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Bitch turns herself inside out in ways sometimes difficult to bear, particularly with her frank, anatomical language, but she communicates her joy and anguish so honestly and unflinchingly t…
Dakin Matthews' "Henry IV" is a consistently engaging gift to the theater season. Shakespeare scholars may quibble about the extent of the cuts from "Henry IV, Part II," but the reality is t…
In reading the script, I didn't see how the story made any sense or could have been given a reasonable life on stage. I was very wrong on both scores. The four actors of the ensemble breathe…
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
"What an awful name for a musical," spouts Little Sally (a brilliantly talented Pearl Scarlett Gold) as one of the narrators of the New York City Center Encores' witty production of the 2001…
Joy Behar and a rotating cast of female celebrities find humor in divorce in "My First Ex-Husband," a new show at the MMAC Theater. Â Directed by Randal Myler, the evening chronicles tales…
Foreman's dramatic structure feels like an audacious attempt to stage the tumultuous workings of the mind itself. Neurons ignite, voices both internal and external whisper, scream, and echo …
It's always fascinated me, seeing how different actors can interpret the same material. In "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger delivers a bold, bravura star turn I'd never have expected …
Marjan Neshat as Marjan  the teacher in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Sanaz Toossi's "English" at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Language …
The modern verse translation reasonably maintains a semblance of the Elizabethan iambic pentameter form supported by the ensemble's solid delivery of the lines. People familiar with Elizabet…
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin's "Kowalski" at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee William…
Playwright/actor Braulio Basilio may appear prophetic when we sit in horror today watching the news as a returning president maps out how he plans to deprive immigrants of any and all freedo…
Forrest Malloy's "Nina" follows five women in their last year of acting school figuring out their lives while preparing for their final production together: "The Seagull." The on-the-nose Ch…
This may not have been a typical program for the Malpaso Dance Company, but the troupe seems to lean towards the darker parts of life. As moving as each of the works are, they all painte…
Gary Gulman in his one-man show "Grandiloquent" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Michaelah Reynolds) Writer and memoirist Gary Gulman looks comfortable as that raconteur that wil…
"Sheltered" by Cate Wiley is a story about what it is to be a homeless woman in a city in the United States. As directed by Liz Peterson, this play tells the stories of these women trapped b…
Written in 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, "In the Zone" shows how group hysteria can build, as the various crew members decide that one of their own, Smitty, must be a spy…
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackso…
"January" presents a story about the emotional impact of the killing of one child by another by weaving together the thoughts and actions of the two single mothers involved and how the natio…
The best constructed work was the finale, "Grace" (1999), in which Brown created a Goddess figure come down from Heaven "to spread grace among humans."Â In addition to a score by Duke Ell…
While they credit the eight puppeteers textually, "with help from the ensemble," Warnock and Waage are also credited as executive producers along with set and costume design. Mr. Waage is gi…
If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe's production of "Gypsy" at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of Arthu…
The fun is in the technological achievement of the piece, which is impressive. Gelb performs center stage while his image is broadcast to screens on either side of the theatre. What happens …
