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The hour-long musical read-through "I Love You Because" is a love letter to love and New York. It was uplifting, but not innovative.
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Chain Theatre's summer 2024 One-Act Festival is bigger (over 50 plays), badder (many debuts), and more extensive than ever.
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Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
Dear Anton! Dear Olga! masterfully captures one of the most passionate relationships in theater history. The great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and his lea…
The chanteuse Laurin Talese evokes deep emotional connections with every song she sings.
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NEW YORK - Kenny Barron Trio at Smoke Jazz Club, where acclaimed jazz pianist Kenny Barron and his team showed how to break it down!
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NEW YORK - Gabrielle Stravelli and the Brian Newman Band at the Midnight Theatre, a night of jazz with sophistication, confidence, elegance, and style.
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These actors did everything they could to lift this play up. Their timing was spot on.  They were invested in the story and the text. There were moments of delicious black humor, moments …
Sutton Foster is a Broadway treasure! She is an indescribably stunning comedic actress and musical goddess. Michael Urie is the perfect Prince Dauntless. The two of them tear the stage up wi…
One of the most simple and honest sharings of a life that I have had the pleasure of attending
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Aubrie Therrien, Executive Artistic Director of The EPIC Players, is a woman full of love, energy, and determination to change how the world perceives artists who are Neurodivergent and disa…
If you are a fan of either Adam Pascal or Anthony Rapp or have seen the musical RENT more than once - this is a show intended for your very person. ÂÂ
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Last Friday, I had the pleasure of seeing SHREK JR. at Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY. The production value and passion of this production were anything but junior.
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A high energy romp with many a guilty pleasure.
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The Meeting: The Interpreter, purports to examine issues of identity and individual freedom in the face of government's impersonal, all-powerful machinery. Sadly, the play fails to communic…
It is a good thing that JOB, by Max Wolfe Friedlich, is at the Helen Hayes Theatre.  The Hayes is next to Sardi's.  Sardi's upstairs is where you want to go after you see this show bec…
John Pizzarelli & The Swing 7 playing now at Birdland Jazz Club is one of those wonderful treasures that we get to experience here in NYC! He is a beautiful swinger whose vocals are smoo…
A very satisfying evening of good actors telling a compelling story of flawed but deeply human characters.ÂÂ
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Pilobolus, the storied, avant-garde dance company formed in 1971 by three inquisitive Dartmouth students has evolved into a major driver of change in the dance world -- and for good reason.Ã…
So winningly sung and so lovingly directed one cannot help but be wooed by its charms, despite a final scene that is so never in doubt.
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Howze, with the direction of director Dustin Wills, has created a visual moving abstract expressionist piece of art on stage. With these six extraordinary actors as the painters. These six a…
Watching Oh Mary! is like catching a ride on a runaway stage coach - with no less than six horses.... Cole Escola has created a Mary who is Scarlett O'Hara on uppers.  This Mary is at the…
This was one of those seaside/beachfront rock and roll shows that leave all knowing that the world will be okay. Music is our gift to our souls, to our hearts, and Monday night Joe's Pub our…
... a boatload of skill and a soupçon of sass.
NEW YORK - A Hundred Circling Camps, a significant contribution to contemporary theatre that leaves a lasting impact!
Historically, this is a play worth seeing in the context that it is the first of the 40 plays that MarÃÂa Irene Fornés wrote.
