1,545 stories by "David Finkle"
★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury's work tributes a famous healer but doesn't entirely heal itself
The post Marys Seacole: An Everywoman Play That Hits and Misses Targets appeared…
★★★★★ The long-running British send-up moves to a new address, keeping its old hilarity
The post The Play That Goes Wrong: Rarely Does Anything Go So Right appe…
★★★★ Joanna Murray-Smith imagines how the thriller author might handle a non-Tom Ripley young man
The post Switzerland: Patricia Highsmith in Person Niftily Fiction…
★★ Herman's Hermit's lead singer Peter Noone's story, via Rick Elice, with nostalgic rock ditties
The post My Very Own British Invasion: A Warped Brit-Based Jukebox Tuner appear…
★★★★ McKinley Belcher III and Mandi Masden give their impressive all under director Logan Vaughn
The post The Light: Playwright Loy A. Webb Tackles Woman-Man Problem …
Yale Farber's Mies Julie ★★★★ smartly transforms Strindberg, while The Dance of Death revival ★★ merely smarts
The post Mies Julie and The Dance of Dea…
★★★★ Carmen Cusack goes for broke and nicely gets there in the satirical Ethel Merman showcase
The post Call Me Madam: Irving Berlin’s Tuneful Laugh at 1950s P…
★★★★★ Every word of Fitzgerald's masterwork faithfully read and acted with loving urgency
The post Gatz: Elevator Repair Service’s Penthouse-High Great G…
★★★ A musical spoof that amuses for a while before becoming a typical rock-band demise tale
The post Eddie and Dave: Amy Staats Salutes Van Halen With a Half-Salute appeare…
★★ Playwright John Neary presents a Northeastern family is a much distress as the proceedings are
The post Trick or Treat: A Bold Play About Dementia Gets Less and Less Bold appe…
★★★★ How a surgeon in the South uses slave women to solve complicated labor developments
The post Behind the Sheet: Charly Evon Simpson Smart on Women’s Problem…
★★★★ Eve Wolf's newest look at a supernal artist, with six musicians added to lend their proficient all
The post Maestro: Toscanini Conducts Beautiful Music Again app…
★★★★ A Nigerian all-female troupe proclaim their independence
★★ The Manual Cinema group takes on Shelley
The post Under the Radar: Hear Word! Naija Women…
★★★ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically
The post The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes: An Off-Center Gaze at the Futu…
★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries
The post Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wid…
★★★ Bryan Cranston plays Paddy Chayevsky's addled newscaster Howard Beale amid all sorts of distracting goings-on
The post Network: Ivo van Hove Brings the 1976 Oscar-Winn…
★★★★ Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond play Sonny's erstwhile partner with the absolutely right style
The post The Cher Show: Just as Sassy, Bold an…
★★★★ Songwriter Peter Mills and Prospect Theater Company celebrate pioneering Great War telephone operators
The post The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Mus…
★★★★ Consciousness is on the playwright's mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it
The post The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppar…
★★★ Hansol Jung sets her social-media excoriation"with fairy-tale overtones"in South Korea without any Kim Jong-un threat
The post Wild Goose Dreams: Romance Gone Wrong? Wh…
★★ Raul Esparza comes back to the New York Stage as the title figure in John Doyle's Neo-Brechtian(?) production.
The post The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’…
★★★★ A middle-class black family and interloping spirits hold out little hope for today's race relations
The post Eve’s Song: Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Tough…
★★★★ Ronnie Marmo writes and acts, Joe Mantegna directs a strong, sensitive tribute
The post I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce: The Soap-Mouth Comi…
★★★★★ Druid's Gerry Hynes directs Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan in a brilliantly physical version
The post Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s Masterpiece …
★★★★ Urie, Ruehl repeat their masterful performances in the strong Second State revival
The post Torch Song: Harvey Fierstein’s View of Gay Life Not Always Gay …
