999 stories by "Darryl Reilly"
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Dressed in black slacks, a sequined white blouse and a gray blazer, the svelte, energetic, and soon to be 78 year-old Tony Award-winning stage and television st…
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If "In Bed With Roy Cohn" were seen at a theater event such as The New York Fringe Festival, it could be viewed as a promising offbeat creation. But as a commer…
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A titanic ensemble of six highly talented actors plays the prisoners as well as multiple roles including females with slight costume changes. Derrick Baskin, N…
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Mr. Urban does an excellent job of dramatizing and explaining a complex historical situation in this fictional treatment of a real case. In 1994, Rwandan Presi…
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"I'm tired of being a prisoner in a sequined tube dress," declares actor Glenn Milstead to his legendary alter ego Divine. "The drag queen of the century is rel…
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Contemporary theater is skewered as a young Canadian gay male playwright heralds avant-garde artists in this often vitriolic and personal polemic.
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"Papa" was the elder Theodore Bikel's sobriquet to the younger members of the touring company of "Fiddler on The Roof." Mr. Bikel died at the age of 91 on July…
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"The epitomy of a true triple threat performer," was how Mr. Reineke introduced Ms. Foster. "I've never been here or sung outside with a big orchestra before" …
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"Delirium's Daughters" by Nicholas Korn is faithful to the form and figures of Commedia dell'arte. This theatrical genre is grounded in comedic improvisation a…
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Like most of the other of the author's works, the three characters here are very colorful individuals who histrionically clash with each other while verbosely e…
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Mark Vogel and Lynn Shore in a scene from "Happy 50ish" (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) My sleeping Johnson needs to wake I need a charmer for my snake This littl…
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Conveying the joyous spirit and monumental artistry of Eugene Ionesco, Nichols and May, as well as Monty Python, the clever comedy of "Odd Birdz" is universal, …
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Eric, a young man in his early 20's nervously enters through a door onstage and sits at a piano and plays. He is writing a musical about his life and is soon j…
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"Audience members are encouraged to come dressed in their best funeral attire" is in the promotional material for "Deep Love" and "Funeral Attire Recommended" i…
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His commanding voice often begins with a light and an expected approach to these often very familiar songs and then veer off into surprisingly much deeper tones…
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Sutton Foster is electrifying as Queenie the sexually insatiable nightclub performer who incites men to violence in this revival of the 2000 Off-Broadway musica…
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Wearing a red plaid shirt, black shorts, and black combat boots, the acclaimed lesbian performance artist Marga Gomez vibrantly barrels through her solo show "P…
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Mr. McPherson has written a rich and engrossing play that is appealing in it's well-crafted simplicity. Each of the five commonplace characters is precisely dr…
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By: Darryl Reilly Catherine Russell Including me there were 28 people at the Wednesday matinee on July 1, 2015, of the 11,568th performance of Perfect Crime. Th…
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The very talented and youthful Jonathan Groff is excellent as Gordon. His charming presence known from his work on stage (Spring Awakening, Hair) and on televi…
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Ms. Winkler's writing is so simple but exquisite in its execution. In twenty minutes the sad lives of the girls are deftly dramatized with a compelling range o…
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Hobbling on crutches and with one injured leg encased in a large boot, all due to a recent automobile accident, Sahr Ngaujah made a dramatic entrance from the w…
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"The Tour" follows in the success of the same company's "The Ride" that is an audience participation theatrical version of a New York City bus tour. CEO/COO Ric…
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This compelling and moving solo play recounts Yoel's gradual coming out that starts in 1986 when he was ten in Caracas. Comical and dramatic incidents in his c…
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"It's been a rough two years," Mr. Jackson observed. Deaths in his family, a disintegrating romantic relationship, and becoming sober, were all detailed during …
