461 stories by "David Roberts"
At first glance, Philip Dawkins's "Charm," currently playing at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is a heartfelt play about Mama Darleena Andrews (played with a spirited transcenden…
Mary Jane experiences the breadth and depth of transcendence and catharsis at the play's end in a scene rich in magical realism immersed in blessed redemptive release.
Under Ms. Spencer-Jones's precise and inventive direction, the ensemble cast of "misfits" and "miscreants" deliver uniformly authentic performances that challenge the status-quo understandin…
Watching "Tiny Beautiful Things" at The Public's Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive g…
Duane Boutté, as "Charles Dickens," Michael Laurence as "Thomas Jefferson," and Thom Sesma as "Leo Tolstoy find themselves locked in what they soon discover is a "room" in Heaven " not even…
Under John Doyle's exacting direction, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. Their performances " believable and authentic " carefully explore their characters' levels of complexity and …
"The Treasurer" is a memory play narrated by The Son who attempts to "confront" his difficult mother in a long-distance relationship by phone and only succeeds in confronting his own deep-se…
Review of the Off-Broadway Play "Small World" by Frederick Stroppel
Bergur Ingolfsson directs REVOLUTION's energetic and talented cast with precision and depth. The cast creates authentic characters " not caricatures " and Mr. Ingolfsson provides convincing …
All the characters in Mr. Kane's delightful tragic-comedic drama are dancing on nails except, perhaps, Luba Fogel (Bryna Weiss) who shares the story of a man dancing on nails in the West Vil…
BEND IN THE ROAD is a delightful character-driven musical lifted from the framework of the classic 1908 novel "Anne of the Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The musical - like those bef…