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Exhibiting the dazzling wizardry of someone who trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Murfi is breathtaking as he clowns, mimes and barrels all over the space while distinctively …
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play's second act, eight months have passed, and money…
"James & Jamesy in the Dark" is apparently the product of a long trial and error rehearsal process according to the aforementioned program notes. The self-involving process, unfortu…
Conceived and written by Kevin Doyle, "THE AЯTS" offers sophomoric antics that are a virtual parody of performance art techniques. There's a lot of buzzers à la Richard Foreman. The…
Unfortunately, Worsham's efforts just confirm the play's central problem: only the relationship between June and Charlie has any real depth. As for the rest of the characters, although McMul…
You'd need a ten ton truck to haul away all the slings and arrows slung and shot at Donald Trump in "Me the People: Fire & Fury Edition," the red-hot political revue currently on stage …
Farce meets tragedy in a fictional unnamed Latin American country in "The Conduct of Life." It's a raucous yet insightful fantasia about military oppression taking its toll on the populace b…
Though the large ensemble of 11 actors is uniformly first rate--whether going through their balletic paces or tossing the invisible basketball and grasping it by clapping their hands, Pamela…
Gingold Theatrical Group's "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw's Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stellar …
Ms. McCarrick's appealing premise of redemptive romance is in fact subsidiary to the IRA angle as in the program she states that this event is the inspiration for her play. The two threads h…
In 14 concise scenes lasting 85 minutes, Ms. Lyman quite skillfully transforms the familiar premise of a resolute aged person clashing with her relatives over giving up her independence into…
"beep boop," Richard Saudek's hour-long sad-sack romp through modern man's constant love/hate bout with technology, is at HERE, the avant-garde arts center in SoHo. Its deft combination of m…
Using a format that has worked for him before in his George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein evenings, Hershey Felder has returned to 59E59 Theaters in a charming biographical musical as legen…
Director Miranda Haymon's electric staging of her pared down yet faithful adaptation is filled with dialogue characteristic of Kafka and bracing sequences. Basketball is a key visual metapho…
The complexities of this Greek tragedy are shoe-horned into a Gospel service with songs ranging from the thoughtful ("The Invocation") to the formal ("Creon Comes to Colonus") to the awe-ins…
Wearing a realistic period uniform and donning a metal helmet, the youthful and animated Mr. O'Regan recalls the electric persona of the young Tom Courtney as he vividly portrays numerous ch…
For my column this week, I'd like to both look ahead"discussing a new show that I think has a very bright future, "Be More Chill""and look back"discussing some of the memorable star turns I …
More in the style of informative advocacy event for the lecture circuit then a theatrical work, "Intrusion" wanly tackles the subject of rape. "I set out to create a show that addresses the …
The Festival's sole lecture-presentation proved useful in revealing how one composer viewed the intersections of science and art in his own composing: trumpeter Skye van Duuren, now a trumpe…
In the very first concert, one of the finest " and also longest " pieces of the Festival was Marie-Helene Bernard's BOA Sr (1.5, i.e. Concert 1, piece 5). In 2010, Bernard read the obituary …
This year, the Festival site was the Abrons Arts Center; the three performance venues in the facility " the Experimental Theater, the Playhouse and the Underground Theater " were all use…
Although "Smokey Joe's Café" has been seen in New York before, the new production now at Stage 42 is an entirely different incarnation of the show that still holds the record for Broadway m…
This production is presented by The Flea and the cast is drawn from their resident acting company, The Bats. Exhibiting heartbreaking resilience Alana Raquel Bowers as Aisha dominates the pl…
The mellow sound of Brandt's score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerning…
"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman's career between her first play, the controversial "The Children's Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often revived…
