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The American Songbook Gala Celebrating Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty By Alix Cohen Lynn Ahrens was working as a copywriter when invited to write a song for children's television. A burg…
A Contemporary Feminist Look at Pride and Prejudice By Alix Cohen "Oh my God, everyone here sucks!" exclaims Kitty Bennet, bored at a Ball. (Violeta Picayo) 'Decidedly not the familiar class…
Review by Carol Rocamora... Director Jamie Lloyd gives us a daring version of Beckett's classic
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Review by Ron Fassler . . . It is with only a fleeting awareness of her media persona that I attended The Least Problematic Woman in the World, Dylan Mulvaney's solo autobiographical p…
In January 2018, people across Hawaii received an alert that a ballistic missile was headed for them . . . The musical, This Is Not a Drill examines how that moment affected the lives of sev…
A Panacea for the Floundering By Alix Cohen The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth's resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven't been coping well for ye…
A Study of Self Realization By Alix Cohen Bullfighting in Mexico, corrida de toros, was introduced during the colonial era by Spanish settlers and evolved into a national tradition. For cent…
By Alix Cohen Belfast today: American oral historian Emily (Molly Ranson) is interviewing middle-aged Dave (Michael Hayden) about the assassination of a friend and fellow soldier that occurr…
By Alix Cohen Every play does not have to be life changing. A One-Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars. Lost and Found is a small, t…
By Alix Cohen Reasoning and logic are the backbone of clear thinking and decision-making. Drawing conclusions from evidence and deductive reasoning have all but been jettisoned in the curren…
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography www.griegelphoto.zenfolio.com The Thorne Mansion in Morristown, NJ was alive with music on Sunday, September 28th, 2025 with the s…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When the lights go up on Preston Max Allen's new play Caroline, which opened tonight at off-Broadway's MCC Theater, we see a 28-year-old mother (Chloë Grace…
By Alix Cohen Jacob (Will Harrison) is growing up in what Americans would call the projects- a British estate of low income housing. His attentive, single mother (an excellent Lucy Taylor) s…
By Stuart Miller... Tim Blake Nelson's play is a glimpse at where AI may be taking us.
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Review by Carol Rocamora... A riveting revival of this devastating melodrama shakes the rafters of TFANA
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A Roller Coaster Ride through the Life of Rupert Murdoch By Alix Cohen In 1996, Primary Colors was published with authorship credited to Anonymous-later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein. …
By Stuart Miller... John Leguizamo's family drama tackles too many issues with too much exposition
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Identical triplets in formidable harmony By Alix Cohen Identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, Mary, Magda and Marta Moipei, were appointed UNICEF ambassadors at age twelve championing girl …
By Staurt Miller... Mike Bartlett's play shows two colleague gleefully goring the office's weak link.
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By Adam Cohen... The Underground Railroad, hip-hop, looped musical offers sick beats to history (recent and past)
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By Stuart Miller... Julia McDermott generates heat in Brian Watkin's one-woman show about a woman falling apart… and a planet doing the same.
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Review by Ron Fassler . . . The one time I attended Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival was forty years ago. I saw play after play and was charmed by much of the theatre, though a bit surpr…
By Samuel L. Leiter... Casual notes on show biz books, memoirs, and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses.
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Review by Alex Eichholz . . . Whether you're in the front pew every Sunday or you've never set foot in a chapel, you must let the dazzling company of the new musical Saturday Church, which o…
Great authentic folk music and a timely, touching play By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) …
