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As "Rock of Ages" did for the 1980's, "Cruel Intentions: The Musical" does for the 1990's. This is a carefree entertainment accompanied by the revelry incited by a two-item minimum in a nigh…
The Tallis Scholars' most recent turn in the Columbia University Miller Theatre Early Music Series was billed as "Heinrich Isaac at 500." This concert title wasn't quite accurate: the evenin…
Fairchild speaks well and communicates much with his physique, but his choreography is repetitive and uninventive. Here was a chance to breathe new life into a too familiar character.Â�…
Cohen then spoke; he presented the four-movement structure of the piece about to be performed. Although various passages in "Voyagers" evoked the diversity of music offerings on the Golden R…
Steve Martin's old/new wonderful comedy, "Meteor Shower," is about two California couples getting together for the first time--again, and again, and again. Like "Groundhog Day," it keeps sta…
Vince Guaraldi's monumental jazz themes are beautifully rendered by musical director Jenny Shiroma on piano, Laura Hamel on percussion and Billie Sholen on bass. This talented trio also perf…
The middle work, "Walking Mad," choreographed by the Swede, Johan Inger, has inadvertently taken on an urgency and timeliness. Always a surreal study of off-handed violence, the current …
Giving a performance of the caliber of his earlier Shakespeare's Globe portrayals of the Countess Olivia in "Twelfth Night" and the title role of "Richard III" which also played Broadway's B…
While not as memorable as several previous Fiasco Theater productions, this "Twelfth Night" takes a while to get where it is going. After winding up the plot in the first half, it settles do…
Moses' famously crowded and contentious career is glossed over except for his final battle with Jacobs over the Lower Manhattan Expressway. "Bulldozer" doesn't even give a good summary of hi…
Deffaa's great achievement is joining the narrative portions with just the right song. An anecdote about encountering Florenz Ziegfeld having an office dalliance with a chorus girl is fo…
Darryl Reilly, Critic Looking back at the 128 performance reviews I wrote for Theaterscene.net in 2017, these shows were outstanding and quite memorable. My assignments rarely include Broadw…
Daniel LLewelyn-Williams in "A Regular Little Houdini" (Photo credit: Sheri Bankes) In 1905, the chief constable of the Newport, South Wales, police department declaimed the "impenetrability…
Playing both traditional and modern instruments, usually amplified, all four musicians supplement and expand Ukrainian folk melodies and songs with rhythmic and stylistic adaptations as well…
Joni Mitchell's "River" was given a powerful rendition by guest artist Megan Hilty. The blonde and statuesque Ms. Hilty was a glorious vision wearing a luminous white wedding dress as sh…
Despite a brilliant display of achingly detailed acting"reason enough for connoisseurs of acting to rush to this production directed by James Macdonald"its uneasy blend of a frightening nucl…
As adapted for the stage by Anthony E. Palermo, it's roughly half the length of the film. But it still tells the same story about George Bailey, who on Christmas Eve in 1946 intends to take …
The themes of Rajiv Joseph's latest political play are not only valid but relevant in today's climate. However, "Describe the Night" is too convoluted for its own good and attempts to make c…
Anton Chekhov once advised that if you show an audience a gun you are required to have it go off. Set on September 8, 1976, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's new play, "Downtown Race Riot," being given i…
William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" is one of those subtle plays that grows on you as it evolves and weaves its own spell. Based on a true story of one the most improbable love stories of the …
Written by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher, the show presents a stylized take on the couple's love at first sight meeting, the complications it caused with their partners at the time, their i…
Inspired by Henri Becque's notorious 1885 "La Parisienne," credited as the first Naturalistic French play, Willimon has taken its plot, characters and themes of sex, adultery, betrayal and p…
Decked out in nerdy regalia of a yellow shirt, red tie and plaid pants with suspenders, Ethan Slater is terrific as SpongeBob. The immensely personable Mr. Slater wonderfully sings, dances a…
With expressive and limber physicality, animated facial features, piercing eyes, and a smoothly resonant voice, Mr. de la Fuente vividly depicts Mr. Hirabayashi from youth to old age. Ma…
Serving as both narrator and protagonist, Harris portrays Blue, a runaway slave who crossed the Sabine River from Louisiana to Texas in search of his elusive freedom. To tell us everything t…
