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This post is by Darryl Reilly
With its realistic and detailed dialogue, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's very well constructed script is a superior work of playwriting containing many humorous and movin…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
The downstairs of the gay leather bar, The Eagle, has been configured into a runway-style performance space with rows of white folding chairs. This setup is fo…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The New York Pops' 33rd season opened with a joyful tribute to one of the legendary songwriting teams of Broadway. Entitled "My Favorite Things:…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Before coming to the Westside Theatre, director David Saint helmed this production at the George Street Playhouse. No stranger to DiPietro's style (he also premie…
This post is by Courtney Marie
Is it possible to love unconditionally? While we all say the words and make those promises, sometimes we may be faced with a condition that we never saw coming…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The production includes the Broadway debuts of British screen and television stars Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly, and a return of British stage st…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
This is the fault of director Daniel Aukin who also staged it at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Besides obtaining just competent performances from his cast…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
The revelation of the play is Mr. Lerner's detailed knowledge of both the orthodox sect and its place in modern Israeli society. He manages to make the age-old…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Donna and Chris, the couple under the microscope in this play, are portrayed by two sets of actors: the first pair represents the lovers while they are still in c…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Sunny Knable's music is romantic and lilting. He has called his style a cross between Stephen Sondheim and Benjamin Britten. In this he does him…
This post is by Courtney Marie
Under Margarett Perry's careful direction, Half Moon Bay, challenges an audience to try and decipher Richie's infatuation with Alicia and what type of relation…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
Aside from its notable staging, this production is also receiving a great deal off attention for facilitating the Broadway debut of Marlee Matlin, the only deaf…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Jean Webster's classic epistolary novel of the coming of age of a college age girl at the beginning of the twentieth century, "Daddy Long Legs,"…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Heavyset and with a sullen countenance, Mr. Marinelli plays Trey by ably conveying the character's melancholy and witty expressiveness. The charming John Carha…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Two starry new cast members add luster to the show: English musical and opera star Alfie Boe as the tragic Jean Valjean and Tony Award nominee Montego Glover a…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
If this story sounds familiar, it is the plot of the classic thirties screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" which starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunn…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
"Reread Another" is a collection of Stein's sometimes illuminating, sometimes moving, and sometimes completely ridiculous linguistic portraits arranged into a s…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Mr. Maloney is a veteran character actor of stage and screen with New York City theater credits going back to 1964. This leading role of Hugh Pugh is a marvelo…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Ann Marie DeAngelo, the longtime producer and director of the Career Transition for Dancers: 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee, has outdone herself this year with …
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The annual "The Pumpkin Pie Show" is back for its 17th year. Performed with no sets and no costumes, it has been described as "bedtime stories f…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
If you thought Bedlam's artistic director Eric Tucker had created physical productions for his acclaimed acting troupe in the past, think again.…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Mr. Farmer has crafted a suspenseful and gripping tale based on the reality of child abduction with mythical overtones. The dialogue is very fine and is evocat…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Two bearded and long-haired pony-ailed men in dark gray space suits with black Velcro patches appear as the lights come up. For the next ten minutes, they wrest…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
"Run Time Error," an evening of recent and new works, including both New York and United States premieres composed by Simon Steen-Andersen, who performed…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Lopez knows these characters and how they speak. He is helped immensely by his director Mike Donahue who allows just enough comic exaggeration without ever let…
