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The problem with Laura Braza's production is the lack of chemistry between Vasile Flutur's Jericho and Hannah Sloat's Julie. While Jericho should be charming and seductive, Flutur is only si…
Whether bantering with the audience, displaying energetic dance moves, reciting factual details or performing Bobby Darin's signature songs, the boyish Groff was sensational. "Splish Splash,…
And that's essentially the problem with "A Kind Shot." Clocking in at 75 minutes, the "performance" feels more like a motivational speech than a theatrical event. It's well-meaning and well-…
Soviet born actor Ilia Volok is quite personable and definitely commands the stage; his performance is heroic but it is so intense and his accent is often intrusive. Comical and sensitive po…
The main event, however, is the performance of Harris who doesn't just imitate Baker but uses her own gifts to illuminate the multitalented cult figure. It's as if Baker has brought out …
"NEW BODIES" (2016) choreographed by Melnick was initiated by Sara Mearns in a summer workshop at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Skilled classical ballet dancers who were interested in expan…
Kyoung H. Park's "Pillowtalk" mixes the mysteries of passionate, but flawed, love with the realities of racism in today's society, specifically, Brooklyn, New York, where Sam (Basit Sh…
Murky, glacial and hypnotic, "Sheila" is a dreamy reunion drama among two 28-year-old women who haven't seen each other in 10 years. It recalls the sort of off-beat female-centric play direc…
Ms. Orlandersmith skillfully organizes the material into short monologues that are revelatory, insightful and often tinged with humor. Â Visually striking with her animated facial features…
John Haidar's energized production turns this material into a tour de force for Campbell and Lynch who are continually moving about spewing volumes of words, almost choreographed by movement…
Dull, smug and interminable," The Undertaking" is a multimedia play written by Steve Cosson that explores the meaning of death. Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp and Greek mythology are tr…
But in John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, Lithgow tells an even more compelling tale about growing up with his father Arthur Lithgow, an actor who taught Shakespeare even as he opened and ran S…
With the support of film director, screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute, the St. Louis Actors' Studio has held an annual festival of one-act plays since 2013. This is the third year t…
Another irony is that while Fury is kind of a bore, another character is not. Yeah, you guessed it. Him. When the president (David O. Friedman) appears in Fury's bedroom like the Ghost of Ch…
Darryl Reilly, Critic Harold Pinter "He's a fucking fine actor," said Harold about the actor who had just ruined an otherwise excellent production. "It's a fucking hard job, acting. I've don…
Yazbek's songs"ranging from the darkly comic "Welcome to Nowhere" (sung by the town folk) to Dina's romantically tinged "Omar Sharif" and ending with the upbeat, danceable "Concert" played a…
Playwright Robert O'Hara's fertile premise might have made for a provocative, sober sci-fi take on gender roles, sexuality and parenthood. Instead, it's broadly conceived and lame. The flat …
The famous Chinese ability to subsume themselves in crowds was evident in the flowing choreography for the mass "flight" of the Ibis across the stage. The precision of the corps de balle…
Shaw employs the gruff cadences of George C. Scott and Weaver has the calm and measured tone of Peter Sellers and both are thoroughly delightful. Their tremendous rapport is most evident…
Washington, D.C.'s acclaimed Happenstance Theater is making is New York debut with its 2015 show "BrouHaHa," which has been seen previously in Baltimore, Maine and New Haven. Taking for its …
Darryl Reilly, Critic Doric Wilson circa 2011. "Making magic out of nothing," is how Doric Wilson described his 50-year devotion to the penury of alternative theater. Why am I writing about …
Along with some contemporary updating which always gets a laugh, Albert Bergeret's direction is sharp and shrewd and his conducting of Sullivan's sprightly and animated score is equally assu…
Darryl Reilly, Critic It is not widely known that among Frank Langella's many accolades, including four Tony Awards, there was also a hat named after him. In the winter of 2003, after Sunday…
The set for the opera was itself a living, organic phenomenon; it functioned as an additional character in the opera. IONE sat near the moveable stage-flats; her back was to the audience, ye…
Chen Yi's music is, in the best possible sense, powerful: it affirms. Musicians and audience alike, at the end of each piece, are strengthened in the continuing determination to do one's bes…
