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In "Kunstler," playwright Jeffrey Sweet recounts the defense attorney's life and career in his well-written, comprehensively researched, and affectionate treatment. The conceit is that Kuns…
Birney seems to have cornered the market on sensitive, ordinary guys and his performance is similar to his awarding-winning "Erik" in The Humans. However, here he is extremely sympathetic an…
Each character is conveniently a different, representative type of oppressed nationality. Though Tirado goes overboard in detailing these culturally diverse, downtrodden characters' backstor…
Presented by the acclaimed Broken Box Mime Theater, "See Reverse" consists of ten short pieces with some even shorter vignettes sometimes in between. Lasting close to two hours with an inte…
The measure of a singer's worth is in the ear of the beholder. What is one person's Piaf is another person's Barbra. There's no magic formula to being one of the great ones. All one can do i…
The evening is narrated by Saki (played by an appealing and suave David Paisley) talking to us from the trenches of France, in 1916. His five soldiers (played by Phoebe Frances Brown, Ellen …
Although "Ring Twice" is filled to the brim with socio-political symbolism, it's not likely that the author was trying for any direct reference to the current maddening political scene since…
The playwrights have a keen understanding of this place and time, helped by the simple, but telling scenery of Stephen C. Jones, who also lit the small performing space to give the illusion …
The score remains an uneven but catchy patchwork that has yielded several choice songs amidst the acceptable filler. Mr. Lloyd Webber's music is a heady pastiche of old movie melodies with …
With slicked back hair, a melodiously rough voice and a smooth physical presence, Timothy Simonson offers an accurate impression of Powell that captures his swagger. Mr. Simonson's appealin…
This is serious work. Without defiance of traditional or conservative contemporary classical music simply for mere defiance's haughty sake, Furrer is developing his own particular vocabulary…
Illusionist/actor Geoff Sobelle's show is a combination of happening, art installation, and a meditation on the role objects have in our lives. Using audience participation, objects both hid…
One of the remarkable things about the theater songs of Kurt Weill is that like the later songs of Stephen Sondheim they are all really little one act plays which give the performers a great…
"Star Dust," Rhoden's tribute to rock original David Bowie forced Rhoden to study and use each of the nine chosen songs as vignettes to comment on Bowie's magic, the superb quirkiness of his…
While the play is at times Pinteresque, it is talky in a way Pinter never is, explaining everything over and over, covering the same ground again and again. Nothing much happens other than t…
Rounding out the cast are Alexis Bronkovic as Ruth--Penny's best friend--and Bill Tatum, who plays Ray's boss. Once again, the driving motivation behind nearly every character is nowhere to …
Red-haired, animated and engagingly boyish, 18-year-old Nicholas Barasch is sensational as Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Barasch is onstage virtually the entire time and winningly carries the show.…
This volatile quartet battle over the personal and the political during a Scotch-fueled weekend at Ira's Fire Island house. There's not much in the way of plot, but secrets are revealed, sc…
The centerpiece of "Last Work" was the image of a single dancer, in a blue costume, jogging on a treadmill far upstage while the rest of the troupe, dressed in chic practice outfits by Eri N…
The only real high-tech exchanges take place only three times during the run of the show. At the performances of February 6, 9 and 17, one of the roles in "Camera Obscura" will be performed …
Playwright James Lecesne has been acclaimed for his solo performance works, most recently "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey." Here, he has written a traditional play employing thea…
Unfortunately, Policoff's book is too cluttered with characters too allow for much development. While some of his lyrics are clever, most are prosaic and heavy-handed. As played by music dir…
However, it is Ives' joy in language that is the most infectious. The rhymed couplets keep coming and surprising us over and over again (bitter/twitter; prize/rhapsodize, jocular/interlocuto…
The ensuing journey is a bizarre and sometimes hilarious exploration of China and the culture within, even if it doesn't always make the most sense. "Made in China" makes the most of the lib…
The second work of the evening was the world premiere of Ivan Moody's Vespers Sequence. In careful, clear program notes, Moody described his goals in his compositions in general and in this …
