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Barbara Walsh is doing justice to the Callas-invoked idiosyncrasies and temperament
You don't have to know Beethoven from Bach to find yourself thoroughly absorbed by the theatricality with which Moises Kaufman has connected a legendary musical mystery about a Beethoven com…
Director Carl Forsman has maneuvered the three fine actors deftly through a play that is not about heroes or particularly heroic. Despite its London success in 2005 and a previous American p…
A revue with a simple intimacy
Lisa Loomer has simultaneously written a riotously funny play and tackled an important social issue
Given that we don't often get to see people like Bruce Davison, Gary Cole, Richard Kind and Dan Lauria performing live, this is a fitting showcase and a quick evening. The no frills format, …
Even though the disputation tends to get too much of an upper hand, this 90-minute rumination on faith and the hereafter is remarkably entertaining.
Dennis is a sincere and heartfelt performer, and he manages to almost pull off the clichéd ending which, in less sincere hands, would degenerate into maudlin schmaltz
While many musicals tend to lose their luster, appeal, and popularity with future generations, Guys and Dolls has only to re-validate itself by right of its wit and charm. One can only wonder why acclaimed director Des McAnuff wasn't able to inspire his four key players to give more than merely perfunctory performances.
A very pretty show and technically almost brilliant. But it ultimately felt cold
The invaluable Mint Theater recreates the atmosphere of D. H. Lawrence's own suffocating youth in a mining village
Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney are not the first to use this story as a creative wellspring, but what they've created is mindbogglingly original and exciting
Mary Fulham's Coming, Aphrodite! a musical adaptation of Willa Cather's novella that's worth catching if you like off-beat love stories
I think Paul Newman whose last Broadway performance was as the Stage Manager, would love and appreciate David Cromer's unfussy, intimate production
With its superb transatlantic cast and masterful direction, this is certainly a Winter's Tale that can light up a cold winter's night. . . or afternoon.
The flaw of this production may be the risk one takes in concentrating so much on the tree of racism that the forest of the play is missed in the process
A romp through the dark corners of someone's psyche, male or otherwise
Theater Ten Ten's revival succeeds precisely because director Leah Bonvissuto makes no attempt to update or reconsider Shaw's pungent and hilarious script, instead relying on more than capab…
With Ted Haggard once again in the news giving interviews on television, This Beautiful City makes a timely landing at the Vineyard Theatre.
Each one of these plays is a small jewel that lights up the tiny theater and creates a scintillating evening
While this over four hour time investment isn't as nourishing as one might hope for-- it is a rare opportunity to see Eugene O'Neill's trilogy except on a DVD of the 1947 movie
Neil Bartram's music and lyrics and Brian Hill's book bring to mind adjectives like heartfelt and touching, but also hokey, predictable and repetitive.
Although three other Chekhov productions have gone up in New York over the past months, it's hard to imagine a better one than this one by the Classical Theatre of Harlem
