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Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels still has most of his/her friends and professional acquaintances from the movie version with some new twists:Â Jeff Slater, his playwright roommate (a wond…
Eve Wolf's new play for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, titled "Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real & Imagined," suggests that the real-life Andersen might actually have appreciat…
Is a young Asian woman a ghost or a melancholiac's hallucination? That is the haunting question vividly answered in playwright Prince Gomolvilas' gripping thriller "The Brothers Paranormal" …
Claire Kiechel's "Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone" (directed by Steve Cosson) gives audiences a glimpse of the last stand of the author's great grand-uncle, a dancer-actor-painter-sculptor who wa…
"The Bigot"'s mouthpiece is the splendid Stephen Payne. Scruffy and silver-haired, Mr. Payne revels in Jim's cantankerousness and physical decrepitude. Bellowing in his resonant twangy voice…
It is a well crafted story of a feisty seventy-something Sheila O'Connor (Nora Chester who does feisty beautifully) whose grandson, physician Brian O'Connor (an earnest Jordan Ahnquist), who…
In the final analysis, "Ink" is too swift and too slick for its own good--or should I say, for our good? Even if you know some of the details it traffics in, they zoom by at such a rapid cli…
For all you philosophy junkies out there"and you know who you are"Tim Blake Nelson's world premiere "Socrates" at The Public Theater, the shining light of The Public's Onassis Festival, is a…
"Kinky Boots" ' uplifting finale "Raise You Up/Just Be" was a euphoric highlight of The New York Pops' marvelous tribute concert "Hat Full Of Stars: The Songs Of Cyndi Lauper. " The 2013 Ton…
Culturally relevant, emotionally resonant but languidly conceived, "Entangled" dramatizes the issue of gun violence in the contemporary United States. Playwrights Gabriel Jason Dean and Char…
With "Bodies," playwright Sam Chanse attempts to explore the realities of Japanese-American culture in the 21st century, but gets lost in the process. Bodies is at its core an exploration of…
One of the theater's most skilled 19th-century melodramatists, Boucicault was uninterested in the finer points of history, character development, or narrative objectivity which, of course, i…
The dazzling Broadway production of Anais Mitchell's musical "Hadestown" proves director/developer Rachel Chavkin to be a creative genius. If you had not known it after she fitted her theate…
Unfortunately in a play that is already crammed full of ominous hints, O'Brien's production is very heavy-handed, underscoring the foreshadowing with a double line under each and every clue …
"Welcome to the smallest circus in the world!" exclaims the beaming Isabella Rossellini at the start of her self-written whimsical performance piece "Link Link Circus." "This show is a theat…
Likability is in short supply nowadays and the three playwright/performers who created this comedy, based on an actual pamphlet handed to Americans during World War II, have spun the dry, in…
For one thing, it takes far too long for Pale, Wilson's most outrageous and flamboyant creation, to arrive on the scene. (Malkovitch was Pale in the original production and Adam Driver is Pa…
Playwright Taylor Mac's Broadway debut, "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," comes with a great many pluses: three consummate clowns, Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White, directed…
Mr. Asher here continues to mine the subject of human sexuality, but lightning has not struck twice. That is chiefly due to Asher's misguidedly grandiose direction (with associate director M…
This British production is a family effort, as Forsyth and Mills are mother and daughter in real life. The play is worth seeing primarily for the sharp and uncompromising performance of Fors…
"17 Border Crossings" is one of the most technically adroit Off-Broadway shows to be seen thanks to the split second cooperation between Phillips' spare scenery design, David Todaro's brilli…
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are such consummate stage performers that they could read the phone book and keep us mesmerized. As directed by Joe Mantello in Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Cli…
Playwright Georgina Escobar presents an exuberant hodgepodge of sci-fi elements and satirical corporate bits with a feminist slant. Ms. Escobar's punchy pseudo-scientific dialogue carries…
Jaw-dropping plot twists, painfully forced au courant dialogue, awkward sex scenes and a jagged central performance all make the world premiere of Halley Feiffer's "The Pain of My Belligeren…
chorus line of singing and dancing fetuses follows the eerily comical beginning of "The Appointment" where we first meet them posed as if they're in wombs and babbling in baby talk. When one…
