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A VOICE THAT SPANNED CONTINENTS AND CENTURIES The trouble with singers who insist on being versatile is that they make everyone else look lazy. Dame Cleo Laine, who died on July 24th at her …
NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON English playwright Michael Frayn debuted his farce Noises Off in 1982, and decades of audiences and reviewers have since happily applauded Frayn's work as perhaps the f…
TWO GINGER SNAPS UP FOR THIS PARENT TRAP PARODY The subtitle for Ginger Twinsies, the new Off-Broadway comedy which last tonight at the Orpheum Theatre, reads: "The Parent Trap parody (legal…
WIN OR LOSE, IT'S ABOUT LOVE Wow! Whoever wrote Love's Labour's Lost was a comic genius. The wordplay, the multi-lingual puns, and the send-ups of characters stumbling over their own foolish…
THE MORRIS, THE MERRIER The Mark Morris Dance Group celebrates its 45th anniversary with a dynamic return to The Joyce Theater. Program B showcases a wide-ranging display of the company's ha…
JOY TO THE WHIRL For every inventive soul who's ever heard "no," "pass," or "next," Joy is for you. Based on the life of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, this briskly staged musical deliver…
REED ALL ABOUT IT! SHAW BIZ WITH THE ANDERSON TWINS When jazz musicians of the current generation explore and embrace the repertoire of stars of the past, it can be an enjoyably educational …
MÉNAGE À MEH, OR BOB & CAROL & DEAD & AIRLESS Last Saturday, I caught the world premiere of Ménage à Quatre, a play that seems to promise a farce but instead delivers…
THEATRE TURNED ALL THE WAY UP There are moments in the theatre when everything converges: writing, performance, design, direction, and something indefinable that transforms craft into revela…
THE KIND OF SEPTEMBER YOU'LL WANT TO REMEMBER With the original opening Off-Broadway in 1960 and running an astounding 42 years, The Fantasticks is a veritable classic amongst the reperto…
A CHRONICLER OF PRIVILEGED ANXIETY In the peculiar ecosystem of American theatre"where earnestness often trumps elegance and message supersedes craft"Richard Greenberg, who passed on July 4,…
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED: PEN PALS GETS AN ENCORE RUN Casting has been revealed for Michael Griffo's play Pen Pals, which is headed back Off-Broadway at DR2 Theatre with a rotating cast …
A BROADWAY BACALLBACK FROM LEE ROY REAMS Few performers embody the golden age of Broadway quite like Lee Roy Reams"a Tony-nominated actor, singer, dancer, director, and choreographer whose c…
MURDER MOST TUNEFUL In 2013 a new musical called A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder played San Diego's Old Globe on its way to a prizewinning run on Broadway. The show is now back for …
THE WIT AND THE HUMID: AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS An expert in turning the mundane into something paramount and inevitably humorous, David Sedaris uplifted an immense audience at Wolf Tra…
THE SHOW BEHIND THE SHOW A well-done backstage farce is always a good time, especially for theatre lovers. But a well-done backstage farce with something to say, with layers and depth"that i…
GHOSTS POURED NEAT Conor McPherson's The Weir, a beloved staple for Irish Rep, returns for its fourth production under the intimate, finely tuned direction of Ciarán O'Reilly. This unusua…
BOURNE AGAIN: A MUSICAL RECLAMATION IN GLORIOUS MINOR KEY After a long absence from the West End, Oliver! has returned with the force of a Victorian street gang bursting through fog-shrouded…
LIFE ON REWIND In a co-production with HorseChart Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre continues its astounding season with John Kolvenbach's gem of a play, Reel to Reel, a heart-warming, but defi…
A KNOCK AT THE HEART With her staging of Dolores, Edward Allan Baker's two-woman drama about domestic violence, director Stephanie Feury"at the theatre that bears her name"has placed on disp…
IN THE TRADITION OF THE GREAT JAZZ SINGERS When Ashley Pezzotti sings, it will only take a few notes for listeners new to her manner to gratefully discover that their ears will be caressed, …
OFFTIME Abi Watkinson's one-woman show 5:45 is a poor receptacle for a great deal of talent"one that feels underdeveloped and not fully thought through. The trouble starts with the title. A …
A TAIL OF LOVE ON A LEASH Playwright Benjamin Schwartz and director Natalie Nicole Dressel, in league with actors Callie Ott and Spencer Weitzel, have served up in Dog of Carnage one of the …
NOBODY LOVES A FAT GIRL (UNTIL SHE HAS A MIC) Laural Meade has treated the concept of the solo-bio show like an origami master, folding it over and out until it becomes something other than …
WHAT THE FOREST KNOWS: TOTORO AND THE RADICAL ACT OF WONDER There's something profoundly radical about a piece of theatre that trusts its audience to believe in wonder. The Royal Shakespeare…
