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By Tulis McCall Prince Faggot is a beguiling tragicomedy.  "Beguiling" " I don't often use that word, but it is the one that surfaced. Jordan Tannahill's play is a dense tapestry of wonde…
The play reaches back in time and asks those who fought, "What is your story?" It is riveting. The actors are all living their characters. We are caught up in the battle, in the mundane of d…
Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, opened an ambitious production of Arthur Miller's award-winning The Price last weekend, directed by Brandon J. Dirden and running through June 29. …
Thoms G. Waites takes you on a hypnotizing musical tour of his life, from success and alcohol abuse, to recovery and redemption in this engaging performance you will not forget.
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This reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet featured a largely Asian cast as the feuding Montagues and Capulets in a supposedly "dystopian" setting shaped by "fate, class conflict, and astrolo…
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Jean Smart is superb. Her performance is so smooth - even through rough bits - that she appears not to be acting at all.  She simply transforms over and over again as she slips into each …
Some evenings in the theater change you. They reach inside your chest and rearrange something fundamental about how you see the world. "A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads Th…
"Angry Alan" is an earthquake of a production.  It will lift you out of your lives, the way only extraordinary theatre can, and return you to them filled to the brim with the experience o…
The Value by Nicholas Dunn is engaging, eerie, and deeply questioning.
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Friday night's performance of Gurtram was a remarkable unveiling of a rarely performed but powerful work by Richard Strauss. From the onset, Strauss's mastery of rich symphonic intones was e…
In this provocative one-woman show, Markell inhabits the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl with such fierce intelligence and nuanced complexity that she transforms what could have bee…
In 1881 a small band of Black laundresses decided they'd had enough of being pushed around by dead-beat clients, and despite having little perceived leverage, went on strike for better pay.Ã…
In a Stellar evening of musical artistry and cultural connection, the inimitable singer and composer Sabeth Pérez and her band delivered a mesmerizing performance at The Jazz Gallery, nestl…
...if you were like me, if you spent hours ruining your eyesight squintingat the dark screen of your Gameboy on a family road trip, or hoarded holographic laminated cards in hopes that one d…
The HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is not a laugh fest.  It is a release and an invitation.  To tell you exactly what she does would ruin the surprise so I will say that it is a slow reveal. …
Manhattan Repertory Theatre has struck theatrical gold with Tim Mulligan's wickedly entertaining "Point Loma," a gleefully campy horror spoof that channels the best of 1950s B-movie schlock …
...as mild mannered as the text was, Birney and Emery made us believe that these two were the real deal.  As performers and characters their bond is mighty.  And that, my friends, is p…
Njikam leaps onto the stage and into our hearts.  You don't have a chance to deny him, because he is that slick.  The deed is done before  you realize it. S-L-I-C-K!
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Good evening from Birdland, where tonight Gabrielle Stravelli and Billy Stritch transformed song into pure magic"two master artists creating musical alchemy that reminds us why jazz is the h…
Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice is a poetic net capturing the sorrow and magic felt when simultaneously falling in love with a partner and still grieving a beloved. This play digs into grief: how it r…
By Tulis McCall Red Bull's "Imaginary Invalid" is a perfection of a confection that will soothe the blues we are all experiencing.  I PROMISE it will make you laugh.  It made me laugh,…
This was an astonishing evening created by Colin Harte and Dana Monteiro with their fusion of Irish and Brazilian Samba. Here was proof of the power of music, the instrumental and the vocal,…
In an era when the world feels increasingly fractured and complex, Laurie Roldan arrived at The Green Room 42 like a beacon of comfort and hope. Her tribute to Karen Carpenter, "A Song For Y…
It's a play about two skaters smoking and drinking and writing their first rap album together, yes; but more than that it's about the cost of intimacy and what happens when two people connec…
