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"Wakey, Wakey" is Will Eno at his surreal, troubling, beautiful best, a play both challenging and easily absorbed. He truly approaches the unapproachable: the meaning of life.
The post Wak…
Sam Gold's revival of "The Glass Menagerie," the fifth major production of the play in New York since 2005, is such a one. He has decided to remove all of the historical relevance as well as…
"It looks like when you got your Kennedy Center Honor!" exclaimed Mr. Reineke, as a spotlight shone on John Kander, who was attending the concert from a first tier box at Carnegie Hall. He …
The acting isn't detailed or expansive enough to make Leaf's words come alive or give the slightest notion of the intelligence of these three. Ms. Dobbins' McCarthy is far too girlish. Yes…
A revolving stage permits set designer Walt Spangler to depict, with dead-on realism and dispatch, not only Linda's home--including an upstairs bedroom, which her daughters share--but also v…
Playwright Jeff Talbott offers an overall well-written and plotted social drama that detours into a strident political battle over capitalism. The sympathetic characters are trapped by thei…
Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón constructs a simple, engrossing and often funny scenario. Three women, all named Alejandra, have been selected as members of a deliberative, special …
Neither a "Western composer" nor a "Japanese composer," Mochizuki hasn't sought to manufacture some sort of mix-and-match blend. She doesn't borrow or build add-ons. Instead, seeking inspira…
Mr. Howard is eminently qualified to hold forth on the subject, having been a prominent New York City acting teacher for over 60 years. Concurrently with an active theatrical career, he stu…
Perhaps because Mamet-regular Jordan Lage is so effective as Richard, the scenes between Charles and his own attorney prove the most effective. While Laura Bauer's sensible costumes do all t…
Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" with its benign belief in the resilience of the human condition is unlike any other American play you are likely to see. Both heavily influenced by …
Darryl Reilly, Critic Miriam Colón died recently at the age of 80. She was a great actress who had a long and distinguished career on the stage, screen and television. She arrived in New …
Urban may have an admirable mission, in attempting to document the customary passage from youth to adulthood--or high-school to college, to be more precise--as he focuses on five graduating …
Three musical pieces displayed the instruments on which the music is made. "Nagare (Flow)" was played on two shamisen (stringed instruments) by Touon Minamidani Mai and Touon Sakata Maiko, …
In addition to the swiftness of the storytelling and the use of contemporary language, Jackson uses a sort of upstairs-downstairs approach. Aside from what is happening to the royals, we als…
It would be difficult to imagine anything darker than the content of the second musical collaboration by John Kander and Greg Pierce having its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre. Pos…
Playwright Erica Schmidt has a minor aptitude for believably snappy dialogue, but not much else. Her tired scenario is astonishingly familiar and offers no fresh insights. That adolescence…
Darryl Reilly, Critic You need to somehow get into a play, be seen in it, remembered for your performance, and be seen by a person (an author or director or producer) who just happens to hav…
Based on a story by lyricist/bookwriter/producer B.G. DeSylva ("Good News," "The Best Things in Life Are Free," "The Varsity Drag"), this musical satire sends unworldly, teetotaler Oliver P.…
The original was aimed at an audience that most certainly was illiterate, so that the clever creators used cartoonish, unsubtle characters who spoke in popular jargon, even spouting profanit…
Having played such indomitable women as Mama Rose and Maria Callas, Daly slips into the role of the Madwoman of Chaillot which fits her like a glove with her crisp, authoritative delivery. A…
Composer Soo Hyun Huh's original music is a fine and eclectic assortment of modern melodies. The English lyrics are written by Bryan Michaels. The combined results are stilted and pedestria…
Much is made of her numerous Oscar nominations, and this reaches a wonderfully presented climax. She finally wins the award for Best Actress on her eighth nomination for the 1985 screen adap…
Nevertheless, while the play is startlingly not politically correct, the acting is of a high caliber. In the title role, Regina Gibson (who appeared last season in the rediscovered operetta …
However, as the title implies it is also a very verbose, long-winded affair giving an excellent cast made up of such veterans as Matthew Broderick, John Epperson (a.ka.a Lypsinka), Jill Eike…
