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Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, an exquisitely literate and dramatically poignant piece, would certainly suffer in the hands of less than able artists. Fortunately, the pro…
The show's pre-Broadway, out-of-town tryout was very successful financially, suggesting that there's an audience for the show. (The show broke box-office records in Seattle, during its tryou…
In the past, my annual wrap up excluded Broadway but this year Broadway presented the bulk of the year's outstanding works.
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Not only is this a puppet show but it is also an extended concert. This year's vocalists are Valois Mickens, of West African, Celtic, and Native American origin, Â and Katarina Vizina, a t…
With narrative flashes reminiscent of Rod Serling's striking storytelling, "Logic & Hope" is a resonant examination of a heterosexual marriage during the era of early COVID-19. A cooped …
David Lindsay-Abaire's early plays ("Fuddy Meers," "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Wonder of the World") were all whimsical or at least otherworldly. He has gone on to create musicals based on previo…
"Flying Over Sunset," Pulitzer Prize-winning bookwriter/director James Lapine's new original show, is a "What If?" musical: using historical facts that are known about writer and philosopher…
This theatrical genius, responsible for the Tony Award winning plays "War Horse," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and the most recent revival of "Angels in America," knew…
Although Candace Bushnell's one-woman show, "Is There Still Sex in the City?," shares the same name with her 2019 novel/self-help book, the stage show now at the Darryl Roth Theatre is her a…
Cue the Irish Rep and its remounting of artistic director Charlotte Moore's musical "The Streets of New York," which the theatre first premiered twenty years ago in the aftermath of Septembe…
Broadway fixture Rob McClure occasionally channels Robin Williams with sparkling riffs and simulated ad libs but makes the roles of Daniel and Mrs. Doubtfire his own and each distinctive esp…
Ideally, the good-natured play with music, "Little Christmas Miracles" would perform only at matinees before an audience mostly of eager children rather than seasoned theatergoers.
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Parsons' first work on the program was the tour de force solo "Balance of Power" performed by the phenomenal Zoey Anderson. Clad in Barbara Erin Delo's brilliantly colored tight costume"…
It appears that the later play was modeled on the earlier one though it may not have been noticed back in 1997 when "Sympathetic Magic" had its New York premiere. Both plays deal with discov…
David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" triumphantly rendered with a touch of Dixieland is one of several grand numbers in the spirited Irish-French performer Camille O'Sullivan's engaging theat…
Will a former Afghani U.S. Armed Forces interpreter get himself and his family out of the country before he's captured by the Taliban in 2013? This is the crux of playwright Sylvia Khoury's …
This show is conceived, directed, and choreographed by Randy Skinner, and his four-time Tony Award-nominated talents shine throughout the production. The choreography is inventive, interacti…
As the manager of the restaurant, Aduba gives one of those big performances which are larger than life, but we have all met that type of people. She batters, insults, cajoles, berates her st…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as "A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and …
Directed by playwright Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol offers six actors playing 23 roles in this entertaining new adaptation. In the iconic role of Sherlock Holmes with so much history behi…
All of us are probably aware of the problems of polluted water in Flint, Michigan, owing to civic neglect. However, it might shock you to know that it is still going on. Erika Dickerson-Desp…
The Red Bull Theater production of Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" will most likely introduce a new generation to this classic Jacobean comedy in a form that most will be able to follow due to …
Performed as one long 80-minute monologue, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing also offers actor Jenn Murray little, if any, respite, laying on her shoulders complete responsibility for telling ev…
After a pause, there was the world premiere of "Second Duet." It was the most dramatic and emotional dance of the program. Wearing sneakers and casual sportswear, Cassandra Trenary and Aran …
If you are a Princess Diana completist, "Diana: The Musical" will satisfy your needs along with the deeper Spencer and The Queen and all the innumerable documentaries about this ill-fated fa…
