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The Mint Theater Company has rediscovered and championed British actor/playwright Miles Malleson with Conflict and Yours Unfaithfully. Now they have combined two of his one acts adapted from…
The subject matter of "Chasing the River" is, of course, viable, but the play is not as nuanced and insightful as one would hope"nor is it particularly gripping. Sometimes the action feels s…
ICE raids, harrowing border crossing journeys and transferring money home are depicted in the rousing and moving play "Fandango For Butterflies (and Coyotes)." It's derived from undocumented…
Bookwriter Jonathan Marc Sherman has wisely kept the story in its period. However, his dialogue is almost word for word lifted from the screenplay which is rather old hat for those of us hav…
Bess Wohl's "Grand Horizons" opens with a pas de deux of marital inertia as Nancy (Jane Alexander) and Bill (James Cromwell), two near-octogenarians wasting their twilight days in a so-calle…
While Simon Stone's adaptation is engrossing for its surprising updates, it never captures the emotions, seeming more like a gimmick that a reworking of the Greek tragedy. With most of the a…
Hosted by the Graham Company's elegant director Janet Eilber, the program began with some historical comments after which two groups of dancers, one representing the Graham technique from Gr…
An author can be too close to his or her material so that the real story fails to be revealed. Inspired by his own family events, Buzz McLaughlin's Sister Calling My Name has a fascinating p…
Hoyle has brought his most recent play, "Border People," to New York City in a production directed by Nicole A. Watson. It's a work dedicated to people who dwell along borders of various sor…
"The legend returns" claimed the fliers and posters for "Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"'s short season at the New York City Center. That proclamation wasn't far from the truth. "Swan La…
David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood and Billy Eugene Jones in a scene from Charles Fuller's "A Soldier's Play" at the American Airlines Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Joel Benjamin, Criti…
Additional credit can be given to Simon and Wolkowitz's performances by the excellent supporting cast and Einhorn's writing. The script's one weakness appears to be an insistence on providin…
"Producing theatrical works that feature compelling stories created by emerging theater artists" is from the New Light Theater Project's self-description. Their vastly and thoughtfully enter…
Writer and director Renee Philippi's appealing scenario is simple, heartfelt and dramatic. It's realized by Ms. Philippi's supreme command of stagecraft that revels in theatricality. Designe…
The New York Pops' latest concert, Find Your Dream, was a glorious tribute to nostalgia. Not only was it an evening of the beloved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein with selectionsfrom all 11…
"Really Really Gorgeous" has an often-amusing absurdist and surrealistic sensibility. Plot turns take on the illogical quality that exists in dreams or in kids' games of "Let's pretend." For…
The 92nd St. Y's Lyrics & Lyricists, one of New York's leading propagators of the Great American Songbook, featured the witty and sardonic songs of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg in its most recent …
Smiling Faces, Skull, Princess, Pile of Poo and other notable emojis cavorting around might have made for a peppy contained sophisticated children's show. The creators of "Emojiland: The Mus…
Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of "Regina" and "Birdie" in the…
The show was conceived, directed and designed by Theodora Skipitares. Her treatment of these biographical details is that of a fanciful saga with the awestruck tone of a children's book. The…
When a playwright adapts a famous, well-known story for the stage the problem becomes how to tell it in a new way that makes it seem unfamiliar and fresh. Otherwise, why bother retelling it …
"Romeo & Bernadette," a fresh take on Shakespeare's oft-adapted tale of love, is an unabashed valentine to inter-era romance. Shakespeare's Romeo (cutie-pie Nikita Burshteyn, perfect…
An essay more than a play, with players as opposed to characters, "How to Load a Musket" is a racist diatribe that fails to make its points coherently. The costumes and appointments on the w…
Fog wafting, an empty rocking chair moving by itself, blackouts, ghostly apparitions and crashing music are all part of the spooky fun in "The Woman In Black." Scary moments, intriguing hoku…
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
