"To Protect the Poets" shows how readily lines can be crossed when "street justice" is employed, instead of the judicial system. This first-rate, timely and intelligent play is a just repres…
While "LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials of Broadway" is a fine and concise review of their careers for people who have never heard of them, Murphy and Lang make them seem more superficial t…
Laden with jokes, sight gags and flamboyant characters, Mr. Free's well-constructed and startling work combines the outrageous sensibilities of John Waters' films with the social consciousne…
Directed by Leni Mendez, "Implications of Cohabitation" is a smooth running machine, albeit some undeveloped moments in the script. The staging is fluid and the story is clear, but some exch…
Richard Alfredo's 'The Dark Clothes of Night," a brilliant parody/homage to film noir and hardboiled fiction, the third play of Summer Shorts " Series B, is so good it alone is worth the pri…
Writer Gustavo Pace is the handsome, youthful and animated performer of this autobiographical exploration. He loudly rattles on in Portuguese and English while adequately portraying himself…
A few months ago we saw the sensational Miami troupe featuring the works of George Balanchine. Now we have just had a fascinating week-long season by the Sarasota Ballet troupe, directed by…
While "Troilus and Cressida" is rarely staged, Daniel Sullivan's production full of bombs and smoke suggests that in our time of endless wars it speaks to us again, and the play's cynicism a…
The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre presents this production. Since 2012, they have produced a number of the author's works in New York City and for this one it was decided to condense …
In college, during my senior year, I had an assignment to put together a half hour cabaret. I did that also about being a redhead, so I started there and dug up that old sheet music and chan…
"Alice in Black and White" is a play-within-a-play. Two parallel stories are told: one of Austen's life and relationship with Gertrude Tate, her companion for over 40 years; and one in the e…
The debonair resident of posh St. James, and Gus, the theatre cat, are both played with finesse by Christopher Gurr, whose "Gus the Theatre Cat" who nearly steals the show away from the more…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Speak up! Don't look at the floor! When you're onstage I want to see your talent not your training!" were among the sharp comments that Aaron Frankel bellowed at stude…
A new media and sophisticated ticket booking system is brought into play even before the play begins. In order to buy tickets, a theatergoer has to give out his/her cell phone number for tex…
Thomas G. Waites has a long list of major credits that go back to the film "The Warriors" in 1979. As Austin, he gives one of the strangest performances in memory. It's a monotonously upbe…
In this swashbuckling comedic play, 'Men on Boats" takes an innovative approach by casting ten women in the roles of the first "white" discovers of the Grand Canyon. However, this was not a …
As might be expected LaBute's new one act, "After the Wedding," contains a shocker. However, when it arrives in Maria Mileaf's production, it is so matter-of-fact that it has little or no im…
Taking place during the time of the Civil War, "Butler" is a tale of conscience, courage, and transcendence. As Major General Benjamin Butler, Ames Adamson has risen to power but is faced wi…
"We're actually going to be talking about 14th century Italian literature," proclaims BenDeLaCreme near the start of his/her entertaining multimedia solo show" BenDeLaCreme's Inferno A-Go-Go…
While "A Class Act" covers material dramatized elsewhere, Norman Shabel's play, seen at The Playroom earlier this year, is always absorbing, always unpredictable. The seven member cast is to…
This Japanese version lacks the passion and darkness necessary to make this morality tale pop. The two leading ladies, Wataru Kozuki as Velma and Hikaru Asami as Roxie looked too wide-eyed …
The charming and charismatic Broadway leading man Santino Fontana performs the role of Elliot Rosewater with as much commitment as if he were playing J. Pierrepont Finch. Mr. Fontana's perf…
"The characters in this play both the living and the dead are completely fictional." This statement explains the play's overall contrived quality. Both of the lead characters have such str…
In the course of 90 minutes, we follow the ups and downs of Strauss' professional, mental health and romantic lives in great detail. To his credit, Strauss gives the impression of delivering…
Inspired by the playwright's attending a silent spiritual retreat at an upstate New York institute in the woods, this is an absorbing play which immediately causes the viewers to listen inte…