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"We want to make a difference in people's lives," says Tapper.  "We want to do new shows, to encourage new writers and directors. We want to feature children's shows and get young …
Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical" at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Editor…
The dancers were attired in puffy white tutus and black tights, the men bare-chested"chic costumes by the choreographer. They pranced, undulated their torsos, tossed each other around an…
A tiny dynamo, Bell Wolff, early in her career, found the perfect role as Ermengarde in several productions of "Hello, Dolly!". She yearned to perform the bigger part of Minnie Faye and near…
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
Jake Shore's "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger student …
Ng has a far-reaching imagination and spins the many stories and characters of her "Happy Life" with admiral skill and abandon. But it is just too heavy-handedly, head-scratchingly abstr…
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC's "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"'s narrator and its protagon…
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for Murp…
The chips fall into place by the end of A Black and White Cookie, perhaps a bit too smoothly, but the path to the ending is well constructed and fascinating. Morgenstein has caught the nuanc…
For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
It may be a bit unfair, but there's no escaping comparing "Notre Dame De Paris," currently exploding on the stage of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, with its immensely popular F…
D'Astolfo (that's duh-STAHL-fo, mkay?), who also wrote the piece, sends Taylor off like a firecracker from the moment he comes onto the stage, speeding through Taylor's wry and witty dialect…
"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
And of his behavior Richard continues to explain, "And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain." In this production we see none of this though this speech…
Pendleton, in a program note, assures us that "Alice" is not a retelling of Carroll's book. Rather, he used some of the events and characters from the book, dividing the evening-length w…
If you ever lived through the angst of an unrequited love, a romance impossible for one reason or another, then Billy Hipkins' "Prince Charming, You're Late" will hit the spot. Directed …
Modern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don't plan out all the details. Robert Icke's staging for London's Almeida Theatre now at New York's Park Avenue Armor…
"The Rise and Fall, then Brief and Modest Rise Followed by a Relative Fall of…Jean Claude Van Damme as Gleaned by a Single Reading of His Wikipedia Page Months Earlier" is the brobdinagian…
Ira Levin's sense of eerie foreboding initially looms over playwright Brian Watkins' entrancing drama, "Epiphany." As a reunion dinner party comically unfolds, we anxiously await supernatura…
Four appealingly performed single Manhattan roommates' tangled romantic lives are depicted in the pleasant contemporary Off-Broadway musical, "Love Quirks," which has a rapturous score. C…
The Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished " maybe too polished " production like the earlier "…
Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
Originally broadcast on "Soul!," an early PBS program dedicated to showcasing Black arts and politics, Baldwin and Giovanni's one-on-one echoes contemporary concerns while also remaining dec…
