013 Ton…
Culturally relevant, emotionally resonant but languidly conceived, "Entangled" dramatizes the issue of gun violence in the contemporary United States. Playwrights Gabriel Jason Dean and Char…
"Welcome to the smallest circus in the world!" exclaims the beaming Isabella Rossellini at the start of her self-written whimsical performance piece "Link Link Circus." "This show is a theat…
Mr. Asher here continues to mine the subject of human sexuality, but lightning has not struck twice. That is chiefly due to Asher's misguidedly grandiose direction (with associate director M…
Playwright Georgina Escobar presents an exuberant hodgepodge of sci-fi elements and satirical corporate bits with a feminist slant. Ms. Escobar's punchy pseudo-scientific dialogue carries…
Jaw-dropping plot twists, painfully forced au courant dialogue, awkward sex scenes and a jagged central performance all make the world premiere of Halley Feiffer's "The Pain of My Belligeren…
chorus line of singing and dancing fetuses follows the eerily comical beginning of "The Appointment" where we first meet them posed as if they're in wombs and babbling in baby talk. When one…
"These are difficult times, a character observes in playwright Stephen Unwin's engrossing historical drama, "All Our Children," that crackles with tension. Nazi Germany's forced euthanasia p…
The blonde, animated and spunky Ms. McAuliffe portrays 16-year-old Dublin resident Annie who's been dancing since childhood. Wearing tights, a T-shirt and a varsity jacket, McAuliffe's delig…
Absent scenery, with a character excised and fiercely performed, this stripped down taut revival of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" is quite compelling and faithful to the spirit of the origina…
The personable Alton Alburo as Don manages to make this underdeveloped character compelling with his charming presence. Playing his father David with easygoing humor and poignancy is the out…
Director Sharon Ann Fogarty's colossal staging weaves together the many disparate technical elements into a unified mini-epic event. Actors sit at a long rectangular table and their images a…
Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli's direction melded the performers with expert physical placement sprinkled with occasional dance bits that made for lively presentation.…
Referencing the 1950 women's prison drama "Caged" and synthesizing all of the conventions of that cinematic genre, the late playwright Tom Eyen crafted the 1975 camp classic "Women Behind Ba…
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg,"Â "Get Ready," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "Since I Lost My Baby," "You're My Everything" and of course "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" are among the show's mor…
"Did you know that this play is called "Life Sucks"?" says a character in playwright Aaron Posner's meta-theatrical Life Sucks. It's a wild yet emotionally resonant work "sort of adapted …
"Everything is copy"Â was Nora Ephron's maxim about the potential of all of one's life experiences to be fashioned into narrative material if one has the cachet to be paid attention to. Ac…
The death of a long inactive performer with a fine career during Broadway's Golden Age understandably went unnoticed. He was my neighbor in the 1980's.
The post Remembering Duane Bodin (193…
A searing epiphany at "The Day I Became Black"'s climax redeems its uneven mixture of confessional and stand-up. The show is written and performed by the engaging biracial young comedian and…
It's billed as "Two Ways" because this event is comprised of differing versions performed in repertory. There is the self-explanatory "Conventional Casting" and the "Reversed Casting" where …
There's stinging dialogue, solid construction and high powers of observation that accurately render the fractious literary milieu with Imran's offstage agent a major figure. These all enable…
Suzy Conn's zesty score is a fusion of her peppy music and well-crafted lyrics. "Quandary" is rhymed with "laundry" and among the 14 bright songs there's a comical ode to Meryl Streep. Ms. C…
Dynamically presented and sensationally performed, "If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka" is playwright Tori Sampson's maddeningly overblown adaptation of a fable with music. A surfeit…
Employing his rumbling deep voice, his thinning hair slicked back and veering from snarling cheeriness to reflective introspection, Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully gi…
