Off-Broadway Review: “Dorian Gray” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
Oscar Wilde might be turning in his grave, or at least twitching – that is if he has seen a certain NYMF production appropriately titled “Dorian Gray” a musical loosely based on his notorious...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Errol and Fidel” at the New York Musical Festival at...
“Errol and Fidel,” part of the New York Musical Festival 2017, retells the story of Errol Flynn’s (played with just the right Hollywood bravado by Jonathan Stewart) visit to Havana in 1958 during the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Time Machine” at the New York Musical Festival at...
The new musical “The Time Machine,” presented as part of New York Musical Festival, is an overwrought musical adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, plagued with too many genres, resulting in a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Miss Blanche Tells It All” at the New York Musical...
“These parting words, she left behind/These parting words she left behind/And I put them in your hands now/These parting words she left behind.” – The Nun Lee (Brian Charles Rooney) is the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Body Politic” at the New York Musical Festival at...
“The Body Politic,” currently running at the New York Musical Festival at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater chronicles the journey of Iphis (Samy El-Noury) a transgender young man from Kabul who emigrates to...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Cadaver Synod: A Pope Musical” at the New York...
Is it serious or a joke, a love story, a punk rock pseudo opera or possibly a retro piece paying homage to the irreverent, sensational pop musicals of the seventies, which were usually found playing in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Numbers Nerds” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
One of the welcomed distinctions about the new musical “Number Nerds” is that its creation was prompted in response to the need for more female roles available for the high school, college, and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Night Tide” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
“And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side/Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,/In her sepulchre there by the sea—/In her tomb by the sounding sea.” – “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Temple of the Souls” at the New York Musical Festival...
Perhaps “Temple of the Souls,” the new musical being presented as part of NYMF, would be more powerful as an operetta, which would validate the melodrama afforded in this current production. It is yet...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Fourth Messenger” at the New York Musical Festival...
In Tanya Shaffer’s and Vienna Teng’s “The Fourth Messenger,” currently playing at the New York Musical Festival at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, the journey of protagonist Sid Arthur (Nancy...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Pity in History” at PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Arcadia” at PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2
“I’m the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. Forever. Endlessly.” – Tom Stoppard in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Ice Factory’s “The Anthropologists Save the World!” at...
Part I of Ice Factory Festival’s “The Anthropologists Save the World!” currently running at New Ohio Theatre, is entitled “The Lecture” and begins with the announcement of a lecture by utopian novelist...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Peace, Love, and Cupcakes” at the Acorn Theatre at...
“Peace, Love, and Cupcakes: The Musical,” currently running at the New York Musical Festival at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, is a sweet bubble gum musical that, on the surface, addresses the issue...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Play Like A Winner” at the New York Musical Festival at...
The new musical “Play Like a Winner” is based on the stage play “It’s All About the Kids” by Caytha Jentis which comically explores the dark side of competitive soccer moms vying for social status in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Wall Apart” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
“A Wall Apart” at the New York Musical Festival at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row is a stunning and powerful new rock musical about the three Ostermann brothers living in the German Democratic...
View ArticleOff-Broadway News: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival’s Inaugural Lineup Sets...
Tony winning casts, revolution, a Spanish language performance, an honest look at mental health, and an After-Hours Fringe: BBTF proves itself to be fresh, diverse and relevant to the modern audience....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I Am, I Will, I Do” at the New York Musical Festival at...
“I Am, I Will, I Do” is a new musical being presented as part of NYMF by Dan Manjovi Music. It is classified as a Beta musical which means it is further along than a staged reading but not yet ready...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Skeletons” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at...
The members of the Gordon family have secrets they hope will never be disclosed, embarrassing facts or simply undisclosed facts that, if revealed, might have a detrimental impact on how they are...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “In the Room, Waiting” at the Broadway Bound Festival at...
Several characters appear in “In A Room, Waiting,” particularly because the room in question is a hospital waiting room. These “visitors” have little else to occupy their time other than browsing...
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