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The book of "Bad Cinderella" plays like a series of unfunny "Saturday Night Live" sketches. Laurence Connor (who also directed the earlier London production) has given the show no particular…
Unfortunately, Monohon's play which takes its cues from Miller's drama, assumes a thorough knowledge of "The Crucible" and leaves out a great deal of information that would make it easier to…
The problem with this production is that although the characters' behavior is utterly outrageous on the verge of satire, Berger has directed in so flat and bland a style, that shocking lines…
Not for everyone, this minimalistic theatrical event is performed entirely in Japanese with English language supertitles above the stage so that for non-Japanese speakers it requires reading…
Like Ivo van Hove's pared-down revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," Jamie Lloyd's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 "A Doll's House" uses no sets or props and al…
While playwright Scovell has a facility for language, she does not have the wit to mimic Wilde's classic one-liners. Instead, she borrows expressions from the play and attempts to imitate th…
While this first New York revival of the 1995 "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" does not reach the heights of Nottage's later Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, "Ruined" and "Sweat," it proves to be…
Eric Bogosian's latest play to reach New York is his 2008 "1+1" which feels like a made for television movie written without taking into consideration the #MeToo movement that has occurred s…
Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscenities" having its world premiere at the Soho Rep is an immersive story into Bengali culture in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. Directed by the aut…
Unfortunately, the latest revival now at the BAM Harvey Theater cannot be counted as having reversed the play's fortunes. It still seems vastly overwritten and verbose as it attempts to cove…
Alexander Zeldin's "LOVE" seems much longer than it actually is due to much silence and the reenactment of everyday tasks usually skipped onstage in plays. There is little dialogue and what …
Aside from the problem of which translation from the Russian to use, the thorny problem with American productions of the plays of playwright Anton Chekhov is how to deal with the fact th…
Originally entitled "Francie Nolan," the same as the title character of her later "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," but unrelated to that story except for sharing its Brooklyn setting, the play do…
The second play of Samuel D. Hunter's residency at Signature Theatre is the first New York revival of his 2011 Obie Award winning 'A Bright New Boise," not seen by too many people in its sho…
Although British playwright Simon Stephens has written three musicals with composer/lyricist Mark Eitzel, formerly of the indie rock band American Music Club, Cornelia Street, set on a quiet…
The latest play to reach New York by Anna Ziegler, author of 'Photography 51," "Boy," "The Last Match" and "Actually," has a complicated structure she appears to have invented. "The Wanderer…
The problem with rediscovering lost plays from the past is that works that are 100 years old may have gotten dated or express views no longer held. Back in the 1920's, Harlem Renaissance aut…
When the Countess Olivia played by glamorous Christina Sajous declares "How wonderful!" in the final scene of The Classical Theatre of Harlem's return engagement of its production of William…
Unfortunately, this is musical comedy and does not need operatic voices, Lawrence being famously a singer with a very small range, while Kaye came from cabaret and night club. With all of th…
"Ari Wind's Inner Circle" is so incredible that it defies the imagination. Can these be called sleights of hand when we see everything that happens at all times? It is the sort of show that …
Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule's life story is on display in the charming cabaret musical "F*ck7thGrade" " with a difference. Sobule, the original "I Kissed a Girl" composer/lyricist, plays h…
"Small Talk," like its title suggests, is less unified than Quinn's earlier shows. He also uses its format to wander from topic to topic, seemingly randomly without much structure. It allows…
Not only is Livian Yeh's "Memorial" revealing in its historic depiction of a recent piece of American history, it is additionally a very satisfying dramatic work. It is also very pertinent n…
Eduardo Machado's 11th play to premiere at Theater for the New City is called "Not About Me" which is a complete misnomer as it is about his life for the last 40 years with his alter ego at …
Ivan Faute's "The Dog Show" is ambitious in trying to tell a story by holding back on the details. Unfortunately, the method has grave, unresolved problems. For most of the first act we have…
