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Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical" at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Editor…
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
Jake Shore's "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger student …
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC's "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"'s narrator and its protagon…
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for Murp…
For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
And of his behavior Richard continues to explain, "And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain." In this production we see none of this though this speech…
Modern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don't plan out all the details. Robert Icke's staging for London's Almeida Theatre now at New York's Park Avenue Armor…
The Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished " maybe too polished " production like the earlier "…
Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
Comedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," Â into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author …
"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel's Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also directe…
Following the lead of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Siting Yang has updated Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the present but left the story mainly set in Africa. In "Sky of Darknes…
"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman's spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score w…
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time having …
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King's plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Golde…
While this is not an in-depth interpretation and at times seems a bit superficial, Will Pomerantz's production of "Three Sisters" is a true ensemble making it appear that these people have l…
Adam Kraar's new drama, "The Karpovsky Variations," is a memory play about a dysfunctional family of driven people and the music that inspired them. Unfortunately, in its current form it is …
Tony Valdovinos who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, was 18 before he found out that he was an undocumented immigrant. The new musical "¡Americano!" is based on the true story of his life and…
Based on historical facts, the new and exciting musical "Paradise Square" tells a story of fictional characters caught up in real events which lead up to the Draft Riots that occurred in Man…
Alice Childress' "Wedding Band," which is a difficult play to stage due to its shifts in tone, is a major rediscovery. However, it straddles a thin line between realism and romance and its p…
In "POTUS," Selina Fillinger's first Broadway comedy, all is revealed by its unwieldy subtitle ("Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive") which leaves little roo…
You would think that at the tail end of a pandemic Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" would be the perfect play for our moment. This experimental play whic…
