The show may have been overly long, but I'm very glad I caught it. Because I saw two up-and-coming "unknown" singers"Robert Levey II and Johnny Sullivan"with as much promise and potential a…
While "Sump'n Like Wings" is a lovely little play about a feisty 16-year-old girl who wants her independence in the 1913-16 period just after Oklahoma became a state, unfortunately Raelle My…
In a theatrical era when "full-length" works often fail to exceed 90 minutes, the English playwright Jez Butterworth dares to dubiously dramatize for approximately twice that span. His previ…
As in Ayad Akhtar's plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. Unf…
"Lust, jealousy, and personal politics" are the punches promised by the publicity tag line for award-winning playwright Yussef El Guindi's new play "People of the Book," currently on the boa…
Director Jared Mezzocchi uses the proximity of the actors to the audience to its best advantage. We don't even question when one of our ranks is pulled out to play Young Sunny. It adds to th…
For decades under James Morgan's leadership, the York Theatre Company has occupied a unique spot in New York's theater world"celebrating musical-theater, past, present, and future. Theater …
Welcome to 'Lakeplay," a character study-play written by Drew Valins and directed by Hamilton Clancy. It is billed as "a terrifying adventure" but does not live up to that description. There…
Despite this obvious shortcoming of The Counter, Anthony Edwards, a growing New York stage presence after much TV and movie fame, resolutely ignores it, never letting Kennedy's contrived wri…
The problem with the show is two-fold: first, it doesn't have anything new to say about dating other than trying to turn it into a cabaret commentary, and visually the show looks the same th…
We've come a long way from "Annie Get Your Gun" to the new musical "Distant Thunder" produced by Amas Musical Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres. Â The Irvin Berlin song "I'm an India…
Gabriel Kahane's pair of song cycles are a welcome throwback to when lyrics were poetry and told great stories. Think of the 70's when the airwaves were blessed with the voices and songwriti…
Barry Primus' "Soup in the Second Act" is described in press materials as a "dramatic comedy" but it's more drama than comedy. The humor comes from old-fashioned actor jokes such as this one…
Krzysztof Knapczyk, who has performed in countries such as Greece, Germany, and the U.S., aims to expand the Pop Opera project to American and international audiences. "Performing in New Yor…
While the play is compelling, the question is what is the message? Is the play asking would we have done what the son did? The father is quoted by the son as calling him a traitor while the …
"Dickhead," written by Gil Kofman and directed by Richard Caliban, is a story about the patriarch of a dysfunctional family in the midst of a near-total disintegration. The action is centere…
The final work of the evening was Takehiro Ueyama's "Heroes," dedicated to the brave, hard-working citizens of Japan who helped pull themselves out of the devastation of World War Two. Set t…
The spate of Sondheim shows both this past season and opening this fall is given prime place in this musical revue. Unsurprisingly, the new "Merrily We Roll Along" which ran all of last seas…
Four hardened male plainclothes police officers are being coached for a "suppression hearing" " that is a court proceeding prior to trial to challenge the legality of the evidence taken from…
"The Goldberg-Variations" by George Tabori (written in 1991, now having its belated new York premiere) is a confused and confusing conflation of Bible stories and backstage bickering amongst…
"Honor," a one-act play, written and superbly directed by T.J. Elliott, explores the conceptual nuances of "honor" within the context of a corporate investigation into a case of harassment a…
Quintero who obviously knows his Greek plays and Greek mythology is extremely faithful to the original myth and to Euripides' play. What he has added is a contemporary vernacular all in rhym…
If, to paraphrase Mark Twain, a liar's greatest enemy is laughter, then the new musical comedy "Ghost of John McCain" is certainly no friend of Donald Trump. It's also not a hagiography of t…
However, in the sweeping new musical epic retitled Monte Cristo, canny and adept librettist Peter Kellogg ("Desperate Measures," "Penelope") has streamlined the story, reduced the number of …
There is no program for the event nor a press script, which makes sense, since "The Spirits' Speakeasy" is less theater and more experience. There are missed opportunities for the actors to …