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Billed as a "bio-epic," playwright Zachary Desmond emphasizes the epic in his uneven though compelling approach. Mr. Desmond affectionately imparts biographical details of Einstein's lif…
Nora Sørena Casey's "False Stars," part of this year's Corkscrew Festival at the Paradise Factory, starts slowly but gradually grows more involving as all the interconnections between the…
Much of the play is like an odd synthesis of 1960's theatrical satires. There are absurdist shades of Murray Schisgal, Elaine May, and particularly of Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," laced…
Projected titles indicate place and year"beginning with Arles, 1888 and progressing until van Gogh's suicide"which we hear as an offstage gunshot"in July of 1890. The audience is treated to …
But Cohen the composer is another matter entirely--his jazz-inflected songs make "Come Light My Cigarette" a gem of a chamber musical. As more and more of the songs are revealed, time and ag…
The songs never come up to the title song made famous by Marlene Dietrich who's mentioned several times during the play. Antin's attempt at playful seduction, "Take Me Home Tonight," sung by…
Watching Evans being bossed around by the tall beanpole Russel Norris, whether in an office job, cleaning a park or waiting on tables, was to watch classic comedy performed with brilliant, b…
Having a background in dance accounts for Gelman's mesmerizing staging that is filled with finely choreographed sequences. Characters take showers onstage with actual water cascading on thei…
Antyon LeMonte, Honey Davenport, Jay Knowles and Kevin Aviance in a scene from "Trinkets" (Photo credit: Lola Flash) Joel Benjamin, Critic In an era where RuPaul has turned drag/cross-dressi…
While the three plays in Summer Shorts 2017: Festival of New American Short Plays " Series B have been given proficient productions each seems ultimately unsatisfactory. All seem like first …
Set in a California, Bay Area high school, there we meet the four students who prattle on in contemporary lingo. Gradually, and without any explanation we learn that they are witches. An epi…
Bruce Norris' "A Parallelogram" endeavors to explore some sobering facts about the effect of the future on the present and responsibility to others. Unfortunately, the play ends up being lab…
Interestingly, some of the most raucously explicit material of protest came not from the Peace and Social Justice Concert 24 but from the Wil(helms/liams)burg Concert 26, a collaboration of …
n light-hearted Rationalize (concert 27), composer Cody Brookshire combined found and manipulated sounds created by the audience with live music on bass clarinet and marimba. Brookshire crea…
In spite of the Festival's lengthy booklet and daily concert updates, the rich creative vitality of the electroacoustic musical community remains only tangentially documented: composers and …
Stephen Kaplan's "A Real Boy" is about a pair of puppets, named Peter and Mary Ann Myers, who adopt the eponymous child named Max, and it proves about as preposterous as such a premise sugge…
Mark Finley, the director, knew enough to keep the play charmingly low-key with just enough animated physicality to illustrate the story. Finley clearly understood all of Strothmann's be…
The revival at the York is being seen in yet a new version of the show that began as a cabaret in 1981 and went to Broadway in 1985. Created by director Larry Alford, choreographer Wayne Alf…
In the seven concerts of the second half of the 2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival held this month at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York, the full diversity and eclectic v…
While the dialogue offers some stabs at humor and Opel--a first-rate comedienne of the old school--usually excels at comic timing, much of it falls flat here. Most of the 90-minute, intermis…
Although the physical production has been well-thought-out, the script seems to have no interpretation other than a great deal of slapstick comedy which does not much register. The cast vari…
Book writers West Hyler and Matt Schatz have taken these facts and woven a charming piece of Americana that explores idealism coming up against cynicism. It's very well structured, amusing a…
Matthew McElligott, Larry Tuxbury and Brian Sheldon's book is a witty, smart and sharp take on pirate lore laced with a child's sense of individuality, tolerance and inclusivity. It's ad…
I've seen "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" many times, many places. I didn't see the original Broadway production, alas"although I loved the cast album"but I've enjoyed…
Writer and co-creator Chesney Snow is also the performer. Mr. Snow appeared in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of the a capella musical "In Transit" as the narrator. …
