220 stories by "Tulis McCall"
This duo is the perfect combination of charm and danger. More than once they scrambled my brain and handed it back to me with a side of fries.
There is a pattern that pops up from time in all of our lives. Â An event or a thing or a person is pronounced "swell". Â Occasionally we concur with the pronouncement, and occasionally …
I'm not that big a love fan myself.  Onstage it can be clunky.  Passion can be badly choreographed or altogether unbelievable.  It can be too loud or too long or too sophomoric. Â�…
Uggams was a gift when she started out. Â That she remains an iconic performer says something about not only her talent, but her determination and drive. Â This is a woman who is not int…
There are a few staging surprises that work very well indeed. Â We are not merely observers. Â We are witnesses. This is "Right vs Might" and it is not news. Â The only hopeful note is…
John Patrick Shanley wasn't kidding when he titled this play "Doubt A Parable" Â There is more theorizing and speculation thrown around here than a person can grab in one go-round. Â As …
The Effect has given us a huge gymnasium into which we are invited to play, engage, risk, contemplate, judge, experiment, and be our wild selves. Â All from the comfort of our seats. Â T…
"Dead Outlaw", now at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre is a deceptive cuss of a show. What appears as a simple tale of varmints, thieves and outlaws is anything but.
I don't know what you have planned for this weekend, but if you have not seen this gorgeous Encores! production of "Jelly's Last Jam" at City Center - I suggest you rethink whatever you have…
 The story takes place in September and early October of 2023 on an unidentified college campus.  "Early October" being the operative phrase here, because it takes place before October…
Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) and her son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch) have what could be referred to as a strained relationship. Â Strained to the point of busting wide open except for the fact tha…
"The Connector" now at MCC Theatre is an innocuous bit of fluff that has great ambitions and little structure. Â What it does have is a spectacular cast who tell this tale with as much gus…
Ms. Pirnot sings 4 or 5 songs, each amplified differently, almost as if they were daring us to doubt our attention to this detail. In between, the stories are told by the text-to-speech gizm…
Gancher's writing is mesmerizing and brave. Â This is gorgeous ensemble, directed with skill and grace. Â The result? A production that says, " Put on your Big Person Pants and get over …
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The brilliance of this piece starts with Ruby Thomas's writing. Â She approaches this family much like a zoologist might approach a small rare creature, with a soft glove on one hand and a…
From a review of Chita Rivera's Café Carlyle show 2017. "Chita Rivera doesn't just take the stage at Café Carlyle. She hoists it over her shoulder and walks off with it.  Rivera is…
Somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday I forgot to pay special tribute to Lynn Henderson who performed "There's A Little Starch Left" - her new one woman show - in December at Do…
Once Upon A Mattress at Encores is a ton and a half of pure joy. Â And Sutton Foster is at the center of it, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Â Foster is a combina…
There are secrets being spilled here.  These are the stories women tell each other in private.  In this production Chris Henry and Lorna Ventura  have pulled the women and every one…
This might sound fussy but watching a play that should give us the musicality of Brian Friel's work, but does not, because the Irish accents are either missing altogether or fleeting at best…
As it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Â Not much to see there.
Marilyn Maye at Birdland -- Maye is a happy woman. Genuinely down to the bottom of those cute shoes she is happy. This is not Pollyanna happy. This is "I have a right to be happy…
You could do worse than take a trip with this observant guide. ... We are, like the dogs we own, here to love and serve. Â And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Â Not a ba…
Let me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. Â It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. Â So it is life times two. Â No…
