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While superficially poignant, "Torch Song" remains what it always was: a fierce play about the need for respect as a gay person, when it was painfully more difficult to come by acceptance, l…
King's "Dolores Claiborne" would seem a strange choice for dramatization as the book is a monologue told entirely by its protagonist at a police interrogation over a murder on Little Tall Is…
Martha Graham called her dancers "athletes of God."Â Watching David Greenspan perform all the roles in a six-hour marathon performance of Eugene O'Neill's 1928 melodrama, Strange Interlud…
Boycott gets to sing a bounty of scintillating songs including "It's A Perfect Relationship," "Is It A Crime?," "I'm Goin' Back" and her duets with Heuser in "Better Than a Dream" (written f…
In Jonathan Silverstein's production, Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath as two friends who handle their fears of an unnamed epidemic in opposite ways do not seem to connect as real friends would…
Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Parry and Anna Baryshnikov in a scene from J.B.Priestley’s "Time and the Conways" (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) David Kaufman, Critic Much to New York's b…
The highlight of the program was watching the world-renowned premier danseur David Hallberg perform a work specially commissioned for him by Fall for Dance. Mark Morris, the equally famo…
Director John Collins, founder of ERS, has set the play in an office or conference room with three long tables (in Jim Findlay's design which eventually grows tiresome) Â and a great many …
Set designer Charlie Corcoran ingeniously has the small stage's walls adorned with sections of a yellow cab. Off to the side is a piece containing the steering wheel from where McDonagh …
It is possible to enjoy Brian Friel's "The Home Place" without knowing the background to this historical play set in rural Ireland in 1878 as a Chekhovian representation of a world about to …
While the acting is compelling, the threesome does not reveal many layers to their characters; they establish a persona and stick to it, without divulging any further information. As Mae, Ni…
Nicolai Khalezin wrote Burning Doors with dramaturgy by him and Natalia Kaliada. Their aim is to bring attention to currently jailed artists Petr Pavlensky and Oleg Sentsov by weaving…
Ruth Sullivan, Allison Threadgold and Patrick Hamilton in a scene from "Tomorrow in the Battle"Â (Photo credit: George McClintock) Joel Benjamin, Critic The flier for Kieron Barry's drama …
hough it's a one-woman show, Alison Fraser plays a number of characters by speaking in different voices with a certain technical prowess. The principal one is an upper West Side psychotherap…
I've been playing soccer and have been exposed to soccer longer than I have been exposed to dance. Both of these things are part of my kinesthetic and the biography of my body. I can't reall…
Signaling that we're in for something different, Bauman has redubbed the play "Arden/Everywhere," a hint that home, and the emotional impact of losing it, is at the heart of her reimagining.…
As the show progresses with intermittent songs, the other musicians/singers (Ryan McCurdy, Matt Park, and Rocky Vega) also strip down to their underwear/lingerie. The sounds they all make ar…
The audience sitting on three sides of the airy playing area on wooden benches is part of Clifton Chadick's super, environmental scenic design. The floor is covered with wood chips, logs…
While not all musicals from Shakespeare have worked and updates are particularly risky, "Desperate Measures" avoids all of the pitfalls and is a refreshing and satisfying work in its own rig…
Director Ralph Lewis, apparently not trusting the material " or finding the play too dated " has staged a carnival-esque version (adapted by S.M. Dale in June 2016) which includes 16 songs a…
Mr. Njikam offers a witty take on the classic mythology of a hero's episodic journey with a lively African-American slant. There are a lot of high school and college scenes with wise teacher…
Part of the problem is the lack of innovation in Ray Roderick's staging in this show which calls out for invention and clever handling of sets and props. Devin Vogel's colorless stage design…
Marinelli's performance also contributes to the ennui. Heavy set, possessing a sullen countenance, speaking in a light voice, and lethargically shuffling around, he's not the most charismati…
Michelle Dorrance, this troupe's director, has become a force in tap dance because she understands both its legacy and its future. She played Pied Piper to a large troupe of very talented da…
Possessed of a soaring tenor baritone voice that forcefully hits every note, an immensely likeable persona and boundless energy as he dances with brio, Moss commands the stage for 70 minutes…
