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The touring cast is headed by the clear falsetto of Christopher Kale Jones as Frankie and a magnetic Deven May as Tommy DeVito.
In another arresting and powerhouse production by Classical Theatre of Harlem, director Alfred Preisser has given Greek classic Electra new life.
If the Grim Reaper is the spirit overarching Series A, the cell phone is its dominating prop. It plays a key role in three of the five pieces.
The Barbican, so long the domain of the Royal Shakespeare Company, now welcomes Shakespeare back with Cheek by Jowl's superb production of the difficult play Cymbeline
It's not the most believable story. It is, however, blessed with the piquant combination of Kristine Nielsen and Sigourney Weaver as two women whose privileged childhoods made both different…
The drama in Randall David Cook's new play Fate's Imagination begins, as it so often does in life, with that old chestnut of an interrogative: "Would you like to go back to my place and fool…
This satirical musical does poke fun at certain American stereotypes and seeing it helmed by an American director and with an American cast, inspires a good-natured laugh at ourselves.
I.E. is like nothing so much as a postmodern Hee Haw.
In the end, this play is less about racial politics and identity than about compromising one's artistic vision -- giving in to pressures to be what one is not just to satisfy the crowd (or t…
The Wadsworth Theatre in Brentwood has reunited the original Broadway cast for the four week limited run through June 17, and they are just as delightful and hilarious as raved about in New …
What a writer like Eugene O'Neill and a classically trained cast like the one director/producer Jeffrey Hayden has assembled at The Odyssey Theatre do with such material is the difference be…
Director Eric Hill has staged this Menagerie less as a starring vehicle for his wife and BTF Artistic Director Kate Maguire but as an ensemble piece.
Theodore Ward's Big White Fog, set in Chicago in the depression, paints a picture of increasing hopelessness for a black family. It is a political play given an outstanding production with a…
Howard Brenton's In Extremis is a stylish cocktail of brutality, scholastic disputation, animal lust, and heroism.
The Jocker admirably tries to rescue some of the little known pre-Stonewall mythology of gay life from the dustbins of history. Three male couples are thrust together to exemplify the sort o…
"These baby boys run around in men's clothes but all they really want to do is breast feed for the rest of their days" sneers Jeannie. This may not be a universal truth but in the world Labu…
Murder, madness and wife abuse, funny? Indeed, yes.
Mrs. Packard -- crusading heroine or obstinate reprobate? There's much food for thought here.
Nitpickers might question some of the real estate dealings, especially the way a season real estate entrepreneur like Harmond Wilks (Harry Lennix) would have bought that historic old house i…
Interestingly, it doesn't matter that McDonald is as attractive as she is talented. She's a good enough actress so that, aided by a no-nonsense spinsterish hairdo and a no-frills best dress,…
Mixing a diverse collection of elements together into one balanced mix, The Unmentionables is a beautiful piece of theater.
You might think that you had not left the nearby Sloane Square underground station because the play is set in a wide tube train like area with yellow grab poles which must have been supplied…
If anyone can make a whole evening of revue excerpts sparkle, it's Jack Viertel and his Encores! colleagues. And that's exactly what they've done with their first original production.
Tupperware parties have gone by the wayside in popular culture, replaced by candle parties, makeup parties and those increasingly popular passion parties. It's therefore something of an anac…
