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Page 73's world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s "Man Cave" is an exciting, riveting supernatural horror story. While at times it seems overwrought and overstuffed with too many issues, Ta…
The world premiere of Peter Gil-Sheridan's "This Space Between Us" gives itself away in its title: it is about a dysfunctional family that does nothing but argue when they get together. Jona…
Aleshea Harris' third New York stage play following her form-bending "Is God Is" and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" is epic in all senses of the word: it includes poetry, dance, incanta…
The production is a combination of film and theater techniques which keep reminding us that we are watching a dramatization: realistic sets (designed by Jacquelyn Scott) give way to scenes i…
You may have never thought about it before but you are defined by your language. Your identity is shaped by the words you have and the words you don't. You can say certain things in one lang…
The Mint Theater Company which gave the first New York production of "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," Lawrence's best play and one of the great British tragedies of modern drama, has revived …
Because of changing social mores, some Broadway musicals are assumed to make audiences uncomfortable today. Take for example Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" whose protagonist is a wife-…
"Black No More," the new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler's 1931 Afrofuturist novel, is the most exciting and inventive new show to be seen so far this season in New York though it is …
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: not only pu…
Hansol Jung's "Wolf Play" is a fantasy on several levels but it is also rather confusing in its details. Inspired by the true case of an Asian adoptee who was "re-homed" on the Internet when…
The new opera, "Intimate Apparel" is a very impressive, accessible work. If it has a fault, it is completely humorless but then the original play did not include comic relief either. Unlike …
Joshua Harmon's latest play, the dense, untidy, brilliant and timely Prayer for the French Republic, is his most ambitious, epical play covering five generations of one French Jewish family …
Warning: "Shhhh," a world premiere commissioned by Atlantic Theater Company from Clare Barron, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner for "Dance Nation," may just be the most visceral play you w…
While Gordon has said in interviews that his model for the music was Puccini, in fact, the atonal orchestral score sounds more like operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd and Dominick …
The songs which are mainly sung by Alex Boniello (usually with a guitar) and Molly Hager as the ghostly narrators are folk ballads which though lovely sound like a continuation of the same s…
"Ectoplasm" counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women's rights, prostitution, women's suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums " and the love that …
Her nine years on SNL would seem excellent preparation for "Search" which requires her to portray ten different characters alternately. However, although Strong has tremendous stage presence…
Not only is this a puppet show but it is also an extended concert. This year's vocalists are Valois Mickens, of West African, Celtic, and Native American origin, Â and Katarina Vizina, a t…
David Lindsay-Abaire's early plays ("Fuddy Meers," "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Wonder of the World") were all whimsical or at least otherworldly. He has gone on to create musicals based on previo…
"Flying Over Sunset," Pulitzer Prize-winning bookwriter/director James Lapine's new original show, is a "What If?" musical: using historical facts that are known about writer and philosopher…
This theatrical genius, responsible for the Tony Award winning plays "War Horse," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and the most recent revival of "Angels in America," knew…
Although Candace Bushnell's one-woman show, "Is There Still Sex in the City?," shares the same name with her 2019 novel/self-help book, the stage show now at the Darryl Roth Theatre is her a…
It appears that the later play was modeled on the earlier one though it may not have been noticed back in 1997 when "Sympathetic Magic" had its New York premiere. Both plays deal with discov…
As the manager of the restaurant, Aduba gives one of those big performances which are larger than life, but we have all met that type of people. She batters, insults, cajoles, berates her st…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as "A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and …
