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The Experimental Theater Space at the Abrons, a not particularly large black box, was turned into a complex construction site by the "Tilt" creative staff, a truly unique interactive set.…
Director Sharon Ann Fogarty's colossal staging weaves together the many disparate technical elements into a unified mini-epic event. Actors sit at a long rectangular table and their images a…
Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli's direction melded the performers with expert physical placement sprinkled with occasional dance bits that made for lively presentation.…
Alexandro and Ben-Victor as the soul-stained detectives are excellently cast, playing off each other without a single misstep. The gender-blind casting of Alexandro as Jack is especially fun…
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw seems to have taken literally the dictum in theater to "Astonish!" His plays like "Burning," "Intimacy," "Job," and "Fulfillment," to name only a few seen in New Y…
Attea's point concerns business models that are overly focused on the needs of shareholders, rather than on those of management and employees. But the play is curiously bloodless. Strong pla…
John Guare's career as a playwright has had three stages. His early plays were examples of Theater of the Absurd with an American accent. Later his plays became more realistic, sometimes bas…
Using the premise of a 1964 recording session that stimulates her many memories, good and bad, the play serves as a moving tribute to Holliday even though it doesn't shy away from the darker…
Referencing the 1950 women's prison drama "Caged" and synthesizing all of the conventions of that cinematic genre, the late playwright Tom Eyen crafted the 1975 camp classic "Women Behind Ba…
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg,"Â "Get Ready," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "Since I Lost My Baby," "You're My Everything" and of course "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" are among the show's mor…
"Did you know that this play is called "Life Sucks"?" says a character in playwright Aaron Posner's meta-theatrical Life Sucks. It's a wild yet emotionally resonant work "sort of adapted …
While many of the greats have tackled Kate over the years ever since it premiered in 1948, O'Hara brings a subdued charm to the usually more boisterous part of Lilli, even if she is positive…
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinburg…
A lot has been made of the parallels between the original 1938 production of "I Married an Angel" for which George Balanchine choreographed the dances for his soon-to-be wife, the glamorous …
You can hear a pin drop during Michael McKeever's "After," an exciting, riveting play about the aftereffects of bullying. During the final scene in Jo Brancato's production now at 59E59 Thea…
"Everything is copy"Â was Nora Ephron's maxim about the potential of all of one's life experiences to be fashioned into narrative material if one has the cachet to be paid attention to. Ac…
Jean-Claude van Itallie, one of the key figures in New York's Off-Off Broadway theater in the 1960's, takes on Trumpian politics in his new play, "The Fat Lady Sings" (directed by David Schw…
Produced in New York City by the China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd., "Princess Zhaojun" was performed by the members of the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater. It was di…
The death of a long inactive performer with a fine career during Broadway's Golden Age understandably went unnoticed. He was my neighbor in the 1980's.
The post Remembering Duane Bodin (193…
A searing epiphany at "The Day I Became Black"'s climax redeems its uneven mixture of confessional and stand-up. The show is written and performed by the engaging biracial young comedian and…
"Vilna," written by Ira Fuchs, is one of the more successful stage dramas to deal with the Holocaust, a notoriously difficult subject to portray on stage. That this play succeeds as well…
The evening's vocal guests are exceptionally strong singers, although their talents are not equally evident in a concert format. Silverman probably shines best in a book show, as well as Osn…
Although there is a great deal of talent behind the new musical Superhero at Second Stage Theater, it unfortunately makes little impact. It doesn't help that the thin book by Tony Award winn…
The Camagűey troupe danced Ruiz's work as if born to his vigorously eclectic style. His choreography is an amalgam of ballet, modern dance, break-dancing, folk dancing and Latin ballr…
You may leave "Strangers" with mixed reactions. The proceedings onstage may make you feel as disoriented and tetchy as the villagers themselves. The characters' words as they vainly try to m…
