Ellen Abrams' new play "Eleanor and Alice " Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts" explores their superficial courtesies in a series of conversations spanning 1904 until 1962, agre…
Visually the show pulls out all of the stops continually making stage magic. Every scene offers new scenic effects and things that appear impossible but are right there on stage before you, …
Clary scored a great success on Broadway in "Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952."Â My father, who enjoyed that show, recalled Eartha Kitt and Robert Clary as the standouts in the cast of…
Cale's story uses many film noir devices from the 1940's: exotic locale, strange encounters, searching down unknown streets, disappearing characters, a sexy stranger, danger signals avoided,…
Will Arbery's Evanston "Salt Costs Climbing" (set in the city in which the author received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 2015) is a perplexing experience as it shifts from realism to abs…
Director Kotryna Gesait's direction does not have the necessary distance from the material to realize that actors speaking simultaneously will blur content and intentions for the audience. S…
"Camp Siegfried" is a new departure for the author of "Small Mouth Sounds," "Continuity," "Make Believe" and "Grand Horizons." Depicting an important piece of history in an age when hate spe…
Noel Coward's "The Rat Trap" is not only entertaining but seems to have been ahead of its time. Discounted by critics and the author alike when it had its only production until now in 1926, …
He saw seemingly everything, and championed plays and productions he found meaningful, even if they were at the smallest of theaters. He chose what he wished to cover, and would sometime…
"Kimberly Akimbo," David Lindsay-Abaire's oddball take on the title character's dishearteningly sad disease, began life as a play back in 2001, reaching New York via the Manhattan Theatre Cl…
"George Kaplan" is a beautifully realized drama with comedic elements by Frédéric Sonntag, translated into North American English by Samuel Buggeln. The viewer will laugh but will also be …
Still, rest assured, most of what Birbiglia says is funny, even for any fans well aware that Birbiglia is leading us somewhere that is not. Given the eponymous Hemingway allusion, the show's…
A touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club's "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When t…
Writer/ director/actress Madeline Sayet is an engaging performer. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, her one-woman show "Where We Belong" is an autobiographical tale of her Mohegan roots and her seeki…
I think this is great news. I'm happy the show will finally be getting a full theatrical production in New York. I saw the original festival-production tryout of "Without You" about a do…
Norris' smart and effective script is packed with controversy; its characters are stained by the trauma in which their lives have been steeped, and it's uncertain they will ever feel clean a…
What Crowe has done in writing his own book for the new show is recreate almost exactly every scene in the movie starting from the time when 15-year-old hero William Miller meets rock critic…
Hudes has directed her own play in a delightful vaudeville/musical comedy style with dancing between the scenes to choreography by Ebony Williams to live music played by pianist Ariacne Truj…
He had his first album out by age nine, the same year he began opening for the Backstreet Boys. (His older brother, Nick Carter, was of course one of the Backstreet Boys.)Â And he enjoyed…
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson's wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
Jay Rogers, who's lost his battle with cancer, was a wonderfully impish cabaret star, with impeccable comic timing. Totally likeable fellow, on stage and off stage. I was so happy to be able…
In October, he opened in an autobiographical Off-Broadway play that he wrote, 'Everything's Fine""a good-natured remembrance of his youth, and of a school teacher who fell for him. Â He pe…
Director Lorraine Serabian is faithful to the spirit of when these plays were written. She delves into the spirited dreamers and chance takers that Tennessee Williams so faithfully showed us…
The first Off Broadway revival of Edward Albee's " A elicate Balance," his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of three), is also the first to feature an all Asian American cast as well as be…
Chung has the six characters played by three actors, each playing a parent/child duo switching from one to the other in confusing frequency. In addition, each actor plays a parent of the opp…