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Holmes' songs include clever lyrics particularly "Facebook," "I Can Be That Guy" and "Beautiful Girl in the Front Row." His expert playing on the keyboard allows him to have duets with himse…
If a hallmark of our best stand-up comics is that he or she is unique"think of Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Mason and Lenny Bruce"a relative newcomer named Neal Brennan belongs in their company. …
In his thankless role as Ray, Grossman's performance is perpetually defensive, harried and out of breath. As unlikable a character as Ray is expected to be, Grossman doesn't quite manage to …
We're transported to Ms. Chen's boldly oppressive spacious prison set with bars, an austere bed, a urinal, a tank to vomit in, and a retractable metal staircase for a menacing authority figu…
The spartan set design by Wilson Chin features a large tin can, a tall streetlamp, a very large tire, a milk crate, and a high basketball net. The first two actors, Jon Michael Hill (as Mose…
Performed by a cast of 15 singers and enacted in pantomime by numerous local volunteers all dressed in swimwear, Sun & Sea is a typical day at the beach in which we hear the thoughts of …
Sadly, these promises aren't kept in this mishmash of plots and characters that never quite meshes into a viable whole; it remains an unsteady comedy/fantasy never morphing into a smooth-run…
George Wein, who died peacefully at his New York apartment at the age of 95, was the founder of the modern music festival. His contributions to pop culture were enormous.  I liked…
The new play, ironically, does not take place in Rhinebeck, New York, like the preceeding 11 plays but as explained in its subtitle it concerns "Conversations in Angers, France," the home of…
As his mother Bete (pronounced Bet"chi), Soria is bigger than life without a great deal of assistance from props, costuming or make-up. When he enters carrying an offering to the stage which…
"Roles and Rules of Comedy," six short comedic bits of fluff written and directed by Harold Dean James is a character-driven view of contemporary New York City. Presented at the elegant …
Showstoppers! spotlights the incredible and oftentimes under-recognized costume contributions to the entertainment industry, and pulls back the curtain on the hundreds of costuming experts w…
"Do I believe in heaven and hell or another parallel universe? If I parallel park in a parallel universe will I be double parking?" muses the affable performer Robert Dubac during his cle…
It's unlikely that New York City will ever see these five troupes sharing a stage again. This was a festive occasion despite being uneven in tone and not particularly representative of a…
Written and directed by White who is the Obie and Lily Award winning director of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" (WP Theater) and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" (Public Theater, BAM Fisher an…
"Alma Baya" is distinguished by its impressive production design which wondrously theatricalizes what we're used to from experiencing science fiction on the screen and television. Scenic des…
It is definitely worth a gander for both its subject matter and its performer, the disarming and immensely talented Jon Peterson who also adapted the one-man play from Chip Deffaa's original…
Fortunately, good things come to those who wait, even after an hour and a half. The play suddenly takes a turn when Karen X has a breakdown behind a dumpster at Whole Foods. Karen X may have…
Rich Little, belatedly making his New York stage debut in the role of Richard Nixon is the show's magnetic anchor. George Bugatti crafts a wild scenario, meshing Allen Drury's sense of polit…
Since it's difficult to make fun of something that was never meant to be taken seriously in the first place, Hogue and director Nick Flatto are often left to spin their wheels by simply reha…
Don long worked as a publicist for one singer he greatly admired; when age and ill health prevented her from working much anymore and her finances grew precarious, she told him she could no …
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker's frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to -…
As Sammy, Jason Alexander's exquisite comic genius delivers like gangbusters, a delivery which gets even richer in some subtler moments when Sammy surprises himself with some honest emotions…
Nelson Mandela's inestimable value to humanity in general and to the abolishment of apartheid in particular cannot be thoroughly assessed or overestimated, nor are they in a new play that be…
Gianni Valenti, who runs one of the city's best-known and most important nightspots, Birdland Jazz Club on 44th Street, deserves a lot of credit for leading the way. He was one of the fi…
