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Because of changing social mores, some Broadway musicals are assumed to make audiences uncomfortable today. Take for example Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" whose protagonist is a wife-…
"Black No More," the new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler's 1931 Afrofuturist novel, is the most exciting and inventive new show to be seen so far this season in New York though it is …
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: not only pu…
Hansol Jung's "Wolf Play" is a fantasy on several levels but it is also rather confusing in its details. Inspired by the true case of an Asian adoptee who was "re-homed" on the Internet when…
The new opera, "Intimate Apparel" is a very impressive, accessible work. If it has a fault, it is completely humorless but then the original play did not include comic relief either. Unlike …
Joshua Harmon's latest play, the dense, untidy, brilliant and timely Prayer for the French Republic, is his most ambitious, epical play covering five generations of one French Jewish family …
Warning: "Shhhh," a world premiere commissioned by Atlantic Theater Company from Clare Barron, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner for "Dance Nation," may just be the most visceral play you w…
While Gordon has said in interviews that his model for the music was Puccini, in fact, the atonal orchestral score sounds more like operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd and Dominick …
The songs which are mainly sung by Alex Boniello (usually with a guitar) and Molly Hager as the ghostly narrators are folk ballads which though lovely sound like a continuation of the same s…
"Ectoplasm" counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women's rights, prostitution, women's suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums " and the love that …
Her nine years on SNL would seem excellent preparation for "Search" which requires her to portray ten different characters alternately. However, although Strong has tremendous stage presence…
Not only is this a puppet show but it is also an extended concert. This year's vocalists are Valois Mickens, of West African, Celtic, and Native American origin, Â and Katarina Vizina, a t…
David Lindsay-Abaire's early plays ("Fuddy Meers," "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Wonder of the World") were all whimsical or at least otherworldly. He has gone on to create musicals based on previo…
"Flying Over Sunset," Pulitzer Prize-winning bookwriter/director James Lapine's new original show, is a "What If?" musical: using historical facts that are known about writer and philosopher…
This theatrical genius, responsible for the Tony Award winning plays "War Horse," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and the most recent revival of "Angels in America," knew…
Although Candace Bushnell's one-woman show, "Is There Still Sex in the City?," shares the same name with her 2019 novel/self-help book, the stage show now at the Darryl Roth Theatre is her a…
It appears that the later play was modeled on the earlier one though it may not have been noticed back in 1997 when "Sympathetic Magic" had its New York premiere. Both plays deal with discov…
As the manager of the restaurant, Aduba gives one of those big performances which are larger than life, but we have all met that type of people. She batters, insults, cajoles, berates her st…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as "A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and …
Directed by playwright Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol offers six actors playing 23 roles in this entertaining new adaptation. In the iconic role of Sherlock Holmes with so much history behi…
All of us are probably aware of the problems of polluted water in Flint, Michigan, owing to civic neglect. However, it might shock you to know that it is still going on. Erika Dickerson-Desp…
The Red Bull Theater production of Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" will most likely introduce a new generation to this classic Jacobean comedy in a form that most will be able to follow due to …
If Alice Childress' 1955 Off Broadway hit, "Trouble in Mind," had transferred to Broadway in 1957 as it was scheduled to do, it would have been the first play by a Black playwright to reach …
As always in a John Doyle presentation, the production is professional, polished and accomplished. This time around he has not made changes to the script or the score except to include the c…
The writers seem afraid to state what the story is all about, the word gay being mentioned exactly once. At two hours and 15 minutes including one intermission, today's audience is way ahead…
