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We felt like we toured the world this past weekend without ever leaving New York. It was a three-stop whirlwind of music and dance, and we were both spectators and participants. Spain. On Su…
Mr. Brader's writing on this fascinating subject is sharp, insightful and well-observed. As a performer, Brader's breezy personability endows his personal odyssey with an appealing everyman …
The supernatural scenario is a little like something one might find on an eerie episode of Alfred Hitchcock's old TV anthology. Unfortunately, it all comes off as fairly stilted and heavy-ha…
Translator Shane Baker has found excellent Yiddish equivalents for Beckett's language. He understands that Yiddish is a minor key tongue full of sadness, quicksilver tone changes, perfec…
No one loves Berlin's music more than I do. But the creators of this stage adaptation have tried to jam too many well-known songs into the show. I think that cutting a couple of the songs…
Mr. Brader is an engaging and soulful performer with a smooth and pleasing vocal delivery. Brader is an admirer of Spalding Gray and channels that monumental artist's impassioned sense of st…
Employing humor, documentary detail and suspense, Bachner offers an emotional detective story. Wit and whimsy meld with poignancy as the picaresque quest begins in present day New York City.…
In the plus column, it was easy on the eyes. Scenic designer Lou Anne Gilleland created agreeable though not particularly elaborate sets: a rocky stretch of seashore for the first act and a …
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Brock's work once prized effect over substance, but years of choreographing situation and character-based musicals ("Be More Chill," "Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark") have sharpened his artist…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "I'm not a real dancer but in this play, I celebrate my health." Bina Sharif emotionally said to the audience following the curtain call of her self-written play, Dream…
While "Clueless, The Musical" is never less than slick and professional in the best possible way, for those who know the iconic film it offers no surprises so slavishly does it follow …
Nothing is what it seems in Jeremy 0. Harris' startling and explosive "Slave Play" which investigates where race and sexual relationships intersect. What we have been watching in the play's …
"The Prom" is giving Broadway something it's been lacking for years, which is a high-spirited, old-fashioned musical comedy, where the cast's energy spills out over the footlights, and is th…
A five-day journey to Bear's Ears National Monument in Utah in the company of other dancers, choreographers and Native Americans turned Gotheiner's mind to more serious pursuits resulting in…
For tonight's special New Year's Eve shows, Raven will give a nod to NYC evenings past, performing classic pop and American Songbook standards that run the range from "Fly Me to the Moon" to…
In the course of this unusual performance piece, the actor and the audience learn a bit of Farsi, the author's native language, and actor and author share stories of their lives and likes, a…
Intended for young people and their families, the jokey dialogue will amuse teenagers as well as teach them about the glass ceiling that talented women have had to fight against up until the…
But these speeches are only a part of the soundscape. The production is suffused with music"all of it a cappella vocalizing by the cast. We hear barracks songs, patriotic songs, hymns and dr…
He attended Lehigh University. He enlisted in the Navy and served in and around China during World War Two. After the war, he married Alberta Saby of Allentown, Pennsylvania; they were marri…
The troupe attracted a wide-ranging audience to The Sam space at The Flea, even a few youngsters there to see their first live dance performance, and, with the exception of one section, "Thu…
Some novels are more stage-worthy than others, and "C.S. Lewis'Â The Screwtape Letters" is not among those that are. As adapted for the stage by Max McLean--who also directs the production…
Director Ivo Van Hove's stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous break…
A hard-edged picaresque fable is what playwright Lynn Nottage came up with in her enjoyable, "Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine" that premiered in 2004. A two-time Pulitzer-Prize win…
The holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple's musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a wr…
