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Channing is by turns aggressive, assertive, jittery, neurotic, imperious, and even petulant in the first act, only to become bewildered and subdued in the second. To rewrite Dorothy Parker's…
Brian Patrick Murphy as Danny and Lisa Fernandez as Roberta have a thrilling intensity, playfulness and chemistry together. With their accurate Bronx accents, youthful weariness and emotiona…
Mr. Harper's taut construction, solid plotting and detailed characters all yield to a suspenseful, emotionally shattering and entertaining experience. As in the works of Henrik Ibsen, Arthur…
Solondz's mordant wit makes this the darkness of tragicomedies. Brooke and Jay's delusions so typical of white entitlement are entire their own. When we finally hear from Brittany, she turns…
Along with excerpts from Godot and a couple of Beckett's novels, Irwin relies heavily on several "arcane" prose pieces from a collection Beckett dubbed "Texts for Nothing." Irwin was first i…
For the first 25 minutes, the bushy red-bearded, receding with flowing hair Mr. Butler appears solo performing a series of his delightful songs. Butler superbly plays the banjo, guitar and h…
However, the play's humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of "My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before," from Pastor Peters, and "George Washington dined on …
Though its title couldn't be clearer or more transparent, "Hitler's Tasters" proves anything but that, as it merges the past, when Hitler was still alive, with the present, when fresh autocr…
This M-34 production, under Rutherford's direction, doesn't rise to stratospheric heights. Quite the opposite: Rutherford's direction and writing turns Salome into a fascinating dome…
Each song " some traditional folk ballads and some national calls to history and identity " became, in Aynur's hands, an individual work of art, intricately structured and elegantly paced. A…
Nally's extensive program notes provided insights on the program, whose title comes from the opening line of Virgil's "Aeneid," "Arma virumque cano" … "I sing of arms and the man." Nally j…
Mark Sonnenblick's exceptional book is an accomplished mixture of prodigious research, well-drawn characters and adept if misguided construction. It skillfully dramatizes the gay experience …
Set in a dark time, "Girl From the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antith…
Presented by the San Francisco-based The Custom Made Theatre Company, this production is masterminded by its artistic director Brian Katz who adapted and directed it. Mr. Katz's accomplished…
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney's last play entitled "Final Follies" performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by David Sain…
Henry's roommate and confidante, Gwen (a solid, appealing Leslie Hiatt) has her own heartache to deal with: Her wife, Diana, has left her, accusing Gwen of infidelity. Gwen and Henry…
Mercer's direction coordinates the outstanding design components into an aesthetically successful presentation with some neat stage pictures and tableaux. However, the deliberate quest for s…
What our mothers owe us - and what we owe them - is at the heart of Leenya Rideout's one-woman autobiographical show, "Wild Abandon." In it, the prodigiously accomplished singer, songwriter,…
Though going off on tangents, the captivating performer Heidi Schreck's self-written fascinating theatrical memoir "What the Constitution Means to Me" is a feminist-centric personal odyssey …
It isn't revealing too much to say that the play culminates with a real Snooker match between two men vying ultimately for the world championship and ostensibly being watched by 23 millions …
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
Gill expertly writes each character as three dimensional, giving each complex backgrounds, making it clear that each benefits from knowing the others. A mundane Scrabble game is as revea…
Darryl Reilly, Critic John Burns and William Demaniow at The Puplex. "At first glance, we don't look like we have much in common," quipped vocalist John Burns during his uproarious cabaret a…
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
