387 stories from Usher Nonsense
If you make it to the second act of this sluggish production you will see a master class in acting. John Pankow pulls the heart of this play out of a hat and hands it to us. Pankow drops i…
Someone left the cake out in the rain.I don't know how, but this production has managed " on the night I saw it " to nearly obliterate passion. I mean the one that counts, the one between R…
I found myself wondering what I should walk away with at the end of Ready For The River feeling as through I just spent 75 minutes watching a very cleverly directed show that lacked any kind…
Imagine trying to review a show that is 3/4ths the way done. You don't know how it ends. You can't even judge if it was good or not. Or can you? If it's Mike Daisey's "All The Faces…
It would be easy to dismiss R+J: Star-Crossʼd Death Match, staged in an unlikely second-floor barroom space, as a drinking game with a classy name attached. I worried as the actors greete…
When I got to the theatre, I was warned twice that the show was "80 minutes long with no intermission and includes full frontal nudity". My response?"Sounds like a perfect date."May I just …
The Mint Theater Company's mission is to produce worthwhile plays that have been lost or forgotten. I thank them for that. If you have ever enjoyed a black and white comedy of manner…
When you enter La Mama's Ellen Stewart Theatre, you feel welcomed. The five women already on set are working on dinner, talking with one another, consulting, smiling, chopping vegetables…
Cal Arbus (Peter Buck Dettermann) is now thirty-three years old but twenty years ago his dreams were crushed mercilessly by Marvin "Major" Cohen (Tom Vaught). After hooking up with trouble …
This play focuses on the divergent paths of two brothers. One who escapes the ghetto by becoming a policeman, while the other becomes a thief and drug addict. It is not explained…
DOGUGAESHI refers to a form of performance where there are sequences of sliding screen doors, revealing, one ofter another, another set of screen doors (usually rectangular and horizontal) w…
The conceit here is almost too perfect. The Compass Rose is a play set in an Irish bar on the Vineyard, written by an Irish playwright and featuring an Irish actor as one of the two …
Do you need a break from the world's chaos? Tired of technological connections, yearning for something warm and real? Had enough of dysfunctional families; kids neglected or overindul…
So there are two lesbians, right? And they want to have a baby, right? And one of them has found a potential donor - a colleague who is moving to Florida. She wants her partner to use his…
If ever in doubt about Theatre's impact on the lives of teenagers, rest assured that SLUT will banish that. This poignant, severe, thoughtful show with a cast of eleven teenage girls no olde…
I have no idea " seriously no idea what the heck is going on here.And I will admit up front that I am not an aficionado of The Simpsons. This is a costly fact because the first 30 or so min…
How appropriate to see a play about a professor and his daughter, about genius and inspiration, about how high our minds may soar but how earthbound we ultimately are where I saw it last nig…
I admit my hearing is not always the best. My hope is that when the accents are heavily british and the dialogue is fast and dense that the actors at least have some awareness when…
What a sad old town is Harrison, Texas. It is 1965 and this place seems to have stopped all it's clocks nearly a decade ago. And these folks have nothing to do but peck at each other lik…
There is some cross country pollinating going on here. The Elevator Repair Service Theater is known here for taking books and turning them into plays, using the books themselves as the sour…
This is a nifty bit of playmaking. Will Power has taken a small seed (a photograph of Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit) and had his way with it. Turns out his way is intriguing.Muhammad Ali…
Smart, lyrical, funny, and touching: "Melting in Madras" is a story worth watching. Written and performed by H.R. Britton, the solo show is a fantastic way to spend an hour and a half. Br…
As far as I am concerned this play could have been written in a foreign language and I would have understood it just about as much as I did this production. Which is to say not at all.It is…
Another gem from the Playwright's Realm. I don't know how they manage to pick such engaging authors, but I am awfully glad they do.The Hatmaker's Wife is a time warped tale. A newly minted…
There is a festive theatre thing going on downtown in the West Village. The Hill Town Plays " five plays by Lucy Thurber produced by The Rattlestick Theatre and running simultaneously at the…
