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Seen first Off Broadway in 2004, Tracy Lett's "Bug" has now reached Broadway via the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production being presented by Manhattan Theatre Club. While "Bug" has the rep…
Hailey McAfee in a scene from Rosie Glen-Lambert and McAfee's "and her Children" at SoHo Playhouse (Photo credit: courtesy of the production) Plays tend not to offer unsympathetic protagonis…
Legendary composer Burt Bacharach died in 2023 and it has taken until now for there to be a fitting stage tribute to his 1,000 song output (mainly written with lyricist Hal David) which incl…
While ABBA's "Chess" is receiving its first revival on Broadway, a delightful new musical about chess has come to Off Broadway's Players Theatre. "The Opening," billed as "The Second Most Fa…
However, where the Peter Weir film used magical lighting and the atmosphere of the actual filming at Hanging Rock to recreate a mystical, supernatural feeling, the musical instead adds songs…
MOMIX's "Alice" returns to the Joyce Theater for the first time since its 2022 premiere and continues to dazzle in its inimitable way with illusion and dance. Choreographer Moses Pendleton's…
Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at the Mitzi E. …
Michelle Williams and Tom Sturridge in a scene from Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" at St. Ann's Warehouse (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Successful plays of one era tend to date badly a…
"Gotta Dance!" is a hugely entertaining revue of dance in the American musical recreating icon moments from 17 Broadway shows including four that started life as MGM movies starring Gene Kel…
Icke's version avoids the religious and ethical themes of the original but instead makes it a riveting thriller as the tension rises to almost unbearable heights " even if you know the outco…
According to the author's note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the "forgotten war" in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Sudanese M…
This World of Tomorrow resembles the films "Back to the Future" (Bert cannot risk changing anything), "Groundhog Day" for its repetition of the same events, and "You've Got Mail" in which tw…
Talene Yeghisabet Monahon's new play "Meet the Cartozians," being presented by The Second Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is simply the best new American play in New York this…
With a three-hour running time (the first act runs two hours straight without an intermission) the play is too long for its repetitiousness having the actors go over the same theater games a…
The film version starring Burt Lancaster as sleazy yet powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (similar to the notorious Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as hungry press agent protégé Sid…
Unlike J.T. Rogers' Tony Award-winning "Oslo" which handled similar material about the secret Oslo Peace Accord conference, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson makes little concession to…
Michael Lepore as the Telegram Boy, Micaela Diamond as Sabina, Ruthie Ann Miles as Mrs. Antrobus, Geena Quintos as the Mammoth and David Ryan Smith as the Dinosaur in a scene from Ethan Lipt…
If you know the play, you many have trouble following it as several actors double: Ron Canada plays both John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (Richard's uncle and Henry Bolingbroke's father) and…
Patrick Page (back row) and Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet and Jake Berne (front row) in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Rajiv Joseph's "Archduke" at the Laura Pels …
Tom Pecinka and Marianne Rendón in a scene from Anne Washburn's "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire" at The Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Playwright Anne Washburn who does…
"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 " The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in La…
Schiff's book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extreme…
In their latest, Shaw's ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw's never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount to t…
"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie's 1910 "The Twelve-Pound Look" and the Quintero Brothers' 1901 "A Sunny Morning." Using …
Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bess Wohl's "Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Photo cre…
