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Both Garelik and Samuel's performances as teens are fully formed and not stereotyped; their portrayals as young adults at their ten-year high school reunion are just as authentic. Direction …
"Jaja" is quite different from Bioh's other plays in that it is also very revealing about life in NYC for African immigrants. Directed by Whitney White who has piloted several major new Blac…
"The Making of a Great Moment" by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and directed by James Barry is a play about a pair of actors who are the principal players and only members of a bicycle theatrical tou…
Elinor T Vanderburg's "Bloodspot" is a fascinating attempt to create a film noir play for the stage. The visuals do not live up to the script's promise, but it remains entertaining and engro…
The Houston Ballet, Julie Kent and Stanton Welch, directors, opened the program with Welch's genteel "Clear" to music by J.S. Bach. Originally staged on American Ballet Theatre, the Hous…
LaBanca's performance in his own play defies superlatives. Including us in his choir at the beginning of the show says it all. We are relieved that he still finds joy in teaching. As he puts…
"Saw The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw" begins with a picture perfect recreation of the disgusting bathroom from the first movie in the iconic horror franchise. Then the puppet (Bi…
It takes considerable skill for competent actors to play at being bad actors, and many of the cast members succeed. It is not a bad play, but the overarching problem with the show is that it…
In 1961, Ossie Davis channeled the hurt of growing up in segregated Georgia into "Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch," humorously attacking the cause of his s…
The 1968 musical 'Golden Rainbow" (the show that gave us the song sensation "I've Gotta Be Me") was so identified with its stars Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé that it has not been seen in 5…
Krymov's production is a rapturous love letter to the making of theater. He unearths how we really tell our stories by our emotions, what we hide, as much as what we reveal. He uses his stag…
Ballet BC, the Canadian-based modern ballet company, began the program with 'The Statement," Crystal Pite's witty take on a boardroom meeting, a corporate boardroom meeting full of intrigue …
David Dean Bottrell is both a craftsman and an artist, as evidenced in his delightful and exquisitely entertaining show "Dear Mr. Bottrell, I Cannot Possibly Accept This." From his Prologue …
An alternate title for Albert M. Tapper's Clifford Odets-esque "Bettinger's Luggage" might be "The Flood." In Tapper's period piece, a flood destroyed the eponymous shop, an event around whi…
"The Jester's Wife," written and directed by T.J. Elliott, is a fanciful attempt at reconstructing the source of the myth of Dymphna, a legendary medieval Irish saint who is considered the p…
Sweitzer inhabits over a dozen characters in this play entitled "20 Seconds: A Play with Music," albeit two of them are him when young and him telling us the story now…two people he knows …
Each generation gets its own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the classic vampire horror story, that possibly reflects its needs of it own time. The latest version now called "Dracula: …
Gilman's triteness and predictability combine to poorly serve a talented acting quartet, all of whom originated their roles in a 2022 production of "Swing State" at the Goodman Theatre under…
From the playing style, as directed by Josiah Davis, the play seems to be a spoof. Unfortunately, it is not funny though the actors cheerfully mug their way through Horwitz's text as though …
Clearly, "Zoetrope" often becomes difficult to follow for non-Spanish speakers. The dearth of realistic sets makes knowing which location is which confusing, despite the occasional descr…
Somewhere there are rules for what theatre is supposed to do: it should entertain, it should instruct, it should provoke. To say that Annie Dorsen's "Prometheus Firebringer" checks all the b…
Ever since Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker adapted 'Uncle Vanya" for a 2012 production at the Soho Rep, her plays like "The Flick," "John" and "The Antipodes" have becomes more…
Max Wolf Friedlich's "Job" is as tense as a thriller, as compelling as a psychological drama and as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. As directed by Michael Herwitz, Peter Friedman and Syd…
This play demands attention to the smallest details and a thoughtful encounter with what truth is being hidden and revealed in both the spoken text and the silent actions. It leaves one with…
Shaye tells of a pot and drug-addicted couple who are totally disgusting parents to a two year old. That's just not acceptable even though it is told as a funny hippy-dippy anecdote. Eve…
