999 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
"The characters in this play both the living and the dead are completely fictional." This statement explains the play's overall contrived quality. Both of the lead characters have such str…
These are among the choice zingers in playwright Anne Adams' emotionally raw, earthy and often very funny contemporary dysfunctional Texas-set, family drama, "Strange Country." This enterta…
Dressed in black slacks, a white shirt and a black vest, Ms. Wolpe demonstrates a fluid physicality and a soothing vocal expressiveness. Wolpe quite adeptly offers rich characterizations of…
Director Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…
After a less then engrossing hour of prattling and a too stylized presentation, in its last thirty minutes "The Red Room" becomes the powerful family drama it intends to be.
The post The Red…
The score that Mr. Antin composed and wrote the lyrics for is a serviceable collection of songs that could possibly have succeeded in a show about the conflicts among married couples. Wedge…
It is August 11, 2033, and there's a wild party happening because the world is ending. That's the setup of the exuberant one-hour multimedia fantasia "HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle)." Th…
At one point stumbling around in a sleep mask and wearing a colorful nightgown, the 88 year-old Estelle Parsons has a field day as the 88 year-old Evelyn, a former journalist for The Interna…
A leggy dark blonde young woman with her hair pulled up, wearing a black skirt, a patterned short gray blouse and high heels walks through the audience and onto the bare black stage. She be…
The Wheelhouse Theater Company presents this fast-paced and faithful version of the romantic classic. Co-directors Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington have inventively pared down William Shakespea…
Rolling Stone magazine's 2014 controversial article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house se…
Darryl Reilly, Critic Paul Newman as The Stage ManagerCredit: Westport Country Playhouse/Everett Collection Recently on one of the NYC Subway Art Tours that IÂ conduct (www.nycsubwaytour.c…
Chris Doi winningly conveys Ichiro's anguish and holds attention as this leading character with his emotional performance. The personable Glenn Kubota is deeply gentle as Pa, and Mr. Kubota…
Ms. Feiffer's rudimentary characters communicate by the sledgehammer approach to comedy. Until the mawkish finale there is a barrage of zingers, one-liners and vulgarisms. If a theatrical …
"Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays" is produced by the theater company A Pixie Theory and is presented as part of The Planet Connections Festivity.The stated theme of the three plays is…
First performed in 1979, this is a relatively early work by the supreme British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) who is as of this writing up to his 79th play, "Hero's Welcome.' The new pl…
Since his youthful career heyday of the 1980's with major roles on Broadway in Neil Simon plays and starring in the enduring cultural touchstone film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Mr. Broderic…
There's a cascade of military interrogations, implied torture, romantic interludes, sex talk, political sloganeering, vague reminiscences, and other semi-comprehensible digressions that fill…
This production combines the simplicity of the 1967 Off Broadway original version with the additions from the 1999 Broadway revival, using two of Mr. Lippa's songs and much of Mr. Mayer's ad…
That's the familiar set up of author Dan Moyer's engaging contemporary romantic comedy of the two-character "Half Moon Bay." As Mr. Moyer's lost souls get to know each other, personal secr…
The book is an in-depth exploration of the lives, mentalities, and views of notable writers about theater criticism in the present. It's really only for those readers fascinated by an insid…
Above the stage on a screen throughout the presentation were projected photographs illustrating Rodgers' career and appropriate backdrops for the locales of the shows. Brief insightful video…
Playwright William Francis Hoffman offers a quirky, weirdly compelling if not totally satisfying take on contemporary American life. Mr. Hoffman's dialogue is richly expressive bordering on…
Wearing a black suit, white shirt and black tie, the mature Morton with his expressive face, smooth resonant voice and fluid physicality, vividly captures the essence of "The black Lenny Bru…
"Tales Of Tinseltown" is a bouncy and affectionate pastiche of 1930's Hollywood that was inspired by Kenneth Anger notorious exposé Hollywood Babylon. The plot is a zany spoof of behind th…
