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The original production of "Curse of the Starving Class" in 1977 was a shocker even for a time when permissiveness prevailed. Kinney seems to have decided that the play Shepard wrote isn…
Never really losing her cool, Pressley always commands the stage even though scenic designer Alexis Distler has made it difficult by creating a huge private room, beautiful in its understate…
All of this is brought to life via digital camera, which captures the movement of the figures on a quickly assembled "set" that is, in effect, a whole miniature seaside town, with businesses…
Not all cult movies need to be made into musicals, particularly those that are dependent on special effects which the cinema does better than the stage. This is demonstrated by the new Broad…
The epistolary "Posting Letters to the Moon" may, on the face of it, make one think of A. R. Gurney's "Love Letters" or Helene Hanff's "84 Charing Cross Road. "But unlike those two memorable…
Poet Aziza Barnes' first play, "BLKS," now at MCC Theater Space is raucous, vulgar, outrageous and contemporary in Robert O'Hara's hilarious, over-the-top production. Following the adventure…
But, fear not! The Encores! creative team"director John Rando, music director, Rob Berman and choreographer Sarah O'Gleby"found a terrific cast led by Michael Urie in the Phil Silvers' r…
Abrasive as a subpar episode of Maude and reaching a sour psychological thriller-style finale out of Craig's Wife, Happy Talk is playwright Jesse Eisenberg's muddled family drama. It's t…
Christopher Chen's exquisite and mystical "Passage" being produced by the Soho Rep is inspired by E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," borrowing its plot and character relationships. But whi…
Alice Ripley (Best Actress Tony Award winner for "Next to Normal") is, in a word, astounding. Her Trisha is brimming with curiosity, honesty, humor and grace; she is inspiring to watch and s…
"Pepperland," however, will not do anything for Morris' reputation as a choreographer. His dearth of choreographic invention"including constant repetition of a few steps, gestures and pa…
Witnessing the LOTNY production makes one wonder why "Owen Wingrave" is not performed more often: it has a small cast of eight with juicy roles for all of the characters, evenly divided betw…
The black-accented stage has a raised runway platform, a square platform, a bench and some furniture. From these basic elements, scenic designer Susannah Hyde crafts an ideal landscape for t…
Ted Chapin, the writer and host of the 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series' "A Beautiful Dawning: Oklahoma! at 75," did an impeccable job creating one of the best editions of this important se…
As president of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, from 1966 " 1969, playwright Arthur Miller moved about Eastern Europe freely and witnessed a great many troubling eve…
Folks, this is no ordinary play, and it's not for everyone. Call it an absurd commentary, a daydream, a nightmare, a fantasia, a memory play--come see it and decide what you want to call it.…
Laughter and oohs and ahs abound from an audience of all ages during this exuberant and wildly theatrical stage adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel "Around the World in 80 Da…
In "Caroline's Kitchen," British playwright Torben Betts ("Invincible," "The Unconquered," "Muswell Hill") has written a state of the nation farce which has no laughs. As the play under the …
The eternal heartbreak of show business is given a fresh spin in playwright Adam Seidel's exhilarating contemporary drama, "Original Sound" that skewers the music industry. Mr. Seidel's scen…
MasterVoices performed a beautifully sung and played rendition of the legendary 1941 musical "Lady in The Dark" as part of New York City Center's 75th Anniversary Season for three sold-out p…
Retro Productions which has staged both old and new plays has turned its attention to this unjustly neglected comedy from 1961 which has not had a New York revival that made it into the reco…
Viewing the abstract configuration onstage that could be from a Whitney Biennial before "Friendly's Fire" begins instantly informs us we'll be in a fantasyland. Indeed, playwright John Patri…
As the elderly king of Britain who deludedly decides to give up his kingdom to his three daughters, Goneril and Regan, the two older married ones, and Cordelia, his younger unmarried daughte…
The Irish Repertory Theatre ends its thirtieth season by going back to the beginning, with a sturdy revival of Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars." An historical prequel to the other t…
Ernie Morris is a middle-aged widowed African-American writer who arrives at a contemporary unnamed prison to be a volunteer. A young corrections officer explains in great detail all of …
