988 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
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"The golden age of transportation!" intoned the ebullient, mellifluous, mutton-chopped ringmaster John Kennedy Kane. Clad in a red and black striped waistcoat …
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The musical first appeared in 1966 at the small historic Off-Off Broadway performance space Café Cino in New York City's Greenwich Village as "Dames at Sea, or…
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Though it touches on complex societal issues during this turbulent time period in the United States, the show's overall lack of depth depicting these conditions…
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With its realistic and detailed dialogue, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's very well constructed script is a superior work of playwriting containing many humorous and movin…
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The downstairs of the gay leather bar, The Eagle, has been configured into a runway-style performance space with rows of white folding chairs. This setup is fo…
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This is the fault of director Daniel Aukin who also staged it at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Besides obtaining just competent performances from his cast…
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Heavyset and with a sullen countenance, Mr. Marinelli plays Trey by ably conveying the character's melancholy and witty expressiveness. The charming John Carha…
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Mr. Maloney is a veteran character actor of stage and screen with New York City theater credits going back to 1964. This leading role of Hugh Pugh is a marvelo…
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Mr. Farmer has crafted a suspenseful and gripping tale based on the reality of child abduction with mythical overtones. The dialogue is very fine and is evocat…
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Two bearded and long-haired pony-ailed men in dark gray space suits with black Velcro patches appear as the lights come up. For the next ten minutes, they wrest…
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Before its increasing gentrification, the Lower East Side was an outpost of creative expression. That the BREAD Arts Collective theater company presents this wo…
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Playwright Dewey Moss has crafted a well structured, taut, and seemingly conventional romance among clashing cultures that shockingly switches gears. Inventivel…
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With the quirky poignancy of Lanford Wilson, the ferociousness of Edward Albee, and the farcical precision of Alan Ayckbourn, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach's s…
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Director Kareem Fahmy is also ambiguously credited as "Co-Developer." Mr. Fahmy's staging is purposeful when it grapples with the problematic first act and does…
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Dressed in black slacks, a sequined white blouse and a gray blazer, the svelte, energetic, and soon to be 78 year-old Tony Award-winning stage and television st…
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If "In Bed With Roy Cohn" were seen at a theater event such as The New York Fringe Festival, it could be viewed as a promising offbeat creation. But as a commer…
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A titanic ensemble of six highly talented actors plays the prisoners as well as multiple roles including females with slight costume changes. Derrick Baskin, N…
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Mr. Urban does an excellent job of dramatizing and explaining a complex historical situation in this fictional treatment of a real case. In 1994, Rwandan Presi…
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"I'm tired of being a prisoner in a sequined tube dress," declares actor Glenn Milstead to his legendary alter ego Divine. "The drag queen of the century is rel…
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Contemporary theater is skewered as a young Canadian gay male playwright heralds avant-garde artists in this often vitriolic and personal polemic.
The post Thea…
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"Papa" was the elder Theodore Bikel's sobriquet to the younger members of the touring company of "Fiddler on The Roof." Mr. Bikel died at the age of 91 on July…
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"The epitomy of a true triple threat performer," was how Mr. Reineke introduced Ms. Foster. "I've never been here or sung outside with a big orchestra before" …
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"Delirium's Daughters" by Nicholas Korn is faithful to the form and figures of Commedia dell'arte. This theatrical genre is grounded in comedic improvisation a…
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Like most of the other of the author's works, the three characters here are very colorful individuals who histrionically clash with each other while verbosely e…
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Mark Vogel and Lynn Shore in a scene from "Happy 50ish" (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) My sleeping Johnson needs to wake I need a charmer for my snake This littl…
