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A woman's arm falls off soon into playwright Charly Evon Simpson's engrossing allegory, "sandblasted." Ms. Simpson's tone beautifully mixes the comic with the wistful, her dialogue is glorio…
A plea for understanding the pain of being Muslin-American, Sevan's First Down at the 59E59 Theaters focuses on the plight of an adored football player who decides to kneel and pray during t…
The Mint Theater Company which gave the first New York production of "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," Lawrence's best play and one of the great British tragedies of modern drama, has revived …
Because of changing social mores, some Broadway musicals are assumed to make audiences uncomfortable today. Take for example Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" whose protagonist is a wife-…
I want to be clear. "The Music Man" is such a masterfully written musical that making some changes here and there can't really ruin it; but changes are not needed in this show and they c…
Lisa and The Other Lisa are the two characters in acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh's haunting short play, "The Same." The conceit that The Other Lisa is Lisa 10 years ago is soon discer…
"Black No More," the new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler's 1931 Afrofuturist novel, is the most exciting and inventive new show to be seen so far this season in New York though it is …
It's just that, as the fictional Eva supplants the non-fictional Ann onstage, the play reverses course and sacrifices its human scale back to the rhetorical, with pro-life Eva and pro-choice…
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: not only pu…
De Niro's goal is to lure more film and television production from Hollywood to New York, and that can only be a plus for New York-based actors. A brand new studio, created for the needs of …
Hansol Jung's "Wolf Play" is a fantasy on several levels but it is also rather confusing in its details. Inspired by the true case of an Asian adoptee who was "re-homed" on the Internet when…
Mandell's costume and wig design are exquisite, perfectly defining each character in their own distinct look and style with numerous fabrics and colors and without overlap. Each of the actor…
In her selection of the movements and structure of "Four Quartets," Tamowitz chose to ignore the depth and imagery of the poems, producing a cool Merce Cunningham-like ballet that glided alo…
The new opera, "Intimate Apparel" is a very impressive, accessible work. If it has a fault, it is completely humorless but then the original play did not include comic relief either. Unlike …
Wheeldon and Pulitzer Award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage make every effort to hide the fact that MJ is a jukebox musical, despite the fact that the first notes of every song elicited loud…
Who knew that SPAM has figured so importantly in Korean and Korean-American cuisines? Jaime Sunwoo's "Specially Processed American Me" tells that story and much more. "Specially Processe…
The dynamic W. Tré Davis and Tyler Fauntleroy deliver rousing performances as Tambo and Bones. Each is possessed of a limber physicality, superior comic timing and dramatic depth. Their imm…
Joshua Harmon's latest play, the dense, untidy, brilliant and timely Prayer for the French Republic, is his most ambitious, epical play covering five generations of one French Jewish family …
But, again, O'Hara does these actors no favors, forcing them to contend with incongruous historical information while also depriving them of the greatest acting benefit O'Neill's four-act pl…
Warning: "Shhhh," a world premiere commissioned by Atlantic Theater Company from Clare Barron, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner for "Dance Nation," may just be the most visceral play you w…
Let's start with the best:Â The great Joshua Henry's 11 o'clock number, "William's Song," a gut-wrenching revelatory song sung by the title character's emotionally distant father. Â Hen…
While Gordon has said in interviews that his model for the music was Puccini, in fact, the atonal orchestral score sounds more like operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd and Dominick …
Throughout these plays there resonates an overarching message of female empowerment, a message that provides depth to the otherwise light comedy being served up. Nuns are habit forming, that…
Set in the breakroom of a stamping plant in 2008, Ms. Morisseau achieves a high level of dramatic writing with this well observed exploration of Black working-class life. Each of the short s…
After a grand Pippin-style introductory opening, one exhilarating number follows another in acclaimed theater maker Taylor Mac's "The Hang." Derived from jazz and opera, this vibrant musical…
