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The play's title comes from Carew's character. The "hope hypothesis" is the notion that, in our current environment, people have universally given up hope. Consequently, they are either atte…
Vieh's script is extremely clever in its telling two sides of a story completely by separate monologues. The dialogue is real and yet extremely funny, never revealing too much, allowing the …
Like a great many history plays, Harvey Fierstein's "Bella Bella" is as much about the present as the past, paralleling everything that's gone wrong now with what went wrong then. Unsurprisi…
On Broadway every once in a while writing, acting, directing and the technical production come together to profound, memorable effect. Adam Rapp's "The Sound Inside" at Studio 54 is a su…
The first piece on the program was the most successful of the three: Mark Morris' "The Letter V". (There was no mention of any specific meaning of the title.) Â The classical music composi…
Hillary Clinton wearing a glittery red pantsuit leading a Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-style production number set in a Busby Berkeleyesque recreation of a McDonald's with giant sparkling French…
Searching Facebook recently, I discovered that a brilliant, colorful and unsung creative figure I encountered in my youth, died earlier this year.
The post Remembering Mary E. Allen (1954 "…
While the original production had a great many one-of-a-kind stars supporting Merman, one of the distinctions of the York production is its cast: Montel has been able to obtain the services …
There has been a recent trend to perform Shakespeare as minimally as possible and with as few actors as possible. However, the question arises what is gained? When the doubling of roles prov…
To be sure, Serafina and Alvaro's romance is less than credible, but director Trip Cullman wisely commits to it completely, recognizing that Williams really hasn't given him any other choice…
"The Cosby Show," "Home Improvement" and "Roseanne" are among Mr. Williams' prominent credits as a television writer and producer. Williams also has had several plays produced and has direct…
Last seen in New York in 2017, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen has brought a newish work, "to come (extended)" to NYU Skirball Center. To come (extended) is actually a reworking an…
The play's dynamic"with the two brothers trying to stay in sync even as they find themselves polar opposites in nearly all areas of their lives"seems at points to make the play a kind of clu…
Tracy Letts' latest play to reach New York via the Chicago Steppenwolf production is the comedy drama, "Linda Vista," in which a 50-year-old white man in San Diego going through a messy divo…
The performances as well as the dialogue are cool and unemotional as you might expect from four professionals used to doing their jobs, until about three quarters of the way through when Win…
As is Mr. Friel's The Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is a monologue play. Here, instead of being separated in individual acts, the three characters appear on stage together without interacting,…
Knud Adams directs this one-set show which at times has moments of humor, but overall is a slow moving and usually depressing narrative. Ari Fliakos, who plays the son, gives a reserved perf…
"Games" shines a light on the long forgotten stories of two Jewish athletes in post-World War I Germany, a Germany that slid into National Socialism by the 1930's, effecting the lives of Hel…
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
The post Book review: Still Here: The M…
Written by Sean Daniels, "The White Chip" is reportedly an autobiographical play, directed with an earnest finesse by Sheryl Kaller who sometimes has difficulty keeping her three different p…
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
The post Book review: "Still Here: The …
Bearded, bald and utilizing a pronounced Irish accent, the physically imposing Jeffrey Bean is towering as John. The beaming Mr. Bean's delightful bonhomie gives way to harrowing anguish as …
As part of its Fall 2019 Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter Series, The York Theatre Company has smartly revived this 1965 Ben Bagley - Cole Porter revue not seen in New York in 54 years. Pamela …
Rocky execution aside, the play is not without humor, imagination, charm and whimsy, and the same can be said about the designs by Jessie Bonaventure (scenic), Johanna Pan (costumes), Kelley…
This is the latest edition of creator, writer and director Gerard Alessandrini's enduring musical spoof skewering present and past NYC theater that he inaugurated- in 1982 and has had over 2…
