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The declarative lyrics are written by Mr. Goldstein and the show's composer Michael Friedman. Mr. Friedman was a notable musical theater figure who died of HIV-related causes in 2017, at the…
Vivian Neuwirth's "Mr. Toole" is a fitting tribute to a charismatic teacher and a brilliant author. However, the play, in the form it currently is in, seems to have been shoehorned into a sh…
However, it's not until the second act that the play generates many laughs. Here, the tables turn on Jim. Gloria, returning to Kingston, has gained self-assurance from her escapades in the s…
Mixing fiction and fact, new Signature Theatre Residency playwright Lauren Yee's "Cambodian Rock Band" is an engrossing, entertaining and appalling  investigation into the Khmer Rouge's g…
Some books and movies and poems do not lend themselves to theatricalization, and that's certainly the case with "Incantata," which is currently being given its American premiere at the Irish…
Ballet Vlaanderen was founded in 1969 by dancer/choreographer Jeanne Brabants, and the present artistic director since 2015 is Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who is known for his own award-winning ch…
One of the most interesting attributes of this play (apart from the clever title being a less common and unharmful definition of the word "faggot") is playwright J. Julian Christopher's insi…
"Spicy. Cajun. Alfredo. With Bourbon Infused. Crumbled. Bacon" is the hoped-for path to victory for the pivotal Memphis cooking competition in award-winning playwright Katori Hall's upliftin…
This illustrates the biggest problem with "Suicide Forest": it takes on too many issues, jumping from social to sexual to mythological to intimate family subjects. Making the play ev…
To review dramatist/lyricist/composer Ethan Lipton's "Tumacho" almost feels like missing the point of this endearingly oddball "play with songs," a comic pastiche of Western and horror trope…
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman's equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second product…
MCC Theater's New York premiere of C.A. Johnson's new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers' "The Membe…
I'm very glad that a friend and I were able to enjoy the high-spirited, fast-moving revue "Five Guys Named Moe," which is currently playing   at Westchester Broadway Theatre.  …
Music director Andy Einhorn who conceived the show was a genial, informed host. Having worked as the music supervisor and music director for the most recent revival of "Hello, Dolly!,"…
If the show seems at times to be a bit of a mess, it's an often entertaining and always lively one, thanks in good part to members of the acting ensemble, most of whom play multiple roles. P…
Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at the…
Wearing costume designer Janice Pytel's arresting black and red ensemble, Ms. O'Connell mostly sits in a chair on scenic designer Andrew Boyce's authentically detailed drab and ominous motel…
"Extremities" on a ship best sums up its playwright William Mastrosimone's adept, if off-kilter, new psychological thriller "Rules of Desire," that's been given a tidy production. In it, a d…
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Fr…
"Anatomy of a Suicide"'s title is more than accurate as two suicides are depicted. Dramatizing such subject matter would usually be intrinsically harrowing. However, acclaimed British playwr…
The latest offering in New York City Center Encores! concert series was the Jerry Herman musical, "Mack & Mabel." Originally on Broadway during the 1974 season, it received disappointing…
Now that The Public Theater's 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again, Th…
It might be about 90 years too late, but writer/director Ciarán O'Reilly is throwing a good old-fashioned Irish wake, with poems, songs, and a slice of barmbrack (Irish sweet bread) or ea…
The inestimable Charles Busch has come up with something of a dud, as well as redundant, with his latest play, "The Confession of Lily Dare." Even its title leaves a lot to be desired. Ba…
Although J2 Spotlight's artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to dis…
