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Goldfaden's escapist musical fantasy combines bits and pieces from many sources: the Cinderella fairy tale; Gilbert-and-Sullivan-esque rapid-fire, tongue twister songs; old-fashioned (even i…
Cariou is now appearing Off-Broadway as the titular character in playwright George Eastman's slight though moving two-character work, Harry Townsend's Last Stand. Sharp one-liners, funny set…
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a diffe…
Prominent Georgia attorney Dep Kirkland "decided to listen to his own voice, and walked away from the legal field altogether to pursue his previously private dream of acting, writing, and di…
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand's classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth T…
Now, New Yorkers who know the film (and who love it, hate it or partly love it and partly hate it) have a chance to see a streamlined (at 95 minutes) musical-theatrical spoof of the film, ca…
Maddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, Â "A Bright Room Called Day"Â is author Tony Kushner's reimagining of his 1…
"The Giant Hoax" is a charming morality tale about telling the truth and growing up. The expert hands of director Christopher Michaels and choreographer Molly Model are clearly at work in al…
While MarÃa Irene Fornés'Â "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than t…
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
Yes, Mr. Foote's eloquent take on the souring of the American Dream has shades of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," but with his idiosyncratic and powerful command of dramatic writing h…
An old man who is an homage to Noam Chomsky is metamorphosed into an owl through the aid of a cloth mask and a print costume with a technician behind him flapping the wings, accompanied by t…
Stephen Brown's "Everything Is Super Great" is a small, unpretentious play about an American family in crisis. That is not a novel theme, of course, but "Everything" rises gracefully to the …
His more abstract ballets for The Chase Brock Experience, such as its current presentation at Theatre Row, "The Four Seasons" to the Vivaldi score (a revival from 2006), did not fare quite a…
Campbell Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge and Dashiell Eaves as Bob Cratchit in a scene from Jack Thorne's new adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Mar…
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller's 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In t…
Political plots can be dry as toast. Hatem attempts to spice things up by crossing the genders of the actors playing Carter and young Cynthia; the convention is an interesting choice althoug…
Do we really need another Jukebox Musical on Broadway"another hum-along, sing-along, déjà vu, vaguely autobiographical songfest? When the subject is as charged up as Tina Turner, the ans…
The late NYC performer's 60th birthday was commemorated by a lovely concert at The Duplex with the proceeds benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
The post Dear Laurie Lawrence app…
Alan Lightman's 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein's Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on theori…
Following a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There's a hu…
Told as a series of alternating, interlocking monologues, there is a "Rashomon"-esque quality to "Pumpgirl" that grows more obvious as the play's story comes into focus. Not only do the rela…
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
Artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus presented a performance of Alpha Omega in preparation for the troupe's fiftieth anniversary season next year. This concert featured two works by th…
