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Schmidt's streamlined adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is played by a cast of seven schoolgirls who meet in an abandoned urban field after school without any set up other than th…
"Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico" is Cirque du Soleil's 38th original production and its 18th performed under The Big Top. The name is a combination of the Spanish word for light (luz) and t…
As David, Chris Dwan does not make one forget the inimitable Grisetti who spun every moment into a comic turn. However, Dwan is charming as the undaunted hero who must deal with problems beh…
Never really losing her cool, Pressley always commands the stage even though scenic designer Alexis Distler has made it difficult by creating a huge private room, beautiful in its understate…
Not all cult movies need to be made into musicals, particularly those that are dependent on special effects which the cinema does better than the stage. This is demonstrated by the new Broad…
Poet Aziza Barnes' first play, "BLKS," now at MCC Theater Space is raucous, vulgar, outrageous and contemporary in Robert O'Hara's hilarious, over-the-top production. Following the adventure…
Christopher Chen's exquisite and mystical "Passage" being produced by the Soho Rep is inspired by E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," borrowing its plot and character relationships. But whi…
Witnessing the LOTNY production makes one wonder why "Owen Wingrave" is not performed more often: it has a small cast of eight with juicy roles for all of the characters, evenly divided betw…
As president of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, from 1966 " 1969, playwright Arthur Miller moved about Eastern Europe freely and witnessed a great many troubling eve…
In "Caroline's Kitchen," British playwright Torben Betts ("Invincible," "The Unconquered," "Muswell Hill") has written a state of the nation farce which has no laughs. As the play under the …
MasterVoices performed a beautifully sung and played rendition of the legendary 1941 musical "Lady in The Dark" as part of New York City Center's 75th Anniversary Season for three sold-out p…
Retro Productions which has staged both old and new plays has turned its attention to this unjustly neglected comedy from 1961 which has not had a New York revival that made it into the reco…
As the elderly king of Britain who deludedly decides to give up his kingdom to his three daughters, Goneril and Regan, the two older married ones, and Cordelia, his younger unmarried daughte…
The dazzling Broadway production of Anais Mitchell's musical "Hadestown" proves director/developer Rachel Chavkin to be a creative genius. If you had not known it after she fitted her theate…
Unfortunately in a play that is already crammed full of ominous hints, O'Brien's production is very heavy-handed, underscoring the foreshadowing with a double line under each and every clue …
Playwright Taylor Mac's Broadway debut, "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," comes with a great many pluses: three consummate clowns, Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White, directed…
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are such consummate stage performers that they could read the phone book and keep us mesmerized. As directed by Joe Mantello in Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Cli…
"Be More Chill," the dazzling and inventive musical based on the cult Young Adult novel by Ned Vizzini, has made a successful transfer to Broadway Lyceum Theater with the same cast and an ex…
Like John Doyle's reconceived musical revivals ("Allegro," "Passion," "Pacific Overtures," "Carmen Jones," "The Cradle Will Rock"), Fish's production is minimalist but with a difference. Whi…
Those who loved The Mad Ones' "Miles for Mary" which had an extended run at Playwrights Horizons last year after its premiere at The Brooklyn Starr in 2016, will be greatly disappointed by t…
Delving into black life and attitudes now, the play is hilarious - but not laugh-out-loud funny. Unfortunately, in Stevie Walker-Webb's fine production at The Public's LuEsther Theater, the …
The show also uses the 3D holographic technology called IceMagic which attempts to bring us the late Oscar Hammerstein II as a hologram enacted and spoken by actor Bob Meenan. Aside from an …
A three and half hour play with only three actors spanning 163 years might not be your idea of entertainment, but the National Theatre's production of "The Lehman Trilogy" is one of the most…
In Mara Nelson-Greenberg's new play, "Do You Feel Anger?," which had its world premiere at the 2018 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has attempted t…
Not seen in New York since 1965, John Webster's Jacobean revenge play, "The White Devil," has been given a juicy, vigorous modern dress production by Red Bull Theater which specializes in El…
