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This post is by Joel Benjamin
Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" is an intelligent, intensely absorbing play that treats its three thirty-something characters like chess pieces moving warily a…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
If "In Bed With Roy Cohn" were seen at a theater event such as The New York Fringe Festival, it could be viewed as a promising offbeat creation. But as a commer…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
"Love & Money" is light, literate entertainment, impeccably acted by its small cast led by the charismatic Ms. Anderman. Mr. Paulik amusingly projects his…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
In his 2005 "Mercury Fur," being given its belated Off Broadway premiere by The New Group under the direction of its intrepid artistic director …
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Baker fills "John" with telling details, from the food (ever hear of Sailor's Duff?) to hidden rooms to specifics of Gettysburg, that keep the play from floatin…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Everett Quinton has found the ideal vehicle in the hilarious "Drop Dead Perfect" to revive the style of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company for wh…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Then, there's the new cast member, Misty Copeland, the newly minted American Ballet Theater principal ballerina, who has taken over the role of Ivy Smith, the c…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
A titanic ensemble of six highly talented actors plays the prisoners as well as multiple roles including females with slight costume changes. Derrick Baskin, N…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Mr. Urban does an excellent job of dramatizing and explaining a complex historical situation in this fictional treatment of a real case. In 1994, Rwandan Presi…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Life comes with detours, but more important than any of that is the personal response. Instead of allowing the past to dictate the future, Mahgoub's path is one f…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Deborah Zoe Laufer's fascinating and engrossing "Informed Consent" tells three interlocking stories that eventually become one by the end. Under…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The Broadway transfer of the acclaimed Off Broadway musical "Hamilton" has finally taken place and the show looks and sounds even more comfortab…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"I'm tired of being a prisoner in a sequined tube dress," declares actor Glenn Milstead to his legendary alter ego Divine. "The drag queen of the century is rel…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Contemporary theater is skewered as a young Canadian gay male playwright heralds avant-garde artists in this often vitriolic and personal polemic.
The post Thea…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
At The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park venue, director Daniel Sullivan has proved himself a brilliant interpreter of the Bard's comedie…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
The song that made Pink Martini famous, "Sympathique," was performed early on and welcomed much applause. Performed by China Forbes, one of Martini's resident voc…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, two brilliant Russian ballet stars, have assemble an ad hoc mini-ballet troupe of like-minded dance artists who are unafraid …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"Papa" was the elder Theodore Bikel's sobriquet to the younger members of the touring company of "Fiddler on The Roof." Mr. Bikel died at the age of 91 on July…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"The epitomy of a true triple threat performer," was how Mr. Reineke introduced Ms. Foster. "I've never been here or sung outside with a big orchestra before" …
This post is by Courtney Marie
Under the careful direction of Amy Fowkes, Lundy-Paine captures a woman's painful journey when trying to have a baby and nothing is working. She finds the ever…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Series B of Summer Shorts 2015 is similar to Series A in that all three plays are also relationship dramas, here between a woman (or three women…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"Delirium's Daughters" by Nicholas Korn is faithful to the form and figures of Commedia dell'arte. This theatrical genre is grounded in comedic improvisation a…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Summer Shorts " Festival of New American Short Plays has returned to 59E59 Theaters for its 9th annual outing offering six world premieres by fa…
This post is by Ryan Mikita
Bianca Soto, Mary Baynard, Natasa Warasch, Mark Kopas and Anthony Abdo in a scene from "Off White" (Photo credit: Morgan Hammel) The event of a wedding has often …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Like most of the other of the author's works, the three characters here are very colorful individuals who histrionically clash with each other while verbosely e…
