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Ms. Hynes has the cast at full speed emphasizing slapstick and employing stylized poses and gestures. Â There's exaggerated choreography-like movement such as extending legs and dipping do…
The witty score with music and lyrics by Schwartz is a collection of both pastiche songs based on numbers Merman made famous and new ones that fit her style that suggest other famous songs. …
Even with the indelible impression of Eileen Heckart's magnificent, original Gladys intact, Elaine May overcomes any comparisons as the current Gladys. There is nothing inventive or even art…
Many comic artists have noted that great humor often comes from great tragedy, though, inevitably, sometimes the latter overwhelms the former, and all you're left with is a lot of indignatio…
Purring sensually with a slight nasal New York accent, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a black tie and handling a microphone while in front of its stand, actor Ronnie Marmo vocally …
Delightfully growling in a quasi-Middle Eastern accent, her head encased in a babushka, plastered with makeup, wearing a flowing robe and hobbling on a cane, Sandra Bargman is terrific as…
Sonera opens the show with Prinze doing one of his sets at the Improv Club in New York City, 1976, beginning with one of his famous lines, "Looking good!" and continuing with his sardonic co…
Three original one-act solo-performer musicals comprise "Inner Voices 2018," presented by the Premieres theater company. Since 2008 they've produced several editions of this enterprise. The …
Throughout the evening, different marionettes emerged from various objects like small suitcases, inlaid wooden boxes, clear containers of water, and a translucent cradle-like vessel.
The po…
Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close's Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is known …
"Good Grief" opens with a celestial sequence and continues with Nkechi's narration. Sometimes incidents are replayed in order to get them closer to the truth since all are memories and not a…
Imported from London, with a number of the original cast members, "The Ferryman" takes place in rural County Armagh, in Northern Ireland in 1981, during a rise of violence of the IRA, right …
In an apparent effort to demonstrate that he's become one of us, Mandvi arrives in the theater by walking down the central aisle at the Minetta Lane Theatre, wide-eyed, as he peers and takes…
As for cast standouts, Greenwood excelled both musically and dramatically. His ringing, expressive vocals and crisp diction made him an audience favorite. And he created an effective charact…
Ms. Stephens has a substantial pedigree with her previous works having appeared at prestigious institutions and winning awards. The piffle on display here does exhibit craft, discipline and …
In her own time, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 " 1950) was a rock star and a best-selling author until illness and postwar culture dimmed her luster. Still she fascinates with her bohem…
In Kate Tarker's satiric "Thunderbodies," America is a relentlessly strange place, where people spout nonsense, act without reason, and are led by the narcissistic man-baby they've elected p…
Elegantly inhabiting the small Triad stage, Holland's Linda is clearly a class act, with a smooth, rich, dark voice. Hearing her tale of their days in the twenties cruising the high poin…
Although Donja R. Love describes his new play "Fireflies," his second world premiere in New York in 2018, as a "surrealistic voyage through Queer love during pivotal moments in Black History…
13th Annual Latin American Cultural Week(s), November 13 through 21, 2018 with Theater, Music, Dance, Film, Literature, & Visual Arts Events throughout New York City, Emphasizing Latina…
The generous spirit of Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) certainly was felt in New York's great supper club, Feinstein's/54 Below, the night I went to see The Jonathan Larson Project (which filled…
Christopher Plummer's guest appearance on a 1987 episode of "The Cosby Show" giving a Shakespearean mini-recital in the Huxtable living room had a profound effect on writer and performer Orl…
From its dramatic opening, there's nowhere for "Goodbody" to go but down, even if Ernst keeps raising the stakes with complicated backstories and developments that leave one breathlessly con…
The K-Arts Dance Company from Korea presented two performances of "Song of the Mermaid," an entertaining full-length ballet choreographed by its artistic director, Sunhee Kim. Song of th…
Adam Gwon's song cycle, "Ordinary Days," became a cult hit when it opened the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in 2009 for a run of ten weeks. So successful was the show that it is one of the …
