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Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" d…
David Silberger, Mars Holscher and Geoffrey Grady in a scene from Tim Mulligan's "Witchland" at Chain Theatre (Photo credit: Jordan Schreiber) Scotty Bennett, Critic If you think living near…
No one should be sacrosanct or above satirical treatment, not even our heroes. Everyone has feet of clay. Cole Escola in their huge hit "Oh, Mary!" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in G…
Playwright/bookwriter Rick Elice has written the greatest jukebox musical (so far) in his 2005 Jersey Boys. In his adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel Water for Elephants, he may ju…
But, as the book's co-writer with Townshend, McAnuff is self-aware enough to recognize that "The Who's Tommy" needs to blow one's mind through sensory overload. That way, thoughts can't inte…
Enter young baritone Edwin Joseph. He has that dark curly hair and handsome face, yes, and the crucial understanding of the necessary swagger and selfishness that carries this character thro…
The cast of Tim McGillicuddy's "Herself" at Gural Theatre at A.R.T/New York Theatres (Photo credit: Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation) Scotty Bennett, Critic Consider, if you will, being draw…
"Travels" at Ars Nova isn't just a story of the many places James Harrison Monaco has been. That's part of it, the most superficial part. "Travels" is far more:  a deep look at the pe…
While the characters age, the use of diversity here has them switch races, so that while one couple has a Black Allie and a white Noah, another has a white Allie and a Black Noah, as well as…
This is, essentially, Woody Allen's band, without Woody. It's the only seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band with a steady gig in New York. And if you like traditional jazz, this band"co…
Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung, two coolly elegant Swedes"who wrote the show with Edward Af Sillén (also the show's director)"perform one mind-boggling feat after another, fed by information…
Conceived by Yazbek, the show is structured as a folksy retelling of the haplessly heinous Elmer McCurdy's life and post-life story, with the unbelievably true and undeniably dead portion re…
The concept of alternate facts was not created under the Trump Administration. In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in which a medical report that a town's new spa is polluted…
In this tour de force, Izzard has come up with a different voice and stance for each character: King Claudius is a baritone, Lord Polonius has a limp, Lady Ophelia has a somewhat breathy spe…
For those interested in both theatrical history and the lives of our former artistic heroes, Pendleton doesn't disappoint, even if he exaggerates and manipulates the facts a bit. He does…
Playwright J.T. Rogers ("Oslo", 2017 Tony Award for Best Play) specializes in dramatizing the backstories to true scandals of which the real details behind the facts never made the news. His…
"The Look of Love" was filled with Morris' least complex choreography, relying on repetition, walking, running and soft leg extensions along with simple arm gestures. Considering the sop…
Theatrical productions can sometimes be exhilarating, moving, provocative, informative, perplexing, confusing, dull, or bad. "Bathhouse.pptx," written by Jesús I. Valles and directed by C…
I've never seen any student production"at the high school or college level"achieve a more glorious ensemble sound than the ensemble sound produced by the students of the Sinatra School in th…
While gambling may not be the main character in each of these plays, its role in each one adds to the drama, causing the story to unfold further and further. It adds to the drama, entertainm…
Dongpo's travels through life is set forth in the lovely poems"projected in Chinese script and in English"full of observations of nature, sad inner monologues and thoughts intimating the end…
This show, as conceived by Shulman, creates a unique theatrical experience combining narrative text with Kathakali, a form of traditional Indian dance exquisitely performed by Kalamandalam J…
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck's inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems to …
In this Roundabout/Scott Ellis production, Amy Ryan's Sister Aloysius (stepping in for the originally cast Tyne Daly) comes across as less absolute in her suspicions while Liev Schreiber's F…
I've always loved their work, from the very start of their careers. Jimmy (on guitar) and Jerry (on tenor sax) have worked with some of the biggest names in the business--Tony Bennett, Bruce…
