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While "The Beast in the Jungle" is a musical for our time it contains a message that was dear to the heart of writer Henry James, that of the unlived life. Ultimately very moving when the st…
Standing in the way of the show's success is the workshop-like production. Some of Pellegrino's melodies are pleasant but musical director Michael Wittenberg's piano playing drowns out many …
Mr. Clements' treatment of these events is straightforward and confirms existing perceptions of these figures. Diana is charismatic but immature and self-aggrandizing, Morton is a go-getter,…
We learn a great deal about hospice, possibly more than one might want to know in a play. While most death watch plays like Edward Albee's "All Over" and Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," t…
Bit and Otto recall tomboy Frankie Addams and Berenice the maid from Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" while Pigman and Missy parallel Pozzo and Lucky from Samuel Beckett's "Wait…
In many ways Dominique Morisseau's "Paradise Blue" shares similarities with August Wilson's brilliant, if long-winded, Pittsburgh based plays. "Blue" is part of Morisseau's Detroit Proje…
While director David Mercatali has them continually circling each other like boxers in a ring--sparring emotionally, if not physically--Sophie and Tom never really connect or even touch each…
Played as older than either Viola or Sebastian, Elizabeth Heflin is charmingly eccentric as the strong cougar who becomes lovesick and yielding at the sight of Cesario and then Sebastian. In…
Unlike many of the recent New York stagings, Eyre's production makes it clear that the thrust of this four act play is an attempt for the Tyrones to exorcise their demons in one alcoholic in…
Conceived by Carrie Heitman and written by Cynthia Babak it was developed in workshops over the last three years by the Hook & Eye Theater company. According to Chad Lindsey's director'…
The new work, "Microburst," was a quartet performed to classical Indian music composed and played live by Avirodh Sharma. Brilliant and audacious, "Microburst" took the four dancers, all…
In the spirit of the loquacious Winnie in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," the animated Yuki Kawahisa beautifully portrays Honoka with sunny depth. Maho Honda as Arisa, the play's unifying …
Hodges' play is quite lively with each scene dramatizing one point and the cast of characters made up entirely of real people, not all of them still famous. The real problem is with the unsu…
"Hercules Didn't Wade in the Water" is the winner of the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.'s 2017 Emerging Playwrights Competition and this is its premiere. Michael A. Jones' passionate eloquence…
Every once in a while the exactly right actor is matched with the right role and magic occurs. Such is the case with Juan Francisco Villa as the 34-year-old Tennessee Williams (before he bec…
While it's meant to be helpful, a glossary of local jargon ("Operation Crucible" is set in Sheffield, England) in the program is usually a surefire sign that you're going to have difficulty …
Ms. Atik complements her engaging contemporary scenario with creative theatricality. Interspersed are vignettes with six performers depicting the members of a nationwide pregnancy Internet m…
Although the title covers part of the plot, the play is really a trenchant social history of Britain from 1925 " 1985 in four short sequences, showing the changes that take place in one hous…
The program opened and closed with pieces for all five musicians together. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620/23-1680) both made the quartet of string…
Despite the complexity of the interactions of the people of Electchester and the poor folk at Pomonok, Kraar manages to end on a promising note. "Alternating Currents," produced under th…
Aside from being a tight domestic drama, The Jewish King Lear has several other differences from Shakespeare's tragedy. Gordin's Lear has a wife who is sorely put upon and under her husband'…
Mr. Carlyle's giddy opening is a thrilling mise-en-scène of a chorus line of servants, floating props and a grand back drop of a miniature representation of the country estate where the act…
With an enormous painted backdrop depicting London and featuring St. Paul's Cathedral and a lamppost (the glorious sets have been designed by Michael Yeargan), the musical begins as Covent G…
There's a brilliant play buried somewhere in Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," a bottom-up historical epic about the English Civil War that the acclaimed British writer d…
When Tennessee Williams started writing "Summer and Smoke," his working title for the play was "Chart of Anatomy," taken from a poem by Hart Crane. An anatomical chart becomes one of the ver…
