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Colby's fascinatingly entertaining autobiography, "The Algonquin Kid," was turned into a one-time theatrical event as part of the Urban Stages' Winter Rhythms series, hosted by Mr. Colby, pr…
Although this is the eighth show minimalist director Ivo van Hove has directed for New York Theatre Workshop, one would be hard put to recognize it as his. The production uses Tal Yarden's a…
Members of the classic Peanuts gang were voiced by students from TADA! Youth Theater. Joshua Andino-Nieto took on the role of Charlie Brown and was joined by Amanda Treibner who starred as L…
Directed by Daisy Walker, "How Alfo Learned to Love" is chock full of Italian-American stereotypes. The characters are just heightened enough that the gimmick works, but there is also a lot …
It did my heart good to see Matanya Solomon dancing all-out after being pretty much sidelined as a "Nutcracker" dancer, due to injury, for the last two years. I greatly admire all good dance…
Belgian"born director Ivo van Hove has brought his London Young Vic revival of Arthur Miller's" A View from the Bridge" to Broadway in a production so stripped down to its essentials that it…
Mahanthappa's elegant and exciting compositional voice is well established. His jazz combines the full development of the genre since its inception with the idiom of South Indian classical m…
Jackie Hoffman is famous for her combination of sarcasm and wit in a small, rubber-faced package and John "Lypsinka" Epperson, for his uncanny way of taking lip-synching to the heights of gr…
"The Hard Nut" is certainly beautiful to behold, its production design based on the work of Charles Burns whose graphic novels feature vividly surreal and haunting images. But, it's also fr…
Opening with a soaring symphonic "Deck the Halls" and then joined by the wonderful Essential Voices USA chorus for it, The New York Pops closed their concert, "It's Christmas Time in the Cit…
Darryl Reilly, Critic A good audition is one in which the actor finds a way to bring some real piece of himself to the proceedings. The lines don't matter. Those doing the hiring have heard …
Playwright Marsha Norman's book brilliantly and very faithfully streamlines and extracts the events and themes of the novel and film. These include racism, sexism, self-esteem and same-sex …
At the 10:00 show on Wednesday, December 9, Welch played bagpipes with Brendon Randall-Myers on electric guitar and Brian Chase on drums and electronics performing "The Library of Babel," a …
The humorous banter among the four and their slide-splitting re-creation of the Ed Sullivan show, the main feature of the second act, are reason enough to see "Plaid Tidings." Add in their …
Playwright Jordan Harrison is a graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. program and the recipient of several prestigious awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kesselring Prize. On a…
Malcolm Gets, Jerry Dixon, Mario Cantone and Matt McGrath in as scene from "Steve" (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) Joel Benjamin, Critic Although its emotional impact is universal, Mark Gerr…
Conceived by Daniel Fish and Jim Findlay, "Who Left This Fork Here""inspired by the emotional themes found in Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters""is a stark and jarringly honest piece which …
Besides playing Boyce, Gwyther depicts other British soldiers as well as Germans. It is an exhilarating display of rapid vocal and physical transformations subtly giving each brief characte…
The program itself was a masterpiece of artistic and theological integrity. Pieces by three composers " contemporary Estonian Arvo Part (b.1935), and Renaissance Englishmen John Sheppard (c.…
It has taken years and many people, to restore the book and score of the 1923 "The Golden Bride" which was last performed in 1948. A concert performance by the National Yiddish Theatre Fo…
The Peccadillo Theater Company's "A Wilder Christmas" is a gentle and genteel evening of theater: Â two early Thornton Wilder one-act plays, directed with an attention to detail and a leis…
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While C.S. Lewis' famous theological allegory, "The Great Divorce," is written as a series of conversations, you might not expect that it would …
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Alas, the Tiny Tim of olden days exists no more. Thanks to medical advancement in the mid-1800's, young Tim underwent a surgery which not only cured him of his ai…
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Marko MandiÄ is an award-winning acclaimed classical actor from Slovenia who has worked several times with Mr. Buljan. His talent, charisma, and physicality…
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"Gigantic," the new feel-good musical, is a dynamic up-to-date show about teenagers at a summer weight-loss camp. Previously seen as Fat Camp in…
