Adhering admirably to its cultural mission, Kairos Italy Theater is treating downtown audiences to a double-bill of smartly written Italian one-acts, each exploring the contentious topic of …
Inspired by the true case of an affair between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu from 1960 " 1986 which led to a trial for espionage, Hwang's problem in 2…
Guirgis and Brokaw manage to find the back-handed humor and pathos of this scene which sets the mood for a profane and scatological play that hits the audience between the eyes with its fres…
There is a fascinating story to be told in Franz Kafka's involvement with the Yiddish theater in Prague during 1912 but Lu Hauser's play isn't it. "Prague, 1912 (The Savoy Café Yiddish Thea…
Played to perfection with an infectious joy by one and all, the entire cast also takes a deadly serious attitude towards their lines and their actions. Indeed Ludlam's "Conquest" invokes "Ha…
In their new rock musical "Billy and the Killers," lyricist/librettist Jim Shankman and composer Peter Stopschinski channel Nicholas Ray, David Lynch, Elvis Presley, and Dashiell Hammett to …
Memo to Broadway producers: You need to do everything you can to hook the next generation while they're young. I got hooked on theater because I saw the greatest performers, the greatest sh…
The problem is that under Albert Bonilla's stolid and matter-of-fact direction, Elizabeth Ingham and Zack Calhoon's characters never come alive. Just trading quips is not a sophisticated sty…
Leave it to George S. Kaufman and collaborator Morrie Ryskind (the Marx Brothers' "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "A Night at the Opera" as well as the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band"), …
With her marvelously fluty voice, imperious bearing, expressive physicality and animated facial features, Maja Wampuszyc as the haughty Corrine recalls Geraldine Page in all her grand glory.…
With "What We're Up Against," Theresa Rebeck looks back a quarter century to a time when gender inequality in the workplace was a real problem. Oh, wait…yep, unfortunately, if Rebeck's scr…
Hanging over this presentation is, as indicated, the film which divides the audience into those who did not see it and must take or leave Bourne's clever version and those who saw it and com…
The hype that surrounds an award-winning performance on one side of the Atlantic can often preclude its impact if and when it arrives on the other side. This is not the case, I'm happy to re…
It's New Mexico in 1881, and during a series of short scenes, Billy contemplates his life. His stern mother, rough father, stalwart girlfriend and his sly pursuer, Sheriff Pat Garrett, a…
Christen Lien is an exciting artist, playing innovative music for viola, combining formal and informal, classical and electronic elements. She brings an eclectic intelligence, alternately di…
Playwright Jonathan Leaf's prodigious research, accomplished dramatic construction and clever device of threading a mystery throughout the events make the play quite engrossing. There's …
The Wallenda family's act is the climax of a show that is held together by Ringmaster Ty McFarlan and the ongoing antics of Grandma the Clown and Joel Jeske aka Mr. Joel. The big-voiced …
Like the great comedy teams, Jos Houben and Marcello Magni are a study in contrasts. The Belgian Mr. Houben is tall, animated and relies on breezy patter. The Italian Mr. Magni is sh…
While the script describes the setting as simply a "rural place," British and European productions apparently have set the play in medieval times. It is definitely pre-industrial as the farm…
Complementing his gorgeous stage pictures, director Craig Smith's vibrant staging has the actors in constant motion on the small playing area. The cast precisely paces, dashes and undula…
With so many interruptions, it hardly makes for riveting theater, and it never becomes as riveting as a genuine tennis match can be, even though one is ostensibly taking place from the begin…
Well-meaning and sincere," Occupied Territories" is both generic and stereotyped, offering a story television and the movies have been offering for years: the traumatic effect of a father's …
The score is comprised of Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter's Grateful Dead music and lyrics with additional music and lyrics by Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, and Bill Kreutzmann. It's a…
Billed as a "cinema musical," there is extensive use of film clips. Much of these are reminiscent of cheesy, 1960's-style, dubbed European co-production Middle Ages epics, with dashes of…
During the jam-packed ninety minutes of "This One's For the Girls," the foursome run through a batch of songs that show the ups and downs of the last one hundred or so years through the eyes…