A Child's Christmas in Wales 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly Over the course of just over an hour, the actors enact Dylan Thomas' classic prose work of his childhood recollections interspersed with their sweet performance…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Over the course of just over an hour, the actors enact Dylan Thomas' classic prose work of his childhood recollections interspersed with their sweet performance…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Victor Morales enters and introduces himself and notes that we are at Dixon Place. Mr. Morales who created this piece is stocky, bald, bespectacled, and posses…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Bejeweled codpieces, sequined thongs, taut bustiers, powdered wigs, elaborate masks, frock coats, tutus, and leather harnesses, are among the eye-catching eleme…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Author Jane Martin has taken the familiar dramatic staple of a love story between two clashing opposites and rendered it compellingly here. There are plot twis…
This post is by Darryl Reilly From offstage we hear the hyperbolic exclamations of a young man, Copious Fairchild, as he masturbates mixed with the soundtrack of a television cooking show. …
This post is by Darryl Reilly Ms. Rush is also the performer and she is stupendous. In addition to playing Bernadette, she portrays a gallery of characters she encounters. These include he…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" appears to be a titular and stylistic inspiration. Like that classic …
This post is by Darryl Reilly Sergio Trujillo's exhilarating choreography is a ceaseless extravaganza of mostly Salsa numbers. The costumes by designer ESosa are appropriately heavy on gli…
This post is by Darryl Reilly The energizing conceit of the play is its reliance on audience participation that adds considerably to the entertainment. During the action, the audience gets …
This post is by Darryl Reilly Ms. Nielsen has long been a treasured award-winning fixture of the New York stage with her quirky idiosyncratic comedic and dramatic talents. Here as the omnipo…
This post is by Darryl Reilly On Union Street" with music by Wesley Whatley is the lively and wistful opening track of the delightful jazz based recording, The Hope of Christmas. It is perf…
This post is by Darryl Reilly "The golden age of transportation!" intoned the ebullient, mellifluous, mutton-chopped ringmaster John Kennedy Kane. Clad in a red and black striped waistcoat …
This post is by Darryl Reilly The musical first appeared in 1966 at the small historic Off-Off Broadway performance space Café Cino in New York City's Greenwich Village as "Dames at Sea, or…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Though it touches on complex societal issues during this turbulent time period in the United States, the show's overall lack of depth depicting these conditions…
This post is by Darryl Reilly With its realistic and detailed dialogue, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's very well constructed script is a superior work of playwriting containing many humorous and movin…
This post is by Darryl Reilly The downstairs of the gay leather bar, The Eagle, has been configured into a runway-style performance space with rows of white folding chairs. This setup is fo…
This post is by Darryl Reilly This is the fault of director Daniel Aukin who also staged it at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Besides obtaining just competent performances from his cast…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Heavyset and with a sullen countenance, Mr. Marinelli plays Trey by ably conveying the character's melancholy and witty expressiveness. The charming John Carha…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Mr. Maloney is a veteran character actor of stage and screen with New York City theater credits going back to 1964. This leading role of Hugh Pugh is a marvelo…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Mr. Farmer has crafted a suspenseful and gripping tale based on the reality of child abduction with mythical overtones. The dialogue is very fine and is evocat…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Two bearded and long-haired pony-ailed men in dark gray space suits with black Velcro patches appear as the lights come up. For the next ten minutes, they wrest…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Before its increasing gentrification, the Lower East Side was an outpost of creative expression. That the BREAD Arts Collective theater company presents this wo…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Playwright Dewey Moss has crafted a well structured, taut, and seemingly conventional romance among clashing cultures that shockingly switches gears. Inventivel…
This post is by Darryl Reilly With the quirky poignancy of Lanford Wilson, the ferociousness of Edward Albee, and the farcical precision of Alan Ayckbourn, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach's s…
This post is by Darryl Reilly Director Kareem Fahmy is also ambiguously credited as "Co-Developer." Mr. Fahmy's staging is purposeful when it grapples with the problematic first act and does…