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The Sarasota Ballet, under the direction of Iain Webb, a former leading dancer with the Royal Ballet, has, to the benefit of the dance world, been collecting works by the British master chor…
Though there are recurring references to Woody Allen and more specifically to "Annie Hall" during the 90-minute piece, "Less Than 50%" bears as much resemblance to that Oscar-winning film as…
Gambling, palace intrigue and poetry abounds in playwright Jonathan Leaf's imaginative and engrossing historical drama "Pushkin." In the course of two acts and numerous scenes, the eventful …
Shaina Taub's joyful and sunny updated musical version of Shakespeare's comedy, "Twelfth Night," is back in a full production courtesy of Free Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works which …
Given how physically playful the brothers are with each other--and with their father--"Straight White Men" is that rare play that even has a credited choreographer, Faye Driscoll. In additio…
Translated into English from the Swedish by Charlotte Barslund, Ms. Langseth's trite sexual obsession scenario is reminiscent of the novels of Patricia Highsmith and the French thriller film…
Under Michael Mayer's fast-paced direction, "Head Over Heels" starts badly and busily but eventually slows down to a delightful Elizabethan parody on love and gender. While not all of The Go…
Along with its twists and turns, Bohjalian's "Grounded" is so fully explored that it is hard to believe that it is a first play. On the long wait on the runway at Kennedy Airport for a fligh…
That renowned man of the theater Austin Pendleton's concept to adapt and combine portions of William Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 3" with Richard III is intriguing and textually successful.…
"This Ain't No Disco" is a compressed, zany look at the years in the 1970s that Studio 54 ruled the social whirl of New York City, complete with debauchery, drugs, loud music, semi-nudity an…
Gardley makes use of a little known piece of American history: while Louisiana was under Spanish and later French rule, it had a three-tiered racial system. Aside from white settlers and bla…
It's easy to see why MOMIX is one of the most popular dance troupes in the world. Beauty, strength, ingenuity combine in often ingenious choreography. A generous program of short wor…
The plays in Summer Shorts 2018 - Festival of New American Short Plays have often had a theme running through all the offerings in one evening, however they were concealed or obscured. This …
Today’s column will be focusing on theatrical rights. The first rule in the theater, for anyone contemplating presenting a play: make sure you have the right to present the work. That …
Having added the 200-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre in 2009 to the outdoor Hill Theater with a capacity of 1,089, the season which began on June 14 now runs until November 18. It currently s…
Reveling in their grating vocal affectations, gesticulating at a fever pitch or moving catatonically and projecting snarky personas they hold forth on their revered subject in various permut…
Hence: "My Life on a Diet," a comically rich stroll through her career in TV, theater and film. Written by Taylor and her late husband, Joseph Bologna and originally directed by Bolo…
In telling the rest of this shattering story, the creators of Comfort Women, inexplicably, rely heavily on musical theater conventions that result in wrongheaded, if not downright offensive,…
Three actors"Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman (Velvel in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man") and Shane Baker ("the best-loved Episcopalian on the Yiddish stage today")"manage the feat …
Steven Skybell's Tevye warms up from a salt-of-the-earth, everyday philosopher to the much put-upon tragic existential hero upon whom God"to whom he speaks frequently"has heaped much tsouris…
This plotless, mostly sung-through exhibition conveys the tumultuous 20th century urban African-American experience through Micki Grant's dazzling score for which she wrote both the music an…
Built in 1904, Dreamland was considered the most elegant and ambitious of Coney Island's amusement parks--until it burnt to a crisp in 1911. A new play by Rinne Groff, "Fire in Dreamland" is…
A central concern of the play is detailing Wellington's five love interests: a white guy he meets at a hilarious Brooklyn vegan party, an Indian young man, an 18-year-old Muslim food cart ve…
But when things slow down a bit, especially during the musical interludes and longer dramatic pieces, Petosa's eight performers -- four lead (Christine Hamel; Jake Murphy; Harrison Bryan; an…
If "The After-Dinner Joke"'s 66 scenes seem cinematic, that is due to the fact that it originally was a teleplay commissioned by BBC for the series "Plays for Today" examining public issues.…
