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Don't blame singer Jo Lampert who gives a passionate performance as the Maid of Orleans. Unfortunately, she hasn't been given anything very interesting to sing in this mostly sung-through mu…
Though rather flawed in execution, there is much to enjoy in "Picnic" & "Come Back, Little Sheba": William Inge in Repertory. It is also revelatory in proving William Inge's high ranki…
Now named Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Taylor has included ballets by other choreographers which allows for some healthy comparisons and a hope for the future of this legendary company…
Mr. Rojas vividly creates an entertaining panorama of the Puerto Rican community in The Bronx of the 1960's and 1970's. A gallery of characters and numerous incidents are lovingly described.…
Marisa Tomei excels as George, the narrator of "How to Transcend…" --and of her own story. Thanks to Tomei's vocal and visual expressions, we constantly share in George's ongoing surprise,…
Herbert Fields's book was based on a story by E. Ray Goetz and New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. This clunky concert adaptation by Jack Viertel is crammed with double entendres, puns, anach…
Directed by Ciarán O'Reilly as a feverish nightmare, this "Emperor," in just over an hour, exposes the inner reaches of the mind of the title character, Brutus Jones (played with a boomin…
Bated Breath Theatre Company specializes in original works inspired by and in partnership with museum collections and exhibitions. However, this show about the fate of the "Haddie Weisenberg…
Maybe "fireworks" is too strong a word for a production that is more of a slow burn. The play begins when Mark Ruffalo, as Victor, walks up, into the top floor of the home his family was con…
Jason Slavick's direction keeps the cast rollicking along, taking advantage of every inch of Ars Nova. He is helped by an energetic cast, all on the same wavelength, giving their physical a…
The confusion and the rapid pace of the production pretty much engulf--and finally overwhelm--the extremely complicated story of"Angry Young Man." The performers, on the other hand, make thi…
Beginning in the 1980s, Glass and Suso collaborated on several projects. Genet's difficult, demanding, essentially un-actable and relentlessly fracturing play, "The Screens," elicited from G…
His innate charm, joy of performing and theatrical grandeur is always on display in this show. All of those qualities combined with his resonant, Australian accented vocal delivery makes it …
And what of the play which had its world premiere at the Public Theater in 2005? Parsons' uneven production cannot keep this long play from seeming unwieldy. In fact, using so many actors is…
As he impersonates the British writer C.S. Lewis, Max McLean relies on little more than a pipe, a brown suit and tie, and a rather mellifluous voice to become the Anglican philosopher and no…
The score which has been drawn from the four previous New York productions of Anything Goes plays like a Cole Porter greatest hits parade and almost all of the songs are among his most popul…
LoftOpera is a feisty little company that operates around Brooklyn, especially Bushwick. They are giving" Otello" in LightSpace Studios, a disco on Flushing Avenue about the size of a high s…
Speaking in an engaging Texas twang, the blonde Reeder recounts Ginnifer's somber story with emotional straightforwardness and humor. Employing her expressive facial features, striking eyes…
Although the play demonstrates a surface knowledge of the genre and the period, it wants to have it both ways: it takes place in 1840 in a desolate mansion on the Yorkshire Moors but the cha…
Beckett lived in rural France, and his nearby neighbor, Boris Roussimoff, helped him build a cottage on his property in 1953. Beckett grew close to the family, and offered to drive Andre to…
Musical star Robert Cuccioli has to call upon his experience playing both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to become Ray in "White Guy on the Bus," a first-rate, new play by Bruce Graham, that has mo…
It's well constructed, the dialogue is snappy and filled with some funny one-liners. The milieu is that of upper middle class Manhattan white-collar workers. Moderately entertaining, it at…
The songs push the plot along, ranging from numbers about the locals' dealing with valuable resources ("Blankets and Bedding") to the quiet awe the visitors express at the local scenery ("Da…
Playwrights Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen with developer Oliver Butler, creatively evoke the tragic, nostalgic spirit of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and the wonderment of th…
Steven Levenson's "If I Forget" is the kind of family drama that doesn't get written much anymore: one that has something to say other than just depicting a dysfunctional situation. Not only…
