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Ostensibly a comedy, or a tragi-comedy, or a dystopic mashup of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Field of Dreams," Diaz's play could possibly be enjoyed as a befuddling trifle if not for its serious …
World events have inadvertently raised the significance of the New York City Center's Annual Gala presentation of the brilliant new staging of the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Para…
Ensemble Studio Theatre's "38th Marathon of One-Act Plays," their first since 2019, is split up into two programs of five plays each, with an eleventh play, Vera Starbard's "Yan Tután," s…
You won't find Vatican Falls on any map about picturesque raging waters. No, Frank J. Avella's new play, "Vatican Falls," is, instead, a passionate, sometimes humorous, indictment of the…
The 20th anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Topdog/Underdog," is just as powerful and absorbing as before with its story of two African American brothers …
Ralph Fiennes' towering performance as a megalomaniac who changes the face of New York as we know it is worth the price of admission. With his puffed out chest and nose in the air remaking h…
"Walking with Ghosts" is a decidedly intimate experience, one that seems tailor-made for an off-Broadway theater like the Irish Rep. Price and his production team try to expand the show to B…
The venerable, historic Negro Ensemble Company is presenting an intriguing program at the equally venerable, historic Cherry Lane Theatre: "Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival." The …
G.D. Kimble's "What Passes for Comedy" depicts the fascinating era of early live television talk shows and the racism and anti-Semitism which was acceptable in those days. However, it also h…
Director Machel Ross does little to guide this play to any semblance of cohesion. Scenes 1 and 13, between Hound Dog and Ayse, her childhood best friend, begin with the exact same lines …
A scene from Twyla Tharp's "In the Upper Room" at New York City Center (Photo credit: Benjamin Miller) Joel Benjamin, Critic When Twyla Tharp's ballets are good, they are great: works of …
Mandi Masden, Tonya Pinkins and Toussaint Battiste in a scene from Robert O'Hara's production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at The Public Theater (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) …
While director Dustin Wills has given 'Montag" a superb production, the meaning and message of Kate Tarker's play remains obscure. Demonstrating female empowerment alone is not enough if the…
It's not clear what Amaterasu Za's mission is. If, as Dachs' program comments indicate, it is to bring Japanese culture to modern audiences, the company needs to be less stodgy and more …
Belgian actor Ronald Guttman gives a subtle, yet wrenching performance in "The Fall," expounding the philosophies of Albert Camus trapped in the sad and now resigned character of the exiled …
Many of Bedlam's productions have used small casts with most of the actors playing more than one role. In the case of "The Winter's Tale," not one of Shakespeare's more often produced plays,…
Etheridge may be 61, but she sounds just as she did when she first came on the American rock scene in 1988:Â full-throated emotion and raspy vocals that bring honesty and pathos to intens…
To be clear, the casting isn't colorblind; it's just casting, with director Miranda Cromwell delicately drawing out a different set of lived experiences from Miller's almost untouched words.…
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page (who also did the simplistic choreography) and Diane Paulus, this production's well-meaning gimmick is to have all the historic characters played by a "cast that …
Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt" is a powerful achievement, a history of our time as well as a cautionary tale. In depicting Jewish life in Vienna from 1899 - 1955, It also reveals a way of lif…
Actor/writer/director Douglas McGrath is a charming storyteller and his one-man show "Everything's Fine" is a total delight. He tells the entertaining and poignant story of his eventful 14th…
"Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge" should stir up controversy as their 1965 topic is still relevant. Such a debate today would have a great deal more ammunition than either of these men ha…
Harms' play never lets up in its homage to corporate intrigue laced with humor. The audience's caring for how Regan and Guy end up is a given, so that we can forgive his "poetic license" in …
Perhaps because of its prestigious accolade, or just undeniable merit, "Cost of Living" is the first of Majok's heartfelt efforts to make the journey from off-Broadway to on-Broadway in the …
Neith Boyce's "The Sea Lady," a Broadway-bound play in 1935, only now having its world premiere at Metropolitan Playhouse is an attempt at a Shavian play of ideas. Based on a 1901 novel by s…
