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With the cachet of a Chekhov based text, I couldn't help hoping that this might be another off-Broadway sleeper like last year's chamber musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine.
You only think you know what you are in for before the curtain rises on this nostalgia-consigned, melody-saturated, dance-enhanced, but more notably, numbingly staged retread based on two fi…
The Donmar Warehouse has emerged as a champion of serious, commercially-viable theatre and their T.S. Eliot Festival continues this regime.
The creative team has found an ideal expression of the emotional and very physical truth of this story of an era where girls in bunny ears express porn's seepage into pop culture with horrif…
A cynical but witty look at the lack of idealism in British politics today. It's worth seeing for the ensemble performances and bon mots.
Metropolitan Playhouse's a simple, low-cost production actually benefits from the small stage as it effectively illustrates the confined world in which Anna Christie lives
Stephen Belber's new play is sad and gloomy but it deals quite absorbingly with an all too real situation.
It's hard to imagine a more unlikely setting for a musical than the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1940s but this is indeed the scenario for this new musical.
Danny Hoch's being a Williamsburg native gives his rant against gentrification an added autobiographical depth
Peter Meineck's Aquila Theatre has risen to the challenge of dramatizing Joseph Heller's novel, with mixed result
Metropolitan Playhouse's a simple, low-cost production actually benefits from its small stage.
Danny Hoch's being a Williamsburg native gives his rant against gentrification an added autobiographical depth.
Peter Meineck's Aquila Theatre has dramatized Joseph Heller's novel with mixed results.
Theatergoers seeking a night away from two still ongoing wars and all the other problems afflicting our country won't find it in Geometry Of Fire. It's a sad and gloomy play. But it deals with an all too real situation.
Count yourself among New York's luckiest if you nabbed a ticket for one of the seven performances.
Martha Clarke's stunning dance piece based on the famed triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch.
How did I feel watching the show? To borrow a bit from Billy's eloquent, show stopping answer to the Royal Ballet School admissions panelist who asks him to explain what it feels like when h…
Itamar Moses has created three richly delineated characters whose lives are linked by their careers in major league baseball.
The Mizner Brothers never got their dreams quite right, but Sondheim, Weidman and Doyle have got it right--if not perfectly so, right enough.
Two new productions of Shakespeare's shortest and bloodiest tragedy have arrived in town. Both are departures from the expected.
Despite being a little rough around the edges, the playwright, director and cast all make a great team.
For vaudeville and musical theater buffs, this gutsy little musical with a big heart pays a welcome and overdue homage to an entertainer who is now virtually forgotten.
John Leguizamo's dynamic physicality makes for an eminently watchable Teach. Cedric the Entertainer is a credible Don. However, this revival could use more Mametian snap, crackle and pop.
