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Sommerville gives an exquisite reading of Betsy's emotional highs and lows, embracing the difficult range of expression so that the audience can experience the intensity of the feelings bein…
While Arthur Greenleaf Holmes is the creation of a talented comedian Gordon Boudreau as is Holmes poetry, the presentation is very much true to the era being presented. It is funny. It is ba…
Matthew López & Amber Ruffin (book) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music and lyrics) have transformed the written-for-laughs film into a joyous musical, keeping much of the sha…
In any event, Ruhl has not written a play set in 1692 or a sequel to "The Crucible" but a comedy about free-spirited Becky Nurse, a descendant of the accused witch Rebecca Nurse, a pious 71-…
All of the above occurs prior to the intermission and, if "The Far Country" has a shortcoming, it's that the second half feels like a sequel to what came before rather than a continuation of…
Everyone who loves theater owes a debt of gratitude to Julie Boardman and Diane Nicoletti. About five years ago, they got the idea of creating a museum in the theater district, dedicated…
Erik Ehn's title "The Weak and the Strong" taken from St. Paul may refer to the bad choices that some people make that others avoid, but it seems to only reinforce the clichés of most weste…
Jordan E. Cooper's scathing new racial comedy, "Ain't No Mo'" has made the successful transition to Broadway with five of the six original actors from the previous Public Theater staging in …
The York Theatre Company's masthead reads "Where Musicals Come to Life…" and that couldn't be more evident in their new production, "Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road." Originally scheduled…
Taylor Reynolds has directed an excellent ensemble in bringing this play to life in an engaging, thought-provoking, and heartfelt way, but not without some issues. Through his direction and …
Under the permissive direction of Garfield-Szita"who also designed the costumes"the cast comes across more as members of a sitcom than a serious drama, not helped by Morgenstein's dependence…
Famed performance artist John Kelly has brought his latest show, "Underneath the Skin" to La MaMa, subtitled "A Penetrative Portrayal of a Queer Giant Based on the life and work of Samuel St…
Adopting the hokey framing device of a concert documentary, Kim turns the impending U.S. debut of a South Korean entertainment company's three hottest acts into a triptych of rigorously gend…
Deffaa comments: "I've always loved Cohan's attitude--that 'can-do' spirit of his is inspiring. He had no formal education; he learned by doing; and left a terrific legacy. Just a re…
The new production of "The Sound of Music" at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse is such an utter delight, you shouldn't be wasting time reading this review, you  should be ordering ticket…
Boy! This is going to be a tough review to write. The York Theatre Company, which has such a strong track record when it comes to honoring important songwriters, is currently presenting …
The cast is a combination of New York stage favorites (Stark Sands, "Kinky Boots," and Betsy Wolfe, "Waitress," "Falsettos" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), new faces (Lorna Courtney, Ben …
Ellen Abrams' new play "Eleanor and Alice " Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts" explores their superficial courtesies in a series of conversations spanning 1904 until 1962, agre…
Visually the show pulls out all of the stops continually making stage magic. Every scene offers new scenic effects and things that appear impossible but are right there on stage before you, …
Clary scored a great success on Broadway in "Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952."Â My father, who enjoyed that show, recalled Eartha Kitt and Robert Clary as the standouts in the cast of…
Cale's story uses many film noir devices from the 1940's: exotic locale, strange encounters, searching down unknown streets, disappearing characters, a sexy stranger, danger signals avoided,…
Will Arbery's Evanston "Salt Costs Climbing" (set in the city in which the author received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 2015) is a perplexing experience as it shifts from realism to abs…
Director Kotryna Gesait's direction does not have the necessary distance from the material to realize that actors speaking simultaneously will blur content and intentions for the audience. S…
"Camp Siegfried" is a new departure for the author of "Small Mouth Sounds," "Continuity," "Make Believe" and "Grand Horizons." Depicting an important piece of history in an age when hate spe…
Noel Coward's "The Rat Trap" is not only entertaining but seems to have been ahead of its time. Discounted by critics and the author alike when it had its only production until now in 1926, …
