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As regular Curtainup readers know, plays with just one performer holding the stage aren't exactly my favorite things. Yet, every now and then along comes a new addition to this genre that co…
With Wilde's classic comedy produced so many times that it's hard not to stifle a yawn at the idea of yet another production. Therefore you can't fault director David Hyde Pierce for wanting…
Summer 2012 Reviews The Importance of Being Earne…
Summer 2012 Reviews Fiddler on the Roof - What …
What a way for Barrington Stange to launch its 2012 Main Stage season! Broadway veteran Brad Oscar as a brilliantly nuanced Teyve, with more than two dozen performers to play his wife, five …
Despite my quibbles with this revival of Charles Busch's Manhattan satire, it should find a ready audience among Berkshirites looking for light summer fare
The title of Mark Roberts' tragi-comedy now in its East Coast premiere at Shakespeare & Co's second stage symbolizes the traumas that have haunted two brothers and their sister. Roberts, has…
The Signature Theatre Center will be a film buffs' home. called Signature Cinema. The idea is to showcase films written by playwrights and films tha…
Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles were both serious, highly respected and prolific journalists, but their fledgling (and only) play was intended as a light-hearted romantic spoof . .
According to the preface to Annie Baker's version of Chekhov's Vanya, whether it's a translation or adaptation depends on how the viewer defines the terms adaptation and translation. Actuall…
You might want to vcheck out one of 3 FREE performances of a Noel Coward revue by musical theater …
The Most Happy Fella - DiCapo Opera's four-week run of Frank Loesser's classic musical is a rare chance to hear it sung unplugged . . . Read More
Harvey - It's great to see Jim Parsons bringing more young people to the theater. If smart casting like this can help to make all Roundabout shows and not just …
DiCapo Opera's four-week run of Frank Loesser's classic musical is a rare chance to hear it sung unplugged
- It's great to see Jim Parsons bringing more young people to the theater. If smart casting like this can help to make all Roundabout shows and not just their worthy $20 black box production…
Latest Off-Broadway Reviews. . . Rapture, Bliste…
As a genre, this takes a page from George Bernard Shaw's discussion plays. Yes, that means lots of talk. But it's good talk and, never tediously talky since Gina Gionfriddo has an impressive…
The Atlantic Theater's long time home in a former church has just undergone an $8.3 million renovation. I can't think of a more apt play to initiate its main stage ithan John Patrick Shan…
Big Tony Winners (L-R): A scene from Best Play Clybourne Park. . .Nina Arianda Best Performance in Venus in Fur. . .Steve Kazee Best Performance with also nominated co-star Cri…
Food and Fadwa - . . . The volatile West Bank setting with its check points, curfews and long history of hostilities adds a strong and geographically specific politi…
After two and a half hours of watching Sir Ralph, a sword wielding killer knight with a conscience, pursue his quest for his better self the best way to sum this up is to paraphrase Ralp…
The volatile West Bank setting with its check points, curfews and long history of hostilities adds a strong and geographically specific political flavor to this collaboration with Noor Theat…
Pictured above scenes from recently reviewed. . . My Children! My Africa!- The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hu…
The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hudson beautiful, subtly directed production and the impassioned performances manage to make this a moving look ba…
Wednesday, May 23, 2012Latest Reviews & Features February House This musical sketchbook of Brooklyn's ar…
