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Given one hour to decide and vote, the union committee must come to a decision in real time. On one level the play is very much like Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men" in which a group of dispar…
Presentational flourishes abound in director Ralph B. Peña's gorgeous physical staging which combines small-scale spectacle with humanity. Scenic designer Junghyun Georgia Lee provides a…
Poet and Yale professor Rankine's play makes use of a narrator/interviewer as her stand-in played by April Matthis. According to program notes by Rankine herself, "The text spoken by white p…
While Gabriel Jason Dean's "Heartland" is an enlightening play about Afghan culture mentioning the classic poet Rumi and the contemporary novelist Atiq Rahimi, some of it will still be opaqu…
Despite the familiar visual trappings--mic stand, performer-blinding stage lights, and a dull curtain backdrop--Edelman's deceptively free-flowing talents hew more towards the monologist Spa…
Who knew that Marshall McLuhan was such a nut? "The Medium," a dance-theater work conceived and directed by Anne Bogart puts McLuhan through her particular way of combining dance and wor…
As a play about neuroscience, Sam Chanse's "what you are now" needs a great deal more data and information. As a play about the plight of Cambodian refugees, what are you now needs to be cle…
Although when MasterVoices chose the third of the four Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents collaborations, "Anyone Can Whistle," as part of their 80th season at Carnegie Hall, they had no way o…
Unfortunately, Huff the author of the psychological puzzler "A Steady Rain" in which Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman starred in on Broadway in 2009, and who has written  episodes of the tel…
Songwriter Steve Earle, a three-time Grammy Award winner, returns providing homey, twangy music and acting as an understanding host/narrator. With charm that belies the depth of Coal Cou…
The play itself is suitably dramatic and thought-provoking; as a piece of theater it should continue to be presented to enlighten future audiences. This particular production isn't quite up …
C. Julian Jiménez's "Bruise & Thorn" is not for everyone. Older theatergoers may be put off by both the raw language and street slang that they will not know. However, if you want to kn…
Page 73's world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s "Man Cave" is an exciting, riveting supernatural horror story. While at times it seems overwrought and overstuffed with too many issues, Ta…
Nina Simone's vocal talents, physical presence and spirit are all dazzlingly channeled by Laiona Michelle in her engaging self-written biographical concert-style musical, "Little Girl Blue."…
Whether or not Tracy Weller's "Hart Island" directly harkens back to Masters, it certainly has similarities, most particularly in its poetically rendered revelations of the underbelly of lif…
The world premiere of Peter Gil-Sheridan's "This Space Between Us" gives itself away in its title: it is about a dysfunctional family that does nothing but argue when they get together. Jona…
Aleshea Harris' third New York stage play following her form-bending "Is God Is" and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" is epic in all senses of the word: it includes poetry, dance, incanta…
Director Ciarán O'Reilly confidently lets the clever cast explore their characters' profound complexities, which means forcing the audience to simply accept a few psychological contradict…
Puns, witty repartee, double entendres, verbal wordplay out of Abbott and Costello, sight gags and slapstick all abound in playwright Talene Monahon's zany, edgy and accomplished historic…
By far, the audience favorite was the world premiere "Time Spell," an entertaining attempt at a hybrid of tap dancing (choreographed by Michelle Dorrance and Jillian Meyers) and ballet (chor…
Conceived and directed by Les Waters, his staging of Out of Time is of purposeful simplicity. The actors are seated, standing or in motion fulfilling the intentions of each author. The stage…
The production is a combination of film and theater techniques which keep reminding us that we are watching a dramatization: realistic sets (designed by Jacquelyn Scott) give way to scenes i…
So rages legendary Right Wing Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in playwright Claude Solnik's well-observed historical fantasia about the 1950's anti-Communist Blacklist, "The Unameric…
You may have never thought about it before but you are defined by your language. Your identity is shaped by the words you have and the words you don't. You can say certain things in one lang…
Heyman and the rest of the production team quickly turn "Space Dogs" into an exercise of quantity over quality. More lights. More noise. More projections. More props. It's theater as sensory…
