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Review by Brian Scott Lipton... The City Center Encores! revival of the 2001 Broadway blockbuster suffers from heavy-handed direction and less-than-ideal casting.
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By Andrew Poretz . . . The 35th Annual Kleban Awards took place on February 3rd at ASCAP's (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) Manhattan headquarters.
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Theater Review by Marilyn Lester... An unsparing look and warning about the possible future of humanity if the machines rise up.
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Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Starting and ending with the question "What makes a person?," the new American opera Blind Injustice deals head on with weighty matters of existenti…
Theater Review by Adam Cohen… Mystic Pizza, jukebox musical with classic 80s and 90s tunes, reinvents the film for a new generation.
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By Carole Di Tosti... Irish Repertory Theatre's "Beckett Briefs" presents three one-acts exploring memory, isolation, absurdity, and regret.
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Theater Review by Stuart Miller... Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winner puts into words the narrow distance between language and identity.
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Video by Meredith Heyman... McKinley Belcher III stars in the hot, new off-Brodway play, "A Guide for the Homesick.
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Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Gregg Ostrin's new comedy-drama Kowalski, which opened Monday at the Duke on 42nd Street, falls into a category of plays I call, "The Day Something …
By Melissa Griegel... Theater Pizzazz met with the cast and creative team of Still, featured at a California Wildfires Benefit to be held Wednesday, January 29th
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Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Attending showcases in New York of new works is almost always a mixed bag. Sometimes you see some lovely acting in a not very good play, or sometimes it's…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Lee Roy Reams has been a sparkling personality in the world of show biz for more than sixty years. A musical theatre wunderkind, a cabaret performer, a…
Review by Eyal Solomon... Auna Kemp's production at 54 below masterfully spans decades and styles, breathing new life into songs from animated movies.
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Review by Stuart Miller... Gary Gulman's funny and moving one-man show "Gradiloquent" finds laughter in a lifetime of intellectual showboating driven by insecurity.
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In "The Day I Accidentally Went to War," comic Bill Posley recounts how he served 15 months in Iraq as part of his National Guard duty.
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Review by Eyal Solomon... Avalona: A Musical Legend, an immersive, multi-genre spectacle, defies the definition of musical theater in the best way possible.Â
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Speaking in a syrupy Southern accent, Ms Chris's monologue recalls the body counts of Nannie Doss's husbands
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Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . According to the U.S. copyright office, "All works first published or released in the United States before January 1, 1930, have lost their copyright prot…
Theater review by Stuart Miller... Phenomenal poetry & lighting can't elevate a tale about a boy skeleton and a dodo bird seeking to return to the realm of the living.
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Theater review by Samuel L. Leiter... In the realm between magic and reality, Mindplay exposes the inner workings of the brain.
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Theater review by Samuel Leiter... Blind Runner, playing at St. Ann's Warehouse, is a cogent dramatic commentary on freedom from political oppression.
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In "My Mother's Funeral: The Show" Abigail, a budding playwright, learns in short order of her mother's death, cancellation of a commissioned work, and funeral sticker shock.
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Video by Meredith Heyman... Choreographer Fabian Aloise joins Theater Pizzazz to discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard" revival starring Nicole Scherzinger.
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Video by Meredith Heyman... Maybe Happy Ending star Marcus Choi discusses his involvement with the new musical.
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Songs From India finds three talented storytellers sharing their desire to get on with their lives and find themselves happy with their choices. Using spoken word and poetry to recount their…
