Review: I Am a Tree at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

a traditional play waiting to come out of a solo show. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 8:19am on June 1, 2012☆⚑

Review: Eavesdropping on Dreams at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

The formidable Lynn Cohen is the best thing about Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg's first play . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:32am on April 30, 2012☆⚑

Review: My Occasion of Sin at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Monica Bauer's play at Urban Stages speaks not so much to the Omaha riots that inspired it as to the attitudes that led to racial strifea. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 7:22am on March 22, 2012☆⚑

Review: How the World Began at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

In Catherine Treischmann's new play, the red and blue states worlds collide, with interesting results.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 5:01pm on January 6, 2012☆⚑

Review: Shlemiel the First at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Besides being imbued with Klezmer this offers many lessons. And you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate them and enjoy the show

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 3:05pm on December 17, 2011☆⚑

Review: Iron Curtain at Curtanup.com by Paulanne Simmons

The Prospect Theater's delightful musical gets a welcome second life .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 8:29am on November 11, 2011☆⚑

Review: Mangella at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Part cyber-thriller, part farce, tjos seems to be what we might get if Alfred Hitchcock and the Marx brothers had lived in the 21st century.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 8:59pm on October 16, 2011☆⚑

Review: Dublin by Lamplight at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

for all who like their history tweaked a bit . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 9:22am on September 17, 2011☆⚑

Review: Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Josh Koenigsberg writes with both humor and insight. In the end, his new play is about something much more severe than a midlife crisis.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 9:18am on August 16, 2011☆⚑

Review: Greenwich Village Follies at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Musical celebration of New York's most beloved neighborhood . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:27am on July 4, 2011☆⚑

Review: I Married Wyatt Earp at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

The famous gunslinger's story musicalized by an all female cast

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:52pm on May 26, 2011☆⚑

Review: The Sphinx Winx at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

a musical full of insistently Broadway-type tunes and actors straining to make every joke work even though many seem to be pulled in from nowhere and everywhere: references

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 6:34am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

Review: Tearing Down the Walls at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

Daniel Beaty's first full-length musical clearly speaks from the heart,. . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 9:09pm on May 13, 2011☆⚑

Review: The Promise at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

a fascinating psychological and cultural study. It is performed by an extremely talented actress

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 8:09pm on April 4, 2011☆⚑

Review: Tomorrow Morningat curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

There's nothing terribly wrong with this musical, but neither is there anything terribly right.

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:11pm on March 30, 2011☆⚑

Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at curtainup.com by Paulanne Simmons

this revival's book and score work as organically as a tree growing from the soil. . . .

SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:57pm on March 20, 2011☆⚑