433 stories by "Simon Saltzman"
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Turning Off The Morning News - a dark new comedy by Christopher Durang.
Tennessee Williams and William Ingeentertainingly dramatized by Phillip Dawkins
Jesse Mueller and Joshua HenryPhoto credit: Julieta Cervantes Nothing is going to change the fact that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Carousel" is unrelentingly sentimental…
totally fresh, invigorating and fierce new musical
There is plenty that is commendable and rewarding about this first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 Tony Award-winning play
Alison Pill, Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)
None of the disaffection for  a series of Edward Albee's plays that followed years of success and great acclaim …
Eric Tucker and Vaishnavi Sharma
Remember "Pygmalion"? It's "My Fair Lady" without the Ascot Gavotte. If you share the English-speaking world's fondness for George Bernard Shaw's clever…
Nathan Lane Photo: Brinkhoff & MogenburgNew York is the recipient of the stunning and superb revival of the two-part masterpiece "Angels in America" from London where Tony Kushner's Puli…
Jayne Houdyshell and Armand Pascale are the reason to see JC Lee's new play
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a feat of marrying a libretto calculated to shock with lots of elegant music that doesn't
James Inverne's interesting but didactic play
The bouncy and often raunchy score serves the integrity of the era as it propels Tilly and Kate to the end of their entertaining 90-minute visit
a company of expert farceurs appear committed to keeping the Paper Mill's audiences laughing louder and longer than they have in a long time
a taut eighty-minute play in which God's messenger is pitted against the Devil's executioner
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 The Fiasco Players Photo: Joan Marcus
There is not a better way to celebrate the holidays than a visit to the Classic Stage Company where they are hosting the Fiasco Theater'…
Lauren Zakrin in "Cruel Intentions Photo credit: Jenny Anderson Sometimes the experience of being with an audience that is largely half your age and that knows not on…
A stirring concept concert with narrative segues
This musical may be small in its scope but when compared to some it achieves its own sense of grandness by being both magical and seductive— an unbeatable combination
the characters in Betts's play deploy their idiosyncrasies as well as defend their ideologies cleverly, and often ruefully.
The cast   photo credit: Joan Marcus
Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus El Rey" is one of the more exciting of the new plays to open Off Broadway so far this season. A collaboration between Th…
Nia Vardalos (photo: Joan Marcus)
Sincere but why? That is how I responded to the dramatic form given to a stream of popular inter-active on-line advice columns originally written by Ch…
William Nicholson's 1990 award winner revived off-Broadway
a show in which group participation means more than any anticipation as to what to expect next
Clive Owen and Jin HaPhoro Credit: Matthew Murphy
Playwright David Henry Hwang made an auspicious Broadway debut in 1988 with M. Butterfly. The play and its original two stars - John Lithgow…
Alison Fraser in solo show that delves into dark behavior
