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WAITING FOR LEFTY This production of "Waiting For Lefty" is captivating. It uncovers a play whose roots run deep and invites us along for the ride. Of course we accept. When it's over yo…
Copperfield! The New Musical, is a mostly delightful evening. For those less familiar with the novel (like myself), it provides a broad overview of the major plot points through an endeari…
Some shows dazzle; Legerdemain enchants. Lynn Rosen’s sparkling comedy turns a restaurant’s back alley into a palace of wonder, where three marvelous actors trade laughs, secrets, and sl…
The Imaginary Invalid was worth the evening for a guaranteed laugh and a mild dose of political spookiness.
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This is one of those nights at the theater being part of a piece of collective storytelling where we breathe in through our hearts and understand that remembering the past empowers us to kee…
Billy Crystal delivered 90 minutes of comic gold. Laughter reigned over a traditional display of nostalgia and grief, and that’s ok. Sometimes, laughter is the most fitting tribute of all.…
Mona Pirnot presents us with another form-bending, auto fiction production--a play, I Became We--with its entirety sang by a 16-person classical choir. This intimate, humorous, and familiar …
King of the Yees is a show that is wise, bold, and oh so full of spirit!
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Writer Kate Vozella delivers biting, hilarious dialogue. However, the script fails to explain the most imperative element of the plot: why the characters are at the facility. The play also d…
Though A Ghost in Your Ear doesn’t meet expectations, its approach is undeniably inventive. The show points us to an exciting possibility for what can be done at the Audible’s Minetta La…
What happens when Princess Diana, Cleopatra and Queen Isabella meet? The Queen Club brings three fascinating women together for a conversation about power, feminism, history and everything w…
The upshot here is that for this writer the production never achieves its goal. I was never pulled in to the story. I was never fully immersed. Which is what I always want to be.
Th…
The Kick Inside is live theater at its best.
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By Kendra Jones August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, is set to open at Lincoln Center next month. This week, they kicked off their run with an opening celebra…
Enlightenment proved that reason and rapture can share a single stage. Under Thomas Crawford’s genial guidance, the American Classical Orchestra’s period-instrument artists made Mozart s…
Transformed from Fitzgerald’s 1860 Baltimore setting to the docks of Cornwall, England, circa 1918, its themes are more in line with what one might expect from a traditional, full-length m…
A pride flag is hung, in a Texas suburb, across the street from Jeanie (Crystal Finn). These new neighbors, Will (Jeremy Shamos) and Adam (Jeff Biehl), received a friendly-enough welcome t…
Milo Cramer, writer and performer of School Pictures, artfully strikes a chord with his silliness and insight. Each tune (composition!) embodies a child amidst their New York City education,…
Each actor took what they were given and expertly executed their roles, making the play thoroughly watchable.
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Pizza Party is a love letter to family, to Peru, and to the ghosts we carry with us. With three irresistible performers, a core as warm as a fresh pie, and a festival devoted to artists who …
From the moment you walk into the theater, the dramatic and gorgeous set lets you know you’re in for a memorable experience.
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A Homeric retelling in the oral tradition, yes!
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Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano is an undisputed classic of absurdist theater. The Resident Acting Company’s masterly revival at The Sheen Center, running through November 1, is itsel…
School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play really drives home the importance of representation. Especially for young girls, what is shown to us as good, right and beautiful cuts deep and …
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen playing at The Night Egg at the Culture Club, promises a daring meditation on desire and sexual eccentricity, but it does not quite deliver. The musical itself…
