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To review dramatist/lyricist/composer Ethan Lipton's "Tumacho" almost feels like missing the point of this endearingly oddball "play with songs," a comic pastiche of Western and horror trope…
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman's equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second product…
MCC Theater's New York premiere of C.A. Johnson's new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers' "The Membe…
I'm very glad that a friend and I were able to enjoy the high-spirited, fast-moving revue "Five Guys Named Moe," which is currently playing   at Westchester Broadway Theatre.  …
Music director Andy Einhorn who conceived the show was a genial, informed host. Having worked as the music supervisor and music director for the most recent revival of "Hello, Dolly!,"…
If the show seems at times to be a bit of a mess, it's an often entertaining and always lively one, thanks in good part to members of the acting ensemble, most of whom play multiple roles. P…
Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at the…
Wearing costume designer Janice Pytel's arresting black and red ensemble, Ms. O'Connell mostly sits in a chair on scenic designer Andrew Boyce's authentically detailed drab and ominous motel…
"Extremities" on a ship best sums up its playwright William Mastrosimone's adept, if off-kilter, new psychological thriller "Rules of Desire," that's been given a tidy production. In it, a d…
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Fr…
"Anatomy of a Suicide"'s title is more than accurate as two suicides are depicted. Dramatizing such subject matter would usually be intrinsically harrowing. However, acclaimed British playwr…
The latest offering in New York City Center Encores! concert series was the Jerry Herman musical, "Mack & Mabel." Originally on Broadway during the 1974 season, it received disappointing…
Now that The Public Theater's 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again, Th…
It might be about 90 years too late, but writer/director Ciarán O'Reilly is throwing a good old-fashioned Irish wake, with poems, songs, and a slice of barmbrack (Irish sweet bread) or ea…
The inestimable Charles Busch has come up with something of a dud, as well as redundant, with his latest play, "The Confession of Lily Dare." Even its title leaves a lot to be desired. Ba…
Although J2 Spotlight's artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to dis…
This current New York City revival, directed by Aimée Fortier, shifts the focus largely away from Jimmy and onto Alison (Elizabeth Scopel). Critics have described this character as passive,…
Could there be five more self-involved, selfish, self-deceptive characters than those who populate Lily Akerman's "The Commons" at the 59E59 Theaters? No, these five roommates aren't evi…
If it sounds challenging to do a two-performer version of "Frankenstein," it proves just that in the current production at the CSC, being performed in repertory with a new stage version of "…
Even before the playwright pays homage to William S. Burrough's "Naked Lunch" through this last line, one is already drawing comparisons to the psychotic, structureless existence of that nov…
The trite set-up makes all of the characters one-dimensional, with the Jewish Seth a "knish maker" and shop owner on "Hester Street, Angie groping to find herself--not to mention a partner--…
"Goy Friendly" is clearly meant as a light entertainment with lecture-demonstration components and succeeds as such. It's delightful spending time with this superb raconteur, even if he …
In making her professional stage debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew," as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew t…
Mr. Droege's sharp and well-observed writing renders each of these familiar figures with biting depth, achieving grand mini-portraiture. Though preoccupied with comedy, an undercurrent of pr…
Amidst the hubbub that includes coerced audience clapping and singalongs, we attempt to discern what the point is. It appears to be the story of an outsider who takes up residence in a rural…
