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Alice Ripley (Best Actress Tony Award winner for "Next to Normal") is, in a word, astounding. Her Trisha is brimming with curiosity, honesty, humor and grace; she is inspiring to watch and s…
"Pepperland," however, will not do anything for Morris' reputation as a choreographer. His dearth of choreographic invention"including constant repetition of a few steps, gestures and pa…
Witnessing the LOTNY production makes one wonder why "Owen Wingrave" is not performed more often: it has a small cast of eight with juicy roles for all of the characters, evenly divided betw…
The black-accented stage has a raised runway platform, a square platform, a bench and some furniture. From these basic elements, scenic designer Susannah Hyde crafts an ideal landscape for t…
Ted Chapin, the writer and host of the 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series' "A Beautiful Dawning: Oklahoma! at 75," did an impeccable job creating one of the best editions of this important se…
As president of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, from 1966 " 1969, playwright Arthur Miller moved about Eastern Europe freely and witnessed a great many troubling eve…
Folks, this is no ordinary play, and it's not for everyone. Call it an absurd commentary, a daydream, a nightmare, a fantasia, a memory play--come see it and decide what you want to call it.…
Laughter and oohs and ahs abound from an audience of all ages during this exuberant and wildly theatrical stage adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel "Around the World in 80 Da…
In "Caroline's Kitchen," British playwright Torben Betts ("Invincible," "The Unconquered," "Muswell Hill") has written a state of the nation farce which has no laughs. As the play under the …
The eternal heartbreak of show business is given a fresh spin in playwright Adam Seidel's exhilarating contemporary drama, "Original Sound" that skewers the music industry. Mr. Seidel's scen…
MasterVoices performed a beautifully sung and played rendition of the legendary 1941 musical "Lady in The Dark" as part of New York City Center's 75th Anniversary Season for three sold-out p…
Retro Productions which has staged both old and new plays has turned its attention to this unjustly neglected comedy from 1961 which has not had a New York revival that made it into the reco…
Viewing the abstract configuration onstage that could be from a Whitney Biennial before "Friendly's Fire" begins instantly informs us we'll be in a fantasyland. Indeed, playwright John Patri…
As the elderly king of Britain who deludedly decides to give up his kingdom to his three daughters, Goneril and Regan, the two older married ones, and Cordelia, his younger unmarried daughte…
The Irish Repertory Theatre ends its thirtieth season by going back to the beginning, with a sturdy revival of Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars." An historical prequel to the other t…
Ernie Morris is a middle-aged widowed African-American writer who arrives at a contemporary unnamed prison to be a volunteer. A young corrections officer explains in great detail all of …
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels still has most of his/her friends and professional acquaintances from the movie version with some new twists:Â Jeff Slater, his playwright roommate (a wond…
Eve Wolf's new play for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, titled "Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real & Imagined," suggests that the real-life Andersen might actually have appreciat…
Is a young Asian woman a ghost or a melancholiac's hallucination? That is the haunting question vividly answered in playwright Prince Gomolvilas' gripping thriller "The Brothers Paranormal" …
Claire Kiechel's "Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone" (directed by Steve Cosson) gives audiences a glimpse of the last stand of the author's great grand-uncle, a dancer-actor-painter-sculptor who wa…
"The Bigot"'s mouthpiece is the splendid Stephen Payne. Scruffy and silver-haired, Mr. Payne revels in Jim's cantankerousness and physical decrepitude. Bellowing in his resonant twangy voice…
It is a well crafted story of a feisty seventy-something Sheila O'Connor (Nora Chester who does feisty beautifully) whose grandson, physician Brian O'Connor (an earnest Jordan Ahnquist), who…
In the final analysis, "Ink" is too swift and too slick for its own good--or should I say, for our good? Even if you know some of the details it traffics in, they zoom by at such a rapid cli…
For all you philosophy junkies out there"and you know who you are"Tim Blake Nelson's world premiere "Socrates" at The Public Theater, the shining light of The Public's Onassis Festival, is a…
"Kinky Boots" ' uplifting finale "Raise You Up/Just Be" was a euphoric highlight of The New York Pops' marvelous tribute concert "Hat Full Of Stars: The Songs Of Cyndi Lauper. " The 2013 Ton…
