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This moment is where the message of the play becomes apparent. From this point on, the dialogue will be about the planet's condition and humankind's responsibility for that condition. Althou…
When the Countess Olivia played by glamorous Christina Sajous declares "How wonderful!" in the final scene of The Classical Theatre of Harlem's return engagement of its production of William…
Writer/director Erica Schmidt's "Lucy" is a play struggling to find a point of view, or perhaps a point of view struggling to find a play. If the latter is true, then that narrative position…
Pairing The New York Pops with Broadway star Heather Headley brought out the best in each. The energy zipping between the orchestra's music director Steven Reinecke and Headley was palpa…
Rapp's show"directed by Steve Maler, with musical direction/orchestrations by Daniel A. Weiss (who was the associate conductor/second keyboards player of the original Broadway production of …
Dixon Place, a mecca for LGBTQ culture in the quickly gentrifying Lower East Side, is offering a return of the campy play, "The Village! A Disco Daydream," written by Nora Burns, a dizzy, so…
What is a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma? A Winston Churchill question from 1939 aptly fits a play with music set in 1924 that toys at being a murder mystery. As a play with mu…
David Greenspan, the shape-shifting thespian, has taken on yet another multi-character play, as if his one-man "Strange Interlude" and his more recent "Four Saints in Three Acts" whet his ap…
Sam Morrison's poignant "Sugar Daddy" has been "on the boards" for just under a year, but first coming to prominence at last year's East to Edinburgh presentations at 59 East 59th Street The…
Though only an hour long, Deborah Hay's Horse, the Solos (2021), set on the dancers of Cullberg (founded in 1967 as the Cullberg Ballet by the late, eminent Swedish choreographer Birgit Cull…
Living in his "palatial" rent-controlled apartment on one of Manhattan's most stunning architectural stretches, Walter "Pops'' Washington (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is an aging man of agin…
Unfortunately, this is musical comedy and does not need operatic voices, Lawrence being famously a singer with a very small range, while Kaye came from cabaret and night club. With all of th…
"Ari Wind's Inner Circle" is so incredible that it defies the imagination. Can these be called sleights of hand when we see everything that happens at all times? It is the sort of show that …
Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule's life story is on display in the charming cabaret musical "F*ck7thGrade" " with a difference. Sobule, the original "I Kissed a Girl" composer/lyricist, plays h…
Three solos were stunning in their display of physical endurance. One woman moved forward, repeatedly kicking one leg behind her nearly touching her head with her foot. Another, tall…
And that's the agonizing tension in "Without You;" in his lyrical responses to Larson, Rapp is well aware that it's not a back-and-forth, that Larson can't say anything more than he has alre…
The set by Sascha van Riel has the feel of an unfinished work, with minimal props and an amateurish feel. His lighting does help in moving the story along, but the play itself doesn't rise a…
"Small Talk," like its title suggests, is less unified than Quinn's earlier shows. He also uses its format to wander from topic to topic, seemingly randomly without much structure. It allows…
The ballerina Natalia Osipova easily transformed herself from spectral to sensuous to eerie in just the first half of her 'Force of Nature" program at the New York City Center. The show"pres…
Not only is Livian Yeh's "Memorial" revealing in its historic depiction of a recent piece of American history, it is additionally a very satisfying dramatic work. It is also very pertinent n…
When the older Diamond reaches an existential breaking point, he finally stands up, stage center and takes command of his memories, experiences and his life with an intensely concentrated re…
Eduardo Machado's 11th play to premiere at Theater for the New City is called "Not About Me" which is a complete misnomer as it is about his life for the last 40 years with his alter ego at …
Webre went for acrobatics and precision rather than passion. Perhaps, the Chinese Communist regime frowns upon openly sexual expression in dance. Perhaps Webre can't summon anything …
Ivan Faute's "The Dog Show" is ambitious in trying to tell a story by holding back on the details. Unfortunately, the method has grave, unresolved problems. For most of the first act we have…
"Offal Endings" is billed as "a dark comedy" but it is more of a drama with some comedic elements. It grapples with complicated subjects and is not always successful. It "reads" better than …
