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Its maddening structure, extraneous scenes and superfluous characters diminish but do not totally obliterate the potency of playwright Jerry Small's romantic drama, "Before We're Gone." What…
n what easily could have become a one-man show, playwright Strand has cleverly created dramatic tension by first introducing us to a second character and later a third. Set during the 2012-2…
As the sleek and black-clad Tanya Marquardt vigorously wraps up her self-written 60-minute autobiographical show "Stray," with her giddy dancing and hurling her ponytail around, the aimless …
Mr. Gray infuses his straightforward 70-minute interview treatment with tension, suspense and drama. A third character, Norm Hansen is a 60-year-old straight married board member of Pendarvi…
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"I'll be delivering the longest soliloquy from any Shakespeare play," Mr. de Rogatis explained about the substitution of Richard III's celebrated opening line for a speech fr…
The cast list in the program reads more like a medieval phone-directory--even if there were no phones in the Middle Ages--than it does a dramatis personae. And then there's what happens to t…
Rebecca Aparicio's book is a skillful fictionalization of the true story of Operation Pedro Pan, which facilitated the immigration of over 14,000 children from Cuba to the United States betw…
After establishing himself as one of our finest playwrights with such works as "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts seems to have somewhat lost his way with his more recent "…
Naharin is known for having "invented" a movement language called Gaga. Frankly, I've never been able to distinguish Gaga from any other movement palette. If Gaga means disconnected …
Structured as a series of confessional vignettes, Innit begins in the school psychologist's office and alternates between there and Kelly's home. Her 34-year-old mother works at a sandwich s…
Though designed as an agitprop exploration with one woman as "Bad" and the other as "Good," Ms. Brennan's simple yet effective writing elevates it into a quietly powerful work. The dialogue …
Charlotte Moore's version streamlines the plot somewhat from Lerner's original by eliminating Daisy's fiancé for whom she wants to quit smoking as well as a subplot with Greek shipping magn…
Filloux in collaboration with director Amy S. Green have distilled the raw data they gathered into a searing and poignant narrative containing absurdist flourishes that include a talking lab…
Add to this list Mike Lew's new witty and clever "Teenage Dick" (being given its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with the Public Theater), both an update and a parody …
Bahareh Yaraghi as Mrs. Laura Cheveley and Brad Hodder as Lord Arthur Goring in a scene from "The Ideal Husband" (Photo credit: Emily Cooper) David Kaufman, Critic Though The Importance of B…
Sixtyish Eric Miller is an angry white man, hating Catholics, Blacks, homosexuals, women, and other groups. He has also become very nationalistic. He not only wants to tell the world, he thi…
Mr. Kahn's dialogue is a witty amalgam of up to the minute lingo, well-observed lifestyle data, psychological insights and emotional depth that all realistically and artfully conveys the cha…
Using a tremendously talented and versatile cast of nine actors (three black male actors, three black female actors, as well as three white performers) playing from three roles to 12, the st…
The unison of Jason Robert Brown's accomplished score, Kate Whoriskey's exciting direction and Rennie Harris's vibrant choreography make this New York City Center Encores! Off-Center's re…
Unlike the musicals "Rent" (an update on Puccini's "La Boheme"), and "Miss Saigon' (inspired by Puccini's "Madame Butterfly") both of which had all new music by other composers for their con…
With Miles Malleson's 1925 "Conflict," being given its New York premiere, the Mint has uncovered a brilliant political and social drama which has tremendous relevance for today with its diss…
This is "God Save Queen Pam"'s world premiere and though spirited, it's sluggish at a full length of two and half hours with an intermission. There's repetitiousness, extraneousness and …
Harmon's new play resembles "Admissions," his last New York offering seen at Lincoln Center this March, in that it debates a topic from many sides but then fails to give us the author's poin…
For 85 minutes, we get a take on the gay male experience that includes a randy Midwestern adolescence, waitering and escorting in Manhattan, crystal meth and recovery. Â The writing is wel…
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a unique new voice in the American theater. Her use of metatheater is all her own. "Fairview" has a great deal to say about race in America and the angle you see thi…
