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Company XIV has applied its inimitable Baroque-Burlesque style to the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris for the second time and come up with Paris, an exotic and erotic adults-only entert…
The play is both satiric and trenchant. The conversations of the men are laced with profanity much like David Mamet's real estate men in Glengarry Glen Ross. Eliza is called everything in th…
Directed by high profile new British director Simon Godwin, associate director of the U.K.'s National Theatre, making his New York debut, this "Cherry Orchard" seems to have no interpretatio…
Aside from the syncopated, bouncy score, the single best element is the sensational choreography by director Colgan whose dances also impressed in his revival of Oh, Kay! last year. While th…
While S. N. Behrman was one of the leading Broadway playwrights from the twenties through the early sixties, he went into an eclipse after his death in 1973. Since 2000, however, there have …
Music Director/Conductor Steven Reineke chose three fine singers, Colin Donnell, Laura Osnes and Nathan Gunn, to animate the Lerner and Loewe songbook, along with the terrific choir, Essenti…
Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is a classic of modern drama but at times it can seem musty in a poor translation. David Harrower's "Public Enemy" is not only a shrewd, accessible adaptatio…
Playwright Helen Edmundson whose stage plays have been mostly adaptations of famous literature ("The Mill on the Floss," "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," as well as "Coram Boy" and "Thérè…
Cirque du Soleil's "Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities" has a wonderful premise and an eye-filling mise en scène. However, without the needed narration or program notes, the idea remains still …
The problem with Peter Dobbins' productions is not the quaint spiritual underpinnings of the plays but the fact that they are directed too leisurely and consequently do not generate any laug…
The live action elements of the show are performed on various platforms and screens on which are projected Deco Dawson's designs which give the dramatization a 3-D look. In addition to 2 -D …
The two women size each other up, first by Sister Rosetta singing such gospel numbers as "This Train," "Rock Me" and "Sit Down," while Marie demonstrates her style with "Were You There When …
The single disadvantage of director Patricia McGregor's approach is that in cutting so much text, the events of the play seem to occur one on top of each other, making the play a bit melodra…
Under Bob Moss' vigorous and energetic direction, the cast of 20 young actors grab hold of the show and never let up for a moment playing a multitude of colorful New York types with energy a…
Director Austin Pendleton made some choices which don't help the now creaky play. Although Peter is described as ten years younger than Helen, Pendleton has cast the ever reliable Bradford C…
Like his "Apple Family Plays," Nelson's "The Gabriel" cycle all take place in a kitchen on a specific day in almost real time using the same six actors to play the family members. These are …
Unlike the original short story which was set on a rural farm in Cornwall, England, and the film which was reset in Bodega Bay, California, the play takes place entirely in the main room of …
While the New York City Opera's staging of "Aleko" could not be called a major rediscovery, it was an admirable attempt to offer a non-standard repertory work that had probably not been seen…
The show includes pole vaulting, giant flowers that rise up out of the ground, the building of the bone structure of the totemic Thanator, the high flying of the Toruk, a flock of birds play…
Following "Bachelorette" and "Assistance," Leslye Headland's latest play, The Layover, is a taut psychological thriller told in an updated film noir style. Trip Cullman, who has directed all…
Taub's eclectic score to original lyrics includes jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, Broadway and ragtime. Among Kwei-Armah's ingenious touches were his use of a series of community cameo groups p…
Written in 415 B.C. as a criticism of the Athenian capture of Melos and the subjugation of its population earlier that year, "The Trojan Women" has remained relevant throughout the last 2,50…
Now that we have been through all the angry play movements, literate writers like N.C. Hunter and Terence Rattigan are once again ripe for revival. While in his own time, Hunter was criticiz…
Toni Press-Coffman's "Touch" is a rather challenging play both in that a great deal of it is narrated in recollection and also that it deals with much naked emotion. The cast led by Peter Mc…
While "LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials of Broadway" is a fine and concise review of their careers for people who have never heard of them, Murphy and Lang make them seem more superficial t…
