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"Ain't Too Proud to Beg,"Â "Get Ready," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "Since I Lost My Baby," "You're My Everything" and of course "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" are among the show's mor…
"Did you know that this play is called "Life Sucks"?" says a character in playwright Aaron Posner's meta-theatrical Life Sucks. It's a wild yet emotionally resonant work "sort of adapted …
While many of the greats have tackled Kate over the years ever since it premiered in 1948, O'Hara brings a subdued charm to the usually more boisterous part of Lilli, even if she is positive…
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinburg…
A lot has been made of the parallels between the original 1938 production of "I Married an Angel" for which George Balanchine choreographed the dances for his soon-to-be wife, the glamorous …
You can hear a pin drop during Michael McKeever's "After," an exciting, riveting play about the aftereffects of bullying. During the final scene in Jo Brancato's production now at 59E59 Thea…
"Everything is copy"Â was Nora Ephron's maxim about the potential of all of one's life experiences to be fashioned into narrative material if one has the cachet to be paid attention to. Ac…
Jean-Claude van Itallie, one of the key figures in New York's Off-Off Broadway theater in the 1960's, takes on Trumpian politics in his new play, "The Fat Lady Sings" (directed by David Schw…
Produced in New York City by the China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd., "Princess Zhaojun" was performed by the members of the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater. It was di…
The death of a long inactive performer with a fine career during Broadway's Golden Age understandably went unnoticed. He was my neighbor in the 1980's.
The post Remembering Duane Bodin (193…
A searing epiphany at "The Day I Became Black"'s climax redeems its uneven mixture of confessional and stand-up. The show is written and performed by the engaging biracial young comedian and…
"Vilna," written by Ira Fuchs, is one of the more successful stage dramas to deal with the Holocaust, a notoriously difficult subject to portray on stage. That this play succeeds as well…
The evening's vocal guests are exceptionally strong singers, although their talents are not equally evident in a concert format. Silverman probably shines best in a book show, as well as Osn…
Although there is a great deal of talent behind the new musical Superhero at Second Stage Theater, it unfortunately makes little impact. It doesn't help that the thin book by Tony Award winn…
The Camagűey troupe danced Ruiz's work as if born to his vigorously eclectic style. His choreography is an amalgam of ballet, modern dance, break-dancing, folk dancing and Latin ballr…
You may leave "Strangers" with mixed reactions. The proceedings onstage may make you feel as disoriented and tetchy as the villagers themselves. The characters' words as they vainly try to m…
Huppert, the consummate actress, commands the stage at all times, making all the other performers pale in comparison. As Anne, she travels from familiar to sarcastic to manic to depressed to…
Brunstetter overloads the issue in the play by making Jen have doubts about being in love with a woman against her parents' religious teachings, even though she cannot imagine life without t…
It's billed as "Two Ways" because this event is comprised of differing versions performed in repertory. There is the self-explanatory "Conventional Casting" and the "Reversed Casting" where …
Chisa Hutchinson's "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scrip…
"A Jewish Joke" brings immediacy to not only the personal and professional effects of the Hollywood blacklist, but to the current onslaught of internet finger-pointing and fear-mongering tha…
There's stinging dialogue, solid construction and high powers of observation that accurately render the fractious literary milieu with Imran's offstage agent a major figure. These all enable…
Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy" is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of nudit…
Let's talk about the talent:Â Gallogly and Smith are, in a word, fantastic in "Fiercely Independent." They listen to each other intently, their responses are spontaneous and natural, and …
The production of "Boesman and Lena" at The Pershing Square Signature Center directed with attention to every detail by Yaël Farber is stark and unforgiving in a way that would have been …
