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"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman's spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score w…
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time having …
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King's plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Golde…
While this is not an in-depth interpretation and at times seems a bit superficial, Will Pomerantz's production of "Three Sisters" is a true ensemble making it appear that these people have l…
Adam Kraar's new drama, "The Karpovsky Variations," is a memory play about a dysfunctional family of driven people and the music that inspired them. Unfortunately, in its current form it is …
Tony Valdovinos who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, was 18 before he found out that he was an undocumented immigrant. The new musical "¡Americano!" is based on the true story of his life and…
Based on historical facts, the new and exciting musical "Paradise Square" tells a story of fictional characters caught up in real events which lead up to the Draft Riots that occurred in Man…
Alice Childress' "Wedding Band," which is a difficult play to stage due to its shifts in tone, is a major rediscovery. However, it straddles a thin line between realism and romance and its p…
In "POTUS," Selina Fillinger's first Broadway comedy, all is revealed by its unwieldy subtitle ("Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive") which leaves little roo…
You would think that at the tail end of a pandemic Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" would be the perfect play for our moment. This experimental play whic…
This 2022 "Macbeth" appears to be entirely a director's project, but Sam Gold has done his actors no service with the busy activity he has added to the play. Fine actors like Daniel Craig an…
Taking the law into your own hands can be a risky business as Harry Wade and friends find out in Martin McDonagh's hilarious dark comedy "Hangmen" which finally made its Broadway debut after…
Tracy Letts' "The Minutes" is both a fine political comedy as well as an indictment of how most Americans live today. It ultimately asks us to look at our values as well as our connection to…
Playwright Martin Crimp, an adherent of the "in-yer-face" school of British playwriting, has taken Edmond Rostand's turn-of-the-last century verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, and not only blo…
Although 25 years have gone by since "Harmony" first tried out at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical about the Comedian Harmonists is still relevant…
"Birthday Candles" also has an unusual theatrical device: we follow Ernestine Ashford from 17 to 107 meeting her on her various birthdays that are depicted. Â The other characters come and…
As the most respected player in baseball, Williams has a quiet dignity and charm as a man of few words and few outward motions. While his wry remarks do not often come through as humor, he i…
The musical gets a great deal of mileage out of its humor particular in its parody of recognizable tropes. "Penelope, Or How The Odyssey Was Really Written" is an entertaining musical comedy…
On one level, "Gong Lum's Legacy" is revealing in that it demonstrates Southern racism against not only African Americans but also Chinese immigrants who were given the same treatment. On an…
Given one hour to decide and vote, the union committee must come to a decision in real time. On one level the play is very much like Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men" in which a group of dispar…
Poet and Yale professor Rankine's play makes use of a narrator/interviewer as her stand-in played by April Matthis. According to program notes by Rankine herself, "The text spoken by white p…
While Gabriel Jason Dean's "Heartland" is an enlightening play about Afghan culture mentioning the classic poet Rumi and the contemporary novelist Atiq Rahimi, some of it will still be opaqu…
As a play about neuroscience, Sam Chanse's "what you are now" needs a great deal more data and information. As a play about the plight of Cambodian refugees, what are you now needs to be cle…
Although when MasterVoices chose the third of the four Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents collaborations, "Anyone Can Whistle," as part of their 80th season at Carnegie Hall, they had no way o…
C. Julian Jiménez's "Bruise & Thorn" is not for everyone. Older theatergoers may be put off by both the raw language and street slang that they will not know. However, if you want to kn…
