350 stories from Act Three - The Reviews
Playwright Robert O'Hara should never be accused of being timid. In his bold, audacious new play, Mankind, he envisions a world with no women where men who get pregnant invent a religi…
Those Brits have a unique taste in musicals. We Americans like sappy stories and saccharine musicals. We like sad and depressing usually only in our plays. Those Brits tore…
Even if this was a High School production, it was a play that I had heard of but not yet seen. The play, written by, now, Broadway musical star, John Cariani, (Something Rotten), just …
A touching new play by a terrific American playwright, Max Posner. The Treasurer tells the tale of an elderly mother, Ida Armstrong (Deanna Dunagan) who is slowly losing her mind, spen…
Sarah Ruhl has a tender, touching new play running over at Playwrights Horizons. For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday is a story about death and dying, family (the Catholic version of on…
Self promotion with a purpose. Theatre? Only in the abstract sense. Entertainment, most certainly. Michael Moore, an unconventional choice for the Broadway stage, mak…
One of the few magical plays out there this season. Bruce Norris is a master of subjects tangled up in mystery and time. A Parallelogram is no different - can we change the outc…
The master or parody strikes again. Gerard Alessandrini has penned yet another spoof - this time based on one show - Hamilton. However, his shtick involves making fun of the ind…
Wow, Wow, Wow. Dancing waiters, gorgeous gowns with gloves, gorgeous sets, fun, frivolity, and a magnificent score by Jerry Herman! What more could you ask for in a decadent even…
With a name like this somehow you expect it to be it's namesake - fulfilling. On the contrary, the play by Abe Koogler, performed on a too narrow runway stage by actors in ordinary str…
A new musical isn't easy to nurture and bring to the stage. Andrew Lippa has penned music and Lyrics to the book by Jules Feiffer to produce a kid-focused yet very adult musical. …
In what can only be described as a first-ever theatrical event - the indomitable Kevin Spacey (fresh off hosting the Tony Awards in New York City) put on a one man show depicting the life of…
This revival of Marvin's Room may leave you wondering why people revive plays at all - especially when there have been a very successful movie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and had well received origi…
Bella - or Isabella Patterson (Ashley D. Kelley) has a vivid and wild imagination indeed. When she gets on a train to escape the pursuit of the law and heads west to New Mexico it real…
What do you get when you combine a 200+ year old play, a movie musical with Danny Kaye, and really good contemporary comedic actors? Most likely something like Nikolai Gogol's The Gov…
This is a revival of an older play. I'm not entirely convinced that it screams "revive me" or "this is all happening again", but it is certainly an interesting, politically relevant, a…
George Orwell's dystopian novel brought to the stage - first in London on the West End, now on Broadway. The technology and video employed was magnificent. The direction was cris…
In Martyna Majok's new play, Cost of Living, we come to realize the cost she is speaking of is mostly the emotional one. What does it cost a handicapped person? Is it cheaper to …
In this new play by Claire Lizzimore, you are expected to think... and connect dots... and solve her riddle.... It's not that complicated but it is open to interpretation to a large de…
It's official - I just saw the Tony award winning play of the year. Oslo, a new docu-play by J.T. Rogers being presented at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center is a bold…
Now playing over at the basement black box Theater at St. Luke's - Baghdaddy. This show has a bit of a split personality disorder. Act I - over the top silliness and slap-stick comedy.…
NYTW has chosen a multi-part play by Mfoniso Udofia as its final installment of the season. After much debate we decided to see the "marathon" presentation on a Sunday - the two parts …
This is Part II (actually we skip a few of her plays to #4) of Mfoniso Udofia's The Ufot Cycle - Her Portmanteau. On a creative note - the title is a word that means both a large suit…
With all the hype this will be quick. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius. To be fair I did not pay $800 for a ticket. I waited and waited and finally won the lottery! My …
Oh, I'm keeping this one a secret for sure. You see, when I subscribe to a theater company, a non-profit theater company like the Atlantic Theater Company, I expect to see theater. &nb…
