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Huppert, the consummate actress, commands the stage at all times, making all the other performers pale in comparison. As Anne, she travels from familiar to sarcastic to manic to depressed to…
Brunstetter overloads the issue in the play by making Jen have doubts about being in love with a woman against her parents' religious teachings, even though she cannot imagine life without t…
It's billed as "Two Ways" because this event is comprised of differing versions performed in repertory. There is the self-explanatory "Conventional Casting" and the "Reversed Casting" where …
Chisa Hutchinson's "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scrip…
"A Jewish Joke" brings immediacy to not only the personal and professional effects of the Hollywood blacklist, but to the current onslaught of internet finger-pointing and fear-mongering tha…
There's stinging dialogue, solid construction and high powers of observation that accurately render the fractious literary milieu with Imran's offstage agent a major figure. These all enable…
Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy" is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of nudit…
Let's talk about the talent:Â Gallogly and Smith are, in a word, fantastic in "Fiercely Independent." They listen to each other intently, their responses are spontaneous and natural, and …
The production of "Boesman and Lena" at The Pershing Square Signature Center directed with attention to every detail by Yaël Farber is stark and unforgiving in a way that would have been …
Suzy Conn's zesty score is a fusion of her peppy music and well-crafted lyrics. "Quandary" is rhymed with "laundry" and among the 14 bright songs there's a comical ode to Meryl Streep. Ms. C…
Dynamically presented and sensationally performed, "If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka" is playwright Tori Sampson's maddeningly overblown adaptation of a fable with music. A surfeit…
In between scenes, the play's lighting (by Paul Miller) and sound (by M.L. Dogg) conspire to create a hallucinogenic, disorienting slideshow of animals and rotting metropolises " a reminder …
Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
Unlike the company's 2016 luxuriously staged "Les Fêtes Vénitiennes," also at the Gilman, "Rameau" was purposely staged by Sophie Daneman as if in a village square, simply but effectivel…
Employing his rumbling deep voice, his thinning hair slicked back and veering from snarling cheeriness to reflective introspection, Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully gi…
Some plays are simply too complicated for their own good, defying comprehension. This is certainly the case with Madeleine George's "Hurricane Diane," in which the God Dionysus or Bacchus, f…
The play is carefully plotted, and the tragic action that Snider builds runs its course in a logical, plausible fashion. But something about "Death of a Driver" never quite catches fire. The…
Devilishly enigmatic and culminating in an eerie denouement, playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas' stylized warring brothers yarn "Recent Alien Abductions" confidentially veers tonally, s…
Being described as a "theatre event," the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960's, without h…
Molly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater's new musical "Alice By Heart" (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second and larg…
Lanford Wilson's celebrated humanistic style and spirit are wonderfully evoked by playwright Linda Faigao-Hall in her moving family drama "Dying in Boulder." Its articulate characters con…
Brooklyn United Live's Finale Piece Heart-pounding rhythms, precision choreography, a thought-provoking storyline, and a megadose of energy and enthusiasm. That's what audience members exper…
Another " and perhaps unexpected " benefit of having Nathan around was that Sinoway had a built-in support system on set. Once, when Sinoway was feeling overwhelmed during a tech rehearsal o…
However, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
As directed by Benson, special mention goes to Primack, Quint, Payne, and Wexler for their strong and playful commitment to their characters, followed by the efforts of Mazzoccone, Porter an…
