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Nevin Denham is a morose N.J. basement band guitarist whose estranged up and coming astrophysicist girlfriend Amy Leonardo moves to New York City to be an intern for Mr. Tyson at the Hayden …
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
Jones has become known for applying his wide-ranging choreography and sharp mind to storylines that take on chunks of history"including some shockingly modern history. He displays his sh…
Anderson Cook's jocular book is a silly amalgam of "Grease" and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" with shades of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Composer and lyricist Ben Lapidus' Green Day…
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
Holbrook's enduring youthful presence, twinkling charm and commanding vocal authority make him the ideal vessel to channel Lerner's monumental achievements. Through his concisely informative…
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
In Craig Lucas's "I Was Most Alive with You," two down-on-their-luck television writers mine recent personal tragedy for their latest project, hoping, with the Book of Job as their inspirati…
Ms. Anselmi succeeds at imparting her solid research on the subject through her sharp dialogue spoken by her strong characters. The play falters with the addition of a chorus who are actors …
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
Exhibiting talent and charm but with relatively impassive vocal deliveries are the trio who portray Anna Politkovskaya and other characters such as soldiers, medical personnel and military o…
The intellectual level of "Hurricane"'s characters may not be as high as George, Martha, Nick and Honey's. Nevertheless they reveal their inner psychological turmoil, secret fears, secre…
The 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown inspired this exuberant concert-style presentation of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy entitled "Antigone in Ferguson." Director Bryan Doer…
A play that tends to say or do too much can often end up saying too little. Such is the case with "The Other Day," a play in which one development after another keeps cancelling each other o…
The actual subtitle of Silverman's play gives one pause: "In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Shackl…
Exhibiting the dazzling wizardry of someone who trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Murfi is breathtaking as he clowns, mimes and barrels all over the space while distinctively …
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play's second act, eight months have passed, and money…
"James & Jamesy in the Dark" is apparently the product of a long trial and error rehearsal process according to the aforementioned program notes. The self-involving process, unfortu…
Conceived and written by Kevin Doyle, "THE AЯTS" offers sophomoric antics that are a virtual parody of performance art techniques. There's a lot of buzzers à la Richard Foreman. The…
Unfortunately, Worsham's efforts just confirm the play's central problem: only the relationship between June and Charlie has any real depth. As for the rest of the characters, although McMul…
You'd need a ten ton truck to haul away all the slings and arrows slung and shot at Donald Trump in "Me the People: Fire & Fury Edition," the red-hot political revue currently on stage …
Farce meets tragedy in a fictional unnamed Latin American country in "The Conduct of Life." It's a raucous yet insightful fantasia about military oppression taking its toll on the populace b…
Though the large ensemble of 11 actors is uniformly first rate--whether going through their balletic paces or tossing the invisible basketball and grasping it by clapping their hands, Pamela…
Gingold Theatrical Group's "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw's Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stellar …
Ms. McCarrick's appealing premise of redemptive romance is in fact subsidiary to the IRA angle as in the program she states that this event is the inspiration for her play. The two threads h…
