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Playwright Martin Crimp, an adherent of the "in-yer-face" school of British playwriting, has taken Edmond Rostand's turn-of-the-last century verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, and not only blo…
Essentially, Mouron boils the story down to a couple lines about love and beauty, while eliding any sense of the loss, isolation, and dread that the novella also poetically conveys. Her litt…
Although 25 years have gone by since "Harmony" first tried out at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical about the Comedian Harmonists is still relevant…
As a piece of theater, "Songs About Trains" is earnest and unique. Lead author (and performer) Beto O'Byrne, along with contributing authors Eugenie Chan, Reginald Edmund, Jay B Muskett and …
"Birthday Candles" also has an unusual theatrical device: we follow Ernestine Ashford from 17 to 107 meeting her on her various birthdays that are depicted. Â The other characters come and…
Lee peppers his worn scenario with plenty of pop, cultural and political references, well-crafted zingers and familiar conflicts. Dating apps, "Dancer from the Dance," "Sex and the City" are…
The ubiquitous Billy Porter was given command of the most recent New York City Center Encores! presentation, the 1997 musical "The Life."Â His direction and re-interpretation of this tawd…
Dominique Morisseau's "Confederates," her second play of her Signature Theatre Residency 5, is a clever, but overly talky dissertation on race, power and family. She offers the audience …
Greenspan, a six-time Obie Award winner, whirls at breakneck speed through this three-act play in just over an hour, transforming from one character to the next with expert fluidity. He tran…
As the most respected player in baseball, Williams has a quiet dignity and charm as a man of few words and few outward motions. While his wry remarks do not often come through as humor, he i…
Whether frenetically dancing, rhapsodizing over Nancy Drew, fretting about when she'll wear a bra or reacting horrified upon learning about sex, Ms. Curry performs with the verve of Lily Tom…
The musical gets a great deal of mileage out of its humor particular in its parody of recognizable tropes. "Penelope, Or How The Odyssey Was Really Written" is an entertaining musical comedy…
This production was an ensemble success"which is what Jonathan Larson was hoping to achieve"so I'd like to mention every member of the company.  Not just the leads, whom I very much e…
In the past 20 years, I've produced a total of 34 different albums; 16 of them have dealt with Irving Berlin (1888-1989). The newest album in this ongoing Berlin series, "Chip Deffaa's Irvi…
An astronaut in a space station, a YouTube cooking show, evicted apartment residents and a romance on the rocks are a few of the dramatic and antic incidents depicted in "Take Shape," an ent…
On one level, "Gong Lum's Legacy" is revealing in that it demonstrates Southern racism against not only African Americans but also Chinese immigrants who were given the same treatment. On an…
Audience laughter abounds during Matthew Broderick and Sara Jessica Parker's uproarious performances in this splendid first Broadway revival of Neil Simon's 1968 hit comedy, "Plaza Suite." T…
Given one hour to decide and vote, the union committee must come to a decision in real time. On one level the play is very much like Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men" in which a group of dispar…
Presentational flourishes abound in director Ralph B. Peña's gorgeous physical staging which combines small-scale spectacle with humanity. Scenic designer Junghyun Georgia Lee provides a…
Poet and Yale professor Rankine's play makes use of a narrator/interviewer as her stand-in played by April Matthis. According to program notes by Rankine herself, "The text spoken by white p…
While Gabriel Jason Dean's "Heartland" is an enlightening play about Afghan culture mentioning the classic poet Rumi and the contemporary novelist Atiq Rahimi, some of it will still be opaqu…
Despite the familiar visual trappings--mic stand, performer-blinding stage lights, and a dull curtain backdrop--Edelman's deceptively free-flowing talents hew more towards the monologist Spa…
Who knew that Marshall McLuhan was such a nut? "The Medium," a dance-theater work conceived and directed by Anne Bogart puts McLuhan through her particular way of combining dance and wor…
As a play about neuroscience, Sam Chanse's "what you are now" needs a great deal more data and information. As a play about the plight of Cambodian refugees, what are you now needs to be cle…
Although when MasterVoices chose the third of the four Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents collaborations, "Anyone Can Whistle," as part of their 80th season at Carnegie Hall, they had no way o…
