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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's wondrous fairytale, "The Little Prince" ("Le petit prince"), has been filmed as a musical, a cartoon, and a musical cartoon and even occasionally staged live, but…
Frank J. Avella's "Lured" at the Theater for the New City practices a bit of theatrical legerdemain. Ostensibly about the perils of being gay in today's Russia, Avella takes an unexpe…
The play succeeds in part because it takes such an upbeat view of Steinem and her career. Early in the play, the character proclaims herself to be a "hope-aholic""and her stalwart optimism p…
The whole evening was an experience of two interconnected worlds. The first was the historical world of Dadaism, exhibited in music, words and visual images. The second was Livingston's dext…
Whiteside isn't exactly misused, but rather underused and under coached. No one should have laughed when he began his transformation into his female alterego. Whiteside, used to the …
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever's well-made play "Daniel's Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagement of…
Did Blaze, a Doberman Pinscher, cause the death of Pippi, a German Shepherd-Chihuahua mix? That is the crux of Italian playwright Marco Calvani's three-character, way-out, occasionally hilar…
There are some fine elements in the portrayal. Arrow's Kennedy-clan dialect seems believable"though maybe slightly over-baked at points (especially when, late in the play, he sings bits of W…
Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell's 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition whic…
Ms. Hynes has the cast at full speed emphasizing slapstick and employing stylized poses and gestures. Â There's exaggerated choreography-like movement such as extending legs and dipping do…
The witty score with music and lyrics by Schwartz is a collection of both pastiche songs based on numbers Merman made famous and new ones that fit her style that suggest other famous songs. …
Even with the indelible impression of Eileen Heckart's magnificent, original Gladys intact, Elaine May overcomes any comparisons as the current Gladys. There is nothing inventive or even art…
Many comic artists have noted that great humor often comes from great tragedy, though, inevitably, sometimes the latter overwhelms the former, and all you're left with is a lot of indignatio…
Purring sensually with a slight nasal New York accent, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a black tie and handling a microphone while in front of its stand, actor Ronnie Marmo vocally …
Delightfully growling in a quasi-Middle Eastern accent, her head encased in a babushka, plastered with makeup, wearing a flowing robe and hobbling on a cane, Sandra Bargman is terrific as…
Sonera opens the show with Prinze doing one of his sets at the Improv Club in New York City, 1976, beginning with one of his famous lines, "Looking good!" and continuing with his sardonic co…
Three original one-act solo-performer musicals comprise "Inner Voices 2018," presented by the Premieres theater company. Since 2008 they've produced several editions of this enterprise. The …
Throughout the evening, different marionettes emerged from various objects like small suitcases, inlaid wooden boxes, clear containers of water, and a translucent cradle-like vessel.
The po…
Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close's Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is known …
"Good Grief" opens with a celestial sequence and continues with Nkechi's narration. Sometimes incidents are replayed in order to get them closer to the truth since all are memories and not a…
Imported from London, with a number of the original cast members, "The Ferryman" takes place in rural County Armagh, in Northern Ireland in 1981, during a rise of violence of the IRA, right …
In an apparent effort to demonstrate that he's become one of us, Mandvi arrives in the theater by walking down the central aisle at the Minetta Lane Theatre, wide-eyed, as he peers and takes…
As for cast standouts, Greenwood excelled both musically and dramatically. His ringing, expressive vocals and crisp diction made him an audience favorite. And he created an effective charact…
Ms. Stephens has a substantial pedigree with her previous works having appeared at prestigious institutions and winning awards. The piffle on display here does exhibit craft, discipline and …
In her own time, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 " 1950) was a rock star and a best-selling author until illness and postwar culture dimmed her luster. Still she fascinates with her bohem…
