995 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
"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…
The real life Internet hacktivist and Reddit developer Aaron Swartz contrives to have his fictional childhood friend Billy, who is a theater teacher of prisoners, to collaborate on a play ab…
Besides guiding these engaging performances, director Christopher Martin has meticulously staged the action on the arresting minimalist set that he designed. The floor and brick walls are …
Mr. Irving has an amazing singing voice that soars from octave to octave. His witty songs include a funny one about texting. He tells an epic story about his parents meeting. His musician…
That sequence is just one of the highlights of John Doyle's commanding direction. Best known for his vibrant minimalist approach to musicals, Mr. Doyle brings that precise and visually expr…
"He" and "She" are a 40ish upper middle class couple who divorced ten years earlier following the traumatic death of their young son who was hit by a car. Due to toxic waste from a nearby g…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "I'm profoundly grateful I'm not on it," said Frank Langella during his moving speech at The Episcopal Actors' Guild's annual Memorial Service for deceased show busines…
Shrouded by clear shower curtains, the actors enter the stage and bring out furniture, including a gramophone, and chat with each other. There is newsreel footage proclaiming the end of W.W…
The pomposity of the Tony Kushner-style title extends to naming its leading characters "The Academic" and "The Writer." They're two gay men in their late 20's and the play charts their meet…
"Lavender Songs: A Queer Cabaret in Weimar Berlin" has the mature and slim Mr. Lawrence in drag virtually for the entire length of the performance. In a dirty-blonde curled wig, his face ga…
Healy's treatment is faithful to the novel with a good deal of it being Clegg's narration addressed to the audience. There are lengthy conversations between Miranda and Clegg, and her escap…
Founded in 1991, the National Asian American Theater Company's mission is to present theater with all Asian-American casts. This is accomplished by producing classics of European and Americ…
Out of this frustration, Larson in 1991 began performing a rock monologue about his life and stalled career called 30/90, as it was set in 1990 as he turned thirty. Later it was retitled "…
Pierce coolly addresses the audience while delivering this mundane litany. His superb comic timing, long evident on the television situation comedy "Frasier," is on glorious display here. …
British author Stephen Sharkey's new translation is faithful to Brecht, but the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has fashioned the presentation as an old-time radio show. Brecht was known for his s…
Despite its formulaic story, "I Like It Like That" is quite exhilarating with its sensational salsa renditions as performed by its appealing cast and excellent band.
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Obie award-winning playwright José Rivera is an Oscar nominee for his adapted screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries." For this adaptation, he has set "The Maids" (which premiered in Paris…
The scenic design by Brett Banakis is a functional, minimalist configuration of a slightly raised wooden performance platform surrounded by a wooden frame dotted with small antlers suggestin…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for," said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating the…
