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Suzy Conn's zesty score is a fusion of her peppy music and well-crafted lyrics. "Quandary" is rhymed with "laundry" and among the 14 bright songs there's a comical ode to Meryl Streep. Ms. C…
Dynamically presented and sensationally performed, "If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka" is playwright Tori Sampson's maddeningly overblown adaptation of a fable with music. A surfeit…
In between scenes, the play's lighting (by Paul Miller) and sound (by M.L. Dogg) conspire to create a hallucinogenic, disorienting slideshow of animals and rotting metropolises " a reminder …
Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
Unlike the company's 2016 luxuriously staged "Les Fêtes Vénitiennes," also at the Gilman, "Rameau" was purposely staged by Sophie Daneman as if in a village square, simply but effectivel…
Employing his rumbling deep voice, his thinning hair slicked back and veering from snarling cheeriness to reflective introspection, Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully gi…
Some plays are simply too complicated for their own good, defying comprehension. This is certainly the case with Madeleine George's "Hurricane Diane," in which the God Dionysus or Bacchus, f…
The play is carefully plotted, and the tragic action that Snider builds runs its course in a logical, plausible fashion. But something about "Death of a Driver" never quite catches fire. The…
Devilishly enigmatic and culminating in an eerie denouement, playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas' stylized warring brothers yarn "Recent Alien Abductions" confidentially veers tonally, s…
Being described as a "theatre event," the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960's, without h…
Molly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater's new musical "Alice By Heart" (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second and larg…
Lanford Wilson's celebrated humanistic style and spirit are wonderfully evoked by playwright Linda Faigao-Hall in her moving family drama "Dying in Boulder." Its articulate characters con…
Brooklyn United Live's Finale Piece Heart-pounding rhythms, precision choreography, a thought-provoking storyline, and a megadose of energy and enthusiasm. That's what audience members exper…
Another " and perhaps unexpected " benefit of having Nathan around was that Sinoway had a built-in support system on set. Once, when Sinoway was feeling overwhelmed during a tech rehearsal o…
However, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
As directed by Benson, special mention goes to Primack, Quint, Payne, and Wexler for their strong and playful commitment to their characters, followed by the efforts of Mazzoccone, Porter an…
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning political play, "State of the Union," should be, by all accounts, dated in its depiction of the 1948 presidential political cam…
In "Star Dust," a 2016 ballet tribute to David Bowie, Rhoden displayed his mordantly campy side in a series of scenes, each devoted to a famous Bowie number, beginning with Brandon Gray lead…
Usually considered one of Sondheim's lesser musicals, albeit with one of his best scores--and needless to say, that's saying a lot--this production provides a heft and a story that are sorel…
The York Theatre Company is to be applauded for taking the risk of staging this famously controversial musical in its New York premiere. It is also fulfilling its mission to bring to the sta…
A scorching and ingeniously plotted exploration of feminism versus rape culture in the contemporary United States is achieved in "Good Friday." Playwright Kristiana Rae Colón's audacious,…
BalletNext is a company founded by Michele Wiles, former prima ballerina of American Ballet Theater. Wiles has developed a symbiotic relationship with the University of Utah where she trains…
In this madcap universe, passengers on a jet are caught in a space warp known as a "corn hole" that was caused by Amazon's tampering with the atmosphere to speed up delivery times, Amazon is…
The property is now more than a half-century old. But this production makes it seem as though the 1964 iteration were merely an English-language version of a classic from even longer ago. Th…
Mystery writer Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train," "Carol," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") was famously alcoholic, depressive, misogynistic and racist. She was unique as an international…
