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Cohen is clearly an intelligent, well-read man, familiar with the twists and turns of different periods and styles. "Midnight Street" is chock full of ideas, poetic meanderings and some …
Bekah Brunstetter's new play, "Public Servant," has its heart in the right place. It shares with The Cake, seen earlier this year at Manhattan Theatre Club, the first part of a trilogy with …
G. Austin Allen's set is a larger-than-life closet draped in purple cloth and which also includes a kitchen. To this room comes the older man in his mid-60's who has discovered that as his h…
As for the show's humor, there were moments when Sheen should have played her emotions straight instead of going for laughs (a.k.a. the #1 rule of comedy acting) -- but there's time for her …
"Butterflies," which won the Mario Fratti Award at New York's "In Scena!" theater festival in 2016, has been translated by Carlotta Brentan and directed by Jay Stern in a production at Manha…
"It's best when each performer is older, or younger, or of a different gender- expression, ethnicity, or ability than you might expect. This keeps the play vibrating in your imagination" are…
Baby Jane Dexter (Photo credit: Stephen Mosher) John Hoglund, Critic When it comes to the real thing, few artists have impacted audiences with such a raw honesty only to reveal a powerful vo…
Having its world premiere, "Radical Beasts in the Forest of Possibilities" is a collaboration of choreographer Francesca Harper with iconic composer/performer Nona Hendryx and the dancers. H…
Eliza Lynch (1833-1886) was an Irishwoman who grew up in France and became a courtesan. In 1854 she began a relationship with Francisco Solano López, the son of Paraguay's president. He l…
Michael Mao Dance is celebrating 26 years of presenting Mao's work and if his recent program at the Ailey Citigroup Theater is any evidence, there is reason to believe he will continue for a…
Schmidt's streamlined adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is played by a cast of seven schoolgirls who meet in an abandoned urban field after school without any set up other than th…
Flashbacks, speechifying, conspiracy theories involving J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, disco sequences, the scourge of crack cocaine, hip hop numbers, other-worldly fantasies and violence all …
Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, has taken a novel approach, staging Octet as if it were a 12-step program in which all the members of the group express their inner thoughts thr…
"Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico" is Cirque du Soleil's 38th original production and its 18th performed under The Big Top. The name is a combination of the Spanish word for light (luz) and t…
Several songs were from flop shows and given new life by Streisand:Â "He Touched Me" from "Drat! The Cat!" sung with infectious flirtatiousness by Lianne Marie Dobbs; "Why Did I Choose Yo…
As David, Chris Dwan does not make one forget the inimitable Grisetti who spun every moment into a comic turn. However, Dwan is charming as the undaunted hero who must deal with problems beh…
The original production of "Curse of the Starving Class" in 1977 was a shocker even for a time when permissiveness prevailed. Kinney seems to have decided that the play Shepard wrote isn…
Never really losing her cool, Pressley always commands the stage even though scenic designer Alexis Distler has made it difficult by creating a huge private room, beautiful in its understate…
All of this is brought to life via digital camera, which captures the movement of the figures on a quickly assembled "set" that is, in effect, a whole miniature seaside town, with businesses…
Not all cult movies need to be made into musicals, particularly those that are dependent on special effects which the cinema does better than the stage. This is demonstrated by the new Broad…
The epistolary "Posting Letters to the Moon" may, on the face of it, make one think of A. R. Gurney's "Love Letters" or Helene Hanff's "84 Charing Cross Road. "But unlike those two memorable…
Poet Aziza Barnes' first play, "BLKS," now at MCC Theater Space is raucous, vulgar, outrageous and contemporary in Robert O'Hara's hilarious, over-the-top production. Following the adventure…
But, fear not! The Encores! creative team"director John Rando, music director, Rob Berman and choreographer Sarah O'Gleby"found a terrific cast led by Michael Urie in the Phil Silvers' r…
Abrasive as a subpar episode of Maude and reaching a sour psychological thriller-style finale out of Craig's Wife, Happy Talk is playwright Jesse Eisenberg's muddled family drama. It's t…
Christopher Chen's exquisite and mystical "Passage" being produced by the Soho Rep is inspired by E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," borrowing its plot and character relationships. But whi…
