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"Hip hop gave me my name" says Peep One, a captivating young mixed race woman who is a beat maker; the one who crafts the tune for a hip hop song. This is one of numerous pertinent details i…
A limited number of lucky fans will be invited to have pizza and cake with the cast of School of Rock from 5:30-6:15 PM inside the Winter Garden Theatre before attending that evening's 7:00 …
As Michael, the soulful and animated Michael Broadhurst enthralls as he rhapsodizes about his deceased wife, philosophically opines and stalwartly copes. Jonathan Judge-Russo has shattering …
Designed by Johnny Tilders, the puppet Kong is phenomenal, a 20-foot tall, 2,000 pound marionette operated by the ten-person King's Company, members of the cast assigned to operating the arm…
Both a theatrical surprise and a very accomplished dramatic work, Patricia Ione Lloyd's "Eve's Song" is one of the best theatrical experiences to be had in New York at this time. With a cast…
"The New One," directed by Seth Barrish, is about Birbiglia and his wife's decision to become parents, the struggles they go through to arrive at pregnancy, and his fretfulness about how bec…
Cute, whimsical and lightly enjoyable, the musical "The Other Josh Cohen" is hampered by its lack of a compelling plot. "This is the story of a strange piece of mail that changed my life." A…
The Classic Stage Company's current revival of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" is not the first to draw comparisons between the sitting president and Hitler. In 2002, or …
As proven elsewhere, Steven Levenson is expert at depicting young people in crisis on stage. "Days of Rage" is very real in its handling of a group of people of similar beliefs living togeth…
This coming Monday, November 19th at 7:00 pm award-winning talent from Broadway and stage will join composer Stephen Schwartz for a special concert titled "Orphaned Songs for Orphaned Starfi…
Passion Nation is billed as immersive entertainment with integrated food and drink that tells an inspiring tale of American optimism and accomplishments. The experience follows a reverse chr…
Great Performances is produced by THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. Throughout its more than 40-year history on publi…
"That's it?" is likely to be one's reaction at the conclusion of playwright Christopher Demos-Brown's tidy topical 90-minute racial drama "American Son." Theater enthusiasts often rhapsodize…
Kim Kardashian West, Melania Trump and Chinese popstar Bingbing Fan appear as wacky contestants on a philosophical gameshow hosted by Oprah Winfrey in the lighthearted, thoughtful and souped…
The legend of Sleeping Beauty has been retold by masters since the 14th century, but no one has explored what the princess was dreaming while she slept for 100 years. International prima bal…
Played by Pascale Armand, known for her Tony nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in "Eclipsed," Angela is the heroine of Lauren Gunderson's new one-woman play, "Natur…
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's wondrous fairytale, "The Little Prince" ("Le petit prince"), has been filmed as a musical, a cartoon, and a musical cartoon and even occasionally staged live, but…
Frank J. Avella's "Lured" at the Theater for the New City practices a bit of theatrical legerdemain. Ostensibly about the perils of being gay in today's Russia, Avella takes an unexpe…
The play succeeds in part because it takes such an upbeat view of Steinem and her career. Early in the play, the character proclaims herself to be a "hope-aholic""and her stalwart optimism p…
The whole evening was an experience of two interconnected worlds. The first was the historical world of Dadaism, exhibited in music, words and visual images. The second was Livingston's dext…
Whiteside isn't exactly misused, but rather underused and under coached. No one should have laughed when he began his transformation into his female alterego. Whiteside, used to the …
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever's well-made play "Daniel's Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagement of…
Did Blaze, a Doberman Pinscher, cause the death of Pippi, a German Shepherd-Chihuahua mix? That is the crux of Italian playwright Marco Calvani's three-character, way-out, occasionally hilar…
There are some fine elements in the portrayal. Arrow's Kennedy-clan dialect seems believable"though maybe slightly over-baked at points (especially when, late in the play, he sings bits of W…
Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell's 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition whic…
