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"Ain't nothin' sentimental about a dead revolution." Wearing a too-short, too-tight dress, shiny thigh-high boots, and a long fuchsia wig, the twentysomething Nina (Moses Ingram) attempts to…
Like her masterful Sinatra solo for Mikhail Baryshnikov, "Brel" takes Cornejo from a strolling meditating figure ("Quand On N'A Que l'Amour") to an anguished lover ("Ne Me Quitte Pas"). Â …
The balance is off between the two storylines. If the most crucial dramatic element of the story is the legal issue surrounding consent, the dynamics of the sisters' current and historical r…
It is a rare author indeed that can take uncomfortable material, and by uncomfortable that is, to hear, digest, and process a subject no one likes as a subject of conversation, and then give…
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua's delightful and engrossing "Warrior Sisters…
The host company, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company ended the short, well-run program with the longest work, the three-part "Eternal NOW."Â It also had the most complex costumes, ge…
Unfortunately, at 70 minutes the play seems skimpy. Structured in a great many short scenes, only one thing happens in each, so that there is a sameness to it all. Basically a two character …
Like its unwieldy title, Corinne Jaber's "Munich Medea: Happy Family" takes its time getting where it is going but is ultimately powerful and revealing in its almost unspeakable tale. It dea…
"you don't have to do anything" written by Ryan Drake is a story that explores a gay man's coming of age from the time he was in seventh grade until graduating from college. It is set in the…
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton a…
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) is presenting "an innovative re-interpretation of a classic, combining live performances with puppets" at the resourceful Theater for the …
Although written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, "The Following Evening" is a tribute and a summing up of the 50 year career and marriage of experim…
Reteaming with O'Hara and book writer Craig Lucas for the first time since the 2005 Tony-award-winning "The Light in the Piazza," Guettel's hodgepodge of a score equates jazz with blithe ine…
Alyson Reim Friedman, Thom Brown III, Niko Zylik as young Nicky, Donovan Counts, Alisa Ermolaev and William Broderick in a scene from the new musical "The Boy Who Listened to Paintings" at T…
The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
While we are presented with characters who are doing a noble thing and can be touched by what they go through to accomplish their task, Brian Belding's book and lyrics repeatedly take us out…
The hardworking cast takes us along on the quest by playing multiple characters and using a wide array of props scattered on tables at the edge of the performance space. The transformations …
Of course, in true American musical theater form the elegant Princess has been transformed into the bedraggled and uncouth Winnifred (Foster, in her best goofy guise, proving her talent know…
The title of Michael Aguirre's "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family's road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg's 1927 "The American Songbag,'…
Tadeusz Slobodzianek's "Our Class" is epic in its storytelling and shocking in its specifics. At three hours, the play is never long or boring as every line of dialogue offers new details to…
This hotbed of virtuosity, indeed, made his troupe one gorgeous community of physically exuberant and fearless citizens. Whether he communicated any deeper existential or human truths pr…
While "Pride" has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen's novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse "Prejud…
Tyson's portrayal of Raskolnikov is riveting as he moves through the elements leading inexorably to his mental collapse. The exchanges with Porfiry are woven together with encounters with th…
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, the Brooklyn-based dance company founded in 1985 is back at the Joyce Theater presenting two works by Brown showing off the exuberance, sensuality and technical bri…
