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Michael John LaChiusa's "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele's adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the case…
The secrets revealed seem more contrived and clichéd and take away from the moving story of Mary's battle with cancer.  Nick behaves badly. Lucy has a drug habit and Jason questi…
"Hell's Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters develo…
"United Nations: The Other West," written and directed by Bossert, is an outstanding example of the hybrid theatrical system he has created. This production is an extension of his 2022 "Unit…
There are frequent breaks in thought such as "I forgot to mention at the top that I will be injecting my jokes with a bit of humor tonight as a way to keep them both engaging and fun." Thank…
Director Matthew "Motl" Didner manages to make what might have been just a well-staged concert of moving songs into a dramatic whole with a deep feeling for the ebb and flow of emotions from…
Milo Cramer's delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and ex…
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: Fo…
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don't …
Still, whatever faint accommodations he grants it, for Idle, structure is the enemy of joy, which every aspect of "Spamalot" is relentlessly intent on delivering, not only from a few well-pe…
It takes an artist of the stature and extraordinary talent of Wiest to keep Caswell's fragmented play from flying off in all directions as it veers from reality to fantasy and from flashback…
Tatarsky uses language in a fresh way, ultimately giving the sensation of having created her own. There are so many thoughts overlapping, and there are accompanying unintelligible sounds and…
As a work of writing, "A Good Day to Me Not to You" is blisteringly funny and seems deceptively shapeless, almost like a meandering evening of stand-up comedy, until it comes together to a f…
The musical "Harmony," the lovechild of pop music greats Barry Manilow (music) and Bruce Sussman (lyrics and book), has opened at a time when anti-Semitism has peaked once again and lessons …
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that "all characters appearing in this work are fictitious," in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manhattan…
"Ode to the Wasp Woman," written and directed by Rider McDowell, is a play done in the style of film noir and true crime films of the 1950's. The show focuses on the events leading up to the…
Philip Roth's 1995 Rabelaisian novel "Sabbath's Theater" would seem a strange choice for stage adaptation both as it is considered Roth's raunchiest " if not filthiest " book and it moves ar…
A repetitively thin outlook on grief, "I Need That" ostensibly concludes with an image of healing, but I'm not sure why, or if it actually does. It's possible the famously prolific Rebeck ha…
MasterVoices acquitted itself well in this deliciously comic concert staging of "The Frogs." Why this Stephen Sondheim score is not better known or revived more often remains a mystery after…
This fall, I saw two of the most rewarding tribute-type concerts I've seen in recent years"one a glittering (if overlong), star-filled salute to "the Voice of Broadway," Betty Buckley; the…
Not since Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George" have "civilians" gotten so close to the creative individual's "process" when attending a theater piece. David Adjmi's "Stereopho…
The production was conceived in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a group of actors was performing "No Exit (Huis clos)." They decided to adapt the ideas of Sartre's work into o…
What is remarkable about Mack's performance is that she is reliving the grieving process with every performance. It is not a fictional story with an actor taking on a role; this is a powerfu…
