Theater enthusiasts, Broadway stars, industry insiders and passionate supporters ran (or walked) the streets of New York City in this year's Broadway Run, raising a record-breaking $104,239 …
Seven vibrant and diverse women of color take the stage and speak, sing and dance at the start of this shining revival of author Ntozake Shange's landmark play, "For Colored Girls Who Have C…
Revolutionary War patriots Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin are eerily represented by male and female black performers wearing tweaked 18th…
There have been many adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth but none of them probably as entertaining as the new musical "Scotland, PA." Presented in the cartoon style of "Little Shop of Horror…
Richard Nelson's latest play, "The Michaels" (subtitled a "Conversation During Difficult Times") is a thing of beauty. Low-key like his "Apple Family" quartet and his "The Gabriels" trilogy,…
A seated actor dressed all in black wearing a beret beats a conga drum on a confined playing area. Other actors in period costumes sit at small cabaret tables and chairs as thick wafts o…
As directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play is fast-paced and engrossing and the smell of garlic coming from the stage convinces us that real cooking is going on. The completely working …
Plays about lives of quiet desperation are difficult to pull off because you run the risk of boring the audience. Liza Birkenmeier's "Dr. Ride's American Beach House" has all the elements of…
What this team of artists has created is a serious piece of storytelling that is also a glorious treat for the eyes and ears. If you've figured that the show will just be a guy narrating a s…
LBJ's ambitious social programs in the United States of the 1960's being sidetracked by the folly of the Vietnam War and his mishandling of the unrest caused by the Civil Rights Movement, ha…
In a counterintuitive casting coup, handsome Jonathan Groff stars as the nebbish Seymour Krelborn who works at Mushnik's (a funny, kvetchy Tom Alan Robbins) failing flower shop on Skid Row.�…
The enduring resonance of its source material is evident in "An Enchanted April" during this uneven stage musical adaptation. Lasting two hours and 45 minutes with an intermission, its initi…
Kathleen Chalfant adds another feather to her cap as Emily Dickinson's posthumous editor Mabel Loomis Todd in the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's new one-woman play, "A Woman of the World…
Chasing Rainbows has an exceptionally appealing cast. This is one of those rare productions where even the smallest roles are vivid. The show itself is not perfect. There are fixes that …
"The Lightning Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical" settles down a bit more in the second act and becomes more engrossing but the damage has been done. The actors in the first act all seem to …
Mr. Burnam's futuristic conceit is engrossing and the theme of a repressed figure looking back at a more joyous way of life is potent. The present day portions are amiable but only fitfully …
The play's title comes from Carew's character. The "hope hypothesis" is the notion that, in our current environment, people have universally given up hope. Consequently, they are either atte…
Vieh's script is extremely clever in its telling two sides of a story completely by separate monologues. The dialogue is real and yet extremely funny, never revealing too much, allowing the …
Like a great many history plays, Harvey Fierstein's "Bella Bella" is as much about the present as the past, paralleling everything that's gone wrong now with what went wrong then. Unsurprisi…
On Broadway every once in a while writing, acting, directing and the technical production come together to profound, memorable effect. Adam Rapp's "The Sound Inside" at Studio 54 is a su…
The first piece on the program was the most successful of the three: Mark Morris' "The Letter V". (There was no mention of any specific meaning of the title.) Â The classical music composi…
Hillary Clinton wearing a glittery red pantsuit leading a Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-style production number set in a Busby Berkeleyesque recreation of a McDonald's with giant sparkling French…
Searching Facebook recently, I discovered that a brilliant, colorful and unsung creative figure I encountered in my youth, died earlier this year. The post Remembering Mary E. Allen (1954 "…
While the original production had a great many one-of-a-kind stars supporting Merman, one of the distinctions of the York production is its cast: Montel has been able to obtain the services …
There has been a recent trend to perform Shakespeare as minimally as possible and with as few actors as possible. However, the question arises what is gained? When the doubling of roles prov…