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The Israeli Artists Project, dedicated to bringing the art and artists of Israel to American audiences, has mounted a production of Anat Gov's "Best Friends," a zippy portrait of three best …
While Brown's tunefully varied score strives to historically situate the bigoted nightmare we're witnessing within the cultural context of the South's fabricated sense of nobility and victim…
Some critics would say Eric Bogosian's "Drinking in America" is dated, but that's very much up for argument. The script given to critics for the new production at the Minetta Lane Theatre is…
Unfortunately, Monohon's play which takes its cues from Miller's drama, assumes a thorough knowledge of "The Crucible" and leaves out a great deal of information that would make it easier to…
"Trilogy II" by Garry Batson, directed by Evria Ince-Waldron, is three one-act plays depicting the struggles of African-American families faced with difficult and troubling events. The good …
The problem with this production is that although the characters' behavior is utterly outrageous on the verge of satire, Berger has directed in so flat and bland a style, that shocking lines…
The direction by Ella Jane New delivers this emotionally complex story with skill and sensitivity. There are only a few instances when the action doesn't entirely ring true, such as the open…
Not for everyone, this minimalistic theatrical event is performed entirely in Japanese with English language supertitles above the stage so that for non-Japanese speakers it requires reading…
When it comes to plot, characters, or often both, even the best theater tends to require a suspension of disbelief. Given that it's hardly a sucker's bet for indolent playwrights to pin thei…
Like Ivo van Hove's pared-down revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," Jamie Lloyd's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 "A Doll's House" uses no sets or props and al…
"Ãgua," making its American debut, created in 2001 during a residency in Brazil, is a work of great beauty, humor and creativity "and dishearteningly, an overlong dance/theater work. …
"The Conductor," by novelist Ishmael Reed and directed by Carla Blank, is a play that uses the revival of the Underground Railroad system as a device to address several contemporary socio-po…
"Dear World," the not terribly successful 1969 Jerry Herman musical based on Jean Giraudoux's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1945), was basically a vehicle for the brilliant Angela Lansbury.Â�…
While playwright Scovell has a facility for language, she does not have the wit to mimic Wilde's classic one-liners. Instead, she borrows expressions from the play and attempts to imitate th…
What makes "Elyria" intriguing is how its American location affects the hidebound ritual social rules of its Southeast Asian characters. That all the characters emerged from an African d…
While this first New York revival of the 1995 "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" does not reach the heights of Nottage's later Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, "Ruined" and "Sweat," it proves to be…
Director David Herskovits must have looked at this as a true labor of love, but not all of the touches support the hard work of the actors. In some of the early ensemble scenes, the actors p…
Eric Bogosian's latest play to reach New York is his 2008 "1+1" which feels like a made for television movie written without taking into consideration the #MeToo movement that has occurred s…
"War Dreamer" is a compelling exploration into the psychology of a female veteran who served in Iraq. It is a depiction of the struggles of a veteran to make sense of the memories, nightmare…
While it may have appeared a huge gamble to mount this 'Cat" again, the results are so well worth it. While other productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" have been mounted as star vehicles fo…
Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscenities" having its world premiere at the Soho Rep is an immersive story into Bengali culture in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. Directed by the aut…
The show is billed as a musical, but it is more concert than play, strong in music and weak in the storyline. The songs cover a lot of emotional ground, many with a humorous edge, but the bo…
Absurdist to an increasingly ho-hum degree, Szadkowski and Knox let their imaginations run amok with silly speculations about pre-double-homicide life in the Borden household that are punctu…
Borinsky's dialogue is filled with colorful, quirky lines which are often funny and entertaining, but the entire script borders on absurdity without a cohesive through point. There are a han…
Unfortunately, the latest revival now at the BAM Harvey Theater cannot be counted as having reversed the play's fortunes. It still seems vastly overwritten and verbose as it attempts to cove…
