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photo by Matthew Murphy How would you define an old-fashioned musical? Maybe a show with non-stop singing and dancing, storylines that we accept even when implausible, a love story or two an…
photo by Joan Marcus The day before I attended "Ain't No Mo'," a new comedy by Jordan E. Cooper, the show posted a closing notice for December 18. It is a unique satirical show that played t…
'Tis the season for one-person Dickens shows. While Jefferson Mays performs a one-man version of A Christmas Carol on Broadway, Eddie Izzard is performing her solo version of Great Expectati…
Michael Urie is always a delight to watch, so it should come as no surprise that he's also a delight to talk to. While his most recent Broadway credit was the uproarious comedy Chicken &a…
It was the second week of October, and Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, had just been given the green light to proceed with the annual Ch…
 Between 1910 and 1940, San Francisco's Angel Island processed somewhere around 250,000 Chinese immigrants. Often detained in a prison-like environment for weeks, months, or even years, …
photo by Julieta Cervantes Alfie is a quiet, ordinary man who is a ticket-taker on a bus during the day, but by evening he is the director of the players at St Imelda's Church. The power of …
At the end of Shakespeare's classic play, "Romeo and Juliet," Juliet awakens to realize that Romeo is dead. Heartbroken, she commits suicide. What if she didn't kill herself? What if, instea…
"Kimberly Akimbo" opens with Kimberly approaching her 16th birthday; and nearing the end of her life expectancy. She is a special teenage girl who suffers from a rare condition that causes h…
It's probably safe to say that mime theatre is an underappreciated art form. But if you want to see modern miming at its best, look no further than Broken Box Mime Theater. The company's mos…
photo by Emilio Madrid Cancer, type two diabetes, death. Hardly the fodder for comedy " Yet In the hands of Mike Birbiglia, this serious subject matter becomes hysterical in his latest one-m…
Halloween may be over, but as long as Radiotheatre's The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street is playing at The Kraine Theater, spooky season is emphatically not. Written by Dan Bianchi, this suff…
Photo-by-Matthew-Murphy A show about rock music should be loud. So loud that you feel the music going through you! When the cast of "Almost Famous: The Musical " took the stage and performed…
On Sunday, The Lion King celebrates its 25th Broadway anniversary. That will also be a milestone for Ray Mercer, who's been with the show for 20 years, making him one of the longest-running …
photo-by-Julieta-Cervantes The true star of the revival of "August Wilson's The Piano Lesson" isn't Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks or John David Washington. Although the three actors all…
Every now and then, between revivals, jukebox musicals, movie-based musicals, and productions hellbent on making a statement, you come across that increasingly rare thing in theatre: an orig…
What"or should we say who"makes a monstress monstrous? This is the question raised by Hunger & Thirst Theatre's bluegrass musical Monstress, written by Emily Kitchens with original mu…
photo by Marc J. Franklin "Keep your eyes on the cards," instructs the young man on stage as he shifts three playing cards around on a makeshift stand. It's not so easy as we get lulled by t…
Sometimes horror works best in short, self-contained stories. Such is the case with the New Ambassadors' short horror-themed play festival, FEARfest 2022, at Tada! Theater. Seven short…
When a young musician returns to Turkey to care for her troublesome father, she gets a lot more than she bargained for"and so does the audience. Produced by Ars Nova and PlayCo at Greenwich …
The word revival suggests a renewal or improvement of something. So each time there's a Broadway revival, the director tries to change something to encourage ticket sales. The recent hit "Th…
In The Anthropologists' Artemisia's Intent, written and directed by Melissa Moschitto, 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia, played by Mariah Freda, returns to share her insights and…
photo by Joan Marcus In his most personal work yet, playwright Tom Stoppard tells the story of the Merz family. Somewhat autobiographical, "Leopoldstadt" begins with a tableau of an extended…
In honor of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, FRIGID New York and Something From Abroad present the first-ever Days of the Dead Festival. Running October 20 through November 1 at The Kraine …
photo credit @ Jeremy Daniel The play "Cost of Living" by Martyna Majok will touch your heart and resonate in your consciousness long after you've left the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Deftly…
