Kate Hamill's retelling also explores the seriousness with which people treat love " romantic and otherwise. Hence, this "Pride and Prejudice" is, in Hamill's words, "a screwball comedy."
"Hundred Days" celebrates Saying 'yes' to life and all its uncertainties: celebrates facing the fear of loneliness, rejection, and being able to take each other's troubles "into" each other.…
The characters and their conflicts are familiar " even more familiar than they were in the 1970s and 1980s. And the plots and subplots driven by their conflicts are even more recognizable.
Billy Crudup engages in a dramatic battle with the script and comes up the clear victor, unearthing Mr. Cale's treasures and bringing Harry Clarke to life with inexorable energy and irrepres…
"Stuffed" addresses the gamut of issues surrounding weight and its gain or loss (intentional or otherwise), including: body-image; clothing; shaming; anorexia-bulimia; dieting; therapy; favo…
The play raises rich and enduring questions regarding justice and morality; moral ambiguity; and guilt and innocence. When is it all right to lie to save one's life? How does systemic racism…
In addition to the Vietnam Jungle, the play addresses the occupied territories of the childhood home and its basement full of memories; of time and space; between characters; between charact…
Also compelling is one of Oedipus's final questions, "Do we have to believe everything they tell us?" Equally compelling is the question of the Coro, "Do we lay down and take what the world …
This is a pleasant musical that celebrates the enduring themes of love, commitment, and "being alive." The cast is uniformly engaging " all triple threats with vocal, acting, and movement …
Despite the outstanding performances of Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath, the revival of Steven Dietz's "Lonely Planet," currently running at the Keen Company at the Clurman at Theatre Row, fai…
"Time and the Conways" is a sensitive and courageous exploration of how time (the fourth dimension) teases the fifth dimension and the possibility of alternate universes where, as Alan (play…
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ERA's "Measure for Measure" successfully questions the nature and purpose of law and order and the role of the state in maintaining moral clarity.
At first glance, Philip Dawkins's "Charm," currently playing at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is a heartfelt play about Mama Darleena Andrews (played with a spirited transcenden…
Mary Jane experiences the breadth and depth of transcendence and catharsis at the play's end in a scene rich in magical realism immersed in blessed redemptive release.
Under Ms. Spencer-Jones's precise and inventive direction, the ensemble cast of "misfits" and "miscreants" deliver uniformly authentic performances that challenge the status-quo understandin…
Watching "Tiny Beautiful Things" at The Public's Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive g…
Duane Boutté, as "Charles Dickens," Michael Laurence as "Thomas Jefferson," and Thom Sesma as "Leo Tolstoy find themselves locked in what they soon discover is a "room" in Heaven " not even…
Under John Doyle's exacting direction, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. Their performances " believable and authentic " carefully explore their characters' levels of complexity and …
"The Treasurer" is a memory play narrated by The Son who attempts to "confront" his difficult mother in a long-distance relationship by phone and only succeeds in confronting his own deep-se…
Review of the Off-Broadway Play "Small World" by Frederick Stroppel
Bergur Ingolfsson directs REVOLUTION's energetic and talented cast with precision and depth. The cast creates authentic characters " not caricatures " and Mr. Ingolfsson provides convincing …
All the characters in Mr. Kane's delightful tragic-comedic drama are dancing on nails except, perhaps, Luba Fogel (Bryna Weiss) who shares the story of a man dancing on nails in the West Vil…
BEND IN THE ROAD is a delightful character-driven musical lifted from the framework of the classic 1908 novel "Anne of the Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The musical - like those bef…