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The captivating cast of actors who are here drag artistes is comprised of Philip McLeod, Ryan Stutz, Cammerron Baits, Jacob P.S. Lemmenes, and Sam Brackley. While striding around an…
Sutton Foster, one of the shining lights of New York City's currently dimmed theater scene, glowed in Sutton Foster/Bring Me to Light. Â Her voice and interpretations were the richest they…
Directed by the author, "Two Sisters and a Piano" reveals its roots as a radio play from its reliance on poetry and language: this is a cat-and-mouse game in which the participants use words…
Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie, the artistic director of the effervescent Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) has absorbed the disciplines of a number of dance forms:Â hip-hop, breaking, Latin-American a…
This glorious career retrospective solo show by the 91-year-old two-time Tony Award-winner has been crisply filmed for streaming.
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A distinguished local theater company's pandemic-delayed revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens in January 2022, and there's a novel raffle to fund it.
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Aguirre manages to have written a play that doesn't feel like a play thanks to his interpretation of the main character. He doesn't overdo the emotions, letting the songs carry that weig…
The music by Manuel Pelayo, Giancarlo Bonfanti and Katz sets an eerie, futuristic tone that, combined with numerous dance and visual elements, presents X the Experience like a long MTV video…
NYC-based actor Connor Chase Stewart has founded a troupe which performs scenes from classic plays via Zoom as an artistic outlet during the pandemic.
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"Jericho" has a great deal going for it. It is directed by Marsha Mason and features Jill Eikenberry. These two formidable theater artists' participation promises quality which is ev…
Darryl Reilly, Critic English journalist John Heilpern died of cancer at the age of 78 on January 7, 2021, in New York City. Mr. Heilpern's sparkling reportage of the London theater scene be…
The great American actor died 20 years ago today at the age of 78. I became fascinated with him during his 1970's consecutive Oscar-winning renaissance.
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Sam Fragoso, Gilbert Gottfried, Frank Santopadre and Studs Terkel's broadcasts have provided me with entertainment and enlightenment during this pandemic.
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Darryl Reilly, Critic "This is my first award, so please be kind" cooed Noël Coward after he sauntered down a spiral staircase to accept his 1970 honorary Tony Award from Cary Grant, whil…
The atmosphere of a comedy club was replicated outside a NYC café at this Filipino-centric event held during the pandemic where polished comics entertained a masked audience.
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Chapdelaine's writing is funny and sincere, thought-provoking and smart. There is a suggestion in the script that these four individuals could all be different facets of the same person, and…
This Bronx-born Off-Off-Broadway dynamo strove to put people of color on the stage in her substantive and empowering material. Appearing in one of her plays was so memorable.
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There were few women in positions of authority when she started in theater. But as she once told me, "If I wanted to do something, I just went ahead and did it." She blazed a trail f…
Now directed by the energetic and warm Enrique Cruz DeJesus, Alpha Omega provided welcome relief from months of quarantine and angst with "Solo Suites," a breezy"in every sense of the word"o…
"Rooms2020" was to have been presented in a live season which was aborted by the current Covid crisis. Instead, the troupe has presented the work artfully streamed in a version that is more …
With New York City theater in limbo for the foreseeable future, now seems the time to acknowledge the outstanding presentations of this COVID-19 era.
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Their newest virtual performance video includes the duet A Whole New World from the Broadway Musical Aladdin and features EPIC company member Jordan Boyatt and Telly Leung who played the tit…
Theater producer and playwright David Lan joined with his longtime artistic collaborator Stephen Daldry for a digital conversation celebrating Lan's new memoir, As If By Chance: Journeys, Th…
To illustrate the vital importance of its illustrious history, Gem Spa is featured on the back cover of the first album by the New York Dolls. Poets Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan both ment…
Broadway playwright's like Jim Rado, Neil LaBute, Jeremey Kareken and Greg Kotis have all graced our seats. We have had Broadway performers step on to our relatively tiny stage to give the a…
