Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 1973, Len Cariou created the role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music. Playing a man described in the …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In 2005, I sat in the sixth row of the orchestra at the Walter Kerr Theatre and luxuriated in the tall talents of Cherry Jones, BrÃan F. O'Byrne, Hea…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley elucidates profound themes about family, love, loss, responsibility, and the healing power of truth. The 8…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . I'm of an age when radio was the means by which people became familiar with popular songs. In my teenage years, a portable transistor was responsibl…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . Five years ago I saw Cayenne Douglass' one-act play, Oh My, Goodness, about suicide and survival, at the Ensemble Studio Theater and was moved by her …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Context. That is what struck me as the value of Sunset Baby, Dominique Morisseau's gem of a play, now being given a mighty revival at the Signature T…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Since when can theater of ideas be as exciting and as powerful as, let's say, a Beethoven symphony? When you emerge from a performance with the theme…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . While living in Los Angeles thirty-five years ago, I came to New York City for a wedding weekend and had the chance to see only one Broadway show. With …
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . On February 22nd, last week, some three months prior to the next Mother's Day, Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block performed a solo show titled The Mot…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Brace yourselves. Rupert Goold's riveting production of The Hunt, now playing at St Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, will have you hanging onto your seat…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I met Jordan Seavey, playwright of The Seven Year Disappear, the New Group's current production at the Pershing Square Signature Center, only once,…
Cabaret Review by Marilyn Lester . . . . No matter the vehicle, actor-singer-producer André De Shields can be depended upon for ultra-high energy entertainment coupled with intelligence, re…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For cheesy New York cheesecake, few can top Junior's. For cheesy New York theater, I recommend Deadly Stages"which opened today at Theatre Row"wher…
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . Bribe Whomever You Can for a Last Minute Ticket to The Cancellation of Lauren Fein's final extension at the Palm Beach Dramaworks!!! If anyone wants to …
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In the sardonic, brilliant Russian Troll Farm, Sarah Gancher takes an imagined deep dive into the operations of one of the Russian Internet Research…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . "This is not a brothel! This is an erotic resort!" demands the proprietor of the business that gives Colombian-American playwright Camilo Almonacid's H…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . It takes a lot of nerve to turn one of the most horrific genocides in American history Into a satirical romp. And that's what the intrepid theater co…
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . . For decades, musical theater has asked us to sympathize or identify with"and perhaps even forgive"some very deeply flawed men, from Gaylord R…
With the launch of the Presidential election year, Five Musical LLC is thrilled to announce the world premiere of FIVE: The Parody Musical. Look out SIX, here comes FIVE: The Parody Musical.…
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . . . One of our most esteemed twentieth-century playwrights, August Wilson, won a Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for his play The Piano Lesson, an…
Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . A memorable invocation began the show and, like a rocket, The Poet of the Moon is propelled into the Cosmos in a production by Apollo's Troupe call…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller . . . . When I first interviewed Dael Orlandersmith about Yellowman, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, more than twenty years ago, we went to a record store together…
Theater Review by Jeffrey Bruce . . .  "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "George Santayana Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski has been brought to A…
By Ron Fassler . . . . Waterwell, a charity whose mission statement is "using storytelling to create a more just and humane society," held a party in Brooklyn Monday night in celebration of …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Second Stage has taken a leap into the unknown in presenting Kate Douglas's new play The Apiary at the Tony Kiser Theater, where it will be running …