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This Bronx-born Off-Off-Broadway dynamo strove to put people of color on the stage in her substantive and empowering material. Appearing in one of her plays was so memorable.
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There were few women in positions of authority when she started in theater. But as she once told me, "If I wanted to do something, I just went ahead and did it." She blazed a trail f…
Now directed by the energetic and warm Enrique Cruz DeJesus, Alpha Omega provided welcome relief from months of quarantine and angst with "Solo Suites," a breezy"in every sense of the word"o…
"Rooms2020" was to have been presented in a live season which was aborted by the current Covid crisis. Instead, the troupe has presented the work artfully streamed in a version that is more …
With New York City theater in limbo for the foreseeable future, now seems the time to acknowledge the outstanding presentations of this COVID-19 era.
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Their newest virtual performance video includes the duet A Whole New World from the Broadway Musical Aladdin and features EPIC company member Jordan Boyatt and Telly Leung who played the tit…
Theater producer and playwright David Lan joined with his longtime artistic collaborator Stephen Daldry for a digital conversation celebrating Lan's new memoir, As If By Chance: Journeys, Th…
To illustrate the vital importance of its illustrious history, Gem Spa is featured on the back cover of the first album by the New York Dolls. Poets Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan both ment…
Broadway playwright's like Jim Rado, Neil LaBute, Jeremey Kareken and Greg Kotis have all graced our seats. We have had Broadway performers step on to our relatively tiny stage to give the a…
We dove into the archives to find six of the best globe-trotting music documentaries to keep readers occupied and maybe even teach them something new. Whether you're a fan of Japanese video…
"Romeo and Juliet" at this unique theater was the first Broadway show I saw. Rex Harrison, George C. Scott and Brian Bedford were also memorable there.
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Rather than sit around and mope, Flynn wrote "Good Morning, Quarantine""setting his own new lyrics to the familiar melody of "Good Morning, Baltimore," composed by Marc Shaiman (with lyricis…
Will people--especially people who are older or have pre-existing health issues (and many theatergoers are older and have such heath issues)--be willing to gather in packed theaters or conce…
This 1980's obscure and brief-running dark work is my favorite play. I later met the author's wife, which inspired Rupert Pupkin-style delusions.
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Darryl Reilly, Critic Like many, I have sought solace through entertainment during these first weeks of shelter-in-place. This is a roundup of the most enriching such works. MarÃa Irene F…
Here are accounts of productions I attended just before live performances traumatically ceased in NYC due to COVID-19; one review was not published before.
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Set in a dark time, "Girl from the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
There are happy and distracting memories to ponder while the arts and life are in limbo due to COVID-19. Lauren Bacall also appears in this recollection.
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For "Coal Country," an investigation into the April 5, 2010 West Virginia disaster at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine which killed 29 men, authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen ba…
Van Hove's energetic cast is too often lost among the video images which is sad because they are a wonderfully scrappy group of actor/dancer/singers who give their all. (I'm told that th…
Although director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall has given the Transport Group production staged at The Abroms Arts Center a rousing production, the major problem still exists with the stor…
If one were to come to conclusions about the Netherlands after seeing the three ballets presented by the Nederlands Dans Theater at the New York City Center, the Netherlands would clearly co…
With its eloquent nods to conceptual art, good-natured comedic tone and superior performance, "The Artist Will Be With You in a Moment" is an intelligent entertainment.
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The inspiration for "About Love" is Ivan Turgenev's "First Love," one of the greatest of all novellas. Subtitled "a play with songs and music," that is exactly what it is: a dramatic present…
There is plenty of over-the-top acting, physical antics and far-fetched story lines, all perfectly acceptable ingredients for a zany gender-bending farce. The only thing missing are the laug…
