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For the company's director, Peter Boal, this short season was a homecoming of sorts. He was a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet which calls the David H. Koch its artistic home…
"Corsicana" is a heartfelt and absorbing family drama that's been given a pretentiously distracting production: just for starters, its cryptic houselights up preamble is at odds with the pla…
In 'Circle Jerk," this cocky duo confidently preen, bray and cavort while donning various wigs and flamboyant costumes as multiple fey stock characters for over two numbing hours of their se…
Romy Nordlinger has written and is performing the monodrama, "Garden of Alla: The Alla Nazimova Story," at the TheaterLab. Directed by Lorca Peress, "Garden of Alla" gives us this eccent…
Shekar's script is extremely smart, funny at just the right moments, and morally gripping. Her characterizations of Ariel and Sanam are fully formed, uniquely individual and carefully comple…
''Atkinson was the conscience of the theater. He rediscovered Off-Broadway in the 50's when other critics did not want to bother going off the beaten path. His standards were tough, but his …
The new work on the program, a world premiere, was "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" by Michelle Manzanales, choreographed to John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Harry Woods and se…
Comedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," Â into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author …
Kaliski attempts a clever conceit marrying "The Oresteia" characters to the modern tragic story of the homeless hordes. Does "The Oresteia" provide an effective jumping off point to explore …
Tennessee Williams' full-length play's titles, characters and dialogue have been part of the consciousness since "The Glass Menagerie"'s 1944 premiere. During his peak years of the 1940's an…
The animated Aline Salloum fearlessly embraces all of Najaf's unsettling complexities, delivering a riveting performance. In the early sexually frank verbal exchanges, Ms. Salloum marvelousl…
"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel's Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also directe…
Diriwachter is particularly skilled in writing working class vernacular. The Father and Tim speak the same language and he catches all the subtleties of decades of ups and downs. He …
An import from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Islander" embraces that renowned international jamboree's artistry and experimentalism, most notably by forgoing musicians for sound looping ma…
Can a 27-year-old Black gay professional journalist and a 21-year-old Blatino bicycle messenger with an out of wedlock son find love and happiness together in Brooklyn? That is the crux of a…
I've often told friends what an impact "Funny Girl" had on me. That was the show that made me fall completely, utterly, and permanently in love with Broadway. I was a teenager when I saw…
Following the lead of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Siting Yang has updated Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the present but left the story mainly set in Africa. In "Sky of Darknes…
Origin Theatre Company's stark production of Kees Roorda's A Kid Like Rishi is a totally involving Rashomon-like take on a real-life tragedy:Â In November of 2012, 17-year-old Rishi Chand…
In four scenes spanning a few months, Ra renders his gay family trio's life events, medical situations, numerous clashes and resolutions with pungent topicality. The pandemic is referenced, …
"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman's spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score w…
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time having …
Written by Renee Philippi, this witty mockery of authoritarianism is derived from Friedrich Schiller's play "The Robbers" and the Korean novel "The Story of Hong Gildong." Compos…
Takiff is a skilled performer who never loses the audience no matter how angry or sardonic he gets. He is helped by the mood setting lighting of Elizabeth M. Stewart and the sound and vi…
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King's plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Golde…
While this is not an in-depth interpretation and at times seems a bit superficial, Will Pomerantz's production of "Three Sisters" is a true ensemble making it appear that these people have l…
