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Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Head of Passes" is an advance over his earlier work seen in New York ("The Brother/Sister Plays," "Wig Out," "Choir Boy") in its attempt to take on bigger themes and…
Instead of a satirical take as in the film "The Candidate" (1972) or HBO's television series "Veep," the treatment of the subject here is realistic in the mode of Norman Lear's 1970's situat…
The Ballet Hispanico wants to be meaningful while at the same time entertaining. It is a difficult course to chart"just look at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater"and, so far, the ente…
Leonard Nimoy intended "Vincent" as a vehicle for himself that would showcase his talents. In this Off-Broadway premiere presented by Starry Night Theater, "Vincent" is now such an outlet f…
Featuring a talented and engaging cast as well as an inventively designed set that adds tremendous production value, "House Rules" would seem to have all the necessary elements of a successf…
The Douglas-Westerlies music, whether its subject is lament or celebration, protest or affirmation, is artistically coherent: testing and stretching traditional genres, the music is about fo…
Under Gabrielle L. Kurlander's intricate direction," Votes" presents a moving and personal picture of the real lives and feelings of an extremely powerful couple in America. Votes brings a m…
"The Effect" investigates the emotional, physical and ethical effects of drug testing, certainly a hot button issue in our time when we have come to expect a pill to solve all of our problem…
"Wonderful Town" is one of those musical comedies which seem to get better as they age due in this case to the classic quality of the Bernstein/ Comden & Green score and the witty book …
it's significant that Steve Martin has won five Grammy Awards for albums he's made"two in the category of "comedy," and three in the category of "music." He loves to play the banjo (an ins…
Rachel Hauck's scenic design is the most outstanding feature of the interminable "Antlia Pneumatica." Ms. Hauck accurately and vividly represents the Texas ranch setting by an elaborate kit…
And Ensemble Pamplemousse, an exciting and distinctive six-member "composer performer collective" founded in 2003, and performing at Miller Theatre for the first time, had all sorts of fine …
Nearly thirty speakers glorified Solomons, but none quite as well as himself who appeared in three bits that deftly paid tribute to"and simultaneously gently poked fun at"his two choreograp…
Shoving a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face in "Public Enemy," George M. Cohan's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" song and dance numbers for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the "Top …
Thomas Kail (one of the geniuses behind Hamilton) has staged the world premiere of Sarah Burgess' riveting "Dry Powder" in as cool a fashion as Rachel Hauck's cobalt blue set with its cubes …
The prime instigator of the events, John Adams, was rotund and abrasive. Here he is played by the handsome Santino Fontana who was Prince Charming in the recent Broadway production of Cinder…
Posner has turned Chekhov's four-act play into two-part meta-theater: not only do the actors acknowledge the audience and solicit our participation, but they each have a monologue addressed …
In the hands of someone other than Timothy Olyphant, Strings McCabe might be a self-pitying monster too extreme to take seriously. However, this brilliantly accomplished actor has just the r…
The authors of "Straight" would have you believe that in 2016 26-year-old straight- acting investment banker Ben, living in Boston where same sex marriages have been legal for the last eight…
Much of "Locusts Have No King" by J. Julian Christopher appears to be in the well-mined terrain of Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band," Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and…
"Bright Star," the new bluegrass/country music comedy-drama, rises"just barely"above Hallmark Network romance level thanks to its energetic score by the Hollywood star, Steve Martin (music a…
This was a particularly satisfying showing by the Juilliard Dances Repertory. It's good to know that there is hope for the future of dance represented by these students, all of whom display…
The last piece of the concert was James MacMillan's substantive and moving 1994 "Seven Last Words from the Cross," a 35 minute piece of seven different movements, varying in length from nine…
Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri's new play, "The Hundred We Are," presents an emotionally compelling view on the different stages of one's self encountered over a lifeti…
Scott Ellis' direction avoids caricature, even in the most broadly drawn characters like the man-hungry Ilona, the gigolo Steven and the scared, but pragmatic clerk Sipos. He make the one …
