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This hasn't played London's West End, and has not been performed in the United States until now. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church's Theatre Fellowship has p…
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Beaming Broadway musical comedy veteran, Lee Roy Reams presented the final honor, the ASCAP Major Engagement Award to Lillias White. "My grandmother's table was…
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The Peccadillo Theater Company has finely and faithfully revived this rarely seen Odets play, the 6th of his plays to be produced in the late thirties. They are…
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Inspired by real life events of the 1860's and concerned with telling the relatively unknown stories of women pioneers, "Abundance" is highly engrossing, steepe…
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Director Mindy Cooper's very well executed transitions between the show's 27 numbers, the personable Scott Siegel's erudite remarks, and the variety of gifted p…
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Premiering in 1982 as a one-act play with music, author Eduardo Machado, has now revised and expanded it into a full length musical. The first act is a decent …
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Venerable and accomplished fixture of the theater, Austin Pendleton has perfectly directed the play. The characters and their relationships have all been minut…
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It's a stylized "family secrets" drama, presented with a broad comedic tone. Heightened and arch (often including lengthy florid speeches) the dialogue has sha…
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Mr. Busch, known as a playwright of campy homages to old movies in which he often plays female roles, was an appropriate and authoritative host. For most of th…
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One of the chief pleasures here is the first appearance in more than 30 years by the legendary Tommy Tune in a New York City musical. Since his Tony Award-winn…
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Theatergoers knowledgeable with "Death and the Maiden" will find "Shesh Yak" very familiar territory. Those who aren't will still find this play tediously pred…
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Theatergoers familiar with Richard Foreman's work with the Ontological Theater will be especially receptive to this frenetic production. There are also traces o…
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This finely constructed memory piece is characterized by comedy and melancholy. Overcoming parental dysfunction is it's universal theme. It's rendered with com…
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With "Constellations," Nick Payne has deftly created a unique and very moving romantic work in the tradition of modern British playwrights that is universally a…
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Hearing these Sondheim classic songs well performed and seeing them vibrantly staged was reason enough for this concert to be considered a success. That it als…
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The drawn-out finale is a fiercely acrimonious type of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" style confrontation dealing with class warfare. Here th…
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An American Worker is an agitprop musical in the spirit and tradition of social consciousness American theater such as the works of Sidney Kingsley, Clifford Od…
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The mastermind behind this enchanting show is Brenda Bell. Besides writing the well-crafted lyrics for the new songs, she also wrote the clever book that faith…
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This brilliant production of Samuel D. Hunter's "Pocatello" is characterized by tremendous depth in characterization and engaging simplicity in presentation. L…
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"Happ'ly ever after…can be a royal pain in the ass!" sings Snow White in Disenchanted!, a pleasant musical spoof of iconic Disney princesses, that depicts the…
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As a director, HorejÅ¡ has a great command of the visual. The puppets perform in various parts of the stage and fly around and enter from windows and trapdoor…
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This musical theater version of "A Christmas Memory" has been performed around the United States in regional theaters, since 2010. This year, The Irish Repertor…
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Carrying on like a nutty professor, for the next hour, he dazzles the audience with breathtaking displays of shadow puppetry. Creatures such as a bird, a sea mo…
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The creative script by Mr. Wallace and Ms. Levitsky is adapted from Douglass' writings with evocative excerpts from the plays of William Shakespeare, and includ…
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It lasts 90, often shrill minutes, and has a full score performed by musicians and contains many dialogue-laden scenes. It seems implausible that much of this h…
