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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…
Henry's roommate and confidante, Gwen (a solid, appealing Leslie Hiatt) has her own heartache to deal with: Her wife, Diana, has left her, accusing Gwen of infidelity. Gwen and Henry…
Mercer's direction coordinates the outstanding design components into an aesthetically successful presentation with some neat stage pictures and tableaux. However, the deliberate quest for s…
What our mothers owe us - and what we owe them - is at the heart of Leenya Rideout's one-woman autobiographical show, "Wild Abandon." In it, the prodigiously accomplished singer, songwriter,…
Though going off on tangents, the captivating performer Heidi Schreck's self-written fascinating theatrical memoir "What the Constitution Means to Me" is a feminist-centric personal odyssey …
It isn't revealing too much to say that the play culminates with a real Snooker match between two men vying ultimately for the world championship and ostensibly being watched by 23 millions …
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
Gill expertly writes each character as three dimensional, giving each complex backgrounds, making it clear that each benefits from knowing the others. A mundane Scrabble game is as revea…
Darryl Reilly, Critic John Burns and William Demaniow at The Puplex. "At first glance, we don't look like we have much in common," quipped vocalist John Burns during his uproarious cabaret a…
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
Nevin Denham is a morose N.J. basement band guitarist whose estranged up and coming astrophysicist girlfriend Amy Leonardo moves to New York City to be an intern for Mr. Tyson at the Hayden …
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
Jones has become known for applying his wide-ranging choreography and sharp mind to storylines that take on chunks of history"including some shockingly modern history. He displays his sh…
Anderson Cook's jocular book is a silly amalgam of "Grease" and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" with shades of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Composer and lyricist Ben Lapidus' Green Day…
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
Holbrook's enduring youthful presence, twinkling charm and commanding vocal authority make him the ideal vessel to channel Lerner's monumental achievements. Through his concisely informative…
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
In Craig Lucas's "I Was Most Alive with You," two down-on-their-luck television writers mine recent personal tragedy for their latest project, hoping, with the Book of Job as their inspirati…
Ms. Anselmi succeeds at imparting her solid research on the subject through her sharp dialogue spoken by her strong characters. The play falters with the addition of a chorus who are actors …
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
Exhibiting talent and charm but with relatively impassive vocal deliveries are the trio who portray Anna Politkovskaya and other characters such as soldiers, medical personnel and military o…
The intellectual level of "Hurricane"'s characters may not be as high as George, Martha, Nick and Honey's. Nevertheless they reveal their inner psychological turmoil, secret fears, secre…
The 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown inspired this exuberant concert-style presentation of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy entitled "Antigone in Ferguson." Director Bryan Doer…
A play that tends to say or do too much can often end up saying too little. Such is the case with "The Other Day," a play in which one development after another keeps cancelling each other o…
The actual subtitle of Silverman's play gives one pause: "In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Shackl…
