Off-Broadway Review: “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at The Pershing Square...
The value of enduring questions is that they are not specific to a time or place or event. Theatre should be raising enduring questions and conflicts that playwrights (and their cultures) grappled with...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Stuffed” at the Westside Theatre Downstairs
If you are in the mood for insult comedy that claims to take the important topic of women and weight seriously – but does not – then Lisa Lampanelli’s “Stuffed,” currently enjoying a revival at the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I of the Storm” at The Gym at Judson
What is a successful money manager to do after serving time in prison for the misappropriation of funds and finding he is bereft of family, friends, and home? The Speaker in Def Poet RJ Bartholomew’s...
View ArticleNews: Theatre Reviews Limited Available in Ten Languages
Using the powerful Google Translate platform, all content on Theatre Reviews Limited is now available in ten languages: English; Spanish; Italian; French; German; Japanese; Korean; Bengali; Filipino;...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Time and the Conways” at the American Airlines Theatre
“No, Time’s only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn’t, it would have to destroy everything—the whole universe—and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn’t destroy anything. It...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Lonely Planet” at the Keen Company at the Clurman at...
“And this is the thing: they will train you, they will teach you to hit, they will teach you to move – but they never tell you about the fear. Nothing the people in your Corner can tell you will...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Desperate Measures” at the York Theatre Company
Although billed as being “loosely based” on the classic Shakespearian comedy, “Desperate Measures,” currently playing at the York Theatre Company, has the “guts” of “Measure for Measure” with the charm...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Oedipus El Rey” Creates Mythos at The Public’s Shiva...
“No one should be considered fortunate until dead.” – Greek Maxim The fifth century B.C.E. is not the present-day Los Angeles borderlands: although the bones of Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus Rex” engaged...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Occupied Territories” at 59E59 Theaters
One of the territories occupied in Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner’s “Occupied Territories,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, is the Jungle of Vietnam in 1967 during what seemed at the time to be an...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at The Pershing Square...
The value of enduring questions is that they are not specific to a time or place or event. Theatre should be raising enduring questions and conflicts that playwrights (and their cultures) grappled with...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Stuffed” at the Westside Theatre Downstairs
If you are in the mood for insult comedy that claims to take the important topic of women and weight seriously – but does not – then Lisa Lampanelli’s “Stuffed,” currently enjoying a revival at the...
View ArticleNews: Universal Theatrical Group Acquires Rights to Develop Stage Musical...
Universal Theatrical Group (UTG), Universal Pictures’ live theatre division, announced that it has reached an agreement with Barry Gibb, Yvonne Gibb, and the Estate of Robin Gibb to develop a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Harry Clarke” Wrangles with Reality at the Vineyard...
Harry Clarke (the persona and the person) was born out of the dysfunctional matrix of paternal abuse and maternal collusion that plagued Philip Brugglestein from his childhood through his adulthood....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Mad Ones” at 59E59 Theaters
The New York premiere of the not-so-new musical “The Mad Ones” is making its New York premiere and being presented by Prospect Theater Company at 59E59 theaters. It is a coming of age story that is...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Torch Song” Wobbles at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater
Loneliness, the quest for authentic and meaningful love, the fear of rejection, the need for respect, and the excruciating separation from situations of abuse are not unique to members of the LGBTQ...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hundred Days” Transforms Love’s Limits at New York...
With their recent collaboration with Sarah Gancher and Anne Kauffman, Abigail and Shaun Bengson (“The Bengsons”) have redefined the meaning of the theatrical convention of the musical. Without...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “JUNK” at the Vivian Beaumont in Lincoln Center Theater
The highly anticipated new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar entitled “JUNK” – referring to the bonds sold in the 1980s by Machiavellian inside traders – does tend to sacrifice...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Once On This Island” at Circle in the Square Theatre
“Once On this Island” was certainly an enchanting and memorable visit twenty-seven years ago and that may in fact cloud the opinions expressed when recently returning to this island and commenting on...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Pride and Prejudice” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane...
Kate Hamill has done it again. The ‘it’ in question, is her remarkable ability to adapt Jane Austen’s iconic novels for the stage. Her adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” had a successful...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Parisian Woman” at the Hudson Theatre
Beau Willimon is perhaps best known for creating the successful Netflix original series “House of Cards” which is completing its final season. Much of what made the series so savvy was the way the...
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