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Never before seen on mainland U.S.A, the current show is an amalgam of the four existing shows ("P.F.C. Mary Brown;" "Hi, Yank!;" "About Face" and "OK, USA") of the six that were written. Di…
Set in The Afterlife, a crossroad between Heaven and Hell, the play presupposes a trial of Luther on the grounds of being guilty of "the unforgiveable sin." The prosecuting attorney is The D…
All the choreographers displayed over-intellectualization and overuse of gimmicks, avoiding dealing directly and honestly with their subjects. Homosexuality raised its head in two of the wo…
Playwright Beth Hyland's very effective conceit is that we're watching the dress rehearsal of Annie Lambert's memorial celebration in an auditorium of the State University of New York at Ono…
While Harms has a fine ear for dialogue, the play moves by revelation and incident. Consequently, it plays like a sophisticated soap opera as every scene brings a new wrinkle not previously …
This dance/theater piece is subtitled "Teacher, philosopher, man who shaped a nation," a rather big theme to dramatize effectively, especially when the mandate is spectacle. Mr. Liu's bareb…
In keeping with Sullivan having been hit over the head, the cast is clothed in a motley collection: a combination of late Victorian and Japanese styles. Some are in all Japanese, some in all…
The three new albums are "The Chip Deffaa Songbook" (39 of my theater songs, from shows I've written over the years); "Chip Deffaa's Irving Berlin Revisited" (featuring rare, and in many cas…
Surprisingly, Eleanor Reissa's production for New Yiddish Rep has made some debatable choices which damage the power of the play. First of all and most obviously, although not a word has bee…
The real reason to see the new "Sweet Charity," its third major New York revival, is for Sutton Foster's bravura performance. Aside from nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Foste…
It was a Tallis-perfect performance. Palestrina has long been one of the most sure-fire dazzling jewels in the Tallis Scholars' treasury. In writing sacred music, Palestrina made his particu…
"r-Evolution, Dream." was a jaunty new ballet by Ailey member Hope Boykin to music by Ali Jackson plus narration spoken by Leslie Odom, Jr. which included a Shakespeare sonnet, "A Negro's Co…
Director and choreographer Jessica Burr has created a number of dazzling moments with her precise unison of expressive staging, movement and dance. With only a few vintage trunks and a door…
Green's dry delivery is in the Coward manner, crisp, almost spoken to the music, with impeccable diction. Shrubsole's accompaniment supports him without ever getting in the way. The most fam…
We knew it was a great novel, but who knew Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Part I, would make such an exciting and innovative electro pop-rock opera? Not that the epic novel isn't a fantastic…
The Heath, The McKittrick Hotel's restaurant, bar and music venue, has been dressed up with appropriate signs and objects such as a stuffed wolf to resemble a pub in Scotland. After the aud…
Two ways to invigorate Shakespeare in our time is to either cast actors not identified with classical roles or to reset the play in some unfamiliar setting. Sam Gold's magnificent production…
"The Little Drummer Boy" was an emotionally shattering highlight of Richard Holbrook: "Always December." Mr. Holbrook's performance of this perennial was revelatory due to the intensity he …
Aaron Port (Josh Radnor), a down on his luck writer, is reduced to teaching Adult Ed classes in middle class/middle brow 1960's Levittown, Long Island. Richard Greenberg ("Take Me Out," "Ou…
The beautiful wreath and garlands hanging above the stage were festively lit up for the wonderful finale, the "Jingle Jangle Sing-Along." All of the performers appeared and encouraged the a…
Seven musicians of Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up in …
The score by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth is a pleasant collection of serviceable songs. Their book, based on their original concept, is a workm…
For those who could not understand the lyrics of Traore's songs " he sang in Mali's French " each song was an experience of four interconnected musical sounds: the calabash thump and click r…
The consistency " the from-the-very-beginning wholeness " of Bach's genius was clear in this chronological arrangement. The kinds of writing techniques and subjects " the sequences and suspe…
Raucous highlights include a jive reinterpretation of A Christmas Carol, "by Chazzie D, about a cat called Scrooge...who lives in Scrooge Tower." There's also Buckley's irreverent take on T…
