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While MarÃa Irene Fornés'Â "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than t…
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
Yes, Mr. Foote's eloquent take on the souring of the American Dream has shades of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," but with his idiosyncratic and powerful command of dramatic writing h…
An old man who is an homage to Noam Chomsky is metamorphosed into an owl through the aid of a cloth mask and a print costume with a technician behind him flapping the wings, accompanied by t…
Stephen Brown's "Everything Is Super Great" is a small, unpretentious play about an American family in crisis. That is not a novel theme, of course, but "Everything" rises gracefully to the …
His more abstract ballets for The Chase Brock Experience, such as its current presentation at Theatre Row, "The Four Seasons" to the Vivaldi score (a revival from 2006), did not fare quite a…
Campbell Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge and Dashiell Eaves as Bob Cratchit in a scene from Jack Thorne's new adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Mar…
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller's 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In t…
Political plots can be dry as toast. Hatem attempts to spice things up by crossing the genders of the actors playing Carter and young Cynthia; the convention is an interesting choice althoug…
Do we really need another Jukebox Musical on Broadway"another hum-along, sing-along, déjà vu, vaguely autobiographical songfest? When the subject is as charged up as Tina Turner, the ans…
The late NYC performer's 60th birthday was commemorated by a lovely concert at The Duplex with the proceeds benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
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Alan Lightman's 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein's Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on theori…
Following a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There's a hu…
Told as a series of alternating, interlocking monologues, there is a "Rashomon"-esque quality to "Pumpgirl" that grows more obvious as the play's story comes into focus. Not only do the rela…
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
Artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus presented a performance of Alpha Omega in preparation for the troupe's fiftieth anniversary season next year. This concert featured two works by th…
Although the show is 80 minutes without an intermission, it just breezes right by and one is never bored. The music, played by Peter Dizozza (on piano), Ralph Hamperian (on bass) and Art Lil…
"Slava's Snowshow" is a unique experience. It is clowning of a sophisticated sort with its wordless skits which takes it beyond language. Its set pieces are outrageous enough to transcend an…
Solea Pfeiffer in a scene from New York City Center's revival of "Evita" (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Darryl Reilly, Critic Abandoning elaborate scenery and projections for her spirited decon…
The Reverend Al Sharpton, Angela Davis, and Sonny Carson are among the two dozen celebrities, cross section of New Yorkers, and male and female integral figures of diverse ethnicities that a…
Tiffany Mills' "Not then, not yet," a world premiere dance/theater work at The Flea proposed a dark, slightly chaotic view of relationships and alienation choreographed on her own troupe, th…
Produced by Transport Group in association with The Public Theater and directed with precision, clarity and simplicity by Transport Group's artistic director Jack Cummings III, this story of…
The life of the prolific theater producer whose career began in the 1940's is chronicled in this eventful and entertaining show business documentary.
The post Film review: "Leonard Soloway'…
Migdalia Cruz's "Fur" (presented by Boundless Theatre Company at Next Door @NYTW) has the sensibility of a folk tale, the coherency of a fever dream, and the trappings of a horror movie. It'…
In 1957 Truman Capote disingenuously misled the legendary actor Marlon Brando into opening up to him under the guise of helping to publicize the soppy melodrama, Sayonara which Brando was th…
