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The power and majesty of the theater are affirmed by this ravishing production of the acclaimed English playwright Philip Ridley's two-character play, "Tender Napalm." For 75 enchanting min…
Written by Isaac Gomez, who lives across the border in El Paso, Texas, "the way she spoke" is a one-woman show that fails to speak to us: it's performed by Mexican film star Kate del Castill…
The three Havel one acts, known as "The Vanek Plays," though written separately, were originally banned in Czechoslovakia and performed secretly in people's living rooms as well as being pas…
Dressed in gray jeans, a gray T-shirt and white sneakers, the gutsy seasoned comic Ms. Novak expertly paces, gesticulates and does wild double take after double take while clutching a microp…
Cluttered, lively and quaint, the zany musical comedy "I Spy A Spy" is reminiscent of the sort of lightweight material directorial legend George Abbott would have had a go at in the late 196…
Dedicated to "creating socially and politically acute theatre for the 21st century" the PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) for their 33rd season offers this exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard'…
Playwright and director Miranda Haymon has, like numerous dramatists before her, dramatized this story"except that she has significantly repurposed it. Working with three African-American ac…
Russian-born Maria Kochetkova, the petite ballerina who spent the major portion of her career with the San Francisco Ballet, has turned herself into a small-scale Diaghilev. Her Maria Ko…
"Six Years Old" is a gem of a play, its facets polished by the director Helen Handelman. Every emotional revelation, no matter how subtle is illuminated by the acting of its four-member …
If ever a play needed a talkback afterwards, Joseph Scott Ford's bewildering, grating and slight "Not Even the Good Things" does. By the end of its gobsmacking 75 minutes, the eerie ever-pre…
There is a prevailing sense that the script tries to cover too much intellectual ground on the topic of reborning in too short a time frame, placing a burden on the characters to experience …
"Rent Party" is billed as a show for the whole family, but it will be of real interest primarily to preteen children. At that, it seems a rather dull outing. The actors here tend to speak in…
Playwright Winter Miller offers a shakily hollow mélange of Genet, Beckett and Pinter with her two women in a prison cell scenario taking place in an unnamed foreign country. Ms. Miller's d…
Packed with emotion, adolescent angst and eventfully picaresque, "The White Dress" is playwright Roger Q. Mason's passionate autobiographical saga of a "gender non-conforming queer person…
The world premiere "Sport," choreographed to more than twenty bits and pieces by Erik Satie, appropriately named "Sports et divertissements" (played by the brilliant pianist Colin Fowler), w…
The second part of the program was a bonanza of Bournonville excerpts, danced to not particularly memorable scores, that worked well even without colorful scenery. The beautiful, colorfu…
Whatever Glover discussed in the opening " about identity and wearing masks " may have been relevant, but the program could be seen simply as a revue. Â A wide variety of recorded music wa…
Kids may love this show"and the Dog Man books themselves"largely because the outlandish situations are similar to scenarios in their own hyper-imaginative make-believe play. Except that, at …
Sometimes you don't need a long, complex story " or even an engaging one " to hook an audience. At the showing of "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" at The Shed that I attended, audiences clapped …
While Will T.F. Carter's "Barabbas" is very outspoken on the topic of political corruption in Peru, the play is dramatically weak as so much of it is exposition. In each scene we learn a lit…
Matthew Amendt's new play "The Comedian's Tragedy" asks the burning question why did Aristophanes, the master of Greek comedy, never write any tragedies. Socrates in Plato's "Symposium" equa…
Lydia R. Diamond's "Toni Stone" is a tour de force for one actress and Obie Award winner April Matthis gives a bravura performance as the first woman to play professional baseball as part of…
Gracefully clomping around in silver pumps and clad in a short-sleeved black jumpsuit, the upper portion adorned with shimmering multi-colored sequins in the configuration of the rainbow, th…
Nottage's book is faithful to the novel while at the same time reducing some of the melodrama and streamlining the story to reduce the number of characters to a cast of 13. Sheik's score may…
Passero's expressive tenor voice, twinkling eyes, seasoned character actor presence which recalls that of Michael Tucker and jovial personality enables him to entertainingly chronicle his in…
