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The play succeeds in large part because it begins in the aftermath of a school shooting. There are a few bits of dialogue describing the terror of the incident itself, but there is no onstag…
It is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey's drama: its message that one cannot shut one's self off from the problems of the world as the America First moveme…
Employing an impressive array of voices and mannerisms, and only sometimes augmented with a wig or article of clothing, Miller as "Narrator" impersonates numerous performers, personalities, …
A recent iteration of the classic ballet "Swan Lake" was staged by Derek Deane and danced by the Shanghai Ballet and presented by the Shanghai Ballet with China Arts and Entertainment Group …
With her richly expressive character voice, alternating between appealing deepness and wonderfully hitting high notes, she beautifully does justice to each song. We see every hallowed surrea…
More in the spirit of Carrie Fisher than Christina Crawford, performer Barra Grant chronicles her life and that of her famous mother in her engaging and smartly presented self-written solo s…
Created and first performed during the run-up to the 2018 national referendum that eventually led to the amendment's repeal, Maz and Bricks, a part of the Origin Theater Company's 1st Irish …
Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater exploded onto the stage with raw vitality. Harris, who choreographed most of the works, combined various styles of street dancing (mo…
The production is unapologetically irreverent. At the beginning, we see a masked Greek chorus wearing long robes, shuffling ever-so-slowly around the stage of the Center at West Park (the sa…
Wataru Kitao in Suguru Yamamoto's "The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood" at The Japan Society (Photo credit" Ayumi Sakamoto) Joel Benjamin, Critic Suguru Yamamoto's solo dance/theater work…
As a seasoned New York theatergoer, I experienced her immense talents many times and today is cause to recall a few of her unheralded performances.
The post In Praise of Frances Sternhagen …
The festival has given birth to musicals that have gone on to Broadway ("Next to Normal," "Chaplin," "[title of show]," "In Transit") and Off-Broadway ("Altar Boyz," "The Other Josh Cohen…
Speaking alternately, the six women talk of food, traditions, love, family, beliefs, ethics, dreams, abuse and New Zealand men. They speak of their dreams of a future and a better life. The …
A lively cast comprised of Harrison Unger, Caturah Brown, Tay Bass and Jonathan Cruz not only deliver exceptional performances during the inconsequential "Or, An Astronaut Play," they …
Composer/lyricist Jerry Herman was, of course, a Broadway legend.  He gave us such unforgettable shows as "Hello, Dolly!," "Mame," and "La Cage Aux Folles." These musicals were allÂ�…
David Cassidy's autobiography "C'Mon Get Happy""which I ghost-wrote for him at his request"has now come out as a Kindle E-book, with a brand new afterword by me. (It's available for purchase…
The framing device is not a completely elegant solution to the problem, but it gets the job done. Gilbert gets knocked out cold while examining the contents of the trunk. While incapacitated…
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is still a witty and lively play after almost 180 years. With its farcical elements laid over a drawing room comedy plot, Charlotte Moore's adroit produc…
Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson and Edward Mawere in a scene from Donja R. Love's "one in two" in a world premiere production by The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo cred…
By stripping the story of local color"even the projections show little but an anonymous seascape"the creative team does ill by "Sing Street. " Take away the Irish accents, the 1980's song…
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in a scene from Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Marc Brenner) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief To…
A product of the tumultuous thirties whose work was banned by the Nazis even though he was not Jewish, Von Horváth was particularly interested in social criticism of the middle-class and …
Elaine Stritch and I were among the many stars and strivers whom this preeminent and gracious NYC photographer vividly rendered by her profound portraits.
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The music included the catchy, familiar tunes of "The Nutcracker Suite" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, first featured in classical ballet. The Dorrance version uses the absolutely wonderful ja…
Beloved television stars Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law) and Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) return to the New York stage in Joshua Ravetch's "One November Yankee" which they previously performed at …
