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This post is by Daniel J. Lee
Admittedly, many of the ideas in the play are hardly new or revolutionary: the first measures to limit the scope of the British monarchy's power date back to th…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
In this centennial of the birth of jazz great Billie Holiday, The New York Pops November concert was devoted to Harlem Renaissance ladies like E…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Nethsingha's reading of Mozart's Requiem was richly nuanced and widely expressive, and the success of his reading was established within the first three …
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Founded in 2005 and led by Kornel Fekete-Kovacs, trumpeter and composer, the Budapest-based Modern Art Orchestra is a marvel. Its twenty musicians " five…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
On a portal shaped screen, films of Ms. Guillem (by the very clever Elias Benxon) are soon substituted by Ms. Guillem in the flesh. She disappeared behind this…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" appears to be a titular and stylistic inspiration. Like that classic …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The title refers to three generations of women whose lives have been derailed by early pregnancies. When the play begins, we are in the modest h…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Sergio Trujillo's exhilarating choreography is a ceaseless extravaganza of mostly Salsa numbers. The costumes by designer ESosa are appropriately heavy on gli…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
The National Asian American Theater Company's world premiere of Lloyd Suh's "Charles Francis Chan, Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery" is best categorized as fi…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Handled as stand-up comedy, Story tells us that he did not at first accept Dr. Gray's theories until he heard one of his lectures, and then he b…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
For the first half of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," the Blake family Thanksgiving seems to be nothing but a banal seasonal gathering. And then s…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
The energizing conceit of the play is its reliance on audience participation that adds considerably to the entertainment. During the action, the audience gets …
This post is by Joel Benjamin
The sobriquet "tricks" is probably not a fair or adequate description of the acrobatic feats these fourteen gymnasts displayed. Their tours de force included: …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura performa…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Tenor Rufus Muller with American Classical Orchestra and Chorus (Photo credit: Arlette Landestoy) Â The November 2015 presentation by the American Clas…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Directed with comfortable assurance and a leisurely sense of timing, this "Sylvia" benefits from a (mostly) strong cast, including three Tony Award winners: Ma…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Ms. Nielsen has long been a treasured award-winning fixture of the New York stage with her quirky idiosyncratic comedic and dramatic talents. Here as the omnipo…
This post is by Courtney Marie
In Aleks Merilo's play, "The Widow of Tom's Hill," human nature is tested in the face of a life-threatening plague. Under Rachel Black Spaulding's direction, t…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
New Worlds Theatre Project's mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekhov …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
On Union Street" with music by Wesley Whatley is the lively and wistful opening track of the delightful jazz based recording, The Hope of Christmas. It is perf…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in a scene from "Ripcord" (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) The usually hilarious, wickedly witty, Pulitzer Prize-winning David Li…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
"Perfect Arrangement," Topher Payne's first play to reach New York, is a well-crafted and engrossing play with much to say and has been magnific…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
