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Today’s column will be focusing on theatrical rights. The first rule in the theater, for anyone contemplating presenting a play: make sure you have the right to present the work. That …
Having added the 200-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre in 2009 to the outdoor Hill Theater with a capacity of 1,089, the season which began on June 14 now runs until November 18. It currently s…
Reveling in their grating vocal affectations, gesticulating at a fever pitch or moving catatonically and projecting snarky personas they hold forth on their revered subject in various permut…
Hence: "My Life on a Diet," a comically rich stroll through her career in TV, theater and film. Written by Taylor and her late husband, Joseph Bologna and originally directed by Bolo…
In telling the rest of this shattering story, the creators of Comfort Women, inexplicably, rely heavily on musical theater conventions that result in wrongheaded, if not downright offensive,…
Three actors"Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman (Velvel in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man") and Shane Baker ("the best-loved Episcopalian on the Yiddish stage today")"manage the feat …
Steven Skybell's Tevye warms up from a salt-of-the-earth, everyday philosopher to the much put-upon tragic existential hero upon whom God"to whom he speaks frequently"has heaped much tsouris…
This plotless, mostly sung-through exhibition conveys the tumultuous 20th century urban African-American experience through Micki Grant's dazzling score for which she wrote both the music an…
Built in 1904, Dreamland was considered the most elegant and ambitious of Coney Island's amusement parks--until it burnt to a crisp in 1911. A new play by Rinne Groff, "Fire in Dreamland" is…
A central concern of the play is detailing Wellington's five love interests: a white guy he meets at a hilarious Brooklyn vegan party, an Indian young man, an 18-year-old Muslim food cart ve…
But when things slow down a bit, especially during the musical interludes and longer dramatic pieces, Petosa's eight performers -- four lead (Christine Hamel; Jake Murphy; Harrison Bryan; an…
If "The After-Dinner Joke"'s 66 scenes seem cinematic, that is due to the fact that it originally was a teleplay commissioned by BBC for the series "Plays for Today" examining public issues.…
Its maddening structure, extraneous scenes and superfluous characters diminish but do not totally obliterate the potency of playwright Jerry Small's romantic drama, "Before We're Gone." What…
n what easily could have become a one-man show, playwright Strand has cleverly created dramatic tension by first introducing us to a second character and later a third. Set during the 2012-2…
As the sleek and black-clad Tanya Marquardt vigorously wraps up her self-written 60-minute autobiographical show "Stray," with her giddy dancing and hurling her ponytail around, the aimless …
Mr. Gray infuses his straightforward 70-minute interview treatment with tension, suspense and drama. A third character, Norm Hansen is a 60-year-old straight married board member of Pendarvi…
Street Theatre.
"I'll be delivering the longest soliloquy from any Shakespeare play," Mr. de Rogatis explained about the substitution of Richard III's celebrated opening line for a speech fr…
The cast list in the program reads more like a medieval phone-directory--even if there were no phones in the Middle Ages--than it does a dramatis personae. And then there's what happens to t…
Rebecca Aparicio's book is a skillful fictionalization of the true story of Operation Pedro Pan, which facilitated the immigration of over 14,000 children from Cuba to the United States betw…
After establishing himself as one of our finest playwrights with such works as "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts seems to have somewhat lost his way with his more recent "…
Naharin is known for having "invented" a movement language called Gaga. Frankly, I've never been able to distinguish Gaga from any other movement palette. If Gaga means disconnected …
Structured as a series of confessional vignettes, Innit begins in the school psychologist's office and alternates between there and Kelly's home. Her 34-year-old mother works at a sandwich s…
Though designed as an agitprop exploration with one woman as "Bad" and the other as "Good," Ms. Brennan's simple yet effective writing elevates it into a quietly powerful work. The dialogue …
Charlotte Moore's version streamlines the plot somewhat from Lerner's original by eliminating Daisy's fiancé for whom she wants to quit smoking as well as a subplot with Greek shipping magn…
Filloux in collaboration with director Amy S. Green have distilled the raw data they gathered into a searing and poignant narrative containing absurdist flourishes that include a talking lab…
