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This show is conceived, directed, and choreographed by Randy Skinner, and his four-time Tony Award-nominated talents shine throughout the production. The choreography is inventive, interacti…
As the manager of the restaurant, Aduba gives one of those big performances which are larger than life, but we have all met that type of people. She batters, insults, cajoles, berates her st…
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as "A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic and …
Directed by playwright Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol offers six actors playing 23 roles in this entertaining new adaptation. In the iconic role of Sherlock Holmes with so much history behi…
All of us are probably aware of the problems of polluted water in Flint, Michigan, owing to civic neglect. However, it might shock you to know that it is still going on. Erika Dickerson-Desp…
The Red Bull Theater production of Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" will most likely introduce a new generation to this classic Jacobean comedy in a form that most will be able to follow due to …
Performed as one long 80-minute monologue, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing also offers actor Jenn Murray little, if any, respite, laying on her shoulders complete responsibility for telling ev…
After a pause, there was the world premiere of "Second Duet." It was the most dramatic and emotional dance of the program. Wearing sneakers and casual sportswear, Cassandra Trenary and Aran …
If you are a Princess Diana completist, "Diana: The Musical" will satisfy your needs along with the deeper Spencer and The Queen and all the innumerable documentaries about this ill-fated fa…
But of course, looks are famously and frequently deceptive, if not all the time. Indeed,"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overload"Â emerges as one of the most serious-minded plays of all, as it s…
If Alice Childress' 1955 Off Broadway hit, "Trouble in Mind," had transferred to Broadway in 1957 as it was scheduled to do, it would have been the first play by a Black playwright to reach …
When Sonny Marie Lee stepped onto the stage of the Actors Temple Theatre as the eponymous "The Bronx Babe" I thought she was putting the audience on, acting the stereotypical, Noo Yawk accen…
David Hyde Pierce taking off his suit trousers to practice on a drum in his boxer shorts is one of many hilarious bits that are meshed with drama in "The Visitor." It's a faithful, resonant …
As always in a John Doyle presentation, the production is professional, polished and accomplished. This time around he has not made changes to the script or the score except to include the c…
The writers seem afraid to state what the story is all about, the word gay being mentioned exactly once. At two hours and 15 minutes including one intermission, today's audience is way ahead…
Unfolding from a stand-up comedy routine""A prisoner walks into a bar…!""and set in a comedy venue designed with ingenuity and style by Walt Spangler, Turtle veers from hokey to horrible h…
Dan Wackerman's revival for The Peccadillo Theater Company and Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has an equally starry cast some of whom have not appeared on New York stages for quite a…
Meyer's darkly comic script is ultimately terrifying, a nod to Orwell and a brilliantly satirical parable which is uncannily prescient in today's political climate. Director Jess Chayes brin…
The Off-Off-Broadway world premiere of "The Dark Outside," nonagenarian English playwright Bernard Kops' poetic, archetypal and fantastical family secrets drama is problematic. Directoria…
In a departure for him, the three actresses play all of the characters, both female and male, and are listed in the program simply as 1, 2 and 3. While the play feels undramatic and has no h…
Without the benefit of sight, one must strain to listen more closely in order to understand the events of the play; footsteps, cane taps, ball bounces, far off music, distant voices and othe…
Will Eno's wry, contemporary 'Gnit" solves the problem of attempting to stage Ibsen's unwieldy, five-hour verse play "Peer Gynt." The play given its world premiere at the Humana Festival of …
"Caroline, or Change" is an important musical, more now than in 2004. It should be seen. The Roundabout production, though somewhat flawed, still communicates the complicated relatio…
Co-creators and co-directors Darren Lee Cole and Alexander Flanagan-Wright have crafted a novel documentary premise, enforced with immaculate historical detail without being pedantic. The…
The question arises who is the intended audience. The 60-minute show is too slow for young children and too repetitious for adults. Possibly this is meant for the nostalgia crowd of which th…
