433 stories by "Simon Saltzman"
A provocative play about the back-room negotiations of football could be a healthy and refreshing stretch/departure from traditional Broadway fare. The problem is that this one about the fam…
Annie Baker's Off-Broadway hit opens the George Street Theater season
Sean McNall's Alcestedelectably decimates a society made up of fools and fops. Too bad the support cast isn't as uniformly outstanding
Dan Lauria's dinner now served Off-Broadway
musical spoof about William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton
an enthralling entertainmen
a comedy where funny happenings and clever word-play are in tooshort supply
If Cush Jumbo's show is admirably self-serving, it is also an unapologetic homage
Best of all, there is the constant exchange of wonderfully down-to-earth, humorously naturalistic dialogue that is Odets' forte
All the players are adept, under Jessica Kubzansky's frisky direction, at careening between two worlds" the superficial and the existential
Forty years later, we can still respond to the plentiful humor as well as the amount of pathos and poignancy integrated into this cleverly politicized ninety-minute comedy.
a fine revival at the George Street Playhouse
- a lucid dream of a play and this fine production re-affirms its place among the more endearing of contemporary Irish plays.
no let-up to the brittle wit and savvy wisdom spread through by this grand musical show
As close to a perfect holiday attraction for the whole family as one can get
curiously contrived lar
this cast is bringing out the best and the funniest aspects of this grandly giddy musical
It will undoubtedly dazzle those as yet unfamiliar with the renowned playwright's ultra sophisticated wordplay.
one of the highlights of the New Jersey theatre season.
John Patrick Shanley's fiercely romantic play has been given a fine production
-an effervescent entertainment
a harrowing, heart-breaking play about bigotry and racism
a fast-moving refresher course.
winningly energized by the avoidance or any inference that the negotiators are of the opposite sex.
audaciously funny, intellectually stimulating satire
