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It is definitely worth a gander for both its subject matter and its performer, the disarming and immensely talented Jon Peterson who also adapted the one-man play from Chip Deffaa's original…
Fortunately, good things come to those who wait, even after an hour and a half. The play suddenly takes a turn when Karen X has a breakdown behind a dumpster at Whole Foods. Karen X may have…
Rich Little, belatedly making his New York stage debut in the role of Richard Nixon is the show's magnetic anchor. George Bugatti crafts a wild scenario, meshing Allen Drury's sense of polit…
Since it's difficult to make fun of something that was never meant to be taken seriously in the first place, Hogue and director Nick Flatto are often left to spin their wheels by simply reha…
Don long worked as a publicist for one singer he greatly admired; when age and ill health prevented her from working much anymore and her finances grew precarious, she told him she could no …
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker's frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to -…
As Sammy, Jason Alexander's exquisite comic genius delivers like gangbusters, a delivery which gets even richer in some subtler moments when Sammy surprises himself with some honest emotions…
Nelson Mandela's inestimable value to humanity in general and to the abolishment of apartheid in particular cannot be thoroughly assessed or overestimated, nor are they in a new play that be…
Gianni Valenti, who runs one of the city's best-known and most important nightspots, Birdland Jazz Club on 44th Street, deserves a lot of credit for leading the way. He was one of the fi…
Hamilton Clancy, the artistic director of The Drilling Company, joins forces with his assistant director Karla Hendrick to stage The Two Noble Kinsmen in a modern-dress version that makes th…
Early in the play, songs are sung by various members of the cast including the anachronistic "The House of the Rising Sun," (sung twice) set in New Orleans in the twentieth century. The cast…
More than 30 Broadway productions are expected to open or re-open before year's end. Producers are gambling that by the fall, audiences will be ready to return. I'll list below the shows and…
For "The Importance of Being Earnestly LGBTQ+" which wildly lives up to its title, director Maarten Cornelis updates Wilde's scenario to present day New York City. Currency is in dollars; Ma…
She gets to sing everything from the Patsy Kline classic "Crazy," "Respect" (made famous by Aretha Franklin), and "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess to generous, beautifully acted scenes from …
In what might just be the best stage role of her career, Jackie Hoffman plays the multi-faceted Ariana in E. Dale Smith's "Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)" at Nancy Manocherian's the cell…
There are installations, written words, video projections, and recorded spoken word. One setting is intended as a break area where patrons can dance or play with beachballs. Other interactiv…
The Icarus of Icarus and Amina is a poster of Henri Matisse's brilliantly colorful abstraction of that Greek mythological character who soared too close to the sun, and Amina (Sidney Caruth …
Two police detective partners have breakfast while working a case at a generic U.S.A. hotel in author Gabriel Nathan's electric 15-minute play Morning Was Safe. Mr. Nathan's dialogue crackle…
He died 20 years ago today at the age of 76. Why am I moved to note this anniversary? For the same reason I was compelled to see "Tribute" onstage. Viewing 1973's "Save the Tiger" as a child…
Havel's Audience represents CAMT's first foray into modern Czech literature having previously staged imaginative productions of folk material. This visit to contemporary theater, unfortu…
Written by Krista Knight and Brinegar, Sloppy Bonnie follows its title character (played with irresistible zest by Amanda Disney) as she lays waste to everything and everyone in her path, le…
Aside from the unevenness of the acting, Drance's production has no consistent tone, shifting from comedy to drama to tragedy and back again. Not all of his interesting ideas are carried thr…
During Mr. Reilly's breezy segment his life, career and views on theater were discussed. The Bronx-born Reilly has been a critic for seven years, is a member of the Drama Desk and has a BFA …
Grodin created his meta gag in 1973, which was that he was playing a snide and combative version of himself. He was so good at it that some audience members gasped at his rudeness and home v…
Highlights of Ed Dixon's sharp writing and grand acting inlcude joyous recreations of George Rose in My Fair Lady and The Pirates of Penzance, a sad mini portrait of Ray Walston and being tr…
