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The world premiere of Emma Sheanshang's "The Fears" is a hilarious and poignant satire on self-help groups and the sort of people who take their emotional temperature all day long " literall…
While the painstaking entry upon entry yearn to be something of import, we can't help but feel it takes a certain steadfastness and desperate commitment to make the banal seem so extraordina…
Eboni Booth's "Primary Trust" at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre is a genial, gentle tale of a genial, gentle young man and his difficulty negotiating the speed bumps of …
Oliver! is darker than most so-called family musicals"mixing elation and heartbreak as casually as life itself does"but it touches us more than most family musicals. And Encores' production…
As directed by the astute Josh Sharp, Kayne begins his show as a stand-up act, but warns us "This is a comedy show. BUT it is also sad. There will be long stretches where you will not be lau…
Abortion, pro or con? Â The Blessed Unrest theater company has taken on this thorny issue. Steven Wangh's "Misconceptions""an ironically perfect title"unfolds in the form of a series of in…
All of this is told by Baer in Twain's humorous and inimitable style filled with anecdotes both true and untrue. As we are told from the author himself, "I have never been a man to allow the…
And the production is loaded with action. Except for the tender love scenes, the play moves at almost breakneck speed. Where most modern productions of Shakespeare tend toward languor, this …
The play is structured as a mystery and that is being revealed with sensitivity and care. As each element is shown, a clearer picture of what is at stake emerges. A discussion in Act II abou…
"New York, New York" is a big, jazzy show in the style of golden age musicals we have not seen for a while. While it removes the abusive relationship between Jimmy and Francine from the film…
In the last few weeks I feel like I've been stepping back in time"in a nice way.  I've enjoyed seeing the new Broadway musicals "New York, New York" (set in 1946-47) and (with some de…
However, both every scene as written by Maldonado and directed by Theatre East's artistic director Judson Jones is staged as though it were the climax. It is one thing to enact a play up to …
"shadow/land" by Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a play about the August 2005 disaster, Hurricane Katrina. It is the first episode of a ten-part magnum opus. "shadow/land," though, is more than …
There's no shortage of race-related storytelling in today's theater and film arenas, and it takes a special entry to become seen among the offerings. "Being Chaka" is one such play; thoughtf…
MasterVoices concluded its 2022-23 season with a lovely concert staging performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's rarely seen comic opera "Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri)" staged and conduc…
Under the direction of Chad Austin, Droxler uncannily becomes not only Williams (and all of Williams cinematic characters who each serve up different helpful advice), but also his father Ed;…
The music is well-done, with the songs fully integrated into the storyline and lyrics that help define essential elements of the character's nature and are filled with inside Star Trek refer…
Collet Reyes has been a part of the Only Make Believe charity since he was eight years old. Living with a developmental disability and being diagnosed on the Autism spectrum, Reyes has worke…
Each was an individual; I liked hearing all of the different voices and accents and inflections. Each one brought his or her own personality to the work.  But"and this is a compliment…
Sean Hayes, up till now best known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," gives a titanic performance as humorist, raconteur and pianist Oscar Levant o…
The main issue with this show is the lack of clarity in the book. Who is the play about, the father or the son? Act I is primarily a story about Paul Sub and his business ventures leading up…
When Mary-Mitchell Campbell's baton brought out the first notes of the "Oliver!" overture from the Encores! Orchestra, the memorable tunes just flowed and didn't stop until more than two hou…
From the moment he walks out with a stuffed "Disneyfied" dragon to tell us a fairy tale his mother told him when he was little, we are enraptured by Pinky, an 11-year-old Chinese boy growing…
Auburn (Pulitzer Prize winner for Proof) has a knack for writing complex female characters. That knack hasn't failed him in "Summer, 1976." Diane, the lustrous Laura Linney, is an al…
Directors Noah Brody and Emily Young, both of the Fiasco Theater, have neatly trimmed the dialogue and some of the minor characters so that the play comes in at two hours and 15 minutes. How…
