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Josh Sharp's ta-da! is an intimate reckoning with mortality, a moving coming-out memoir, and a parade of dirty jokes all strapped into one roller coaster of a show. The thing about ta-da! is…
Being in the audience at the delightful 54 Below watching Mother Knows Best, starring the mother and daughter team Linda and Laura Benanti, you are so damn lucky as the gods have blessed you…
By David Walters  David Dean Bottrell brought his newest one-man show, Teenage Wasteland: Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, to the Dixon Place HOT festival, for one night only. The place was …
JOY: A True New Musical is a story of unrelenting resilience, the power of a single mother with an idea, and the work of believing in yourself and your work when your support system is strai…
In this unassuming parking lot, under an indifferent city sky, The Drilling Company conjured faeries, fools, and lovers in riotous splendor. Don't just dream of theatre"see it lived, loud an…
An engaging interpretation of a piece that, if structurally curious, at least features the three pillars of any good Irish play: loss, regret, and loneliness.
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I could go on and on about the beauty of this piece, on and on, but instead, Go and let this performance lift you, let the magic embrace you, fall into it.
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Bell, Isserlis, Denk, Duval, and Engstroem delivered a night of music-making that will linger in memory"a night where Fauré's introspective muse met performers of eloquence, vitality, and s…
A gripping, gorgeously acted parable of power, truth, and sacrifice. This western isn't about bullets"it's about belief. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is vital, eloquent theatre. Do not m…
HEATHERS - a powerhouse sextet of women are on hand, blissfully belting their way through the madness, in a captivating show of strength.
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A different show every night. Carl Holder's Out of Order is a war between flexibility and specificity.
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New York Theatre Company's revival of Machinal at New York City Center Theatre 2 is an extraordinary, revelatory dissection of a play about patriarchy and repression, as relevant today as wh…
In the intimate black box Chain theater on West 36th Street (a location that would have amused the Bard, who knew something about cramped performance spaces), Adriana Alter and her Atlas Sha…
Arjuna's own son, Abhimanyu, is lost in the battle.  We do not expect this as he is only fifteen years old. Krishna allows a bending of truth to come from the mouth of Yudhishthir…
While Melina and Alessandra work to sort out our discarded pieces, they work to support their friendship. A friendship fraught with summits of pain and discomfort, abuse, and neglect. Both w…
There's nothing like watching two gifted, experienced performers " and good friends " enjoying themselves as they share their talent with an audience. Adam Pascal and Andrew Rapp have re…
Duke & Roya, now playing at the Lucille Lortel, is a romcom (two people from different worlds, Stephanie Nur and Jay Ellis, struggling to come together), riding on the backs of a histori…
Fernandes and Ravi Jain boldly combine tradition, rich with layered messages and meaning, with struggles of our modern Western-dominated world. Characters are gender fluid, feminine wisd…
The Paul Taylor Dance Company's run at The Joyce each summer is always a wonderful, much anticipated evening, as the diversity and creativity of each piece always surprise me. The ease of sh…
The performance I saw felt as if it was a rehearsal with everyone still working to find character and chemistry.
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Trophy Boys is an investigation of gender both on and offstage. Â The Australian playwright Emmanuelle Mattana lays out the thesis that "Gender is learnt, which means it can also be taught…
Mr. Philip possesses a heart filled with Courage, Love and Hope that he happily shares with all of us with each song.  We leave his show feeling uplifted.  Who among us c old  not u…
Taylor Mac's writing, coupled with Darko Tresnjak's direction, in Prosperous Fools is sharp, and infiltrated with bizarre sets and humor which is just as absurd"and certainly not subtle. Mac…
The Hot Sardines have created an almost cult following of tweens, teens, millennials, and boomers. All drawn to their slide style of jazz that had the audience tapping their feet, swaying to…
I honestly don't quite know how to describe Bear Grease. It's a musical theater / night club act / low comedy / video show all jumbled into one. It has some really fun, but it's …
