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If the material feels familiar, what Folie and a fine, sensitive cast under director Craig J. George do with it makes all the difference.
The revised, extended version now at the Minetta Lane Theatre is almost as obvious as it is amateurish.
The Florida-based troupe - which fought in court to retain its right to the name "cirque" against the Canadian juggernaut Cirque du Soleil - puts its own theatrical brand on the circus arts.…
The performances are as urgent, as dangerous and as contradictory as their material. A devastating start to a major season by a playwright we need to know.
This edition of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a surprisingly earthbound walk through of one of Shakespeare's most enchanting works.
How anything can be so perky and yet so bland is yet another mystery for the ages.
Tap dancer Mary Theresa Archbold was auditioning for Anything Goes a couple of years ago when her prosthetic arm came detached and thunked to the floor. She didn't land the part, but she did get one more anecdote for Jazz Hand: Tales of a One-Armed Woman, one of 190 shows that are part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival, which begins tomorrow.
After too long an absence, his bemused but worried voice is back with "Human Error," which the Atlantic Theater Company opened last night at its year-old second stage. But this time, he stra…
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is a guilty-pleasure hoot, as ripe for summertime as a romance novel.
As a play, "Masked" is a passionate but conventional, predictably fraught and mechanical drama about three brothers torn apart by ideology and war in their homeland. But the story behind the…
Shameih wants to know how one can survive in a violent world and not be violent. The question has focus, but the play's a bit of a mess.
The same folks who brought us "The Donkey Show" - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" set to disco - have corrupted Puccini's "Turandot" as a wrestling promotion in the rowdy Bay Street world premie…
"Surface to Air," which opened with a distinguished cast and little fanfare at Symphony Space last night, would seem to be a bright young man's play about Vietnam.
After a Broadway season graced by astonishing performances by Audra McDonald, Christine Ebersole and Donna Murphy, LuPone further proves that we're living in a golden age for singing actress…
