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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 …
By Tulis McCall Prince Faggot is a beguiling tragicomedy. Â "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…
The Tony Awards spotlight the talent, the energy, and all individuals who make Broadway one-of-a-kind in the theater world.
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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. Â 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. Â 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…
