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"The Goldberg-Variations" by George Tabori (written in 1991, now having its belated new York premiere) is a confused and confusing conflation of Bible stories and backstage bickering amongst…
"Honor," a one-act play, written and superbly directed by T.J. Elliott, explores the conceptual nuances of "honor" within the context of a corporate investigation into a case of harassment a…
Quintero who obviously knows his Greek plays and Greek mythology is extremely faithful to the original myth and to Euripides' play. What he has added is a contemporary vernacular all in rhym…
If, to paraphrase Mark Twain, a liar's greatest enemy is laughter, then the new musical comedy "Ghost of John McCain" is certainly no friend of Donald Trump. It's also not a hagiography of t…
However, in the sweeping new musical epic retitled Monte Cristo, canny and adept librettist Peter Kellogg ("Desperate Measures," "Penelope") has streamlined the story, reduced the number of …
There is no program for the event nor a press script, which makes sense, since "The Spirits' Speakeasy" is less theater and more experience. There are missed opportunities for the actors to …
While "That Parenting Musical" will not tell you anything you didn't already know, it is a pleasant and undemanding way to spend an evening. The six attractive performers four of whom appear…
This adaptation, directed by John Hickok, uses the Fitzgerald story as a counterpoint to a tale of a couple caught in the legal vagaries of the United States and Canadian immigration laws. T…
"Larina Waltz," choreographed by Ashley Page to the lilting melodies of Tchaikovsky, opened the program. It was a dynamic expression of the classical ballet bona fides of this youthful c…
Of course, with Farrow and LuPone under the direction of six-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, this is an occasion for cheering although this comedy drama, a cross between a female versi…
Under Igor Golyak's hyper-inventive direction the production's form is masterfully daring, ignoring the barriers of past, present, and future, as well as performance and life. Golyak's doubl…
In this return engagement of the site-specific "The Voices in Your Head" we are often asked to give pause in order to consider how differently we all process our grief. Earlier this summer a…
The libretto by the composer and musicologist Walter Simmons is very faithful to the O'Neill play, almost entirely dialogue taken from the original script. Unfortunately, they chose to short…
Rebecca Hoodwin, Arielle Flax, Fady Demian, Arielle Beth Klein and Melissa Woolf in a scene from Pamela Weiler Grayson's "Observant" at The Chain Theatre (Photo credit: Dallas Phelps) What d…
While "Counting and Cracking" is an unforgettable epic of a family and a country, it is also a study of the fight for democracy and the lengths people will go to fight for their beliefs. The…
"In Search of Elaina" is a story by Kara Ayn Napolitano that digs into the weeds of a remembered past. It explores what happens when the life left behind catches up and crashes into the care…
Betsy Aidem and Colleen Litchfield in Matthew Freeman's "The Ask" at the wild project (Photo credit:Â Kent Meister) We are still not done blaming Covid for the upsetting of our routines. …
Levin's lyrics have unusual and surprising rhyme patterns which add to their interest. The powerful score with music by Ron Abel (who also plays a mean piano with the orchestra of five which…
Although meaningful dialogue is written in iambic pentameter, not all text is so structured. There is a skill in delivering lines within the structure of iambic pentameter, but it is equally…
However, instead of telling Fleming's story in chronological order, it travels backwards and forwards in time beginning with Fleming's Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm in 1945, the…
The revue alternates between skits by James Hindman and Lynne Halliday and songs with music by Jeffrey Lodin (who is also the music director at the piano) and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, the int…
"Hurricane Season" is the sort of vanity production in which one assumes that the author thinks he or she has invented the next step in the avant-garde. Unfortunately, Estes' production will…
Tarlton's work is not without promise. As a social critique of people who are surgically attached to their smartphones, it is somewhat spot-on. (Heaven forbid we miss that recent post docume…
Even those who are not necessarily fans of the theatre will find it difficult to deny the talents of the actors on stage. There are also a handful of themes that provide a truly engrossing e…
Foster is a joy as the princess from the swamps who can swim, lift weights, dance all night, commit multiple contortions as she tries to get a good night sleep, and field any disaster that c…
