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There are two - make that three - tantalizing ideas in "Hunting and Gathering," the meandering and melancholy urban comedy that opened last night at Primary Stages.
Jerry Springer is a one-joke guilty pleasure.
It is unlikely that anyone can make this obvious old soaper hold the stage today. Certainly, Merkerson is wasted trying.
Matthew Friedman was ready to give up. He was a 30-something attorney from Dix Hills and he was reaching that point - the one dreamers know all too well, the one where it becomes clear that …
Really, the temptation is to say almost nothing about the gleeful, thoughtful and darkly loopy little trio of one-acts that opened last night at the Atlantic Theatre Company's second stage.
Although the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport set the standard for Long Island theater comfort the night it opened in May, it had yet to stage an unambiguously satisfying hit. Until now.
It's hardly uncommon for a Broadway ingenue to record a solo CD, but when the starlet decides to let her fans start choosing the tracks, that's ... a strange magic.
Instead of wit and fury, we get gags and grimaces. Instead of humor so daring that critics have been known to bite their own lips to maintain decorum, the comedy is so eager-to-please that w…
In Broadway's The Farnsworth Invention, broadcasting pioneer David Sarnoff is celebrated as the earliest and most fervent backer of a new technology: television. Long before popularizing the small screen, though, Sarnoff—who founded the National Broadcasting Company and headed its parent, RCA—brought radio to the masses, using Suffolk County as a hub for the world's most mammoth wireless network.
The diversion, a West End hit that grew from a tiny regional playhouse, is an utterly pointless but physically and conceptually ingenious spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's equally foolish but styl…
In fact, the most amazing part of Disney's latest musical is its amazing shortage of originality - not to mention magic or cross-generational wit.
The Yiddish theater legend, Fyvush Finkel, who transitioned to mainstream stage, TV, and film work is currently starring off-Broadway in David Ives' new play, 'New Jerusalem.'
Boggess is a Colorado native who graduated from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. That's the same tiny Midwestern school that counts among its graduates Jodi Benson, the voice of headstro…
As an evolving showcase for one of our time's most self-challenging and ever-maturing artists, this is a not-to-be-missed event.
