988 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
Red-haired, animated and engagingly boyish, 18-year-old Nicholas Barasch is sensational as Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Barasch is onstage virtually the entire time and winningly carries the show.…
This volatile quartet battle over the personal and the political during a Scotch-fueled weekend at Ira's Fire Island house. There's not much in the way of plot, but secrets are revealed, sc…
Playwright James Lecesne has been acclaimed for his solo performance works, most recently "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey." Here, he has written a traditional play employing thea…
Periodically the cast calls for a "Family Meeting." The theme from Jeopardy is played on a kazoo and three audience members are picked to come up. The one who is wearing the funniest namet…
What truly distinguishes the show is Dixon's fearless psychological focus on Rose and himself. The predominant theme is of hero worship and its bruising disappointments. It also attempts t…
Darryl Reilly, Critic Dazzling visualizations of nine, iconic songs are superbly choreographed by Dwight Rhoden in Star Dust: A Ballet Tribute to David Bowie. The Complexions Contemporary Ba…
Mr. Refael's simple but well-crafted scenario takes place in a contemporary apartment in Israel, and has the elderly Salvado looking back at his past. This is theatrically achieved by havin…
Darryl Reilly, Critic SUNDAY With the countenance of a vintage stuffed owl and that of a Friar’s Club Buddha, and wearing a cranberry blazer, JOE FRANKLIN sat through the penultimate p…
A major flaw is Peer Gynt. Personable, co-composer Park plays the title role. When we first see him, he's wearing a hipster wool cap, plaid shirt and eyeglasses. Possessed of a good singin…
Essentially it's a glorified and arch 90-minute, scripted, sketch comedy show. The conceit is that it's inspired by audience suggestions. The composition of the program changes from perform…
Reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest while lying on a couch is Jay, a slacker-looking type in his 30's. Sitting in the living room nearby is his 60ish mother who enjoys watching Dr.…
As Paul Harold, a 60ish artist, Pendleton has a leading role that wonderfully showcases his idiosyncratic and considerable talents. With his unruly white hair, limber physicality and distin…
O'Connell's script is a well-structured series of confessional anecdotes interwoven with the lore of the movies. His performance is a riveting blend of stand-up comedy and grand stage actin…
In "DannyKrisDonnaVeronica," playwright Lawrence Dial bitingly delves into the lives of two Brooklyn couples each with two small children. Through his precise, often humorous and realistic …
Mr. Rosenblum's dense book is a rudimentary and repetitive serio-comic treatment imparting the minutia of that cause célèbre. In 1972, burglars connected to Republican President Richard N…
Playwright Beth Hyland's very effective conceit is that we're watching the dress rehearsal of Annie Lambert's memorial celebration in an auditorium of the State University of New York at Ono…
Director and choreographer Jessica Burr has created a number of dazzling moments with her precise unison of expressive staging, movement and dance. With only a few vintage trunks and a door…
The Heath, The McKittrick Hotel's restaurant, bar and music venue, has been dressed up with appropriate signs and objects such as a stuffed wolf to resemble a pub in Scotland. After the aud…
"The Little Drummer Boy" was an emotionally shattering highlight of Richard Holbrook: "Always December." Mr. Holbrook's performance of this perennial was revelatory due to the intensity he …
The beautiful wreath and garlands hanging above the stage were festively lit up for the wonderful finale, the "Jingle Jangle Sing-Along." All of the performers appeared and encouraged the a…
The score by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth is a pleasant collection of serviceable songs. Their book, based on their original concept, is a workm…
Raucous highlights include a jive reinterpretation of A Christmas Carol, "by Chazzie D, about a cat called Scrooge...who lives in Scrooge Tower." There's also Buckley's irreverent take on T…
The audience sits on either side of the large runway stage that set designer Laura Jellinek has arrestingly fashioned into an indoor soccer field. It's a green vista of Astro Turf that give…
LeFranc's dialogue is a marvelous blend of the realistic and mundane. The well-delineated main characters all express themselves with true to life simplicity. Plot developments are the com…
"The Big Uncut Flick is a 1953 live, mid-day movie program broadcast on the Dumont network. The audience is addressed as if they were the studio audience. The stereotypical hosts are a marr…
