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Hodges' play is quite lively with each scene dramatizing one point and the cast of characters made up entirely of real people, not all of them still famous. The real problem is with the unsu…
"Hercules Didn't Wade in the Water" is the winner of the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.'s 2017 Emerging Playwrights Competition and this is its premiere. Michael A. Jones' passionate eloquence…
Every once in a while the exactly right actor is matched with the right role and magic occurs. Such is the case with Juan Francisco Villa as the 34-year-old Tennessee Williams (before he bec…
While it's meant to be helpful, a glossary of local jargon ("Operation Crucible" is set in Sheffield, England) in the program is usually a surefire sign that you're going to have difficulty …
Ms. Atik complements her engaging contemporary scenario with creative theatricality. Interspersed are vignettes with six performers depicting the members of a nationwide pregnancy Internet m…
Although the title covers part of the plot, the play is really a trenchant social history of Britain from 1925 " 1985 in four short sequences, showing the changes that take place in one hous…
The program opened and closed with pieces for all five musicians together. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620/23-1680) both made the quartet of string…
Despite the complexity of the interactions of the people of Electchester and the poor folk at Pomonok, Kraar manages to end on a promising note. "Alternating Currents," produced under th…
Aside from being a tight domestic drama, The Jewish King Lear has several other differences from Shakespeare's tragedy. Gordin's Lear has a wife who is sorely put upon and under her husband'…
Mr. Carlyle's giddy opening is a thrilling mise-en-scène of a chorus line of servants, floating props and a grand back drop of a miniature representation of the country estate where the act…
With an enormous painted backdrop depicting London and featuring St. Paul's Cathedral and a lamppost (the glorious sets have been designed by Michael Yeargan), the musical begins as Covent G…
There's a brilliant play buried somewhere in Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," a bottom-up historical epic about the English Civil War that the acclaimed British writer d…
When Tennessee Williams started writing "Summer and Smoke," his working title for the play was "Chart of Anatomy," taken from a poem by Hart Crane. An anatomical chart becomes one of the ver…
With a Judy Collins-style mane of blonde hair and wearing jeans and suede, the sleek Luba Mason as Joy certainly looks the part. That mien is reinforced by Ms. Mason's smoothly conversationa…
The one bright spot is the 15-minute segment "Without Precedent." It's the title of Trump's imaginary HBO comedy special and is the highlight of Ezra Barnes' terrific performance as Trump. K…
To be sure, there are examples of talented playwrights who have also been able to tread the boards without tripping over their feet, or tongues. Harold Pinter, Noël Coward, Tracy Letts: t…
Ms. Barron's conception is more of an agenda driven fantastical tract rather than a well-crafted play with a cohesive plot. Her tone is of exaggeration and artifice with mannered dialogue th…
The play is narrated by Carr through his memories as an doddering 80-year-old man, returning him (and us) to his days as a 30-year-old resident of Zurich. As such he both unreliable, alterin…
After "Ruined" and then last year's "A Doll's House, Part 2,"Â Condola Rashad is fast establishing herself as one of our finest young actresses. She is presently back on Broadway, offering…
However, it's not what we normally think of as an opera. And the performance, characterized by both moving strengths and disconcerting weaknesses, unfolded, awkwardly and interestingly … a…
Denzel Washington, the raison d'être of this production (coming way too soon after several recent stagings), gives a boisterous, almost pleasant performance as Theodore Hickman, aka Hicke…
"Never judge a heifer by the flick of her tail" is just one of the many kernels of down home wisdom in playwright N. Richard Nash's lovely piece of Americana, The Rainmaker. It's been tender…
Brown called his concert, "If Not Now …?" implying, for himself and us, then, when? Removed by more than a decade from the kinds of composing in which he's now typically engaged, the piece…
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's two Alice books and cleverly choreographed by Keith Michael, the "Follies" was preceded by Byer's usual pre-show, uplifting audience-participation talk on the won…
Angela Lansbury's electrifying surprise appearance was the grandest of the many highlights of the New York Pops' sensational 35th Birthday Gala, "Part of His World: The Songs of Alan Menken.…
