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This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
When American born Londoner Harold Chapin was killed in W.W. I in 1915, he was a highly regarded actor, stage manager and playwright, although n…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Performed at The Wild Project, a stylish downtown venue with a raked stage, the set (John Lavigne), lighting (Robert M. Stevenson) and sound design (Jorge I. Sanc…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Dance historian Doug Fullington of the Pacific Northwest Ballet was the expert who, using slides and excerpts from both the Balanchine and Petipa versions, show…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
"Fulfillment" by the always surprising Thomas Bradshaw is about anything but the contentment and success implied by its ironic title. The Flea Theater's produc…
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Could Dennis Richard's new play "Radio Mystery 1949" be inspired by the Mad Bomber George Metesky who terrorized New York in the 1940's and 1950…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Before its increasing gentrification, the Lower East Side was an outpost of creative expression. That the BREAD Arts Collective theater company presents this wo…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Directed by Joseph Hayward, "Blue Surge" is specific and engaging, and moves at a brisk pace which deceives the nearly-two-hour run time. The lighting design (Jas…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The play is told mainly in monologues by both actors on microphones, alternating with rehearsal scenes from the Gertrude/Hamlet confrontation. T…
This post is by Courtney Marie
Barkan doesn't hold back as she expresses herself through song and dance to share her personal journey. The opening number "Streetwise" is a burst of exhilarat…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
"The Christians," Lucas Hnath's examination of the intricacies of religion currently playing at Playwrights Horizons, comes to us at a unique cultural moment: e…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Opening this year's Next Wave series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan's "Rice," a ritualistic ballet conceived and ch…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Playwright Dewey Moss has crafted a well structured, taut, and seemingly conventional romance among clashing cultures that shockingly switches gears. Inventivel…
This post is by Courtney Marie
Audiences will receive a refreshing and meaningful gift in "How to Live on Earth." This production sparks several of the big overarching questions, regarding t…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Dendy uses his fertile imagination to tell Manning's story beginning with his repressed childhood, on through enlisting in the Army where he was trained in comp…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
"The Black Book" follows the faculty of United University while they attempt to unravel the mystery
surrounding a difficult student named Collin Archer and a su…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Romantic comedy was once the staple of Broadway. Today it turns up more often in the movies. When it appears on the stage it is fairly unusual t…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Having commissioned evenings of one act plays by major American playwrights based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov and the sonnets of Willi…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
With the quirky poignancy of Lanford Wilson, the ferociousness of Edward Albee, and the farcical precision of Alan Ayckbourn, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach's s…
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"Stoopdreamer," a new play by Pat Fenton, is an intimate commentary on the gentrification process in Brooklyn, specifically applying to the small neighborhood of …
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Experimental playwright/director Maxwell has a uniquely personal vision of theater. He has said in interviews that he directs his actors to be "…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Director Kareem Fahmy is also ambiguously credited as "Co-Developer." Mr. Fahmy's staging is purposeful when it grapples with the problematic first act and does…
This post is by John Hoglund
Fulfilling a dormant desire to give it a try and armed with a well-placed, strong voice, Seth Sikes took the plunge and got booked into 54 Below for one show onl…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
With considerable fanfare and extensive advance publicity, Chinese opera singer Zhang Juoding made her American debut at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch T…
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Aside from the wonderfully eclectic score by Almond (jazz, pop, Latin, blues, Broadway, gospel, folk music, etc.) who also acted as narrator and…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Dressed in black slacks, a sequined white blouse and a gray blazer, the svelte, energetic, and soon to be 78 year-old Tony Award-winning stage and television st…
