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I've always liked Andrew Keenan-Bolger's work. He was a memorable child actor, playing leads on Broadway in shows like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Seussical," when he was around 13 or 14 yea…
A leggy dark blonde young woman with her hair pulled up, wearing a black skirt, a patterned short gray blouse and high heels walks through the audience and onto the bare black stage. She be…
The New York City premiere of "Polymorphous" to Bach was a coolly elegant work that featured ever shifting black and white projections (by Brian Clifford Beasley) matched by the witty leotar…
I've always felt my father (Herschel) very present in my life, and I think because in a lot of ways he left behind a pretty wonderful legacy--and there were a lot of people who adored him--I…
The Wheelhouse Theater Company presents this fast-paced and faithful version of the romantic classic. Co-directors Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington have inventively pared down William Shakespea…
This production had two brilliant design/directoral conceits that worked hand in glove with the musical elements to tell the story. The first involved twelve dancers from Ballet Hispanico's…
"Shuffle Along..." follows the travails and triumphs of the creators of the 1921 David that fought what was at first a losing battle against the Goliath of the Broadway powers-that-be. The …
James Joyce most always put himself first, according to Jonathan Brielle, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for "Himself and Nora," (subtitled "The Greatest Love Story Never Told"), Minet…
Rolling Stone magazine's 2014 controversial article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house se…
Growing up in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, Rita McKenzie never imagined the places that her career would take her. Traveling all over the world with "Ethel Merman's Broadway," McKenzie has shared…
Veteran film icons Academy Award® nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings franchise, The Hobbit franchise, X-Men franchise) and Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins (Silence of th…
C4 has always been driven by certain core values and goals; the particular repertoire "cornerstones" being emphasized this season, as indicated in the concert's program notes, were importan…
Samuel D. Hunter's latest play, "The Healing," is a commission by Theater Breaking Through Barriers, dedicated to advancing the work of performers with disabilities. Not surprisingly, the pl…
Sad to say, the American Sephardi Federation's production of a greatly compressed "Othello" at the beautiful Center for Jewish History was a disappointment. This was the third of a series o…
Darryl Reilly, Critic Paul Newman as The Stage ManagerCredit: Westport Country Playhouse/Everett Collection Recently on one of the NYC Subway Art Tours that IÂ conduct (www.nycsubwaytour.c…
Chris Doi winningly conveys Ichiro's anguish and holds attention as this leading character with his emotional performance. The personable Glenn Kubota is deeply gentle as Pa, and Mr. Kubota…
Only a 30 page treatment and five songs remained from the original show by the Johnstone brothers, writer Will B. and composer Tom. Diamond has written new lyrics for music by Tom Johnston a…
Ms. Feiffer's rudimentary characters communicate by the sledgehammer approach to comedy. Until the mawkish finale there is a barrage of zingers, one-liners and vulgarisms. If a theatrical …
Now having its American premiere in repertory with "Confusions," one of Ayckbourn's earliest plays, with the same actors in both, the production which is directed by the author is from the S…
"Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays" is produced by the theater company A Pixie Theory and is presented as part of The Planet Connections Festivity.The stated theme of the three plays is…
Aside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare's comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine's unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more sub…
However, the main thrust of this troupe is to stimulate a gentle discipline and the ability to work effectively with others. It's clear that these youngsters who range from seven or eight y…
Adam Rapp's plays are often about loners and people outside of mainstream society. "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois" now at Atlantic Stage 2 in a production directed by the author falls …
Najla Said and P.J. Brennan in a scene from Karen Malpede's "The Beekeeper's Daughter" (Photo credit: Beatrice Schiller) Courtney Marie, Critic The stirring and emotional revival, The Bee…
"Now I Ask You" turns out to be comedy of pretentious New York bohemians in 1916, while "Recklessness" is a Strindbergian psychological revenge play. While both have hints of the more famous…
