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While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
Christopher Rhoton's Double Dare-inspired set belies these weightier autobiographical details, offering enough of a time-warping simulacrum to help middle-aged members of the audience shed a…
Does the New York City Center Encores! new production of "Jelly's Last Jam" hold up against the original Broadway production (1992-1993) which starred Gregory Hines (Tony Award), Savion Glov…
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary's number "Miss Me Now" which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to Clinton…
"The Order of the Golden Scribe: Initiation Tea" is an immersive and interactive theater experience co-created by Shuai Chen and Arlo Howard, who also directed. It combines a story about a s…
I don't think I've ever been as disappointed by a Paper Mill Playhouse presentation as I have been by their production of After Midnight. This adaptation of the original Broadway production…
Director/writer Suzanne Karpinski has made a valiant effort to corral the chaos by encouraging the audience to get a card stamped by the actors in the various spaces, presumably in the hopes…
"Ain't nothin' sentimental about a dead revolution." Wearing a too-short, too-tight dress, shiny thigh-high boots, and a long fuchsia wig, the twentysomething Nina (Moses Ingram) attempts to…
Like her masterful Sinatra solo for Mikhail Baryshnikov, "Brel" takes Cornejo from a strolling meditating figure ("Quand On N'A Que l'Amour") to an anguished lover ("Ne Me Quitte Pas"). Â …
The balance is off between the two storylines. If the most crucial dramatic element of the story is the legal issue surrounding consent, the dynamics of the sisters' current and historical r…
It is a rare author indeed that can take uncomfortable material, and by uncomfortable that is, to hear, digest, and process a subject no one likes as a subject of conversation, and then give…
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua's delightful and engrossing "Warrior Sisters…
The host company, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company ended the short, well-run program with the longest work, the three-part "Eternal NOW."Â It also had the most complex costumes, ge…
Unfortunately, at 70 minutes the play seems skimpy. Structured in a great many short scenes, only one thing happens in each, so that there is a sameness to it all. Basically a two character …
Like its unwieldy title, Corinne Jaber's "Munich Medea: Happy Family" takes its time getting where it is going but is ultimately powerful and revealing in its almost unspeakable tale. It dea…
"you don't have to do anything" written by Ryan Drake is a story that explores a gay man's coming of age from the time he was in seventh grade until graduating from college. It is set in the…
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton a…
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) is presenting "an innovative re-interpretation of a classic, combining live performances with puppets" at the resourceful Theater for the …
Although written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, "The Following Evening" is a tribute and a summing up of the 50 year career and marriage of experim…
Reteaming with O'Hara and book writer Craig Lucas for the first time since the 2005 Tony-award-winning "The Light in the Piazza," Guettel's hodgepodge of a score equates jazz with blithe ine…
Alyson Reim Friedman, Thom Brown III, Niko Zylik as young Nicky, Donovan Counts, Alisa Ermolaev and William Broderick in a scene from the new musical "The Boy Who Listened to Paintings" at T…
The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
While we are presented with characters who are doing a noble thing and can be touched by what they go through to accomplish their task, Brian Belding's book and lyrics repeatedly take us out…
The hardworking cast takes us along on the quest by playing multiple characters and using a wide array of props scattered on tables at the edge of the performance space. The transformations …
