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In offering a window on a world most New York theatergoers know little about, Hansol Jung's Wild Goose Dreams is a fascinating look at Korean culture. On the other hand, what appears to be a…
Both a theatrical surprise and a very accomplished dramatic work, Patricia Ione Lloyd's "Eve's Song" is one of the best theatrical experiences to be had in New York at this time. With a cast…
As proven elsewhere, Steven Levenson is expert at depicting young people in crisis on stage. "Days of Rage" is very real in its handling of a group of people of similar beliefs living togeth…
Played by Pascale Armand, known for her Tony nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in "Eclipsed," Angela is the heroine of Lauren Gunderson's new one-woman play, "Natur…
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever's well-made play "Daniel's Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagement of…
Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell's 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition whic…
The witty score with music and lyrics by Schwartz is a collection of both pastiche songs based on numbers Merman made famous and new ones that fit her style that suggest other famous songs. …
Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close's Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is known …
In her own time, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 " 1950) was a rock star and a best-selling author until illness and postwar culture dimmed her luster. Still she fascinates with her bohem…
Although Donja R. Love describes his new play "Fireflies," his second world premiere in New York in 2018, as a "surrealistic voyage through Queer love during pivotal moments in Black History…
Adam Gwon's song cycle, "Ordinary Days," became a cult hit when it opened the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in 2009 for a run of ten weeks. So successful was the show that it is one of the …
Solondz's mordant wit makes this the darkness of tragicomedies. Brooke and Jay's delusions so typical of white entitlement are entire their own. When we finally hear from Brittany, she turns…
However, the play's humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of "My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before," from Pastor Peters, and "George Washington dined on …
Set in a dark time, "Girl From the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antith…
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney's last play entitled "Final Follies" performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by David Sain…
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
The actual subtitle of Silverman's play gives one pause: "In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Shackl…
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play's second act, eight months have passed, and money…
Gingold Theatrical Group's "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw's Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stellar …
