987 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
Brian Patrick Murphy as Danny and Lisa Fernandez as Roberta have a thrilling intensity, playfulness and chemistry together. With their accurate Bronx accents, youthful weariness and emotiona…
Mr. Harper's taut construction, solid plotting and detailed characters all yield to a suspenseful, emotionally shattering and entertaining experience. As in the works of Henrik Ibsen, Arthur…
For the first 25 minutes, the bushy red-bearded, receding with flowing hair Mr. Butler appears solo performing a series of his delightful songs. Butler superbly plays the banjo, guitar and h…
Mark Sonnenblick's exceptional book is an accomplished mixture of prodigious research, well-drawn characters and adept if misguided construction. It skillfully dramatizes the gay experience …
Presented by the San Francisco-based The Custom Made Theatre Company, this production is masterminded by its artistic director Brian Katz who adapted and directed it. Mr. Katz's accomplished…
Mercer's direction coordinates the outstanding design components into an aesthetically successful presentation with some neat stage pictures and tableaux. However, the deliberate quest for s…
Though going off on tangents, the captivating performer Heidi Schreck's self-written fascinating theatrical memoir "What the Constitution Means to Me" is a feminist-centric personal odyssey …
Darryl Reilly, Critic John Burns and William Demaniow at The Puplex. "At first glance, we don't look like we have much in common," quipped vocalist John Burns during his uproarious cabaret a…
Nevin Denham is a morose N.J. basement band guitarist whose estranged up and coming astrophysicist girlfriend Amy Leonardo moves to New York City to be an intern for Mr. Tyson at the Hayden …
Anderson Cook's jocular book is a silly amalgam of "Grease" and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" with shades of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Composer and lyricist Ben Lapidus' Green Day…
Holbrook's enduring youthful presence, twinkling charm and commanding vocal authority make him the ideal vessel to channel Lerner's monumental achievements. Through his concisely informative…
Ms. Anselmi succeeds at imparting her solid research on the subject through her sharp dialogue spoken by her strong characters. The play falters with the addition of a chorus who are actors …
Exhibiting talent and charm but with relatively impassive vocal deliveries are the trio who portray Anna Politkovskaya and other characters such as soldiers, medical personnel and military o…
The 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown inspired this exuberant concert-style presentation of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy entitled "Antigone in Ferguson." Director Bryan Doer…
Exhibiting the dazzling wizardry of someone who trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Murfi is breathtaking as he clowns, mimes and barrels all over the space while distinctively …
Conceived and written by Kevin Doyle, "THE AЯTS" offers sophomoric antics that are a virtual parody of performance art techniques. There's a lot of buzzers à la Richard Foreman. The…
Farce meets tragedy in a fictional unnamed Latin American country in "The Conduct of Life." It's a raucous yet insightful fantasia about military oppression taking its toll on the populace b…
Ms. McCarrick's appealing premise of redemptive romance is in fact subsidiary to the IRA angle as in the program she states that this event is the inspiration for her play. The two threads h…
In 14 concise scenes lasting 85 minutes, Ms. Lyman quite skillfully transforms the familiar premise of a resolute aged person clashing with her relatives over giving up her independence into…
Director Miranda Haymon's electric staging of her pared down yet faithful adaptation is filled with dialogue characteristic of Kafka and bracing sequences. Basketball is a key visual metapho…
Wearing a realistic period uniform and donning a metal helmet, the youthful and animated Mr. O'Regan recalls the electric persona of the young Tom Courtney as he vividly portrays numerous ch…
More in the style of informative advocacy event for the lecture circuit then a theatrical work, "Intrusion" wanly tackles the subject of rape. "I set out to create a show that addresses the …
This production is presented by The Flea and the cast is drawn from their resident acting company, The Bats. Exhibiting heartbreaking resilience Alana Raquel Bowers as Aisha dominates the pl…
War, time and death are hauntingly explored in the eerie high-tech performance piece "Remnant," a company project by Theater Mitu. It's based on interviews with a cross section of people tha…
With Tony nominations for "Rocky," "On the Twentieth Century" and "Groundhog Day," 44-year-old Andy Karl's charisma and considerable talents have been well demonstrated. In "Pretty Woman: Th…
