433 stories by "Simon Saltzman"
John Guare's most free-wheeling and comically absurdist play, commissioned by the McCarter Theater and Princeton University for its world premiere
The four-person cast headed by Howard McGillin at George Street Playhouse couldn't be more in step to make the most of their many and mostly manic opportunities in this delightful homage to …
There is no denying that the technical team has created an excitingly refracted vision of New York. Whether that is enough to spell success is questionable
Amy Herzog's 2-hander bets another run at the Mitzi Mewhouse
What could be more amusing in this election year than oodles of snappy and insinuating dialogue that earnestly and humorously recalls a time when the delegates at a convention could actually…
Were it not for the singularly intense and brilliantly energizing performance of Josh Young, as Judas, I don't know how I could have made through to the crucifixion. More amazing is that You…
Watching this Will Lomany's "way out in the blue ride on a smile and a shoeshine" turn into "an earthquake" is as enduringly shattering as any Greek tragedy. . . .
At times, Stoppard's longwinded play is as exhilarating as it is illuminating; at other times it is as exasperating as it is enervating.
The verdict of this critic on David Saint's production: It's guilty of being a resounding success
For this seasoned spectator, there aren't any balls or strikes, only solid hits and home runs in this Paper Mill Playhouse revival of a classic musical of the golden era
Even if the story defies rational analysis, this musical can no longer be denied a place among the more unsettling and unusual musicals of our time.
there are glimmering in F. Murray Abraham's performance that hint that he is striving to find a character who will eventually show the various, sometimes contradictory, sides of Galileo's te…
-close to the best production I've seen ever seen . . .
Eric Schorr has found a provocative subject within the age-old art of tattooing the human body upon which to create a hair-raising (no pun intended) dramatic theme
Although the play is extremely wordy this rarely produced Schnitzler play is not so irrefutably dense with political posturing that we can't appreciate its slyly satirical underpinnings
he return of the wild and wacky vaudeville-styled revue that Robert Allan Ackerman conceived in the mid 1970s to celebrate the absurdist canon of Eugene Ionesco is sure to win new fans for t…
This British adaptation of Marc Camoletti's 1962 French farce is well served by this production . . .
Danai Gurira's gripping new play set in the region of South Africa now named Southern Rhodesia, on the first leg of its three-theater rolling world premiere. . .
Whether this multi-media piece is welcomed in the New York with the same enthusiasm that greeted it earlier this year at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe remains to be seen. I certainly fell fo…
Overview of 2011 Theater Season On and Off Broadway
Andrew Hinderakers's modestly macabre but also humorously tender play is also an ironically good fit for the Underground series as it deals with the decision by people to end their unhappy l…
a better than ever dose of nostalgia awaiting you at the Paper Mill Playhouse
Dael Orlandersmith's brutally frank play about a family decimated by drug addiction, written in a beautifully composed, essentially lyrical, narrative -driven style
a wondrously dreamy Dada-era-invoked new musical, a beautifully incremented multi-media confluence of truth and fantasy, art and history
Going forward by means of going backward works quite well, and far from being confusing, casts a contemporary and hypothetically psychological light on the ancient Greek myth
