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Esperance Theater Company's artistic director Ryan Quinn directed the production. Mr. Quinn's inventive staging is vigorous and aesthetic yielding in visually charged sequences that energize…
All the good jokes get lost in the onslaught of cast members vying for their moments and looking for the audience's approval, which admittedly was offered freely.  "Bitches" becomes c…
They're friends in the present. Someone picks up yellowed newspaper articles from the past. Then we're in New York City's Lower East Side in 1911. We meet the spunky 13-year-old Roselia.…
Of the twelve soloists, several were outstanding. Tenor Scott Mello's "Nigra Sum" was a virtuosic, romantically charged reveling in sensuality. The soprano duet, "Pulchra Es," with Molly Qui…
Jordan Harrison's "The Amateurs" is certainly an ambitious new play acted to the hilt by its cast of six. However, at times it bites off more than it can handle, at other times its anachroni…
Thus begins the unique show, "Black Light," which is a concert cum confessional. In her sequenced gowns--and there are five costume changes during the 90-minute performance--and with her red…
"Candide"'s giddy overture was of course the euphoric opening number of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists Series: "Lenny's Lyricists." This was a splendid concert celebrating…
"Subways Are for Sleeping" is a valentine to New York and projection designer Lacey Erb has created atmospheric slides and streaming video of such iconic locations as Grand Central Station, …
Author Lizzie Vieh's brilliant play "The Loneliest Number" initially appears to be a slight off-beat comedy about a swinging couple's encounters but after its first third evolves into a prof…
Lila Neugebauer has directed these two one-acts to bring out their naturalism. In the past, "The Zoo Story" was usually performed with an odd, surreal quality. Neugebauer has given the c…
In the moving and affirmative final sequence, journal entries from 1989 to 1990 are projected as text that details deaths of friends. Kelly is on the floor silently drawing shapes with white…
In the semi-autobiographical "Terminus," part of a seven-play cycle set in the fictional town of Attapulgus, Georgia, playwright Gabriel Jason Dean unleashes this intriguing Southern Gothic …
But "Reference" is also about issues of gender, race, age, celebrity, politics, economics, and the inescapable impact of the Internet--and more specifically, social media--on the ways busine…
Conceived by the Axis Company, this treatment oddly renames the characters which is just one of its many baffling qualities that perhaps seeks to comment on the present. It's really "High No…
Although an interesting idea, James Inverne's "A Walk With Mr. Heifetz" has lofty ambitions which it is unable to fulfill. While the advertisement proclaims that these two encounters "change…
Songs jostle with playlets, usually with topical references.  This is a good lineage to be part of and "Broad Comedy," the bumpy new show at the SoHo Playhouse, succeeds mostly due to…
Marcus Gardley's "X: Or, Betty Shabazz V. The Nation" is a powerful indictment of forces within a movement which help to destroy it. Performed by The Acting Company under the direction of Ia…
Director Jessica Burr's fast-paced yet thoughtful staging includes over-lapping dialogue, rapid entrances and exits all over the space and striking visual flourishes. Ms. Burr's tremendous g…
"Body" dovetails Ensler's personal agonizing battle with cancer and her involvement with a feminist group in the Democratic Republic of Congo where women have faced violence, rape and almost…
Equally exciting is Lorelei's celebration of each of the ensemble's individual voices. Peter Gilbert's "Tsukimi (Moon Viewing)," commissioned by Lorelei and premiered in 2013, offers each of…
The cast seems to have been mostly chosen for their comic skills rather than their singing skills. Nevertheless, Josh Waldren and Matthew Fairless as the visiting travelers turn "Dear Old Sy…
The sense of good, old-fashioned suspense is heightened by director Matthew Dunster, who also helps delineate the spot-on performances by the four remaining cast members--and regulars at Har…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: three people walk into a bar where they are known by the drinks they order. Only in Kate Benson's new play "[Porto]," the unnamed bar is in a gentrif…
The homeowner Pete is wearing gym shorts and a T-Shirt and is a biology teacher with an Associate's Degree who wanted to be a paleontologist. Bo is his childhood best friend. Pete has broken…
"Bar Mitzvah Boy" may not be a top-drawer Jule Styne musical, but Jack Rosenthal's original story and David Thompson's new book are excellently observed to have the ring of truth. The family…
