First Nighter: Cheryl Stern's "Shoes and Baggage" Lively Clothes-Horse Confession by David Finkle

If you loved Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which opened off-Broadway in 2009 and is the Nora Ephron and Delia...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 2:03pm on May 13, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Melissa Errico, Richard Troxell in the Richard Rodgers-Stephen Sondheim "Do I Hear a Waltz?" by David Finkle

What can be said is that the results are right up there with some of the best scores Rodgers helped turn out -- and Sondheim's agile words are also among his most devilishly clever.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 5:34pm on May 12, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016 by David Finkle

The team's approach here is to keep everything from stopping to settle on one aspect. Not only do their rhapsodic melodies

SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 12:52am on May 9, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016 by David Finkle

When I watched it at a press preview and after maybe 60 or 70 minutes it ended, I was raring for it to start all over again

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:52am on May 9, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016 by David Finkle

If you're the kind of musical lover who gets discerning every once in a while, preferring something other than one boffo number...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:52am on May 9, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: What the Tony Nominees Have to Say forThemselves by David Finkle

Christopher Fitzgerald, sporting a pair of spanking-new black-and-white running shoes, isn't going to comment when I ask

SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 9:10pm on May 7, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: What the Tony Nominees Have to Say forThemselves by David Finkle

This is director Marshall Mason, who founded the Circle Repertory Company in the early 1960s and has contributed immeasurably

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:10pm on May 7, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: What the Tony Nominees Have to Say forThemselves by David Finkle

Michael Shannon, sitting in a tufted, black leather chair on rollers, is trying to get comfortable with it. Shifting in...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:10pm on May 7, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Jordan Jaffe's 'Crude' Drills the Oil Industry by David Finkle

While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's Crude, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I was on going into t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08pm on May 4, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Jordan Jaffe's 'Crude' Drills the Oil Industry by David Finkle

While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's <i>Crude</i>, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08pm on May 4, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Richard Bean's Workplace "Toast" is Nicely Buttered, Dostoevsky's "Idiot" Transferred Giddily to the Stage by David Finkle

In redacting The Idiot Lyons and Marting have concentrated on the complicated, bordering-on-ludicrous love-hate relationships

SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 11:42pm on May 3, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Richard Bean's Workplace "Toast" is Nicely Buttered, Dostoevsky's "Idiot" Transferred Giddily to the Stage by David Finkle

What will happen? Will agreeable Nellie venture into a hot-oven area to retrieve the tin and possibly scorch himself, or

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42pm on May 3, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Richard Bean's Workplace "Toast" is Nicely Buttered, Dostoevsky's "Idiot" Transferred Giddily to the Stage by David Finkle

Call them gang comedy-dramas, if you like. The truth is, you might want to get in the habit, because they appear to...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42pm on May 3, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: St. Ann's "Streetcar Named Desire" Leaves a Certain Amount to Be Desired by David Finkle

Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb A Street...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:48pm on May 1, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: St. Ann's 'Streetcar Named Desire' Leaves a Certain Amount to Be Desired by David Finkle

Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb <em>A Street Car Named Desire</em>, now transported to St. Ann's Wareh…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:48pm on May 1, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Red Bull Theater's "School for Scandal" Resoundingly Rings the Bell by David Finkle

Jesse Berger has been devoting his Red Bull Theater company to presenting first-rate productions of the classics, which...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10am on April 26, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Red Bull Theater's "School for Scandal" Resoundingly Rings the Bell by David Finkle

Not when Barber, amusingly pinched mouthed, is on the boil. Or when Mr. Snake is bowing and scraping in an architecturally

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10am on April 26, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Musicalized "American Psycho" Frighteningly Beautiful to Behold but Insufficiently Psychotic by David Finkle

No, American Psycho, an imported Almeida and Headlong production, is not about the current Republican presidential campaign. On the...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:51pm on April 21, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Alice Birch's 'Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again' Introduces the Feminist Absurd by David Finkle

Yoo-hoo, theater cognoscenti! Remember Theater of the Absurd, the new strain of writing that--to fall into reviewer's clichés--burst on the scene in the 1950s? That's when playwrights lik…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48pm on April 19, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Agatha Christie's "and Then There Were None" in Smashing New Treatment by David Finkle

According to some statistics, And Then There Were None is bestselling Agatha Christie's all-time bestseller. It's been filmed more than once, perhaps the favorite adaptation until recently b…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 4:24pm on April 19, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Dena Blizzard's "One Funny Mother," Neal Brennan's "3 Mics" by David Finkle

It's been a while since Roseanne Barr flaunted her domestic-goddess self before the public. Therefore, room should exist for...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:37pm on April 14, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Dena Blizzard's 'One Funny Mother,' Neal Brennan's '3 Mics' by David Finkle

It's been a while since Roseanne Barr flaunted her domestic-goddess self before the public. Therefore, room should exist for Dena Blizzard, as Miss New Jersey of 1995, no less, who's now cr…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:37pm on April 14, 2016☆⚑

First Night: Van Gogh Lovers Will Want to See Leonard Nimoy's 'Vincent' by David Finkle

If you're searching for an example of genuine brotherly love, you don't start with Cain and Abel. Perhaps the choicest place to look is Vincent and Theo Van Gogh.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 5:26pm on April 13, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: Ike Holter's 'Exit Strategy' About Failing Public Schools Not Sufficiently Strategic by David Finkle

The picture of the astonished, speechless faculty members is accompanied by a devastating sound effect that designer Daniel Perelstein unleashes. Once and for all, the deafening blare drive…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43pm on April 12, 2016☆⚑

First Nighter: The Royal Shakespeare Company Turns Four Shakespeare History Plays into Solid Gold by David Finkle

Anyone devoted to William Shakespeare and, specifically, to his history plays had better make plans instantly to see The Royal Shakespeare Company's King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cyc…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 4:14pm on April 5, 2016☆⚑