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The collaborative script is by the One Idiot troupe's writers that include Jon Bershad, Aaron Burdette, Allie Kokesh, Kristy Lopez-Bernal, Nathan Min and Katelyn Trela. It's a smart mash-up…
This Grand Guignol concept is sensationally realized by the striking physical production. John Gromada's chilling sound design configures his spooky original score with its dominant organ a…
The opening one is British author Lexi Wolfe's delightfully wistful "Stand Up for Oneself."Â It's a Chekhovian romantic comedy with clipped Noel Coward-style dialogue taking place in the …
Asner's appearance in "A Man and His Prostate" is a delightfully thrilling opportunity to experience his considerable talents live. He vividly grouses, grimaces, and perfectly lands every j…
Director Laura Lindow's staging is a thrilling exhibition of pure stagecraft using very simple elements. The expressive actors are choreographed at times often in arresting tableaux especia…
Displaying her flawless vocal abilities, superb comic timing, dramatic range and exuberant presence, Ann Harada was the standout of the six-member company. She was in the original Broadway …
The title is never explained and remains a cryptic point of thought. Is it the name of the jet that the plot revolves around? Is it a reference to a woman? What could it mean? Knowing the …
The personable Mr. Mitchell is the evening's host and starts off the show by explaining the format. The six performers then go through the theater asking audience members for missing words …
Opening with a soaring symphonic "Deck the Halls" and then joined by the wonderful Essential Voices USA chorus for it, The New York Pops closed their concert, "It's Christmas Time in the Cit…
Darryl Reilly, Critic A good audition is one in which the actor finds a way to bring some real piece of himself to the proceedings. The lines don't matter. Those doing the hiring have heard …
Playwright Marsha Norman's book brilliantly and very faithfully streamlines and extracts the events and themes of the novel and film. These include racism, sexism, self-esteem and same-sex …
Playwright Jordan Harrison is a graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. program and the recipient of several prestigious awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kesselring Prize. On a…
Besides playing Boyce, Gwyther depicts other British soldiers as well as Germans. It is an exhilarating display of rapid vocal and physical transformations subtly giving each brief characte…
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Marko MandiÄ is an award-winning acclaimed classical actor from Slovenia who has worked several times with Mr. Buljan. His talent, charisma, and physicality…
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Over the course of just over an hour, the actors enact Dylan Thomas' classic prose work of his childhood recollections interspersed with their sweet performance…
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Victor Morales enters and introduces himself and notes that we are at Dixon Place. Mr. Morales who created this piece is stocky, bald, bespectacled, and posses…
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Bejeweled codpieces, sequined thongs, taut bustiers, powdered wigs, elaborate masks, frock coats, tutus, and leather harnesses, are among the eye-catching eleme…
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Author Jane Martin has taken the familiar dramatic staple of a love story between two clashing opposites and rendered it compellingly here. There are plot twis…
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From offstage we hear the hyperbolic exclamations of a young man, Copious Fairchild, as he masturbates mixed with the soundtrack of a television cooking show. …
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Ms. Rush is also the performer and she is stupendous. In addition to playing Bernadette, she portrays a gallery of characters she encounters. These include he…
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Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" appears to be a titular and stylistic inspiration. Like that classic …
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Sergio Trujillo's exhilarating choreography is a ceaseless extravaganza of mostly Salsa numbers. The costumes by designer ESosa are appropriately heavy on gli…
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The energizing conceit of the play is its reliance on audience participation that adds considerably to the entertainment. During the action, the audience gets …
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Ms. Nielsen has long been a treasured award-winning fixture of the New York stage with her quirky idiosyncratic comedic and dramatic talents. Here as the omnipo…
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On Union Street" with music by Wesley Whatley is the lively and wistful opening track of the delightful jazz based recording, The Hope of Christmas. It is perf…
