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Amidst Mr. Maierson's barrage of mechanical set-ups and punch lines, there are a few amusing jokes and insightful observations. Reprise is in the tradition of substantive romantic comedies …
The adept cast is led by Zainab Jah in the title role. In the one detail in which Parks' play matches "The Elephant Man," Ms. Jah, a shapely, lovely actress, transforms herself into Venus r…
It quickly becomes apparent that Brown is a master at reading body language--no less than facial and vocal expressions--to manipulate the many audience-members who participate and to read th…
There was a mysterious coolness about "Close-Up" which, according to a program note by Ms. Cornfield, was meant to delve into the personalities of her five dancers, doing this by assigning v…
The playing space designed by Doyle is a narrow white runway with a stool at one end and at the other, an archway created by continuing the flooring into the air on which Japanese writing ap…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "She was very clear that she wanted her life to be celebrated, not mourned," said Erica Dubno, who superlatively organized the packed, 90-minute memorial tribute to her…
All but one of Zall's works were solos and all were based on famous literary figures: "George Sand" (ruminating on her lost love, Chopin), "Mary Tyrone" (from "Long Day's Journey Into Night…
But the concert didn't have the satisfaction of a big blockbuster " such as Haydn's Creation, with which the season began " or of two or three masterworks. Music of the Anglican tradition is…
Director Jesse Marchese has cast the play very strangely. Ari Brand's Bob is a good deal shorter than his younger brother so that one must continually remind one's self which is which. As Pa…
Chris Anthony Giles, Nicholas Edwards, Dan Rosales, Juwan Crawley and Nora Schell (original cast) in a scene from "Spamiliton" (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) David Kaufman, Critic Though it's …
The opening resembles that of Mann's novel: a horse and buggy deliver a visitor to a tuberculosis sanitarium on a mountain top overlooking a valley, suggesting that the unspecified time is 1…
The final work, "On Foot" was choreographed by Hollander and seven company members. It featured a Middle East-tinged score by Kinan Azmeh and Anouar Brahem and sensational visual art, mostl…
In the ambitious T"hey Promised Her the Moon," playwright Laurel Ollstein explores a relatively untold chapter of American history. Solidly written but unsatisfyingly structured as a clunky…
"Corvidae," Colin Connor's contribution to the program, was staged to the relentless first movement of a Philip Glass Violin Concerto. The title refers to the scientific name of the family …
On the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1973, an arsonist set fire to a gay bar in New Orleans, killing 32 people. This tragic yet forgotten episode in gay history is not only…
Director Weyni Mengesha's physical staging is proficient since for 80 minutes the actors are competently placed throughout for a fluid presentation. Unfortunately, Ms. Mengesha has the soun…
The writing is poetically descriptive and moderately engrossing with plentiful profanity. It is, however, a decidedly grim scenario despite abundant humor. The conclusion is a rhetorical a…
At the end of this "Happy Days," it's difficult not to be heartbroken by Ms. Wiest's Winnie, particularly when she gets a rare glance at her significant other, Willie, who manages to crawl o…
Handsome musical theater leading man Ryan Silverman is a commanding Ulysses with his operatic singing. Jeff Blumenkrantz is marvelously humorous and pitiful as Menelaus, Helen's jilted husba…
Hnath's new story is absorbing and twisty, interestingly creating an entirely new set of ethical and social questions than was handled by Ibsen in 1879. He has handled it in a similar fashio…
McCollum is both charming and charismatic playing among other characters the self-entitled and irresponsible Bruce, the hippie techie Sal, Kat's spaced-out boss Madison, and the intrepid and…
All the actors in the band play their instruments with panache and perfect period style, including Cott whose piano doodling is terrific. James Nathan Hopkins plays the cute, upbeat saxopho…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "For Darryl who isn’t Wally Shawn,” meticulously inscribed John Simon, along with his signature, in my copy of his collected theater reviews. This massive v…
Retro Productions'Â 50th anniversary revival of Paul Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" put the spotlight on an almost forgotten play that is worthy of revival. Shay Gines' produ…
All the acting is sharp, from the upper-crusters taken in by Paul (Lisa Emery, Michael Countryman and Ned Eisenberg) to their kids (Colby Minifie, Keenan Jolliff, Ned Riseley, and Cody Kostr…
