I've never seen any student production"at the high school or college level"achieve a more glorious ensemble sound than the ensemble sound produced by the students of the Sinatra School in th…
While gambling may not be the main character in each of these plays, its role in each one adds to the drama, causing the story to unfold further and further. It adds to the drama, entertainm…
Dongpo's travels through life is set forth in the lovely poems"projected in Chinese script and in English"full of observations of nature, sad inner monologues and thoughts intimating the end…
This show, as conceived by Shulman, creates a unique theatrical experience combining narrative text with Kathakali, a form of traditional Indian dance exquisitely performed by Kalamandalam J…
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck's inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems to …
In this Roundabout/Scott Ellis production, Amy Ryan's Sister Aloysius (stepping in for the originally cast Tyne Daly) comes across as less absolute in her suspicions while Liev Schreiber's F…
I've always loved their work, from the very start of their careers. Jimmy (on guitar) and Jerry (on tenor sax) have worked with some of the biggest names in the business--Tony Bennett, Bruce…
Soutra Gilmour's setting is a sort of empty runway with the audience sitting on either side. The other props are two black chairs at either end for the two doctors. Scenes are created entire…
This production could be more balanced in the performances, with some characters being solidly played and others being line-readings lacking body movements that add to the dialogue. There ar…
The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
Kahn has a good ear for the subtleties of each character and the period. However, "Fair Winds" doesn't handle all the major themes smoothly and the use of the narrator sometimes feels li…
I think the city's top performing-arts schools"Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts, and the Performing Arts; PPAS; and the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts"are among the crown…
What a terrific, beautifully layered performance Ben Levi Ross gives in "The Connector""a moving, original new musical from Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Daisy Prince. …
Seadog Theater's current revival of "Tuesdays with Morrie," with exceptional direction by Erwin Maas, is a beautifully orchestrated presentation starring Len Cariou as Professor Morrie Schwa…
Itamar Moses' 'The Ally" is a play of ideas not only torn from today's headlines but tomorrow's as well. Ostensibly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian question on college campuses today, i…
The text created by Bogart in collaboration with Maddow and Zimet is a collage of assembled passages from the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir, amongst others. Maddow and Zimet don't often sp…
John Patrick Shanley has become our poet of lonely, desperate working class people trying to make a connection despite their inadequacies and hang-ups in such plays as "Danny and the Deep Bl…
How the metaphor of rabbits fit into this was puzzling, yet the dreamlike (nightmarish?) rabbit imagery was the strongest visual idea and pervaded the work, from a toy stuffed bunny to grote…
Under Alex Keegan's skillful direction, the characters are allowed to develop their understanding of who they are and how they fit in an organization traditionally run by men. The captain is…
On March 4th, 2024, I witnessed the best major-club debut I've seen in years. And I kept thinking, as I watched David Marino sing, "The good old days are now…" The post appeared first o…
Lynn's dialogue is astute and subtle, following the heartbeat of this strange, but understandable couple lifting it out of soapiness and melodrama. She has written a very modern drama. .…
Playwright Joyce Griffen's idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces new…
This York Theatre Company production at the New World Stages, following a presentation at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, shoehorns these songs into a book by Lindsey Hope Pearlman from a story …
"This is not a time of peace" has a stream of consciousness feel effectively handled by the director Jerry Heymann. There is never any confusion about who is who and what they represent des…
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…