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The play captures emotions that many of us have felt, from unrequited love, to loss. Seldom are we allowed access to such a raw story and candidness. In a time where we shield each other fro…
Monica Bill Barnes totally changed the mood with her thoroughly delightful "The Running Show" which used physical contests as a metaphor for dance. Barnes stood in the midst of sixteen s…
As a writer, O'Dell seems to eschew melodramatic elements, including pat endings with fully resolved conflicts. This a work grounded in sober reality, a work that rejects the prevalent idea …
The problem with Vaynberg's play, now being given its Off Broadway premiere, in which she plays the lead female role, is that it has so many interlocking plots that it can give you a headach…
The final work, "Unveiling" by Sonya Tayeh, director of Tayeh Dance, known now as the choreographer of the Broadway hit 'Moulin Rouge!," used a trio which appeared to be about a female (the …
A mulatto slave is sodomized with a large black dildo while in a canopy bed by his master's wife who is decked out in Madonna-style dominatrix regalia. A white indentured servant fellates th…
Numb from two straight-through hours of far-right speechifying emoted in perpetual semi-darkness, the audience at "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" then endures a ghastly aria of despair by a L…
What is evident is that Zeller writes tremendous roles for actors. Frank Langella won the Tony Award back in 2016 for the title role of "The Father," and "The Height of the Storm" may well w…
"The Wrong Man" is a new musical by multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan with "Hamilton"'s director Thomas Kail. Like "Hamilton," it began as a concept album and grew into a stage performanc…
It is Ginger Grace as Amanda that is the crowning glory of this production. Though slender and frail looking, she is still a powerful, if bothersome figure, memories of a golden southern…
Despite the fine writing and acting, these two plays do not stand alone: we are given no backstory to understand the context for these relationships in the longer saga; both plays dealing wi…
The Mariinsky Ballet performed the U.S. premiere of "At the Wrong Time," which had been choreographed by Alexander Sergeev and had its world premiere March 26, 2019 in St. Petersburg, Russia…
A downer by its nature, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is playwright Chad Beckim's heartbreaking 95-minute family drama depicting the ravages of rampant opioid addiction in the present day United S…
When the Gingold Theatrical Group's revival of Bernard Shaw's epic "Caesar and Cleopatra" begins, the characters are wearing white contemporary clothes and sitting on what looks like an exca…
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" (1943) has been studied, analyzed, and staged as any number of plays, ballets, musicals and an unsuccessful film. So, it was with great in…
Still delightful, mainly due to Porter's score, the book by Herbert Fields (who went on to write six more Porter shows) has its charms with its snappy Jazz Age dialogue which makes fun of th…
These four characters are, unfortunately, not interesting enough to fill a 90-minute musical, especially one that covers territory better served by other shows like "A Chorus Line," "Fame" a…
It's 1948 and we're in an Italian prison where "The Beast of Rome," German SS Colonel Herbert Kappler (1907-1978) is serving a life sentence for war crimes. Kappler was the Chief of Police o…
"Ludwig and Bertie," written by Douglas Lackey, gives us insight into the relationship of two of our greatest twentieth century philosophers, the younger Jewish Ludwig Wittgenstein and the 2…
Legendary director Peter Brook has always investigated the big questions. In recent years his productions have become more intimate and the questions bigger. In "Why?", written and directed …
The latest offering by JoAnne Akalaitis, "Bad News! i was there…" is something of a misnomer, since none of us was there for the "bad news" of the ancient Greeks, which is what Akalaitis …
Though off-putting, "Sunday"'s periodic non sequitur choreographic interludes become a respite from its bad writing and grating performances. For no discernable reason, characters stop sp…
Katsura Sunshine is the stage name of this charismatic 49-year-old Toronto-born performer who relocated to Japan and apprenticed to a Rakugo artiste. Mr. Sunshine eventually became a notable…
Imported from London and directed with finesse by Jamie Lloyd, Tom Hiddleston (Robert), Zawe Ashton (Emma), and Charlie Cox (Jerry), all making their Broadway debuts, are practically choreog…
The first act of Anna Moench's "Mothers" concludes with a genuine shock as the playwright startlingly upends all of our expectations. Visually punctuated by Wilson Chin's suddenly not-so-sta…
