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If you ever lived through the angst of an unrequited love, a romance impossible for one reason or another, then Billy Hipkins' "Prince Charming, You're Late" will hit the spot. Directed …
Modern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don't plan out all the details. Robert Icke's staging for London's Almeida Theatre now at New York's Park Avenue Armor…
"The Rise and Fall, then Brief and Modest Rise Followed by a Relative Fall of…Jean Claude Van Damme as Gleaned by a Single Reading of His Wikipedia Page Months Earlier" is the brobdinagian…
Ira Levin's sense of eerie foreboding initially looms over playwright Brian Watkins' entrancing drama, "Epiphany." As a reunion dinner party comically unfolds, we anxiously await supernatura…
Four appealingly performed single Manhattan roommates' tangled romantic lives are depicted in the pleasant contemporary Off-Broadway musical, "Love Quirks," which has a rapturous score. C…
The Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished " maybe too polished " production like the earlier "…
Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
Originally broadcast on "Soul!," an early PBS program dedicated to showcasing Black arts and politics, Baldwin and Giovanni's one-on-one echoes contemporary concerns while also remaining dec…
For the company's director, Peter Boal, this short season was a homecoming of sorts. He was a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet which calls the David H. Koch its artistic home…
"Corsicana" is a heartfelt and absorbing family drama that's been given a pretentiously distracting production: just for starters, its cryptic houselights up preamble is at odds with the pla…
In 'Circle Jerk," this cocky duo confidently preen, bray and cavort while donning various wigs and flamboyant costumes as multiple fey stock characters for over two numbing hours of their se…
Romy Nordlinger has written and is performing the monodrama, "Garden of Alla: The Alla Nazimova Story," at the TheaterLab. Directed by Lorca Peress, "Garden of Alla" gives us this eccent…
Shekar's script is extremely smart, funny at just the right moments, and morally gripping. Her characterizations of Ariel and Sanam are fully formed, uniquely individual and carefully comple…
''Atkinson was the conscience of the theater. He rediscovered Off-Broadway in the 50's when other critics did not want to bother going off the beaten path. His standards were tough, but his …
The new work on the program, a world premiere, was "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" by Michelle Manzanales, choreographed to John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Harry Woods and se…
Comedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," Â into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author …
Kaliski attempts a clever conceit marrying "The Oresteia" characters to the modern tragic story of the homeless hordes. Does "The Oresteia" provide an effective jumping off point to explore …
Tennessee Williams' full-length play's titles, characters and dialogue have been part of the consciousness since "The Glass Menagerie"'s 1944 premiere. During his peak years of the 1940's an…
The animated Aline Salloum fearlessly embraces all of Najaf's unsettling complexities, delivering a riveting performance. In the early sexually frank verbal exchanges, Ms. Salloum marvelousl…
"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel's Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also directe…
Diriwachter is particularly skilled in writing working class vernacular. The Father and Tim speak the same language and he catches all the subtleties of decades of ups and downs. He …
An import from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Islander" embraces that renowned international jamboree's artistry and experimentalism, most notably by forgoing musicians for sound looping ma…
Can a 27-year-old Black gay professional journalist and a 21-year-old Blatino bicycle messenger with an out of wedlock son find love and happiness together in Brooklyn? That is the crux of a…
I've often told friends what an impact "Funny Girl" had on me. That was the show that made me fall completely, utterly, and permanently in love with Broadway. I was a teenager when I saw…
Following the lead of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Siting Yang has updated Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the present but left the story mainly set in Africa. In "Sky of Darknes…
