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Playing his most mature role to date, Radcliffe, late of Harry Potter, is charming as he begins as an introverted, reticent Englishman and then slowly panics as he realizes the extent to whi…
These are among the choice zingers in playwright Anne Adams' emotionally raw, earthy and often very funny contemporary dysfunctional Texas-set, family drama, "Strange Country." This enterta…
Bartlett Sher complements Rogers by punctuating the play with visual puns that substantially add to the drama and importance of the enfolding events. A dinner party at Mona and Larsen's home…
Stannah, who gives a wrenching and emotionally present turn as the diplomat in distress, rarely leaves the stage for more than thirty seconds out of the entire 100 minute production with no …
Dressed in black slacks, a white shirt and a black vest, Ms. Wolpe demonstrates a fluid physicality and a soothing vocal expressiveness. Wolpe quite adeptly offers rich characterizations of…
Director Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…
While the play can be a tour de force, Kathryn Luce Garfunkel is so one dimensional that her Flora has little weight. She exudes languidness and laziness, but fails to make Flora anything ot…
At times, Hopper's paintings"mostly the moody ones"were inhabited by the dancers who took on the iconic, emotionally laden poses so brilliantly painted by Hopper, helped by Frank DenDanto II…
After a less then engrossing hour of prattling and a too stylized presentation, in its last thirty minutes "The Red Room" becomes the powerful family drama it intends to be.
The post The Red…
If you're stuck in the city in the hot summer, there's good reason to come to the cabaret. All the Manhattan clubs have impressive lineups for the summer months. Some of the most entertainin…
The score that Mr. Antin composed and wrote the lyrics for is a serviceable collection of songs that could possibly have succeeded in a show about the conflicts among married couples. Wedge…
Megan Hilty with conductor Steve Reineke and The New York Pops (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Ryan Mikita As The New York Pops has become increasingly popular and successful across the grea…
Three-time Tony nominee Brian Murray returns to the New York stage for the first time in four years as a retired professor of parapsychology who has put aside his own career to foster that o…
From 1976, "Country Dances" represented the post-experimental avant-garde phase after breakout success with her ballets for major dance companies. From 1980, there was "Brahms Paganini," he…
The production team uses most of the same people who were involved with the show's 2014 run at Theater 80 St. Marks as well as four of the eight actors. Directing again, Evan Pappas keeps th…
Under John Duff's direction, this energetic group of performers get an A+ for accurately portraying their chosen characters. As KimKat, Carmen Mendoza is as self-centered as can be and let h…
The most remarkable thing about the Encores! Off-Center revival of the late Elizabeth Swados' 1978 musical "Runaways" is that it is as fresh as when it was written almost four decades ago. T…
Karen Carpenter singing her song, We Have Only Just Begun (to live), sitting on a stool in the afterlife takes the meaning of ill-fated to a whole new level. However, Karen Carpenter, Whitne…
It is August 11, 2033, and there's a wild party happening because the world is ending. That's the setup of the exuberant one-hour multimedia fantasia "HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle)." Th…
"Phoenix Rising: Girls and the Secrets We Keep" takes place in two worlds: the New York CBGB punk scene of 1985, and a dark, Greek mythological other world of indeterminate time and place. I…
Edisa Weeks' DELIRIOUS Dances company presented "To Begin the World Over Again," an ultimately hopeful, informal look at American values filtered through the words of Thomas Paine, the Revol…
Over the last several years, PRISM and two colleague chamber groups, SÅ Percussion on the one hand and PARTCH on the other, have been engaged in the "Color Theory" project, and presented…
Bathroom humor is an art of its own kind, but Seth Panitch's musical parody "Here I Sit, Brokenhearted: A Bathroom Odyssey" takes this particular blend of humor and exploits it entirely. The…
At one point stumbling around in a sleep mask and wearing a colorful nightgown, the 88 year-old Estelle Parsons has a field day as the 88 year-old Evelyn, a former journalist for The Interna…
As the women find themselves further and further in the future, it is how each reacts and is forever changed that give the play its emotional weight. Two manage to adjust quite well; one no…
