15 stories by "Michael Bracken"
The surprising thing is how DiPietro's script combines humorous fluff with substantial emotion. Its seemingly opposing aspects complement each other. Not an easy thing to pull off.
It's unfortunate that director van Hove wasn't able to point his leading lady in the right direction. But with its otherwise excellent cast and the director's sense of both the minimal and t…
Philip Ridley creates a mounting sense of urgency and the New Group's Scott Elliott pulls it all together . .
John Patrick Shanley's 1986 play by the Attic Theater Company at the Flea. . . . Read More
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's musical is, like the James Michener novel on which it's based, a study of Yankee bigotry in post-World War II Japan, and it's not a pretty picture.
Playwright Anne Washburn, with director Les Waters, creates an exaggerated melodramatic sensibility that is completely copacetic with the horror movie genre to which it is wed . .
Attica, 1971. The famous prison on the eve of its infamous riots is the setting for Lemon Andersen's play. But if you're expecting outsize brutality and barbarians at the gate, you're at the…
well-structured, skillfully drawn, and slyly entertaining. If only it were less hollow
Bathsheba Doran's play doesn't purport to have profound answers or even ask probing questions. It's an observation of the human species laid bare, simple and complex at the same time. .
Not for the staid traditionalist, but an exciting and decidedly different entertainment.
Downtown or Uptown, the Role's the Thing for Reed Birney, An Actor's Actor
Dimbleby is fantastic as Dory. With a voice that's warm, clear and full, she delivers Previn's gems with flawless phrasing and meticulous shading.
a new play by Keith Josef Adkins at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Young Jean Lee's latest play at the Public Theater. .
The York's Musicals In Mufti production is a portrait " or at least a snapshot " of a young artist whose contribution to musical theater would go on to be enormous
