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Add to this list Mike Lew's new witty and clever "Teenage Dick" (being given its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with the Public Theater), both an update and a parody …
Bahareh Yaraghi as Mrs. Laura Cheveley and Brad Hodder as Lord Arthur Goring in a scene from "The Ideal Husband" (Photo credit: Emily Cooper) David Kaufman, Critic Though The Importance of B…
Sixtyish Eric Miller is an angry white man, hating Catholics, Blacks, homosexuals, women, and other groups. He has also become very nationalistic. He not only wants to tell the world, he thi…
Mr. Kahn's dialogue is a witty amalgam of up to the minute lingo, well-observed lifestyle data, psychological insights and emotional depth that all realistically and artfully conveys the cha…
Using a tremendously talented and versatile cast of nine actors (three black male actors, three black female actors, as well as three white performers) playing from three roles to 12, the st…
The unison of Jason Robert Brown's accomplished score, Kate Whoriskey's exciting direction and Rennie Harris's vibrant choreography make this New York City Center Encores! Off-Center's re…
Unlike the musicals "Rent" (an update on Puccini's "La Boheme"), and "Miss Saigon' (inspired by Puccini's "Madame Butterfly") both of which had all new music by other composers for their con…
With Miles Malleson's 1925 "Conflict," being given its New York premiere, the Mint has uncovered a brilliant political and social drama which has tremendous relevance for today with its diss…
This is "God Save Queen Pam"'s world premiere and though spirited, it's sluggish at a full length of two and half hours with an intermission. There's repetitiousness, extraneousness and …
Harmon's new play resembles "Admissions," his last New York offering seen at Lincoln Center this March, in that it debates a topic from many sides but then fails to give us the author's poin…
For 85 minutes, we get a take on the gay male experience that includes a randy Midwestern adolescence, waitering and escorting in Manhattan, crystal meth and recovery. Â The writing is wel…
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a unique new voice in the American theater. Her use of metatheater is all her own. "Fairview" has a great deal to say about race in America and the angle you see thi…
With her honeyed and smoky Texan vocal inflections, wearing a short-haired lustrous brown wig and costume designer Rhonda Key's gleaming trim white suit, actress Lisa Hodsoll is phenomenal a…
Sean Dorsey is a transgender and queer choreographer whose movement palette in "The Missing Generation" is a gentle, swirling combination of twisty, floor-bound, organic movements with a ric…
Harrison's dialogue is well-crafted and often in setup punchline mode peppered with plentiful pop culture references that falls flat. The overall effect is of a rote accumulation of touchsto…
Although the advance publicity for Ben Josephson's "The Property" refers to it as a comedy, there is nothing funny about it, neither jokes nor comic situations. In fact, the heroine's desper…
Jennifer Muller, of Jennifer Muller/The Works, whose artistic history includes a long association with José Limon, provided "Shock Wave," a world premiere to a cello-heavy score by Gordon W…
One special feature of this concert was also a mark of C4's maturity and clout as a musical organization with a well-deserved reputation for excellence: they sponsor the IGNITE commissioning…
The audience is frequently called upon to participate onstage and from their seats with one elaborate portion involving their driver's licenses. London vacation photos of Mr. Beckman, a guar…
The theme running through the four works presented, three of them New York premieres, was of sadness and anger. Even "Folded Prism" by Thang Dao, an abstract dance work, had an unsettled…
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's "Otello," Otello was white which left no reason for his jealousy if he was identical to all the Venetians around him. In the current Sh…
The show then become energized when Babatundé describes how Jefferson was discovered by a music executive when he was singing on the Texas streets while holding a tin cup. A recording contr…
Director Lucy Gram uses six actors to play 11 roles which has worked for such companies as Bedlam and Fiasco. However, here the four actresses play both men and women, three of them never ch…
Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and a "Tiny" Trump all on stage at the same time, verbally jousting with each other? Pedro Reyes' "Manufacturing Mischief" at the…
Both Kevin and Cara are single parents, which is only the beginning of the many parallels and contrasts at the heart of "Dan Cody's Yacht." Though it might come to seem overly formulaic, bot…
