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"The Moby Dick Blues" is nothing short of a working-class opera for the Anthropocene"equal parts "Trainspotting" and "The Perfect Storm," churning with fury, addiction, and mythic ambition. …
Portraying the eponymous Izzy--or Isabelle per the formal preference of a long-ago teacher--the charismatic Smart earns our rapt attention throughout the play, though she cannot begin to ove…
A farming couple who have been married 50 years go out into their western Kentucky field to watch a lunar eclipse. Nothing much happens but, on the other hand, they review their entire lives…
Hassan has managed to raise the strident, repetitive street rhythms and language of rap into an art form that gets to the heart of what ails these three colorful figures. To be frank, the la…
Conducted expertly by Tiffany Chang in a new chamber orchestration by Roland Freisitzer, this three-character opera is inspired by the lush romantic sound of Richard Wagner and Richard Strau…
Creating his third outstanding and needed adaptation in conjunction with director Jesse Berger ("The Government Inspector," 2017; "The Alchemist," 2021), Jeffrey Hatcher has salvaged yet ano…
Smith's script, which is heartily laden with day-to-day chatter and feels slightly long, still finds perfect opportunities to divulge important messages about friendship, love, empowerment, …
Wolf's direction skillfully manages the emotional tension to maintain the horror element of the story while also paying homage to B-movie scare tactics and tropes. Mulligan uses a device bet…
Although Cobb makes references to Iago, Othello's, second-in-command, and Barbary, the maid to Desdemona's late mother who brought her up, Nine Moons does not tell us anything we don't alrea…
If "Chiaroscuro" occasionally falters under the weight of its ambition, it ultimately dazzles with its daring. Rahman has crafted a bold, theatrical puzzle box " part satire, part sermon, pa…
Orpheus' song"aching, persistent"guides him deep into the Underworld in search of his lost Eurydice. Whether or not you've encountered this myth before, Sarah Ruhl's "Eurydice" invites a new…
In this Czech play, a 1930s transgender/intersex athlete, long forgotten, is brought back to center stage. Yet one can't help but be disappointed at how little this play actually has to say …
The twisty, but clichéd, choreography was not without its clever and eye-catching moments, but try as he might RamÃrez Sansano never fully defined the characters, hindered by the equally…
In the title role, Amber Iman makes a sensational return to Off Broadway after her Tony Award and Drama League-nominated performance in "Lempicka" last season. This beautiful statuesque actr…
At an hour and 40 minutes, "Cracked Open" is an earnest but often exhausting theatrical experience. Its heart is unquestionably in the right place"tackling the vital and still-stigmatized su…
Now premiering at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre in a co-production with the MART Foundation and En Garde Arts, "Seagull: True Story" is a barbed, meta-theatrical cri de coeur from creator-…
Six quite diverse works made up the program, four by Parsons and two by guest artists (Robert Battle and Rita Butler) who pushed the dancers to their limits. The guest choreographers worked …
We get evocative shadow screens, puppetry and a silent-film fantasia. Heartbeat Opera's two-hour whirlwind adaptation has everything"except an intermission. True to the company's bold, icono…
And what does it all mean? The new musical takes on pop fandom, celebrity, the Internet, MTV, pop culture, influencers, Gen Z and everything in between. "The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" is…
Unfortunately, The Fire Weeds' production directed by Jaclyn Bethany (who appears in both plays) is very uneven. An attempt at expressionism handled differently in each does not work for the…
A scene from the Epic Players' production of Flaherty and Ahrens' musical "Seussical" at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres (Photo credit: Zui Gomez) A man of whimsy on a path…
The show at The Players Theatre is not exactly the same show that played in London's West End with book by Shaun McKenna and Steven Dexter which like the original novel was set in San Franci…
I don't like the way the new Broadway production of "The Last Five Years" was directed. But that unique Jason Robert Brown musical"long a favorite of mine--still offers rewards aplenty…. …
The show and production is perfect for the chosen venue, a newly opened theater. Director Lori Kee makes excellent use of the intimate space, full of bookshelves that wrap around the room to…
Scenes progress, and it becomes clear that nothing which happens in Dick and Jane's house makes a whole lot of sense, and that's absolutely the point of Leverett's witty, clever, and smart p…
