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Having played such indomitable women as Mama Rose and Maria Callas, Daly slips into the role of the Madwoman of Chaillot which fits her like a glove with her crisp, authoritative delivery. A…
Nevertheless, while the play is startlingly not politically correct, the acting is of a high caliber. In the title role, Regina Gibson (who appeared last season in the rediscovered operetta …
However, as the title implies it is also a very verbose, long-winded affair giving an excellent cast made up of such veterans as Matthew Broderick, John Epperson (a.ka.a Lypsinka), Jill Eike…
Birney seems to have cornered the market on sensitive, ordinary guys and his performance is similar to his awarding-winning "Erik" in The Humans. However, here he is extremely sympathetic an…
The evening is narrated by Saki (played by an appealing and suave David Paisley) talking to us from the trenches of France, in 1916. His five soldiers (played by Phoebe Frances Brown, Ellen …
Illusionist/actor Geoff Sobelle's show is a combination of happening, art installation, and a meditation on the role objects have in our lives. Using audience participation, objects both hid…
One of the remarkable things about the theater songs of Kurt Weill is that like the later songs of Stephen Sondheim they are all really little one act plays which give the performers a great…
While the play is at times Pinteresque, it is talky in a way Pinter never is, explaining everything over and over, covering the same ground again and again. Nothing much happens other than t…
The only real high-tech exchanges take place only three times during the run of the show. At the performances of February 6, 9 and 17, one of the roles in "Camera Obscura" will be performed …
Unfortunately, Policoff's book is too cluttered with characters too allow for much development. While some of his lyrics are clever, most are prosaic and heavy-handed. As played by music dir…
However, it is Ives' joy in language that is the most infectious. The rhymed couplets keep coming and surprising us over and over again (bitter/twitter; prize/rhapsodize, jocular/interlocuto…
The show began with Arlen's first hit, "Get Happy," 1930, and ended with his 1939 score for the MGM film, "The Wizard of Oz." The first half of the evening was devoted to Arlen's stand-alone…
There are many questions that the author fails to answer. Although the boys have not attended school in years and Bobbie has been diagnosed as ADHD and should be in the British equivalent of…
While the jokes may be hoary, Unger's production has cut down on the show's sentimentality and given it a sharp edge which elevates the material. As the heroine Ruth, Runofsson is genuine, c…
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson has himself won a Tony Award for his performance in Wilson's "Seven Guitars" and has directed acclaimed Off Broadway revivals of "The Piano Lesson" and "Seven …
One problem is that the play (unlike Noel Coward's "Design for Living" or Somerset Maugham's "The Constant Wife" which cover similar territory) is neither witty not clever, and none of the l…
On the one hand, it is a punch in the gut dramatizing the cold hard facts of disintegrating with this disease; on the other, the non-linear time scheme is difficult to follow, offering more …
Upton's version solves some problems and creates others. Updated to the 1990's, the play is no longer about life in Tsarist Russia but the post-Perestroika world of Glasnost. While the origi…
Never before seen on mainland U.S.A, the current show is an amalgam of the four existing shows ("P.F.C. Mary Brown;" "Hi, Yank!;" "About Face" and "OK, USA") of the six that were written. Di…
Set in The Afterlife, a crossroad between Heaven and Hell, the play presupposes a trial of Luther on the grounds of being guilty of "the unforgiveable sin." The prosecuting attorney is The D…
While Harms has a fine ear for dialogue, the play moves by revelation and incident. Consequently, it plays like a sophisticated soap opera as every scene brings a new wrinkle not previously …
In keeping with Sullivan having been hit over the head, the cast is clothed in a motley collection: a combination of late Victorian and Japanese styles. Some are in all Japanese, some in all…
Surprisingly, Eleanor Reissa's production for New Yiddish Rep has made some debatable choices which damage the power of the play. First of all and most obviously, although not a word has bee…
The real reason to see the new "Sweet Charity," its third major New York revival, is for Sutton Foster's bravura performance. Aside from nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Foste…
Green's dry delivery is in the Coward manner, crisp, almost spoken to the music, with impeccable diction. Shrubsole's accompaniment supports him without ever getting in the way. The most fam…
