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Picking the easiest possible creative path, a decision the effort-averse George would no doubt admire, the McSmiths forgo imaginative risk-taking in favor of simply copying their source mate…
"Freedom Summer," written by Toby Armour and directed by Joan Kane, is a semi-autobiographical story of the playwright's experiences that summer as one of those students risking their lives …
Lucas' script remains faithful to Miller's teleplay (with the excision of Joe's delirium tremens in the psycho ward or his second hospitalization) and much of the dialogue is actually Miller…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "The Comeuppance," the culmination of his decade as a Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre, does for the millennials what "The Big Chill" did for the Bab…
"Dancing Spirit" was a gentle ballet choreographed by Ronald K. Brown to a suite of music by Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead and War. First one dancer, then two and then the entir…
Caswell's dialogue for and wry observation of a family this dysfunctional is quite compelling. Scenes where two of the siblings verbally gang up on the third are fraught with humor as much a…
The problem with the play is that it has a one joke plot, simply what will happen when Maurice appears " if he does. The play runs out of steam very early on. However, if the drunken scene i…
As for the play itself, "Love + Science" tells a good story, even if not necessarily a new one. It's largely another history of AIDS with a few scientific sprinkles thrown in. Where Glass' s…
The major work of the evening was "Sor Juana," choreographed by Michelle Manzanales ("in collaboration with the Company") and performed to a selection of period music including a composition…
The little OPERA theatre of ny has become known for its adventurous programing of rarely seen and heard operas in English including the New York premieres of Benjamin Britten's opera for tel…
Einhorn has reshaped the dramatic elements of the original play to focus primarily on antisemitism. What he achieves is a show that highlights how the antisemitism of the 16th century is con…
Don't miss Rumours' live performance at Hard Rock Atlantic City on July 7 if you love vintage rock and roll. Rumours, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band that's dominating AC, invites you to experi…
In its earliest scenes--as a Marvin Gaye record spins on the turntable, Adam Honoré's lighting design pairs naturalistically with Wilson Chin's meticulous set, and Dominique Fawn Hill and D…
Eerie and irritating in equal measure, Levi Holloway's "Grey House" at the Lyceum Theatre dredges up the classic plot device of many horror films:Â strangers stumbling into a den of oddba…
Whether you are a basketball fan or not, Rajiv Joseph's "King James" is an intriguing depiction of an unlikely friendship over 12 years. Under Kenny Leon's polished direction, Glenn Davis an…
The six-member cast creates a believable ensemble though their roles are not all clearly defined. While the play reveals much about the Haitian community living in Brooklyn, as 'Bernarda's D…
"GAS" by Charles Cissel explores the "never-never land" of a war without end. It is a time when the characters examine the unreality of the experience. It occurs within an ill-defined dimens…
The world premiere of Emma Sheanshang's "The Fears" is a hilarious and poignant satire on self-help groups and the sort of people who take their emotional temperature all day long " literall…
While the painstaking entry upon entry yearn to be something of import, we can't help but feel it takes a certain steadfastness and desperate commitment to make the banal seem so extraordina…
Eboni Booth's "Primary Trust" at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre is a genial, gentle tale of a genial, gentle young man and his difficulty negotiating the speed bumps of …
Oliver! is darker than most so-called family musicals"mixing elation and heartbreak as casually as life itself does"but it touches us more than most family musicals. And Encores' production…
As directed by the astute Josh Sharp, Kayne begins his show as a stand-up act, but warns us "This is a comedy show. BUT it is also sad. There will be long stretches where you will not be lau…
Abortion, pro or con? Â The Blessed Unrest theater company has taken on this thorny issue. Steven Wangh's "Misconceptions""an ironically perfect title"unfolds in the form of a series of in…
All of this is told by Baer in Twain's humorous and inimitable style filled with anecdotes both true and untrue. As we are told from the author himself, "I have never been a man to allow the…
And the production is loaded with action. Except for the tender love scenes, the play moves at almost breakneck speed. Where most modern productions of Shakespeare tend toward languor, this …
