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"Outsider in our midst" stories can be excellent fodder for musicals - The King and I, The Music Man, and on and on - but that theme alone does not make an ordinary play sing.
At the start of Richard Strand's glittering seriocomic play Butler, opening tonight at 59E59, you may think you are watching one of those comedies about the foibles of the upper class, the k…
Some mysteries are better left unexplained.
A strange thing about theatre: The louder it screams "fun," the less fun it actually generates. ...
Edgar Allan Poe's unique brand of macabre absurdism crackles on the page, but doesn't always translate perfectly to human voices and emotions.
Icon at The New York Musical Festival
Children of Salt at The New York Musical Festival
Normativity at The New York Musical Festival
The old magic, once gone, is difficult to get back.
The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute's FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, Revival, and Pot Luck Dinner at The New York Musical Festival
Melodrama often gets a bad rap, for a variety of reasons. It is associated with shameless over-acting, one-dimensional characters, and nostalgic or even reactionary social values. I shared s…
Think ticket prices for Hamilton are scary?
A quest for justice among the members of a barely functional family makes for a disconcerting evening of theater in The Shelter's overwrought production of Morgan McGuire's decidedly freneti…
Given the extensive global anxiety about terrorism, it should come as no surprise that a number of playwrights have attempted to shed light on the disturbing issue of hostage-taking by terro…
Artists are very dangerous people,” declares Bela Veracek (Alex Draper), the acerbic political cartoonist at the center of Howard BarkerÂ’s equally acerbic 1981 drama No End of Blame:…
With the nationalistic fervor and anti-immigrant rhetoric that seems to be sweeping like an ill wind through much of the world these days, PTP/NYC (the Potomac Theatre Project) has been most…
The art of writing may be inherently undramatic, but that doesn't mean it contains no possibility of vitality....
New Jersey Repertory Company, in the shore town of Long Branch, has admirably bucked this trend for close to twenty years, focusing almost exclusively on world premieres. Many of the works t…
Although the show delivers a handful of lovely ballads and an eco-friendly storyline, these are overwhelmed by the sophomoric and heavy-handed attempts at ribald humor. The Book of Mormon it…
Few theatre companies capture the in-the-trenches zeitgeist in their musicals the way The Public Theater does....
The arresting quality of the extraordinarily unique Cost of Living, a new show on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is undeniable. Moreover, many theatergoers (including …
One glance at the Statue of Liberty and you instantly understand everything that she, and ostensibly the United States, stands for.
The historic Shubert Theatre allows Fiddlehead to create a large-scale production that looks and sounds sumptuous. But in Meg Fofonoff and Stacey Stephens's co-directed production, this swee…
Here are two contemporary musicals whose scores on disc are among Broadway Records' cluster of recent releases. Neither would be mistaken for a Rodgers & Hammerstein-style musical or a whole…
For a play that contains absolutely no blood or gore, Stet, which was written by Kim Davies and is now receiving its world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company's June Havoc Theatre, cont…
