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With her honeyed and smoky Texan vocal inflections, wearing a short-haired lustrous brown wig and costume designer Rhonda Key's gleaming trim white suit, actress Lisa Hodsoll is phenomenal a…
Sean Dorsey is a transgender and queer choreographer whose movement palette in "The Missing Generation" is a gentle, swirling combination of twisty, floor-bound, organic movements with a ric…
Harrison's dialogue is well-crafted and often in setup punchline mode peppered with plentiful pop culture references that falls flat. The overall effect is of a rote accumulation of touchsto…
Although the advance publicity for Ben Josephson's "The Property" refers to it as a comedy, there is nothing funny about it, neither jokes nor comic situations. In fact, the heroine's desper…
Jennifer Muller, of Jennifer Muller/The Works, whose artistic history includes a long association with José Limon, provided "Shock Wave," a world premiere to a cello-heavy score by Gordon W…
One special feature of this concert was also a mark of C4's maturity and clout as a musical organization with a well-deserved reputation for excellence: they sponsor the IGNITE commissioning…
The audience is frequently called upon to participate onstage and from their seats with one elaborate portion involving their driver's licenses. London vacation photos of Mr. Beckman, a guar…
The theme running through the four works presented, three of them New York premieres, was of sadness and anger. Even "Folded Prism" by Thang Dao, an abstract dance work, had an unsettled…
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's "Otello," Otello was white which left no reason for his jealousy if he was identical to all the Venetians around him. In the current Sh…
The show then become energized when Babatundé describes how Jefferson was discovered by a music executive when he was singing on the Texas streets while holding a tin cup. A recording contr…
Director Lucy Gram uses six actors to play 11 roles which has worked for such companies as Bedlam and Fiasco. However, here the four actresses play both men and women, three of them never ch…
Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and a "Tiny" Trump all on stage at the same time, verbally jousting with each other? Pedro Reyes' "Manufacturing Mischief" at the…
Both Kevin and Cara are single parents, which is only the beginning of the many parallels and contrasts at the heart of "Dan Cody's Yacht." Though it might come to seem overly formulaic, bot…
The chance to see Anton Chekhov's first produced play, "Ivanov," not only in the original Russian (with English surtitles) but in modern dress proves to be a revelation. Staged by Russia's S…
"This is the world of Magritte," and indeed it is. The play opens with a young woman silently appearing and wearing a flowing white gown, a derby with a flower and a pipe. This takes place o…
Part of 59E59's Brits Off-Broadway 2018 festival, Jessica Walker's "All I Want is One Night" takes place in an odd combination of cabaret and antique shop. Theater B in the 59E59 Theater…
Christopher McLinden as David and Patrick J. Ssenjovu as God's Blessing are both personable but the material inspires their overwrought characterizations to be overwrought. Musician Farai Ma…
Opdam's de Raaff playing, in contrast, was marvelous. The composer took his inspiration from Willem de Kooning's 1977 painting, "North Atlantic Light." De Raaff and Opdam both captured the d…
Though A.R. Gurney chose a familiar definition of the theater as the title for his 1992 play, "The Fourth Wall" ultimately proves less about the theater than about its four characters. And a…
Her newest work, "Fruit Trilogy," an evening of three one acts, "Pomegranate," "Avocado" and "Coconut," has all of the strengths and weaknesses of her previous stage plays which include goin…
Shakespearean spoofs are almost as old as Shakespeare himself, dating back to at least the Restoration period. Although the vast majority has faded into history, there are still some real st…
"What a dump" is the immortal opening line of Edward Albee's dramatic masterpiece, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". In the inane spoof "Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf," it's spoke…
Though it wouldn't be fair to reveal it here for audiences about to see the play, the "secret" actually turns out to be one that has been widely known for some time as it is all over the Int…
Blonde, of ample physique, and possessed of an appealing matter of fact vocal delivery that soars with range, Mollenkamp has an engaging everywoman persona. She veers from dry humor to raw e…
In the African-American Abigail, Ms. Quintana creates a complex protagonist who is sympathetic, exasperating and engaging. She is fascinated by the journalist Lorena Hickok who had a storied…
