Broadway Review: “SpongeBob SquarePants” at the Palace Theatre
Walking into the Palace Theater to view the new musical extravaganza “SpongeBob SquarePants,” your senses are attacked by a barrage of Crayola colors, shimmering tinsel, happy music and an array of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Twelfth Night, Or What You Will” at Classic Stage Company
A visit to Classic Stage Company for the current production of “Twelfth Night” is almost like a case of Déjà vu: one could be watching the Company’s previous production of “As You Like it” which closed...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “M. Butterfly” at the Cort Theatre
“M. Butterfly,” the stunning albeit straightforward play about fantasy, deception, espionage, and betrayal seems to have lost its way at the Cort Theatre. Whether this results from David Henry Hwang’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Downtown Race Riot” at the New Group at Pershing Square...
The 1970s was a decade of unrest across the United States. Racial divides were exacerbated by socio-economic disparities and rising tensions between members of minority communities and the systemic...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Meteor Shower” at the Booth Theatre
Steve Martin has titled his new play “Meteor Shower.” Currently running at the Belasco Theatre, the comedy is as broad as the night sky above and filled with just as many stars and enlists the audience...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Children” at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J....
“Yes exactly. I would’ve felt like a traitor. Besides, retired people are like nuclear power stations. We like to live by the sea.” – Hazel to Rose The success of “The Children,” currently playing at...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” at SoHo Playhouse
Off-Broadway Review: “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns” at SoHo Playhouse Written by Drew Droege Directed by Michael Urie Reviewed by Joseph Verlezza Theatre Reviews Limited The production currently...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Until the Flood” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
“For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Party Face” at New York City Center Stage II
There is yet another theatrical party occurring on stage at City Center developed by Isobel Mahon and billed as the new comedy entitled “Party Face.” This soiree is celebrating the newly designed...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “John Lithgow: Stories by Heart” at Roundabout Theatre...
Currently in its Broadway debut, John Lithgow’s “Stories By Heart” first took shape in 2008 at Lincoln Center Theater in a special repertory presentation directed by Jack O’Brien. Then, Mr. Lithgow...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Walk with Mr. Heifetz” at Primary Stages at Cherry...
In two thirty-five-minute acts, playwright James Inverne attempts to convince the audience that “music helped Israel find its cultural identity during its formative years.” In the first short act that...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Disco Pigs” at Irish Repertory Theatre
“It will take a Captain Hook like my very own bes pal ta sniff it out, hey! What a treasure you bot are. Dis is really it, Pig!” – Runt The 20th Anniversary Production of “Disco Pigs,” currently...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “An Ordinary Muslim” at New York Theatre Workshop
“It won’t stay this – go back to Richard, make amends, sort your life out – but things will get better, easier, with time, people such as yourself ‘n your family start integrating more.” – David to...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Amateurs” at Vineyard Theatre
Whether medieval or modern, no plague is comfortable. The first part of “The Amateurs,” currently playing at Vineyard Theatre, is uncomfortable in a different way and the audience wonders, “Can this...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview: Classic Stage Company and Transport Group Present...
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Doyle and Executive Producer Jeff Griffin, and Transport Group, under the leadership of Jack Cummings III (Artistic Director) and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hangmen” at Atlantic Theater Company
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the jibber-jabber...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Farinelli and the King” at the Belasco Theatre
Italian castrato Farinelli (Sam Crane) soothes the troubled mind of Spain’s King Philippe V (Mark Rylance) who suffers from what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders would code as...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Letter to Harvey Milk” at Theatre Row’s Acorn Theatre
The new musical “A Letter to Harvey Milk” has good intentions but becomes confusing as it attempts to address too many issues and wavers from emotional drama to Borsht Belt comedy. Death and grieving,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Kings” at the Public Theater’s LuEsther Hall
If there was any doubt about the monumental influence of lobbyists on Members of Congress in Washington, D.C., that uncertainty was dispelled quickly after the tragic murder of seventeen students and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Amy and the Orphans” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the...
In the new play “Amy and the Orphans,” disability, dysfunction, and delusion are the contentious components that drive an anomalous family unit to a place they were not expecting to visit called...
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