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Blizzard doesn't miss a beat as she keeps the whole room in stitches during the course of this 80 minute performance. Her wit, charm, and wisdom are comedic gold and make for a flawless piec…
Testing the patience and understanding of both the audience and the dancers, Ballet Preljocaj, Angelin Preljocaj's modern troupe from Aix-en-Provence, performed the complete version of his "…
While many of the scenes are right on target, others seem too metaphoric and anarchic to make much impression, while others take on too many targets to make their point. The best ones deal w…
Playwright Henry Naylor achieved prominence in Great Britain as a television writer most notably for the satirical program "Spitting Image." This work is not groundbreaking but it does very…
The simple staging also gave emphasis to this unique push and pull relationship between these two young men and the overall tone of the play. The story as well as Jake's continuous pretentio…
Dynamic performer Migguel Anggelo exhilaratingly recalls the showmanship of Desi Arnaz and the performance art of Klaus Nomi in his terrific autobiographical cabaret act, "Another Son of Ven…
In theory, the material that "A Pregnant Pause" attempts to provide commentary on is thought-provoking. However, this production is one which unfortunately stumbles and falls within its very…
At turns beautifully silly, dreamy, exquisitely moving and always delightful, "Fêtes" is a sweeping, if daffy, look at life in eighteenth century Venice. Christie and his director Robert…
You might wonder why Morag, Fiona's mother, in Sharman Macdonald's groundbreaking Scottish play, "When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout," is so repressive about sex. What the program …
The Royal Shakespeare Company's "King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings" is a magnificent achievement and a fitting tribute in this 400th anniversary of the bard's death. Not o…
Van Hove sets his version in a modern classroom. When the curtain goes up we first see the girls who will later accuse various people in Salem, Massachusetts, of having bewitched them, seate…
Since the 1670's, the Choir has consisted of voices ranging from bass to treble, all students at St. John's College or the College School. There are currently six basses, five tenors, four c…
I cannot remember the last time a ballet company so completely blew me away as the Miami City Ballet did during its recent, depressingly short season at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln …
"Our goal is not to impersonate her but to channel her," said Mr. Sperling, the artistic director, writer and director of this entertaining event. In addition to these tasks, he also sang, …
Florian Zeller is the most famous French playwright you probably never heard of. He won France's highest theatrical honor, the Moliere Award, in 2011 for his play, "The Mother," and the Moli…
This trio certainly embodies the dynamic of most family relationships " with sisters struggling to get along and the eldest child having to take responsibility. Comerzan acts as a parent to …
On stage, Birbiglia's presence differs significantly from that of his fellow comics. It is no exaggeration in referring to Birbiglia as a soft-spoken individual, a term not often associated …
An opportunity to see the luminous Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o live on stage may be the reason most people are rushing to the Golden Theatre, but, thrilling as that may be, "Eclipsed…
Though the evening was studded with some of the more famous and mainstream orchestral pieces of William's career"namely the March from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" or the Theme from "Jurassic P…
Scholars, critics, actors and audiences have long been entranced and intrigued by these plays. They appear to reflect Beckett's perpetual theme of despair and joy coexisting within the huma…
It's an uneasy stretch that ultimately fails to convincingly conflate the surprisingly liberal religious arguments that Lessing makes with the extraordinarily complex political/religious/cul…
The problem with the staging begins from the outset. Daniels' Ray, tense and rigid, pushes demanding, triumphant Una into a corporate break room. He is upset to see her, and she is all confi…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "I'm Anne Jackson, I'm a great actress and I'm pushing a shopping cart with Lestoil and chicken breasts through Gristede's!" That was one of many funny outbursts Anne J…
This month, the 13th Street Repertory Theater will kick off its celebration of Founder/Artistic Director Edith O'Hara's 100th year. Appropriately"since O'Hara has spent so much of her…
The four works on the Dance Theatre of Harlem's program revealed a troupe that loves to entertain and show off but one that also hasn't quite reached a secure level of technical achievement.…
