278 stories by "Erik Haagensen"
Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan is making a vivid New York debut with the tightly written two-hander "Hue & Cry." This imaginative account of two cousins meeting on the eve of a fam…
This cabaret act plunked down in an Off-Broadway theater has its charms but plays it awfully safe, settling for "pleasant" and "friendly" and failing to convey the excitement Carol Channing …
Acclaimed opera singer and Tony-winning musical theater actor Paulo Szot is sticking his toe into the cabaret waters at Café Carlyle.
Metropolitan Playhouse's assured production of William Vaughn Moody's groundbreaking psychologically nuanced melodrama features strong acting as it flies by in a taut two hours.
Red Bull Theater's remarkable production of this obscure Jacobean tragedy is a rare treat, disproving the tired adage that the Brits do this kind of thing better.
Director Travis Chamberlain's staging of Tennessee Williams' obscure 1970 one-act in a claustrophobic room at the Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street is a tiny, pitch-perfect triumph.
In a belated New York City debut, Reggie Cheong-Leen's play examining a culture clash not usually seen in American drama proves to be an absorbing if flawed work.
This obscure musical comedy may not be a neglected masterpiece, but there's plenty of craft, charm, and high spirits on hand, plus two terrific leading performances.
Playwright Nick Jones' exercise in style is far too pleased with itself and its jejune juxtapositions of period behavior and contemporary snark, amounting to little more than an overextended…
Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare have terrific rapport as two polar-opposite social misfits released into the world from a state mental institution in this quirky, intimate comedy-drama.
Director Gregory Mosher's reverent revival of Jason Miller's 1972 mutliple-award-winning drama only succeeds in highlighting the dated script's flaws, despite the efforts of a mostly strong …
When it comes to discussing original Broadway cast recordings, the two most important words in the English language are "Goddard Lieberson." The CBS executive, who was responsible for the in…
Looking back on 1958 when The Music Man beat out West Side Story for the Best Musical Tony - what happened?
Primary Stages has a quiet winner in "Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote," directed by Pam MacKinnon and featuring Jayne Houdyshell and Hallie Foote.
The Fringe's "Gay Camp" is an entertaining if erratic romp that's distinguished by the comic agility of its three-person cast juggling multiple roles.
Actor-adapter Lee Meriwether's "The Women of Spoon River," a Fringe entry, focuses on the distaff population of Edgar Lee Masters' epitaphs to vivid effect.
Josh Billig's "After the Circuit," a Fringe Festival show, is overloaded with backstory as it depicts a vaudevillian's struggles during the Depression.
Gay actor-author Josh Mesnik's autobiographical Fringe comedy "Have I Got a Girl for You" details his adventures working for a Florida prostitution ring.
"Danny Visconti Is Hill-bent: My Night With Hillary Clinton," a musical standup act in the Fringe Festival, is too self-consciously outrageous to succeed.
Mario Correa's Fringe concoction "Tail! Spin!" arranges the comments of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, and Anthony Weiner for big if cynical laughs.
Jeff Seabaugh's inspiring one-man play "We Crazy, Right?," a Fringe Festival entry, tells how he and his husband created a family through adoption.
Brit helmers Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel have enthrallingly re-imagined Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods" for Shakespeare in the Park.
"Bullet for Adolf," a two-and-a-half-hour stoner-slacker-dude screwball comedy from first-time playwrights Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, is painful.
Elizabeth Ashley, Cybill Shepherd, John Stamos, and Kristin Davis join the cast of Michael Wilson's riveting production of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man."
"Bring It On: The Musical," "inspired" by the Universal Pictures' franchise about cheerleaders, is generic but vigorous and aimed squarely at teenage girls.
