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Commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company, Daniel K. Isaac's brilliant "ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME" was born out of the actor-playwright's realization that he knew way more about Shakespeare …
As a piece of writing, "The Near Disaster of Jasper & Casper" is whacky and creative, and except for a couple of out-of-place bits of humor, one involving a middle finger and another a c…
If Samuel Beckett had been a Jew, his "Waiting for Godot"'s Estragon and Vladimir could have emerged as the equally quirky "Two Jews, Talking," in the appealing new two-hander by Ed. Weinber…
Part of Ramón's game plan to increase attendance is to create a Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle mascot. In a move that changes his life, Arlo is drafted to don a hilarious, smelly rat co…
'Hyprov" is a delightful and surprising evening as there is no telling how it will turn out. Will the Hyprovisers be good at their improvs? Will they stay in character? How will they deal wi…
"Titantique" is the most hilarious musical parody to play New York in many a year. Since international superstar Céline Dion only got to sing one song at the end of James Cameron's blockbus…
It is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh's new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking ab…
The second Ashton ballet was "Varii Capricci," his clever take on Bronislava Nijinska's "Les Biches" from 1924. Her ballet was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the sexually liberated, chic y…
"We want to make a difference in people's lives," says Tapper.  "We want to do new shows, to encourage new writers and directors. We want to feature children's shows and get young …
Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical" at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Editor…
The dancers were attired in puffy white tutus and black tights, the men bare-chested"chic costumes by the choreographer. They pranced, undulated their torsos, tossed each other around an…
A tiny dynamo, Bell Wolff, early in her career, found the perfect role as Ermengarde in several productions of "Hello, Dolly!". She yearned to perform the bigger part of Minnie Faye and near…
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
Jake Shore's "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger student …
Ng has a far-reaching imagination and spins the many stories and characters of her "Happy Life" with admiral skill and abandon. But it is just too heavy-handedly, head-scratchingly abstr…
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC's "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"'s narrator and its protagon…
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for Murp…
The chips fall into place by the end of A Black and White Cookie, perhaps a bit too smoothly, but the path to the ending is well constructed and fascinating. Morgenstein has caught the nuanc…
For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
It may be a bit unfair, but there's no escaping comparing "Notre Dame De Paris," currently exploding on the stage of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, with its immensely popular F…
D'Astolfo (that's duh-STAHL-fo, mkay?), who also wrote the piece, sends Taylor off like a firecracker from the moment he comes onto the stage, speeding through Taylor's wry and witty dialect…
"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
And of his behavior Richard continues to explain, "And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain." In this production we see none of this though this speech…
Pendleton, in a program note, assures us that "Alice" is not a retelling of Carroll's book. Rather, he used some of the events and characters from the book, dividing the evening-length w…
