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"Admissions" is often very funny like when Sherri has to try to explain why Melville's Moby Dick is not being taught anymore (a book about a white whale by a dead white guy) and when Charlie…
Eleanor Roosevelt gets the biggest round of applause during the projected cultural icons slideshow as Queen's "We Are The Champions" is histrionically performed in "Rocktopia." It's a hokey …
"Education," Brian Dykstra's new play, is an incendiary investigation into censorship, free speech and responsibility in electric theater. It purports to be about Art as a Weapon but its the…
After the four musicians connected by eye contact to exactly synchronize their 'phones, the piece began; sound emanated entirely slowly " it seemed like almost a minute before a steady somet…
Noted theater artist John Jesurun wrote the opening sequence. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Jesurun engaged in a collaboration with Japanese playwright and director Takeshi Kawamura. They each wrot…
"We'll Take a Glass Together" is an exhilarating production number. Brandon Uranowitz's animated youthfulness is up to the task of equaling the impact of Michael Jeter's legendary turn in th…
Baker's lines are spiky and colorful, often dark, sometimes banal, but his portrait of these two and the two lesser characters is always illuminating and full of real emotion. The fade-o…
Any further comparisons with the Broadway musical "Come From Away" end with the Nova Scotia setting as Chaim and Chaya quickly settle in Montreal where the 19-year-old Chaim marries the 24-y…
The lithe and silvery-haired Ms. Gilbert dazzles for 90 minutes as she addresses the audience directly with her warm and joyous presence. She tells jokes, sings, and dances, all while convey…
Bruce Norris' plays are so different from each other that you have to take his fingerprints to recognize his hand. His recent New York plays have dealt with racism and gentrification ("Clybo…
In an "Author's Note" to his play "Later Life," A.R. Gurney explains that it was inspired by "The Beast in the Jungle," a famous novella by Henry James, about a man who leads a "guarded" lif…
It would be a pleasure to say that Musicals Tonight! is going out on a high but that would not be accurate. While the book by Ronald Hanmer and Phil Park based on the play by Charles K. Free…
Mr. Graber's trite scenario is rendered as a superficial by-the-numbers treatment and the presentation is overwrought. Â Near the end there is an exchange between Jim and Gavin as they sit…
On the basis of "Is God Is," Aleshea Harris is a new voice in the American theater whose work bears watching in the future. The play is the latest in a long line of revenge stories from the …
The trouble is that there is nothing new or daring or particularly interesting about the play despite its intriguing subject matter. Â It is an old-fashioned play"think warmed over Cliffor…
Dan Hodge commandingly plays the American narrator who has written a book about his youthful experiences in Rwanda during its 1994 civil war and genocide. Mr. Hodge created the role in the 2…
Casting of Brewer (best known for her several roles on "American Horror Story"), an individual with Down syndrome, is a real coup as she doesn't have to be inventing a role she knows intimat…
Except for the frustration level of the characters, there does not seem to be a movement towards change or catharsis which may partly explain why the play seems so long. Harris and Madigan r…
Just in time for Easter, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre has adapted and combined two Christmas-themed Damon Runyon short stories into the seasonally inappropriate, but nonetheless very …
One sits there for two hours numbed by the experience of watching the talented cast often vigorously playing for laughs that aren't there. They are Rand Guerrero, Ralph Guzzo, William Laney,…
Hilariously impersonating Marlene Dietrich while playing an accordion, singing and trotting about, is one of the grand highlights of performer Phoebe Legere's "Speed Queen."Â Spanning fro…
"Jerry Springer - The Opera" is not for opera purists nor is for people who are easily offended by four letter words and other bad language of which there is a multitude. However, its irreve…
"Subway Story (A Shooting" is the fifth and final installment of William Electric Black's Gunplay Series, a sequence of plays "dedicated to all who have lost their lives to the senseless gun…
Despite some terrific acting, it's hard to root for any of the four characters in Kings, even if the play is one long competition between all of them. This smart new work by Sarah Burgess ("…
Originally titled "A Test Case" when the play had its premiere in New York in 1892, it is one of Daly's many adaptations of European successes, this one based on a German comedy of Blumentha…
