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Director Nicholas Viselli has done well with the characterizations but is unable to resolve the thinness of the backstories which are not fleshed out by the script. The shallow set which has…
Jessica Burr's Blessed Unrest production of Marguerite Duras' "La Musica Deuxième"Â in the 1992 translation by Barbara Bray is like a violent Jean Paul Sartre short story directed in the …
The new musical "Hell's Kitchen" has made a successful transition to Broadway from The Public Theater and the new version seems to have corrected some of the flaws from before. This juke-box…
Things are not helped by Mini Lien's bland setting that looks more like a furniture showroom than the family manse held for decades and passed down to the present inhabitants. The new adapta…
In the very first scene it becomes apparent that we are watching "The Pursuit of Happiness," a new play from the Good Company, an indie theater group that has been known for radical and expe…
A good deal of fun is had by Brian Pacelli's projection design which is shown on the modern and chic living room/dining room set by Christopher and Justin Swader. It takes us to the virtual …
In attempting to make a feminist statement out of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Harris has made Lady Macbeth into the same murderous monster that her husband became in the original. This does not…
In telling the life story of Tamara de Lempicka, the show begins with a fascinating premise. Unfortunately, neither the score nor the book lives up to her high standards. Unlike "Sunday in t…
Nelson Diaz-Marcano's "Las Borinqueñas," the latest play in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Science and Technology Project, has a fascinating, little known story …
On April 10, 2024, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center presented a tantalizing teaser of a musical evening with the world premiere workshop of only the first act of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winni…
Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" d…
Playwright/bookwriter Rick Elice has written the greatest jukebox musical (so far) in his 2005 Jersey Boys. In his adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel Water for Elephants, he may ju…
While the characters age, the use of diversity here has them switch races, so that while one couple has a Black Allie and a white Noah, another has a white Allie and a Black Noah, as well as…
The concept of alternate facts was not created under the Trump Administration. In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in which a medical report that a town's new spa is polluted…
In this tour de force, Izzard has come up with a different voice and stance for each character: King Claudius is a baritone, Lord Polonius has a limp, Lady Ophelia has a somewhat breathy spe…
Playwright J.T. Rogers ("Oslo", 2017 Tony Award for Best Play) specializes in dramatizing the backstories to true scandals of which the real details behind the facts never made the news. His…
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck's inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems to …
Soutra Gilmour's setting is a sort of empty runway with the audience sitting on either side. The other props are two black chairs at either end for the two doctors. Scenes are created entire…
The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
Itamar Moses' 'The Ally" is a play of ideas not only torn from today's headlines but tomorrow's as well. Ostensibly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian question on college campuses today, i…
John Patrick Shanley has become our poet of lonely, desperate working class people trying to make a connection despite their inadequacies and hang-ups in such plays as "Danny and the Deep Bl…
Playwright Joyce Griffen's idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces new…
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…
While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary's number "Miss Me Now" which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to Clinton…
