Although director Kimberly Senior who also piloted the Chicago production has staged the play with elegance, she never really turns up the heat so that there are not many sparks in Carter's …
With only a metal-mesh cage, bed-frame, and a gate--and gobs of black feathers that ultimately litter the stage--Nashman cavorts around the black box set (scenic design is by Marysia Bucholc…
Because the first three pieces of the program had established an intellectual across-time dialogue between Bach and Glass and an examination of Glass' Bach 'ancestry,' the unabashedly Romant…
Most of the humor is at the expense of the Mesquite City Council and its steely-eyed mayor Linda Hadley (Liz Amberly) who could be accurately described as a Margaret Thatcher wannabe, if she…
Each was asked about their first audition. Marilyn D'Honau couldn't remember, although she clearly made an impression on Robbins who subsequently used her in "Gypsy." Tony Mordente, just an …
Ingvartsen has a record of intellectualizing her work taking all the juice out of them in the process. "7 Pleasures""a misnomer if there ever was one"takes her dry, over thinking to the extr…
Mr. Hagins has crafted an involving and affective take of a perennial scenario that captures the nostalgic essence of wartime films and plays of the past. There's the spirit of "Casablan…
The St. Bart's Players, NYC's award-winning, longest running community theater group, proudly presents A Little Night Music as the final show of its 90th Anniversary Season The post Stephen …
The central character is actually Mrs. Fisher who worries about her children and plots to open Amy's eyes to her husband's faults. Unfortunately, Annette O'Toole has been directed to play he…
In 85 minutes, we really don't learn much Rebecca, Nolan or Sukey as Mr. Donnelly imparts scant biographical details about them, but strangely does for Padgett. Donnelly takes the perennial …
The new story concerns Wayne Hopkins, an American boy whose parents die tragically and his Uncle Dave informs him that he is a wizard and must attend a special school in England. Wayne is so…
The ambiguities in Mary Jane's character seem to stem more from the writing than the acting: though her behavior remains dubious or questionable, Mary Jane comes to real life as enacted by C…
Twyla Tharp (Photo credit: Robert Whitman) Joel Benjamin, Critic "The more things change, the more they stay the same," goes the old French proverb. That describes the Twyla Tharp Dance …
Known as the Shakespeare play with the most song lyrics, the production also includes a deliciously bouncy new score by Stephen Schwartz in different musical styles from the 1920's " 1950's,…
Having spent nearly five hours in the company of Ms. Parks' parade of these beautifully written characters I find myself conflicted about these plays. She is brilliant at generating fire wit…
Director Charles Weldon acted in the 1983, Mark Taper Forum's Los Angeles production, and besides his meticulous casting he has perfectly rendered this revival. Mr. Weldon's physical staging…
In terms of the atmospherically detailed writing and Mr. Moad's enjoyably intense performance that recalls a Sam Shepard hero, "Quittin' Meth" is the most powerful of the program and its con…
Faustin Linyekula in a scene from "In Search of Dinozord" (Photo credit: Agathe Poupeney) Joel Benjamin, Critic It takes chutzpah"or artlessness"to begin a show with five minutes of torturou…
Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins makes a memorable New York debut with an involving and engrossing play which at the performance under review you could have heard a pin drop, so rapt was th…
There are plentiful comic one-liners and also sharp observations in Mr. Giles' well-crafted dialogue. Giles perfectly renders all four characters with personality details and traits. …
The only color in the predominantly black-and-white show is orange, which appears as a pair of high heels, a hat and a cape, an apron, books, and various other odd items. There's also a larg…
With her slim physique, flawless diction, melodiously husky voice and imperious bearing, Dunagan is commanding. She conveys the character's arrogance, selfishness and harrowing mental declin…
Besides harboring a dwindling dream to become a dancer, thanks to a leg injury, Halliday's dramatic stand-in, Jack (Tyler Jones), an adoptee, also has to contend with the overwhelming reperc…
This was a man who loved words, the exact turn of the phrase, its cadence and where the stress falls, whether in Shakespeare or Pinter, Beckett or Stoppard, and his commitment to the nuance …
Both as written by Stroppel and portrayed by Stephen D'Ambrose (Stravinsky) and Mark Shanahan (Disney), it also becomes clear that they are equally imperious--at first. Though they're both m…