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To be sure, Serafina and Alvaro's romance is less than credible, but director Trip Cullman wisely commits to it completely, recognizing that Williams really hasn't given him any other choice…
"The Cosby Show," "Home Improvement" and "Roseanne" are among Mr. Williams' prominent credits as a television writer and producer. Williams also has had several plays produced and has direct…
Last seen in New York in 2017, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen has brought a newish work, "to come (extended)" to NYU Skirball Center. To come (extended) is actually a reworking an…
The play's dynamic"with the two brothers trying to stay in sync even as they find themselves polar opposites in nearly all areas of their lives"seems at points to make the play a kind of clu…
Tracy Letts' latest play to reach New York via the Chicago Steppenwolf production is the comedy drama, "Linda Vista," in which a 50-year-old white man in San Diego going through a messy divo…
The performances as well as the dialogue are cool and unemotional as you might expect from four professionals used to doing their jobs, until about three quarters of the way through when Win…
As is Mr. Friel's The Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is a monologue play. Here, instead of being separated in individual acts, the three characters appear on stage together without interacting,…
Knud Adams directs this one-set show which at times has moments of humor, but overall is a slow moving and usually depressing narrative. Ari Fliakos, who plays the son, gives a reserved perf…
"Games" shines a light on the long forgotten stories of two Jewish athletes in post-World War I Germany, a Germany that slid into National Socialism by the 1930's, effecting the lives of Hel…
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
The post Book review: Still Here: The M…
Written by Sean Daniels, "The White Chip" is reportedly an autobiographical play, directed with an earnest finesse by Sheryl Kaller who sometimes has difficulty keeping her three different p…
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
The post Book review: "Still Here: The …
Bearded, bald and utilizing a pronounced Irish accent, the physically imposing Jeffrey Bean is towering as John. The beaming Mr. Bean's delightful bonhomie gives way to harrowing anguish as …
As part of its Fall 2019 Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter Series, The York Theatre Company has smartly revived this 1965 Ben Bagley - Cole Porter revue not seen in New York in 54 years. Pamela …
Rocky execution aside, the play is not without humor, imagination, charm and whimsy, and the same can be said about the designs by Jessie Bonaventure (scenic), Johanna Pan (costumes), Kelley…
This is the latest edition of creator, writer and director Gerard Alessandrini's enduring musical spoof skewering present and past NYC theater that he inaugurated- in 1982 and has had over 2…
The play captures emotions that many of us have felt, from unrequited love, to loss. Seldom are we allowed access to such a raw story and candidness. In a time where we shield each other fro…
Monica Bill Barnes totally changed the mood with her thoroughly delightful "The Running Show" which used physical contests as a metaphor for dance. Barnes stood in the midst of sixteen s…
As a writer, O'Dell seems to eschew melodramatic elements, including pat endings with fully resolved conflicts. This a work grounded in sober reality, a work that rejects the prevalent idea …
The problem with Vaynberg's play, now being given its Off Broadway premiere, in which she plays the lead female role, is that it has so many interlocking plots that it can give you a headach…
The final work, "Unveiling" by Sonya Tayeh, director of Tayeh Dance, known now as the choreographer of the Broadway hit 'Moulin Rouge!," used a trio which appeared to be about a female (the …
A mulatto slave is sodomized with a large black dildo while in a canopy bed by his master's wife who is decked out in Madonna-style dominatrix regalia. A white indentured servant fellates th…
Numb from two straight-through hours of far-right speechifying emoted in perpetual semi-darkness, the audience at "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" then endures a ghastly aria of despair by a L…
What is evident is that Zeller writes tremendous roles for actors. Frank Langella won the Tony Award back in 2016 for the title role of "The Father," and "The Height of the Storm" may well w…
"The Wrong Man" is a new musical by multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan with "Hamilton"'s director Thomas Kail. Like "Hamilton," it began as a concept album and grew into a stage performanc…
