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This post is by Victor Gluck
Why another stage production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Into the Woods" while the film version is currently playing? The Roundabout Theatre Company is…
This post is by Eric Grunin
Although I was never bored, at 135 minutes (including intermission) the play is quite long for the story it's telling. The animals, as fun as they are, get a cons…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Led by David Hayes, Music Director, the New York Choral Society and Orchestra, together with first rate soloists and the Princeton Girlchoir, presented a…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Theatergoers knowledgeable with "Death and the Maiden" will find "Shesh Yak" very familiar territory. Those who aren't will still find this play tediously pred…
This post is by Victor Gluck
Set at some time in the near future, Tom Dulack's The Road to Damascus (not to be confused with Strindberg's play of similar name) is set in a world not that dif…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
Playwright Ross Howard's new work illustrates the characteristically 21st Century sentiments of unbridled selfishness, feigned apathy, and perennial discontent.…
This post is by Victor Gluck
Although the play is written in the retro form of upper middle class drawing room comedy, it has a serious message and theme. The fear or terror that Edna (Higgi…
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James Rado Co-Creator of Hair celebrated his 83rd Birthday on Friday 23rd Jan [his actual birthdate], by attending the Secret Theatre Musicals' production of Hair. Jim …
This post is by Victor Gluck
Shadow puppetry, audience participation, actors as animals, talking lions, ladders as boats, a circus with a trapeze artist and a bearded lady, a live drums and …
This post is by Chip Deffaa
Joe helped me in countless ways over the years"more than I could detail here--and I dedicated one of the books I wrote to him. He's been a good force in my life s…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Theatergoers familiar with Richard Foreman's work with the Ontological Theater will be especially receptive to this frenetic production. There are also traces o…
This post is by Victor Gluck
While "Film Chinois" certainly has an interesting premise to create a stage film noir set in turbulent postwar China, the play fails to deliver on its promise to…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
This finely constructed memory piece is characterized by comedy and melancholy. Overcoming parental dysfunction is it's universal theme. It's rendered with com…
This post is by Victor Gluck
Not only does Anita Loos' adaptation of "Gigi" not make us miss the famous Lerner and Loewe songs, its intimacy and sophistication make it a fine play in its own…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
Asking us to stoop down to the level of three women willing to do many ethically reprehensible acts in the pursuit of wealth, Cahn challenges the notions of pla…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
With "Constellations," Nick Payne has deftly created a unique and very moving romantic work in the tradition of modern British playwrights that is universally a…
This post is by Eric Grunin
Performer-scholar Baba Brinkman has done a series of shows which follow the same basic format, essentially a lecture with rap interludes. A recent example seen at…
This post is by Victor Gluck
Dying for It, Moira Buffini's free adaptation of The Suicide, is fine as a drama but the premise makes it a classic farce. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Theater Co…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Hearing these Sondheim classic songs well performed and seeing them vibrantly staged was reason enough for this concert to be considered a success. That it als…
This post is by Victor Gluck
"Every Brilliant Thing" is a wonderful evening in the theater and a reminder that though life may offer bad or unhappy episodes, that there are wonderful things …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
The drawn-out finale is a fiercely acrimonious type of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" style confrontation dealing with class warfare. Here th…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
An American Worker is an agitprop musical in the spirit and tradition of social consciousness American theater such as the works of Sidney Kingsley, Clifford Od…
This post is by Constance Radut
This holiday season the 59E59 Theaters is hosting a special cabaret, Cafe Society Swing, in tribute to a historic cafe which thrived back in the1940's, one th…
This post is by Constance Radut
The crowd at The Pangea was in for a real treat when a unique mother/daughter act from the neighborhood performed a number of musical selections complete with…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
While it may have been "Cold Outside" on the streets of New York City, the interior of Carnegie Hall was warm and cozy during Kelli and Matthew: Home for the Ho…
