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Ms. Errico gives a smashing musical theater performance. Her gutsy broad that's tough on the outside and unraveling on the inside characterization is quite captivating. Her singing of seve…
Cabaret has always been a mixed bag. The golden age is gone. However, in today's schizo world of nightclubs, things are looking pretty good. It is a milieu unique in the entertainment indust…
"She Loves Me” Tops list with 4 Awards Followed by “Long Day's Journey into Night” with 3 Awards! Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in a scene from She Loves Me (Photo …
Director Dev Bondarin cleverly enlisted scenic designer Tim McMath to transform the APAC's theater into a high school gymnasium, complete with posters ("No Bullying Allowed," "Today is a gre…
Many members of the American public and the journalism community continue to revere Edward R. Murrow as a paragon of integrity in the field of news reporting. Due to the skillfully writing…
"Strays" is a challenge to describe as it is such a mash-up of traditional theatrical conventions that it doesn't easily fall into any one category. Directed by Cion, Strays moves as through…
On the ferry, audience members listen to a previously downloaded soundscape which includes a voice-over by Katie (played by Emma Meltzer) who has always seen ghosts and ends up investigating…
The way Mr. Levenson keeps things moving is both clever and exhausting. The songs mostly explore the inner emotional lives of the characters: "Waving through a Window" (Evan's feelings of…
Meet Sam, a struggling New York actor whose day job is as the reservationist for a popular albeit fictional Manhattan restaurant. Seemingly surrounded by phones at every turn, Ferguson's Sam…
Playwright Rick Pulos has crafted a well researched and emotionally involving documentary drama that goes overboard with its multimedia elements. The writing is a combination of fine simpli…
In the hands of less virtuosic musicians, Ligeti's material can spin out of control. Kigawa, Choi and Drehmann, however, from the very opening, invited the audience into an experience of lis…
The problem with the new show with a libretto by first timers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle now at the Broadhurst Theatre is that it is all so bland - which is not true of the novel which ha…
Before the fascinating biographical exploration "Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey" begins, the audience is able to walk around the stage and see up close the totemic objects used in t…
Staged by director/choreographer Doug Varone, "Dido and Aeneas" was amusingly presented in modern dress with Varone's dancers playing the ensemble in both operas and pantomiming unseen props…
As Hungary took a turn to the extreme right in recent years, anti-Semitism and xenophobia not only raised their heads, but became de facto pillars of the new government. The Place We Built …
Director and choreographer Kristin Marting masterfully coordinates everything into a spectacle with sensational movement and dance. Robert Lyons who is credited with "Text by" has done a ski…
Inspired by the musical Olivier! was "La Révolution Française" that was Mr. Boublil Mr. Schönberg's first collaboration. Created in 1973, this was the first French rock opera and dealt…
Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne joyously enter through a porch door after the sounds of the ocean have been heard. Their love and attraction for each other is palpable. Mr. Byrne embraces h…
Before the cameras started rolling, there was this anxiety and doubt, but I began to really focus and believe in myself, in my ability, in my technique, and in my drive, and that put me in t…
The cheery Mr. Bowers also explains that in the mime tradition only mimes in whiteface are silent. He simply but breathtakingly mimes a multitude of actions, objects and situations that pre…
The musical's new libretto, written by Jessie Nelson, riffs broadly on Shelly's quietly poignant storyline and her very human, finely etched characters. The characters, broadened and amped …
Red Bull Theater which has specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies has moved on to the 18th century with Marc Vietor's exquisite and stylish revival of "The School for Scandal," Ri…
The show's creator and director Ramesh Meyyappan also plays a character named Nabokov. The Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov was a renowned butterfly enthusiast. Naomi Livingstone plays Butter…
Shanahan's adaptation has a great many delicious one-liners and double-entendres ("I don't go out for mutton when I can have filet mignon at home;" "Keep referring to me as a plate of food a…
Ms. Duffin portrays the heroine as well as a multitude of characters using a strong Irish accent, expert physical transformations and her strong presence. Barefoot, wearing plaid lounge pant…
