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Presented together on the same bill, "Angel & Echoes" is part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters (where, it's worth noting, "Echoes" originally played last year). As w…
Thanking his packed audience at Le Poisson Rouge for coming to hear him play, Alam Khan described his music on this evening as a tribute to his father, Ali Akbar Khan, whose ninety-fifth bir…
"Vespers of 1610" is a big and oddly sprawling work. It makes no liturgical sense, and, in terms of texts, has little programmatic unity beyond a consistent Marian devotion. But it is a cohe…
In between the scenes between the two men in Beau's living room, Rufus records Beau's reminiscences of his life and times. In this way, Sherman gives us a review of what things were like for…
While setting out to "undo" our "whole, entire education" of Latin history--and to compensate for the textbook neglect of the impact of the Aztecs and the Incas on our culture and civilizati…
Theaterworks NYC's stage version of Rick Riordan's best-selling novel, "The Lighting Thief," about Percy Jackson and other demi-gods, first seen in 2014, has returned in an expanded two act …
Ms. Hogan's dialogue is well crafted and the structure is stageworthy, but it all comes across as a playwriting exercise rather than a full-fledged dramatic work. Medically, Hogan's premise…
"To some he was dad, to some he was mate," says McNair, at the top of his monologue, "to others he was liar, cheat, addict, hero, story teller." Over the course of the next 70 minutes, McNai…
"The structure of 'CasablancaBox' is inspired by another filmmaker's technique, Robert Altman's roaming camera," writes playwright Sara Farrington and director Reid Farrington in their progr…
It is fascinating to watch Lowell Byers face his unfounded, country boy optimism as he is confronted with the brutal realities of his situation. That Byers' Lou never completely succumbs, d…
While the non-stop buffoonery is reminiscent of Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company, this British import (produced by London's Mischief Theater, no less) immediately evokes …
"Rosalee Pritchett" and "The Perry's Mission" are in the provocative tradition of such works of the period as Amiri Baraka's 1964 play Dutchman and Melvin Van Peebles' 1970 film "Watermelon …
Tucker's production uses seven actors playing 20 named characters plus members of the ensemble: the women (Joey Parsons and Hamill play one each, good girl Amelia Sedley and bad girl Becky S…
"Amélie" is frustrating. The characters exist as two-dimensional cartoons that a talented cast almost brings to life. The uneven rhythms and poor timing of the show bog it down. An inabi…
Playwright Zayd Dohrn has a facility for setups, punch lines and zingers that might play well as an HBO situation comedy attempting to mix humor with seriousness. As a theater piece, his p…
Over the course of Salif Keita's recent appearance at The Town Hall there was a story whose shape reflected both Keita's identity and his music. At 7:00 p.m., there was a question-and-answer…
The scenic design with original concept by the late Adrian Vaux, production design by Totie Driver & Matt Kinley, and projections by Luke Halls is as eye-filling as a movie would be. Th…
If only there were perversion in "Perversion." Instead, it's a tedious, mélange of the absurdist styles of Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Jules Feiffer and Dr. Seuss. There's the eerie sens…
This production was a co-effort with Fondazione Teatro Lirico di Cagliari whose orchestra joined forces with the New York City Opera Orchestra under the baton of Ira Levin who brought out ev…
Actor, writer and director Ron Fassler Courtney Marie, Critic Actor, writer, and director, Ron Fassler fell in love with the theater and entertainment industry from the time he was a little …
The show has a great many topical references to celebrities of 1939 (Minsky, Sophie Tucker, Tallulah Bankhead, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt) not all of whom still ring any bells for most t…
Rob Nagle (who created the role in the Los Angeles production) plays "compassionate conservative" North Carolina Senator Charles Whitmore who is up for reelection in a statistical dead heat …
"Diva: Live From Hell," an energetic, campy variation on the "All About Eve" theme, is performed with manic glee by Sean Patrick Monahan who also wrote the book and created all the colorful …
"Sweat" is a classic, "well-made"--or carefully constructed--play, with a focus on the dwindling work for people in the middle of the country, prompting them to install Trump in the White Ho…
Varone employs movements loosely flung out from the body's core; sudden, inexplicable pauses; (painful looking) drops to the floor (usually onto a knee!); contrasting chaotic activities with…
