The topics that Jeanne LaSala and Donnetta Lavinia Grays scrutinize in Spoiled Bea and The Cowboy Is Dying are worthy, providing windows into conditions not everyone knows while emphasizing …
It's cleverly mounted by director Jim Niesen and passionately performed by its eight-member cast.
This story of sex, privilege, guilt, exploitation, and class too soon devolves into an after-school special, which is unfortunate given the talents of writer, cast, and director.
Playwright David Brendan Hopes' decision to revisit the relationship between Edward and his male lover should inspire some new conceptual twist; instead the play feels like a dumbed-down ver…
Birthright, written and directed by Jackie Alexander, has a fine play, with some echoes of August Wilson, inside it. Alexander's dialogue is rhythmic and often lyrical, his characters rounde…
To successfully encompass a groundbreaking performer's life within a play, there must be a focus, an arc, and a portrayal that does justice to its subject. Though it has other charms, actor-…
A trio of winning performances ground the three short musicals that make up "Inner Voices: Solo Musicals." Although the contributions from three songwriting teams are decidedly mixed, the pr…
Though beautifully performed, fleetly directed by Philip Howard, and gorgeously erudite, David Greig's play only teases, never satisfies.
A first-rate monodrama, elegantly written and piquantly performed by Michael O. Smith, The Bully Pulpit presents a splendid theatrical portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
John Treacy Eagan's "Count the Stars" is nice enough, but nice only goes so far. A little more excitement from him next time out wouldn't be amiss.
Raissa Katona Bennett not only has a sweet yet sturdy voice -- even piercing and fierce when she wants -- but she puts a generous helping of intelligence behind what she does.
"Series A" of the 30th marathon of new one-act plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre is an entertaining evening out.
Sally Nemeth's 1989 "Mill Fire," set in 1977 and '78, is a rare example of a play that raises issues about labor and justice without losing its humanity.
It's not much fun on the exterior of an inside joke, especially when that joke comes in the form of a smug, interminable bit of self-referential theatre.
About the only thing that doesn't work about John Lithgow's one-man show is the title. The name holds out the promise of a lineup of performed pieces, but the program isn't quite so full: Ap…
Let's hope the Lyrics & Lyricists deciders -- these days looking around determinedly to refresh a long-running house attention-getter -- don't try something like this again.
York is so profligate when tossing around the vocal and physical dynamics that there isn't much room for genuine feelings to push through.
While it is possible for singers to do an act devoid of any extended interplay with the audience, it's tricky and demands more intimate-room savvy than Gemignani has at the moment. He's bett…
The emphasis is on the gorgeous score, given full-bodied performance by the Philharmonic under the baton of Paul Gemignani, featuring the original sumptuous orchestrations by Robert Russell …
Fizzy as strawberry phosphate, chic as bathtub gin, and despite plot lines thinner than Kate Moss on a hunger strike, "No, No, Nanette" offers the most glamorous, well-choreographed event of…
As Broadway becomes more reliant on huge spectacle, this inventive adaptation of a classic film demonstrates that two planks and a passion for fun beat a soulless multimillion-dollar blockbu…
Susan Bernfield's new play at New Georges is a terrifically engaged journey through the landscape of American dreams and disaffection that discovers personal service as the invisible chain t…
It's pretty hard to make sex boring. Yet despite the massive quantities of condoms, lube, and dangling genitalia flaunted across the stage, Kevin Podgorski's new play manages to make the tit…
Ayub Khan-Din's adaptation of Bill Naughton's "All in Good Time"is shot through with the laughter and sadness of humanity. Especially at a time when questions of immigration are in the foref…