433 stories by "Simon Saltzman"
A fine cast headed by Edie Falco, but a strange and disappointing play.
The re-discovery of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy by the Mint Theater continues to offer a real treat to its regular subscribers as well as to all adventurous theatergoers previously unfamil…
'The Show Must Go On" is an adage long identified with those who work in the theater. Accordingly, it sums up New Jersey's professional theaters attitude during and after Superstorm Sandy.
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's rarely revived sweet relic about theater and theater people .
A special cheer is in order for the George Street Theater for presenting this production that had its world premiere at the Barrington Stage Company
the 1990 Pulitzer Prize"winning drama by August Wilson, that is now having a stirring revival at the Signature Theater. . . .
There's always room for another Chekhov, even when it's actually a take-off on the master by the ever funny Christopher Durang
- not Labrynth Theater Company's usual dramatically gritty play, but a worthy dramatic consideration of how the dark side of man's nature was able to forever change the course of human desti…
It's more mischievous than mysterious, but it offers, a couple of wonderfully undemanding hours of entertainment in the grand old tradition of the English music hall. . . .
I was a bit startled to read in the program that John Fosse is considered one of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights, as I'd never heard of him before. I'm a little closer to understa…
he Irish Repertory Theater's gripping and moving performance of Brian Friel's 1973 play . . . Read More
In keeping with the relentlessly grim and ravenously graphic oeuvre that defines many of Adam Rapp's plays, this is also a startling and extremely visceral response to the timely and topical…
hat Athol Fugard, South Africa's venerable, highly lauded playwright, is a helluva storyteller is re-affirmed the eighty-year-old's more recent and arguably best plays . . . Read More
Primary Stages is continuing its laudable association with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his talented daughters, beginning with three one act "trunk" plays from Papa Foote's…
How great that we are invited quite literally into the woods
If the principal goal of this musical was to have a young and awesomely talented company Bring It On, then they have done it in spectacular fashion.
The Irish Repertory Company deserves a high five for its lovingly Irish-ized revival of New Girl in Town, a too-long-ignored musical from Broadway's golden age
With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted Next to Normal mto…
Prospect Theatre's revival of an easy to forget long forgotten musical by Cole Porter .
The extgravaganza returns to Radio City for a limited return engagement. It's shorter and better
David Ives' hilarious adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope.
Greg Pierce is unquestionably one of the theater's sharper new talents. With Slowgirl he makes an impressive imprint on a season that is just getting into gear.
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens first major success now revived at the Papermill Playhouse
Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner have encapsulated the seven books-long adventures of the boy wizard, they are to be commended for a comical condensation that (according to one of my you…
the latest spoof of old Hollywood murder mysteries, the B variety that filled out the lower half of a double bill during the 1930s and 1940s at New Jersey's Passages Theater . . .
