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Founded in 1991, the National Asian American Theater Company's mission is to present theater with all Asian-American casts. This is accomplished by producing classics of European and Americ…
Introducing what he dubbed a pair of "Comedies of Crime," NYGASP's artistic director Albert Bergeret offered what he said was a first of a new series for the company: intimate performances o…
Benjamin Stuber's puppetry designs are a disappointment and should be more thoughtful and complementary to the play. Ghoulish puppets that are meant to disturb seem make-shift and thrown tog…
In his Broadway productions, David Leveaux has often used a strong directorial concept such as his Chekhovian 'Fiddler on the Roof" and his interracial "Romeo and Juliet" which did not work …
Constructed in three parts, the first part of Jones' memoir-meets-manifest-destiny is an enchanting origin story that takes place in a mystical library that holds an archive of Jones' life (…
Company XIV has applied its inimitable Baroque-Burlesque style to the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris for the second time and come up with Paris, an exotic and erotic adults-only entert…
Out of this frustration, Larson in 1991 began performing a rock monologue about his life and stalled career called 30/90, as it was set in 1990 as he turned thirty. Later it was retitled "…
The play is both satiric and trenchant. The conversations of the men are laced with profanity much like David Mamet's real estate men in Glengarry Glen Ross. Eliza is called everything in th…
Pierce coolly addresses the audience while delivering this mundane litany. His superb comic timing, long evident on the television situation comedy "Frasier," is on glorious display here. …
Directed by high profile new British director Simon Godwin, associate director of the U.K.'s National Theatre, making his New York debut, this "Cherry Orchard" seems to have no interpretatio…
Aside from the syncopated, bouncy score, the single best element is the sensational choreography by director Colgan whose dances also impressed in his revival of Oh, Kay! last year. While th…
British author Stephen Sharkey's new translation is faithful to Brecht, but the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has fashioned the presentation as an old-time radio show. Brecht was known for his s…
While S. N. Behrman was one of the leading Broadway playwrights from the twenties through the early sixties, he went into an eclipse after his death in 1973. Since 2000, however, there have …
Simon Stephens, whose Tony Award winning "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" recently amazed audiences with its razor-sharp take on the inner workings of an autistic boy, is …
Despite its formulaic story, "I Like It Like That" is quite exhilarating with its sensational salsa renditions as performed by its appealing cast and excellent band.
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In the guise of two old Upper West Side bachelor geezers, Kroll as failed actor, Gil Faizon, and Mulaney as failed writer, George St. Geegland, wander about Pask's brilliant combination apar…
Visual artist and puppeteer Jessica Scott navigates through a satiric and fascinating new media "seascape" with a dysfunctional ship's crew, albeit all women. Scott's "Ship of Fools" uses ni…
In "The God Projekt," the "Divine He" repeatedly tries to make reparations for his past destructive deeds, but to no avail. God is wrestling with dementia and in a time loop. Yet, he is dete…
Obie award-winning playwright José Rivera is an Oscar nominee for his adapted screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries." For this adaptation, he has set "The Maids" (which premiered in Paris…
Music Director/Conductor Steven Reineke chose three fine singers, Colin Donnell, Laura Osnes and Nathan Gunn, to animate the Lerner and Loewe songbook, along with the terrific choir, Essenti…
The scenic design by Brett Banakis is a functional, minimalist configuration of a slightly raised wooden performance platform surrounded by a wooden frame dotted with small antlers suggestin…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for," said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating the…
Paulette Haupt, producing artistic director of Premieres, should be very proud of herself. Her "Inner Voices" program at the TBG Theatre managed to shock, move and entertain. The three sh…
Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is a classic of modern drama but at times it can seem musty in a poor translation. David Harrower's "Public Enemy" is not only a shrewd, accessible adaptatio…
Playwright Helen Edmundson whose stage plays have been mostly adaptations of famous literature ("The Mill on the Floss," "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," as well as "Coram Boy" and "Thérè…
