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Israeli-born choreographer Zvi Gotheiner created "Maim ('Water' in Hebrew)," a somber meditation on water, drought, misery, community and survival for seven members of ZviDance, all brillian…
These superior revivals, bold new plays and a terrific solo show were the most fascinating and memorable productions I experienced this year.
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Frothiness abounds in "Pockets," an amusing spoof of British musicals that's presented by the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe Robot Teammate. Â The rollicking score is a collaboration betw…
Told in leisurely style, Greater Clements is about the decline (and possible fall) of the American dream. Hunter appears to be saying that this is a long-time coming and its roots go very de…
Besides Mr. Skittles, there are 18 other characters of different races, ages, genders and sexualities. They're a cross section of the downtrodden and those involved with aiding them. Ex-conv…
The story itself has potential, yet despite the actors' heroic attempts to bring truth to it, the script has its characters written to say and do so many unrealistic things that the core aut…
Given the personal nature of Morissette's artistic output, it might be surprising to learn that the Broadway version of Jagged Little Pill doesn't take the easy biographical route for its bo…
Possessed of an awesome soaring tenor voice, the magnetic Dutch-German Mr. Ratzke offers not a conventional cover band-style tribute show with slavish imitation, but instead a thrilling perf…
Ensemble Signal, Marjorie Folkman, Daniel Pettrow and Kristen Foote in a scene from "Peter & the Wolf," costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, choreography by John Heginbotham (Photo credit: Dan Hol…
After pillaging Ibsen in "A Doll's House, Part 2" and lampooning the former First Couple for "Hillary and Clinton," vaunted playwright Lucas Hnath's latest piffle, "The Thin Place" is a Wall…
Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, Carmen Berkeley and Malika Samuel in a scene from Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (Photo credit: Shira Friedman) Vict…
Fabulous technical elements and spirited performances from a large ensemble of actors, singers and dancers cannot overcome the authorial negligence of the musical science fiction pastiche, "…
After marveling at Ken Jennings' power of memorization, one has to admire his ability to deliver the entire text of "The Gospel of John" with unwavering clarity and devotion to its meaning b…
The York Theatre Company's new revue, "Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston," reminds us not to take for granted the talents of this vibrant composer/lyricis…
Tony Triano as Santa Claus in a scene from the Argyle Theatre production of Meredith Willson's "Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical" (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-C…
Houses on the Moon Theater Company's delightful and earnest mission is to "dispel ignorance and isolation through the theatrical amplification of unheard voices." "The Santa Closet," another…
Goldfaden's escapist musical fantasy combines bits and pieces from many sources: the Cinderella fairy tale; Gilbert-and-Sullivan-esque rapid-fire, tongue twister songs; old-fashioned (even i…
Cariou is now appearing Off-Broadway as the titular character in playwright George Eastman's slight though moving two-character work, Harry Townsend's Last Stand. Sharp one-liners, funny set…
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a diffe…
Prominent Georgia attorney Dep Kirkland "decided to listen to his own voice, and walked away from the legal field altogether to pursue his previously private dream of acting, writing, and di…
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand's classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth T…
Now, New Yorkers who know the film (and who love it, hate it or partly love it and partly hate it) have a chance to see a streamlined (at 95 minutes) musical-theatrical spoof of the film, ca…
Maddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, Â "A Bright Room Called Day"Â is author Tony Kushner's reimagining of his 1…
"The Giant Hoax" is a charming morality tale about telling the truth and growing up. The expert hands of director Christopher Michaels and choreographer Molly Model are clearly at work in al…
