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The staging is unusual in that no punches are thrown. When the actors are supposed to be delivering their blows, they stamp their feet which is actually more sinister and startling. The cast…
Directed by the author, "Wolf in the River" is an environmental production as the audience is invited to sit in folding chairs around a mound of earth with forlorn flowers, garbage and debri…
One problem with reviving musicals from the pre-Sondheim era is that they were often created around the talent of a big, unique star like Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Mary Martin, Al Jolson, Fann…
Virtually performed all in English with some Spanish for comic effect," ¡Figaro! (90210)" is true to the art form with recitative and arias, that is sung speech and grand solos rather the…
For the winter concert of their eleventh season, the twenty-three member C4: The Choral Composer Conductor Collective " elected to honor "Unusual - music of the strange, the absurd, the surr…
"He was tied to the life of jazz clubs," said Billy Stritch of Cy Coleman, the subject of The 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists Series Presents: "Witchcraft: The Jazz Magic of Cy Colem…
Darja, the grounding force of the entire production, is played with rawness and vigor by Marin Ireland. Ms. Ireland"no stranger to the New York stage as of late"delivers an unnerving perform…
Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick's libretto mocks all the famous disaster films of the seventies, like 'Jaws,' "Earthquake," "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno," "Ben," etc., and…
"He was the premier balladeer of his generation and the first African-American to sing a song on network radio," Malavet declared of the entertainer. Billy Eckstine (1914-1993) was a Virgin…
"Southern Comfort" is an ambitious and admirable attempt to depict a community that till now has been left off of our stages. Though the material at times seems tamer that the content would …
"Hungry" is both an occasional play (written for this moment in time) and a chamber play. Not much happens but a great deal is implied. It will not please all theatergoers. However, it will …
The play is made up of a series of six confrontations in which the dialogue is delivered like bullets flying back and forth. While the story is engrossing, the individual conversations all g…
Taking place in real time, Aaron Loeb's entertaining play is in the mode of Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" with shades of "The Blair Witch Project." It also echoes the explosive style and reso…
The evening was less about contemporary Romanian composer Dumitrescu, born in 1944, than about the music for which he is, in some mysterious sense, a medium. Each work is unique, each a prem…
"Ride the Culture Loop" (1975) to dark, percussion-heavy music by long-time Sokolow colleague, Teo Macero, pitted small groups of dancers against each other, all seemingly trapped in a night…
In his widely produced 1977 play," The Elephant Man," Bernard Pomerance employed the theatrical device of having the grotesque John Merrick portrayed by an actor (invariably a handsome one) …
Thompson's direction is taut, nuanced and compelling and she found the ensemble to not only make their characters entirely distinct but to make us feel these women have lived together for ye…
Eric Gilde's new drama, "The Goodbye Room," realistically and powerfully captures a family's journey after losing a loved one. The worst of times always seems to bring the deepest of emotion…
A pulsating medley from Kander and Ebb's musical "Chicago" was the thrilling second act opening number of The New York Pops' pleasant concert of eclectic show music, "42nd on 57th: Broadway …
Imani's production of 'Walk Hard" for Metropolitan Playhouse is an exciting piece of theater from an eye-opening rediscovery. Historically, it comes nine years after Clifford Odets' 'Golden …
Director David Staller has ingeniously staged this small-scale production with numerous theatrical flourishes. Scene transitions are accomplished with actors in character moving furniture, …
In the compositions of New York composer Alex Mincek (b. 1975), music is explored by means of separating out its constitutive elements: as indicated in Miller Theatre program notes for his C…
"Connected" is a series of short plays, each tackling our always-connected culture from a different angle. The first of four stories is about Meghan, a high schooler with a crush on one of t…
After a twenty year hiatus from the New York theater scene, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Buried Child" is back in the Big Apple but in a more intimate setting. This latest iteration…
Most people have difficulty imagining Bob Dylan as anything but the down-and-out troubadour singing for his supper in Greenwich Village nightspots in the early Sixties. He is, in fact, an i…
