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Now there's "Swan Lake Rock Opera" created by Mirit Shem-Ur (book and lyrics), Tsedi Sarfati (director and dramaturge) and Sharona Pick (music production and additional music). The show …
D.W. Gregory's docudrama "Radium Girls" being given its New York premiere after a run in New Jersey over 20 years ago attempts to put the story and subsequent lawsuits on stage. Part of the …
"Work Bitch," "Oops! I Did It Again" and "Gimme More" are also among the choice hits included in the show's delirious soundtrack, interspersed with audio statements by Britney Spears.
The p…
Director Nicholas Viselli's physical staging crackles with force and exhibits visual flair with numerous arresting stage pictures. Bert Scott's artfully simple scenic design conveys the sens…
So how is Broadway doing right now, in terms of ticket sales and attendance? Not bad at all, all things considered.... There are currently 24 shows running on Broadway. Last week…
George Bernard Shaw's once-banned problem comedy due to its controversial subject matter concerning prostitution, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" has been given a stylish and elegant revival by t…
This mashup proves to be both too convoluted and too long at two hours and 20 minutes. Beane has, however, given the play a top flight send off with a starry cast of some of the most distinc…
Magnificent leaps, graceful gestures with his hands and arms, grand turns, and Martial Arts-style moves are all to be experienced by Tomislav Nevistic's exceptional modern dance technique. H…
For something completely different, New York City Center commissioned and presented Ayodele Casel's tap dance company for the world premiere of "Where We Dwell." A crowd-pleasing, often rous…
An idealistic down on his luck Filipino American father home schools his two children. To teach them about The Great Depression and the present U.S. economy, he has them study the plays of C…
Wearing costume designer Katrina Lindsay's artful business attire is the distinguished British trio of Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester. They initially portray the three Le…
Before the dancers appeared live, "Dance" commenced with a burst of Glass' iconic, pulsating music"here pre-recorded, originally performed live"and a still from LeWitt's original video proje…
Previously only known for his novels and short stories, first-time playwright Kevin Barry brings the same full-hearted doom and gloom to the stage in "Autumn Royal" that was evidenced in his…
Keenan Scott II's engrossing Broadway debut play, Thought of a Colored Man, appears to be a masculine version of Ntozake Shange's 1976 "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the…
The final work on Program 1 was its finest. A.I.M. By Kyle Abraham presented its director's "Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song," a deeply moving paean to the darker meanings of love.…
Douglas Lyons' new comedy, "Chicken & Biscuits" introduces us to the dysfunctional Jenkins/Mabry clan at the funeral of its patriarch Bernard, the former pastor of his New Haven church. …
Employing his majestic vocal and physical talents, Santiago-Hudson supremely differentiates each of his brief characterizations with specificity and pathos. There's also a poignant dynami…
Although the characters never meet in person, they communicate mostly through letters that are spoken by the actors directly to the audience, and then halfway through the play, in texting wh…
DiMurro writes with an acute sense of the rhythm of New York speech and its old-school jargon, helped by director William Roudebush's complementary sense of timing, not to mention four exper…
More concert than musical, the 80-minute show's libretto adds little to its cast album, with the lyrics of each queen's autobiographical song also pruning their individual histories to a poi…
Von Essen did sing a couple of songs from a living composer, one Andrew Lloyd Webber. He relayed the story of going on for Ricky Martin in Evita, where the curtain had to be held so that all…
"Simon says let the games begin," and so they do, at the opening of "Chasing Jack," a new play by John S Anastasi, M.D. As directed by Peter J Loewy, "Chasing Jack" is a smart and rewarding …
While Marshall Pailet's direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes ("Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-," Camp Rosenblatt, "As my Grandma…
The dances on this program are perfect examples of the Denishawn aesthetic which combined what was then exoticism with impeccable theatricality. The Denishawn troupe was very much of its…
Benjamin Viertel directs "Between the Bars" brilliantly finding the balance between theatricality and reality. Each character emerges as distinct and multidimensional, even the guards wh…
