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The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
The title of Michael Aguirre's "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family's road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg's 1927 "The American Songbag,'…
Tadeusz Slobodzianek's "Our Class" is epic in its storytelling and shocking in its specifics. At three hours, the play is never long or boring as every line of dialogue offers new details to…
While "Pride" has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen's novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse "Prejud…
Not only is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Appropriate" a classic American family drama with a new wrinkle, it is also a trenchant and scorching look at American racism which is just under the sur…
Aside from the title not being explained, the Jean Graham-Jones translation seems to end very abruptly. Nothing is settled at the end of its short running time and it certainly feels like mo…
Joy filled Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops' annual two-night Christmas concert entitled "The Best Christmas of All" led by genial host, music director and conductor Steven Reineke. This…
The latest Tennessee Williams revival is the first major New York staging of "The Night of the Iguana" since Roundabout Theatre's 1996 production. Emily Mann's version with a great many well…
While the exciting new stage musical Buena Vista Social Club shares the same name with the acclaimed 1999 documentary by Wim Wenders, playwright Marco Ramirez's book for the new show takes a…
Mary Kathryn Nagle's "Manahatta" now at The Public Theater, just blocks from where most of the story takes place, is a fascinating combination of American history and recent events. Nagle wh…
Until now it has been believed that the 1937 Joris Ivens-Ernest Hemingway documentary "The Spanish Earth" was paid for by a corporation called Contemporary Historians sponsored by some of th…
Playing women of a certain age, four women stars of stage and screen who became famous a while ago play friends of a certain age who meet for a birthday brunch in Sandra Tsing Loh's "Madwome…
"The Jerusalem Syndrome" is a pleasant new musical comedy with some fine clever songs and good comic moments. However, Don Stephenson's production does not take the farcical elements far eno…
Michael John LaChiusa's "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele's adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the case…
"Hell's Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters develo…
Milo Cramer's delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and ex…
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: Fo…
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don't …
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that "all characters appearing in this work are fictitious," in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manhattan…
Philip Roth's 1995 Rabelaisian novel "Sabbath's Theater" would seem a strange choice for stage adaptation both as it is considered Roth's raunchiest " if not filthiest " book and it moves ar…
MasterVoices acquitted itself well in this deliciously comic concert staging of "The Frogs." Why this Stephen Sondheim score is not better known or revived more often remains a mystery after…
The three plays in the "Meet Miss Baker" Project, "The Price of Thomas Scott" in 2019, "Chains" in 2022 and now "Partnership" in 2023 are quite different. While Partnership is the only one y…
The subtitle of Patrick Page's absorbing and informative one-man show "All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain" is an actuate description of the content of his presenta…
