"Acolyte" by Graham Moore, Academy Award winner for his 2013 screenplay for "The Imitation Game," is a more substantial play than the other two. Based on an historical occurrence in 1954, it…
Darryl Reilly, Critic There were so many brave young actors and actresses whom one felt were brilliantly talented, but their genius crashed against the morbid rocks of indifference and stupi…
Aside from the destructive nature of the storm and that the "Pegasus" eventually arrives at a desert shore, there isn't much to be learned about climate change. We never know if Sleeper lost…
From Dominique Morisseau, the author of the critically acclaimed Skeleton Crew, Detroit '67 and Sunset Baby, comes another powerfully provocative and riveting, but overwrought, play which in…
"I wanted the audience to see 'Places,' not as a 'museum' piece, but a piece that was relevant TODAY. Nazimova was fighting the things in the 19th century and early 20th century that we are …
Vermillion writes distinctive characters who each have their own language, but fails to make his story believable or emotionally gripping by turning it into something closer to the surreal, …
The three-part ballet is considered Balanchine's tribute to the three major artistic influences in his professional life:Â the French school, the Russian school and, of course, his own Am…
The genial Ralph Byers' performance as Franklin is heroic as he is onstage for virtually the entire length of the show. Mr. Byers marvelously sings, dances and cracks wise, while channeling …
The joy of Stoppard's writing comes to the fore as the second act characters debate what happened in the first act, too often getting it all wrong, misinterpreting the evidence or jumping to…
Mora works as a mermaid in a tank at the sideshow owned by the crusty, old Captain Murdock who rescued and raised her. As her romance with Johnny blossoms, there are complications. Her previ…
"Pity in History" was a teleplay commissioned by the BBC, and was broadcast on July 4, 1985. In the cast were Alan Rickman as the chaplain, Ian McDiarmid as the cook, and Anna Massey as the …
If you saw the original New York production of "Marvin's Room," you may find yourself feeling that the play was more effective when it was presented in the far more intimate environment of P…
Hapless Rostom (a perfectly cast Michael Propster who wears his emotions close to the surface) is low man on the totem pole in a nameless construction company and is removed from his comfort…
"Trump Lear" turns out to be a gem, a brilliant gem with many facets that shine an intensely comic light on Trump. It's a brutally honest x-ray as only a comedy can be, a sardonic, scary, fu…
Vamping and slinking around in a bright, red tunic laden with rhinestones and wearing black tights, the vivacious Lesli Margherita steals and salvages the show as Mephistopheles. With the ph…
Conveying the premature decrepitness of Errol Flynn with flair is Jonathan Stewart. His hair styled and with a thin mustache, the charming Mr. Stewart resembles Flynn and channels his dissol…
Physically lean, with gaunt but animated features, the immensely charming David M. Lutken plays the narrator and sings many of the numbers. Mr. Lutken magnificently captures the essence of G…
Icke and MacMillan's version is tricked up with much multimedia, sound and lights, and disorientation. Faithful to the book, it claims to be the first adaptation to include Orwell's appendix…
In the spirit of being a critic, the play is always describing and commenting on itself, in other words, even as it unfolds--a kind of meta-theater experience that may not be to everyone's l…
True, here these Italian American sisters growing up in Park Slope, 1960, don't want to get to some place as much as get away from someplace else. As they exit their teens, their home has be…
Shannon and Brendan are first seen in her simply decorated apartment in 1994 on her 41st birthday just before Brendan's departure for Phoenix to join his significant other Ted (who doesn't a…
Director Albert Schultz's program note explains that the production set itself two challenges: first, that Philip Carey would never leave the 16-foot red square center stage, and that all of…
While wearing an all black ensemble of a cap, T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, D'Lo commandingly holds forth with plentiful pop culture references in 70 minutes. Â Possessing the powers of an…
Bastard Jones is surprisingly accessible for a contemporary musical based on a long and episodic 18th century novel. Sophisticated and off-color, naughty but nice, it proves to be a sharp an…
After fifteen years of formal study, Shyu incorporates five distinct music traditions in her newest work: "epic storytelling (Pansori), East Coast shaman music (DongHaeAhnByeolShinGut), and …