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He saw seemingly everything, and championed plays and productions he found meaningful, even if they were at the smallest of theaters. He chose what he wished to cover, and would sometime…
"Kimberly Akimbo," David Lindsay-Abaire's oddball take on the title character's dishearteningly sad disease, began life as a play back in 2001, reaching New York via the Manhattan Theatre Cl…
"George Kaplan" is a beautifully realized drama with comedic elements by Frédéric Sonntag, translated into North American English by Samuel Buggeln. The viewer will laugh but will also be …
Still, rest assured, most of what Birbiglia says is funny, even for any fans well aware that Birbiglia is leading us somewhere that is not. Given the eponymous Hemingway allusion, the show's…
A touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club's "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When t…
Writer/ director/actress Madeline Sayet is an engaging performer. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, her one-woman show "Where We Belong" is an autobiographical tale of her Mohegan roots and her seeki…
I think this is great news. I'm happy the show will finally be getting a full theatrical production in New York. I saw the original festival-production tryout of "Without You" about a do…
Norris' smart and effective script is packed with controversy; its characters are stained by the trauma in which their lives have been steeped, and it's uncertain they will ever feel clean a…
What Crowe has done in writing his own book for the new show is recreate almost exactly every scene in the movie starting from the time when 15-year-old hero William Miller meets rock critic…
Hudes has directed her own play in a delightful vaudeville/musical comedy style with dancing between the scenes to choreography by Ebony Williams to live music played by pianist Ariacne Truj…
He had his first album out by age nine, the same year he began opening for the Backstreet Boys. (His older brother, Nick Carter, was of course one of the Backstreet Boys.)Â And he enjoyed…
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson's wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
Jay Rogers, who's lost his battle with cancer, was a wonderfully impish cabaret star, with impeccable comic timing. Totally likeable fellow, on stage and off stage. I was so happy to be able…
In October, he opened in an autobiographical Off-Broadway play that he wrote, 'Everything's Fine""a good-natured remembrance of his youth, and of a school teacher who fell for him. Â He pe…
Director Lorraine Serabian is faithful to the spirit of when these plays were written. She delves into the spirited dreamers and chance takers that Tennessee Williams so faithfully showed us…
The first Off Broadway revival of Edward Albee's " A elicate Balance," his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of three), is also the first to feature an all Asian American cast as well as be…
Chung has the six characters played by three actors, each playing a parent/child duo switching from one to the other in confusing frequency. In addition, each actor plays a parent of the opp…
Ostensibly a comedy, or a tragi-comedy, or a dystopic mashup of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Field of Dreams," Diaz's play could possibly be enjoyed as a befuddling trifle if not for its serious …
World events have inadvertently raised the significance of the New York City Center's Annual Gala presentation of the brilliant new staging of the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Para…
Ensemble Studio Theatre's "38th Marathon of One-Act Plays," their first since 2019, is split up into two programs of five plays each, with an eleventh play, Vera Starbard's "Yan Tután," s…
You won't find Vatican Falls on any map about picturesque raging waters. No, Frank J. Avella's new play, "Vatican Falls," is, instead, a passionate, sometimes humorous, indictment of the…
The 20th anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Topdog/Underdog," is just as powerful and absorbing as before with its story of two African American brothers …
Ralph Fiennes' towering performance as a megalomaniac who changes the face of New York as we know it is worth the price of admission. With his puffed out chest and nose in the air remaking h…
"Walking with Ghosts" is a decidedly intimate experience, one that seems tailor-made for an off-Broadway theater like the Irish Rep. Price and his production team try to expand the show to B…
The venerable, historic Negro Ensemble Company is presenting an intriguing program at the equally venerable, historic Cherry Lane Theatre: "Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival." The …
