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The cumulative effect of the four plays is greater than the sum of its parts. The quartet of plays seems to demonstrate Caryl Churchill in a new mode. While the plots are slight, the themes …
While Belflower's play is clever and insightful, it is also contrived and manipulative attempting to shoehorn almost every feminist hot button topic into one story overlaying "The Crucible":…
However, it is not just the remarkable video design which uses sometimes up to six screens to convey the action of the story plus live action, but we get inside of the head of protagonist Do…
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional famil…
Except for a couple of main characters, the people in his life seem to come and go making it a little bit difficult to follow. While the opening of each act is in the form of a Technicolor m…
If only film star George Clooney and his co-script writer Grant Heslov had hired an actual playwright to adapt their acclaimed screenplay for the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck." for t…
Eric Bogosian's "Humpty Dumpty" was first written 25 years ago and premiered at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, in 2002. At that time the idea of quarantining due to a local or natio…
While most of the audience will probably not have graduated in the last ten years (though you never know), the play speaks to all of us about the closeness and personal relationships of our …
The new musical attempts to out Monty Python "Monty Python" by creating a full-length show and story in their style, although its origins also go back to British Music Hall where there is al…
The second in the York Theatre's Spring New2NY series is "Who Is Jimmy Pants?," an entertaining spoof of bio-jukebox musical, a genre that could use some taking down. Presented concert-style…
In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room,…
The new version by Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe uses contemporary and spare language but has made several events more literal as if not trusting modern audiences. The director has made the s…
Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Taylor Iman Jones, Jason Tam and Andy Mientus in a scene from "The Jonathan Larson Project" at the Orpheum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Taylor Iman …
Who knew that a biographical play could be so witty, entertaining and charming? The latest EST/Sloan Project science play, Michael Walek's "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is one …
The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer's (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: "I mig…
Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
While Dickson's production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled a…
Bess Wohl's latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women's Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary …
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung's My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was cau…
Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked." The perform…
Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison's "The Antiquities" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison's plays like Marjorie Prime and Log …
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo's "Still" at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo's bittersweet Still …
