350 stories from Act Three - The Reviews
In another one-woman show coup - the indomitable Sarah Jones brings her cadre of characters to life in a creative, clever new show Sell/Buy/Date. Mrs. Jones brings a wide variety of characte…
While they have cut the inappropriate sub-title from the playbill, they have not cut it from the marketing material. While this play touches on education is is absolutely not about "do…
In what I believe is the first off-Broadway revival since its original 2001 incarnation, Keen Company has brought back Jonathan Larson's pre-rent work, Tick, Tick...Boom! in a magnificent, r…
Now playing over at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I at City Center is a remarkable tale - the other side of the proverbial coin - a story about the Vietnam War - told through the eyes o…
A powerful, humbling new play, A Life, by Adam Bock is now playing over at Playwrights Horizons. Mr. Bock explores life through a lonely, gay, introverted, quirky, and obsessive …
A well acted, heavy two hander (well really 3 but it's only two actors) is playing down at New York Theater Workshop. Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Virginia, not Israel) is a fictional…
It just goes to show you that not every work by great writers is a hit. The writer of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Simon Stephens) wrote a shorter bit that deals with…
The stellar cast in this what's old is new again production far outshines the material itself. Director Jack O'Brien is forced to fill almost 3 hours (including 2 intermissions) with a…
I'm glad I got just a TDF priced ticket to see this show. And by show, I really mean performance art in a Broadway theater. I feel sorry for people buying full price tickets (Ove…
The Atlantic Theater Company and Neil Pepe have created a near pitch perfect, smart, toe-tapping, bio-play about a less well known musician who is often coined the original soul sister. &nbs…
In what can be described as a somber, quiet, and delicious entree, Julia Cho's new play, Aubergine, has made its debut over at Playwrights Horizons. It's about food, memories, family, …
In its summer installment (delayed no doubt due to Second Stage's introduction of Dear Evan Hansen) we are presented a delicious yet bizarre "3-Act" play. I say 3 acts as oppose…
Look out New York - here comes two powerful women. I say this about both the characters and the actresses portraying them. In their latest installment, War Paint, Doug Wright (Bo…
The all female dynamo creative team of Sara Bareilles (Music & Lyrics), Jessie Nelson (Book), and Diane Paulus (Director) have turned Adrenne Shelly's (Motion Picture) work into a divine…
In a new work by Norman Shabel over at the New World Stages, we are treated to a legal gem. Well written such that the audience understands the way a class action lawsuit works a…
Now Playing over at the Cherry Lane Theater hidden down on a charming Greenwich Village street is a gem of a situation comedy written by Israel Horovitz. The story revolves around a de…
Now running in its second year, this little-known show, Imbible, A Spirited History of Drinking, set in the speakeasy downstairs at the Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street is an appeal…
As far as one man shows goes - this one is a romp. Spoiler alert - it appears that God might be gay. Don't go expecting an outer body experience. This one rakes religion ov…
There's something playing over at the Vineyard Theatre that is nothing short of spectacular. Paula Vogel has penned a superb play-within-a -play based on a true story of a Yiddish thea…
In their latest installment for the stage, Stew along with Heidi Rodewald will fill your soul with music. This show is starting much like their last - at The Public Theatre. &nbs…
So... Lucy Prebble has a knack for details. You might remember her for the musical, Enron. It was a hit in London, but not so much here. (Those Brits love their American flo…
The first 20 minutes of Adam Rapp's play are the creepiest. Although the creepy factor never dissipates, given the subject matter it never quite goes away. A bi-polar man with ps…
Quite possibly one of the most mysterious, unique, and highly secretive show running today, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, for the un-initiated, is a play performed sight-unseen by an actor only o…
Gregory S. Moss is indeed a talented playwright. In his latest installment at Playwrights Horizons we are treated to a summer romance between two innocent high school kids. Of co…
Nick Payne certainly has a niche genre that has been playing out on the stage at Manhattan Theatre Club. Neuro-cognative science and memory are the unique and intriguing substance for …
