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Despite its formulaic story, "I Like It Like That" is quite exhilarating with its sensational salsa renditions as performed by its appealing cast and excellent band.
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Obie award-winning playwright José Rivera is an Oscar nominee for his adapted screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries." For this adaptation, he has set "The Maids" (which premiered in Paris…
The scenic design by Brett Banakis is a functional, minimalist configuration of a slightly raised wooden performance platform surrounded by a wooden frame dotted with small antlers suggestin…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for," said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating the…
Grand highlights of Mr. Horton's dynamic work includes an analysis of "Animal Farm" while he erases the novel's seven animal commandments that are written on a blackboard as they are overtur…
Gentili and Davis riotously appear together in a confrontational scene that's similar in style to one of Tennessee Williams' outlandish later works written during his 1960's drug fueled "Sto…
Headsets are on the backs of the audience's seats when they arrive and which they are asked to wear throughout the show. The stage is set with a desk, several microphones and many water bot…
The playwright sets the action in Turner's jail cell where he's chained up, visited by Gray, and overseen by a guard, the night before his execution. Mr. Davis states that this situation is…
"All the Ways to Say I Love You" is refreshingly free of this formula. The incidents are straightforwardly depicted and the circular conclusion is simple. LaBute palatably sets up the situ…
Writer and director Peter Darney's script is based on and intertwines over 50 hours of interviews with gay men contacted through the gay social media site Grindr. From this real life materi…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "She creeps me out!" quipped Hedda Lettuce upon the appearance of wild-eyed Eve Harrington wearing her trench coat and funny hat. When Margo Channing roared, "Fasten yo…
"Safe" is crammed with so much dysfunction and adolescent angst that if its adult language were excised it would make a perfect "ABC Afterschool Special," if those were still being produced.…
Playwright Ana Nogueira has a facility for often arch dialogue but not much else. The play's potentially promising sci-fi premise is undermined by its bizarre vagueness. Not only do the le…
Playwright Julia Cho has crafted an engaging and universal work that unevenly blends reality with mysticism. The characters are all very well delineated and the dialogue is flavorful and re…
Director Kira Simring's superior staging theatrically presents the play's complicated situations with clarity and surrealistic flourishes. Characters often enter and exit through unlikely p…
Besides achieving sensitive and strong performances from the cast, director David Drake masterfully fulfills the playwright's intentions with his lively and brisk staging. The collaborative…
Gwenllian Higginson and Michael Humphrey in a scene from "The Good Earth" (Photo credit: Tom Flannery) Darryl Reilly, Critic "Then there's the queen and she lives in Buckingham Palace in Eng…
"Crashlight" is a musical that is so inept that the recurring age-old mental question while watching it is, "What were they thinking?" The "King Lear"-style eye gouging sequence in the seco…
The dynamic cast is made up of Marquis Gibson, Lauren Shaye, Nicole Stacie and Christian Lee Branch. These four very talented performers all portray numerous characters during this 75-minut…
Writer Gustavo Pace is the handsome, youthful and animated performer of this autobiographical exploration. He loudly rattles on in Portuguese and English while adequately portraying himself…
The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre presents this production. Since 2012, they have produced a number of the author's works in New York City and for this one it was decided to condense …
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Speak up! Don't look at the floor! When you're onstage I want to see your talent not your training!" were among the sharp comments that Aaron Frankel bellowed at stude…
Thomas G. Waites has a long list of major credits that go back to the film "The Warriors" in 1979. As Austin, he gives one of the strangest performances in memory. It's a monotonously upbe…
"We're actually going to be talking about 14th century Italian literature," proclaims BenDeLaCreme near the start of his/her entertaining multimedia solo show" BenDeLaCreme's Inferno A-Go-Go…
The charming and charismatic Broadway leading man Santino Fontana performs the role of Elliot Rosewater with as much commitment as if he were playing J. Pierrepont Finch. Mr. Fontana's perf…
