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The Mint Theater Company, in its relentless search for forgotten dramatic plums still ripe for the picking, has come up with another juicy one in Cicely Hamilton’s 1911 British dramedy, "P…
As the play progresses, these interactions, both between and across the couples, give the non-human observers and the audience plenty of drama and intrigue to witness. The character defects …
Brody, the director, has the unenviable task of making Yee’s deliberately unstable theatrical architecture feel like a coherent evening rather than an assortment of comic sketches held tog…
Ryan J. Haddad’s deliciously comic but ultimately poignant "Good Time Charlie" having its world premiere at The Public Theater is his first non-monologue play. This time he uses seven acto…
Matt de Rogatis as Bjorn Faulkner and Hannah Beemer as Lady Justice and the company of the Ruth Stage production of Ayn Rand’s “Night of January 16th” at Theatre Row (Photo credit: Gab…
Set in London in the summer of 2016, when Brexit looms and the world seems to be tilting toward a new and more openly hostile political order, "Fish" follows a young woman whose efforts to e…
The verdict: "Midnight" is memorable for its thoughtful theme, unusually powerful vocal ensemble, its engaging (if repetitious) score, imaginative staging, and visual delights. However, its …
A good deal of the interplay comes from the clash between the famously combative Kramer and the cool, scientific Fauci. Kramer criticizes Fauci for saying that science has to work slowly to …
"Soon" is a timely attempt to deal with climate change while wedding it to more personal happenings in a person’s life. Writing book, music and lyrics, Nick Blaemire could have used anothe…
In Tom Rowan’s "Burning Leaves," a play of considerable tenderness and moral complexity, the distance between being someone’s inspiration and becoming someone’s responsibility proves b…
It matters little that the situations are obviously old-hat, contrived, and manipulative; the African setting (with attendant accents) gives it a delightful twist, it’s written with wit, a…
"Our Sinatra, A Musical Celebration" which was first seen in 1999 at the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room and then moved to the Blue Angel Theatre and later the Reprise Room for a total run of 1…
Playwright Williams begins with an image whose simplicity makes its horror all the more immediate. Sharon, eight years old, hurries home after her birthday, intent on claiming the remaining …
"After All These Years" is a new sophisticated musical revue paying tribute to the songs of Al Tapper who has been in the business for five decades with the composer/lyricist narrating the s…
"The Edge Motel" is a well-crafted, intricately plotted play. And playwright Tom Rowan certainly has a good feel for dialogue. (He’s a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, whose work I…
"Arias with a Twist," the title of this production, is a clever pun. On the one hand, it simply describes the collaboration of two justly-celebrated talents: Joey Arias, a performance artist…
At the center of this improbable vessel is David Greenspan, who gives one of those performances that make the phrase “command of language” sound insufficiently imposing. As the elderly H…
The major problem with director Joan Kane’s production is that the play is too slow and sluggish, needing to be faster and more breakneck. As a result, the jokes don’t land as the audien…
Before 2017 and the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies were allowed to discriminate against domestic violence survivors (including rape) as having a pre-existing condition. First time …
What playwright and director Simon Stone does with "The Cherry Orchard" is less a conventional modernization than a cultural transplant: Anton Chekhov’s doomed Russian estate becomes a gli…
Sarah Jones has spent two decades turning the one-person show into an exercise in theatrical multiplication. In "America, Who Hurt You?," she fills the Polonsky Shakespeare Center with a spr…
Fresh from a successful run earlier this year, "Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon" conceived by John Lewin is back by popular demand at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, replete with…
Actress Elizabeth Marvel and director Lee Sunday Evans’ "The Ford/Hill Project," a docudrama first seen in New York in 2024 which uses the verbatim text of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas S…
A multi-day hike is supposed to be restorative: an interval in which the civilized world recedes, the body remembers that it has muscles, and the mind, deprived of its usual electronic distr…
Don’t believe all you hear: Damien Warren-Smith appearing as his alter ego Garry Starr in Classic Penguins is entirely in the nude. However, all the ads say he covers all 1,000+ Penguin pa…
