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In Kate Tarker's satiric "Thunderbodies," America is a relentlessly strange place, where people spout nonsense, act without reason, and are led by the narcissistic man-baby they've elected p…
Elegantly inhabiting the small Triad stage, Holland's Linda is clearly a class act, with a smooth, rich, dark voice. Hearing her tale of their days in the twenties cruising the high poin…
Although Donja R. Love describes his new play "Fireflies," his second world premiere in New York in 2018, as a "surrealistic voyage through Queer love during pivotal moments in Black History…
13th Annual Latin American Cultural Week(s), November 13 through 21, 2018 with Theater, Music, Dance, Film, Literature, & Visual Arts Events throughout New York City, Emphasizing Latina…
The generous spirit of Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) certainly was felt in New York's great supper club, Feinstein's/54 Below, the night I went to see The Jonathan Larson Project (which filled…
Christopher Plummer's guest appearance on a 1987 episode of "The Cosby Show" giving a Shakespearean mini-recital in the Huxtable living room had a profound effect on writer and performer Orl…
From its dramatic opening, there's nowhere for "Goodbody" to go but down, even if Ernst keeps raising the stakes with complicated backstories and developments that leave one breathlessly con…
The K-Arts Dance Company from Korea presented two performances of "Song of the Mermaid," an entertaining full-length ballet choreographed by its artistic director, Sunhee Kim. Song of th…
Adam Gwon's song cycle, "Ordinary Days," became a cult hit when it opened the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in 2009 for a run of ten weeks. So successful was the show that it is one of the …
Channing is by turns aggressive, assertive, jittery, neurotic, imperious, and even petulant in the first act, only to become bewildered and subdued in the second. To rewrite Dorothy Parker's…
Brian Patrick Murphy as Danny and Lisa Fernandez as Roberta have a thrilling intensity, playfulness and chemistry together. With their accurate Bronx accents, youthful weariness and emotiona…
Mr. Harper's taut construction, solid plotting and detailed characters all yield to a suspenseful, emotionally shattering and entertaining experience. As in the works of Henrik Ibsen, Arthur…
Solondz's mordant wit makes this the darkness of tragicomedies. Brooke and Jay's delusions so typical of white entitlement are entire their own. When we finally hear from Brittany, she turns…
Along with excerpts from Godot and a couple of Beckett's novels, Irwin relies heavily on several "arcane" prose pieces from a collection Beckett dubbed "Texts for Nothing." Irwin was first i…
For the first 25 minutes, the bushy red-bearded, receding with flowing hair Mr. Butler appears solo performing a series of his delightful songs. Butler superbly plays the banjo, guitar and h…
However, the play's humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of "My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before," from Pastor Peters, and "George Washington dined on …
Though its title couldn't be clearer or more transparent, "Hitler's Tasters" proves anything but that, as it merges the past, when Hitler was still alive, with the present, when fresh autocr…
This M-34 production, under Rutherford's direction, doesn't rise to stratospheric heights. Quite the opposite: Rutherford's direction and writing turns Salome into a fascinating dome…
Each song " some traditional folk ballads and some national calls to history and identity " became, in Aynur's hands, an individual work of art, intricately structured and elegantly paced. A…
Nally's extensive program notes provided insights on the program, whose title comes from the opening line of Virgil's "Aeneid," "Arma virumque cano" … "I sing of arms and the man." Nally j…
Mark Sonnenblick's exceptional book is an accomplished mixture of prodigious research, well-drawn characters and adept if misguided construction. It skillfully dramatizes the gay experience …
Set in a dark time, "Girl From the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antith…
Presented by the San Francisco-based The Custom Made Theatre Company, this production is masterminded by its artistic director Brian Katz who adapted and directed it. Mr. Katz's accomplished…
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney's last play entitled "Final Follies" performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by David Sain…
