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Pee-Wee Herman looms large in Cowl Girl, now playing through August 27 at the Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre of The Players Theatre. The play, written by Anna Capunay, began its life back…
It takes great skill and imagination to make an impromptu idea flow with conviction and commitment. And, so it is with the wonders of As You Will, a company of engaging, talented actors who…
The family-oriented TheaterWorksUSA's latest musical adaptation of the best-selling children's novels of Dev Pilkey is "Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical," an exuberant colorful one hour irrev…
What appears to be filmmaker Jing Ma's first stage play, "Wheel of Fortune"Â is a touching story of a depressed man about to turn 30 and without a job or a girlfriend. His bad luck changes…
"Here Lies Love" unreels like an MTV music video with the emotional content lost in the technique. The real issue of this musical is that it's impossible to feel anything for the lead ch…
Whether you follow basketball or not, Candrice Jones' "Flex" is exciting theater. Actually, the play is not only about women's high school basketball but also passions, future plans, romance…
Lightweight, the cleverly titled one-woman play currently being performed at the SoHo Playhouse, shines an important light on the subject of anorexia, and who better to tell her own story wi…
Although Sandy Rustin's "The Cottage," now arrived at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, bills itself as "A Romantic and (Not Quite) Murderous Comedy of Manners," it is devoid of the two requir…
Korean Arts Week celebrated the theatrical and fine arts of South Korea, a culture under-represented in New York City compared to, say, those of Japan, China and India. At the David H. Koch …
He sang all his life. When New York's Triborough Bridge (known today as the RFK Bridge) opened in May of 1936, Tony Bennett--then a boy singer from Astoria who loved the work of Al Jolson a…
Another head scratcher is that advance publicity on the play calls it "an uproarious comedy"; however, as there are no more than two laughs in the whole play as currently produced on the sta…
Among the problems with the production is the fact that there is no chemistry between Siff and Alexander. We are supposed to believe that their encounter not only brings Lady Torrance back t…
There is an elegiac formality to Buscando. However, other than Juan de Pareja's name in the title there is little in the choreography that evokes either period or personality. The ch…
Playwright Samantha Hurley does beautiful justice to the life and times (and the inner workings of the mind) of this early teen with not a lot going on but for her own fantasy world and self…
"A Girl Far From Normal" by Robyn Bishop-Marin takes us on that stroll down the lanes of her memory, and it is fearsome, delightful, heartfelt, wrenching, and funny. Matthew Harrison's direc…
The Nazis persecuted not only Jews, political opponents and its own, but also homosexuals. Jews were forced to wear the infamous yellow stars; gays, the pink triangle. Alan Palmer, in hi…
Pyle is an engaging performer. However, not only does her story wander around but the interruptions by her father or rather her day dreams about past lovers become hard to follow due to all …
Juliet Stevenson as Dr. Ruth Wolff in a scene from Robert Icke's "The Doctor" at the Park Avenue Armory (Photo credit: Stephanie Berger) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Robert Icke's The Docto…
Terri Hooley (a game, genial Glen Wallace) is both the main character and the narrator of "Good Vibrations: A Punk Rock Musical" at the sparkling Irish Arts Center. Â How he morphed from T…
The only problem with Hartmere's plot is that it remains undeveloped. None of the princesses get to read Friedan's book (there is initially only one copy) and they take it on faith that it o…
For this year's Free Shakespeare in the Park, director Kenny Leon has set his modern dress "Hamlet" in what looks like the same Georgia estate as his acclaimed 2019 production of "Much Ado A…
Press materials promise a work that is inspired by Kafka's "The Castle" and Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Both are name checked " the lead character is called K, played by a clear-vo…
"Rock & Roll Man," the new jukebox/biographical musical at the New World Stages has a great deal going for it. The story of legendary Rock & Roll impresario Alan Freed is told in a s…
As a lover of the performing arts, I'll remember this month as when I witnesseed Matthew Broderick give one of the finest, subtlest performances of his career. I'll remember, too, the uplif…
Alex Edelman in a scene from his one-man show "Just for Us" at the Hudson Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Early in his stand-up show Just for Us Alex Edelman pays tribute to Robin Wil…
