988 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
"Safe" is crammed with so much dysfunction and adolescent angst that if its adult language were excised it would make a perfect "ABC Afterschool Special," if those were still being produced.…
Playwright Ana Nogueira has a facility for often arch dialogue but not much else. The play's potentially promising sci-fi premise is undermined by its bizarre vagueness. Not only do the le…
Playwright Julia Cho has crafted an engaging and universal work that unevenly blends reality with mysticism. The characters are all very well delineated and the dialogue is flavorful and re…
Director Kira Simring's superior staging theatrically presents the play's complicated situations with clarity and surrealistic flourishes. Characters often enter and exit through unlikely p…
Besides achieving sensitive and strong performances from the cast, director David Drake masterfully fulfills the playwright's intentions with his lively and brisk staging. The collaborative…
Gwenllian Higginson and Michael Humphrey in a scene from "The Good Earth" (Photo credit: Tom Flannery) Darryl Reilly, Critic "Then there's the queen and she lives in Buckingham Palace in Eng…
"Crashlight" is a musical that is so inept that the recurring age-old mental question while watching it is, "What were they thinking?" The "King Lear"-style eye gouging sequence in the seco…
The dynamic cast is made up of Marquis Gibson, Lauren Shaye, Nicole Stacie and Christian Lee Branch. These four very talented performers all portray numerous characters during this 75-minut…
Writer Gustavo Pace is the handsome, youthful and animated performer of this autobiographical exploration. He loudly rattles on in Portuguese and English while adequately portraying himself…
The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre presents this production. Since 2012, they have produced a number of the author's works in New York City and for this one it was decided to condense …
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Speak up! Don't look at the floor! When you're onstage I want to see your talent not your training!" were among the sharp comments that Aaron Frankel bellowed at stude…
Thomas G. Waites has a long list of major credits that go back to the film "The Warriors" in 1979. As Austin, he gives one of the strangest performances in memory. It's a monotonously upbe…
"We're actually going to be talking about 14th century Italian literature," proclaims BenDeLaCreme near the start of his/her entertaining multimedia solo show" BenDeLaCreme's Inferno A-Go-Go…
The charming and charismatic Broadway leading man Santino Fontana performs the role of Elliot Rosewater with as much commitment as if he were playing J. Pierrepont Finch. Mr. Fontana's perf…
"The characters in this play both the living and the dead are completely fictional." This statement explains the play's overall contrived quality. Both of the lead characters have such str…
These are among the choice zingers in playwright Anne Adams' emotionally raw, earthy and often very funny contemporary dysfunctional Texas-set, family drama, "Strange Country." This enterta…
Dressed in black slacks, a white shirt and a black vest, Ms. Wolpe demonstrates a fluid physicality and a soothing vocal expressiveness. Wolpe quite adeptly offers rich characterizations of…
Director Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…
After a less then engrossing hour of prattling and a too stylized presentation, in its last thirty minutes "The Red Room" becomes the powerful family drama it intends to be.
The post The Red…
The score that Mr. Antin composed and wrote the lyrics for is a serviceable collection of songs that could possibly have succeeded in a show about the conflicts among married couples. Wedge…
It is August 11, 2033, and there's a wild party happening because the world is ending. That's the setup of the exuberant one-hour multimedia fantasia "HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle)." Th…
At one point stumbling around in a sleep mask and wearing a colorful nightgown, the 88 year-old Estelle Parsons has a field day as the 88 year-old Evelyn, a former journalist for The Interna…
A leggy dark blonde young woman with her hair pulled up, wearing a black skirt, a patterned short gray blouse and high heels walks through the audience and onto the bare black stage. She be…
The Wheelhouse Theater Company presents this fast-paced and faithful version of the romantic classic. Co-directors Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington have inventively pared down William Shakespea…
Rolling Stone magazine's 2014 controversial article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house se…
