Off-Broadway Review: “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story” Weaves Magic at 59E59...
Steeped in tradition, a musical commentary relevant to the current socio-political atmosphere, and an old tale told with songs that echo the poets of the past and the spoken word of the present, are...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hal & Bee” at 59E59 Theaters
What are two aging ex-hippies supposed to do when the socio-political environment around them escalates its full-frontal assault on the values they espoused and fought so passionately for in the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “At Home at the Zoo” at the Pershing Square Signature...
“Hey, I got news for you, as they say. I’m on your precious bench, and you’re never going to have it for yourself again.” – Jerry to Peter Was anyone putting the disparity between “the one percent” and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Jerry Springer – The Opera” at The Pershing Square...
When one thinks of the Jerry Springer Show (past and present), one might not think of ‘opera.’ However, in 2000, the seeds of that exact concept were planted by Richard Thomas at London’s Battersea...
View ArticleOff-Broaway Review: “The Low Road” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men/Gang aft a-gley.” – Robert Burns Ever wonder how Adam Smith might spin his own free market economic theory in the throes of the current global economic turmoil?...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Lobby Hero” Crackles the Conscience at Second Stage’s Hayes...
“I just don’t want to be one of those pathetic guys in lobbies who are always telling you about their big plans you know they’re never gonna do. I’d rather just be in the lobby and just be in the...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Escape to Margaritaville” is an Absolute Pleasure at the...
Russia, Mueller, Syria, War, The Wall, Elections, Stormy, Stock Market, Tax Cuts, Scandal, Tariffs, DACA, Immigration and Tweets, are a few current headlines monopolizing the news, infecting and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Admissions” Dissects Belief Systems at Lincoln Center’s...
When a speaker raises alternate views of a significant problem and seems at one point to take “one side” and then “the other side,” and then advocates for the purity of moral ambiguity – presenting...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Mean Girls” Pleases at The August Wilson Theatre
The new Broadway musical “Mean Girls,” based on the 2004 hit movie, is sure to secure a home on the Great White Way for some time to come, as it tickles the fancy of a new generation of young woman who...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Miss You Like Hell” Redefines Redemption at the...
After seeing her estranged daughter’s “veiled suicide threat” on her “anonymous” blog, Beatriz (the irrepressible Daphne Rubin-Vega) drives her truck “like a bat out of hell” from California to...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Children of a Lesser God” at Studio 54
“For why is all around us here/As if some lesser god had made the world/But had not force to shape it as he would?” – Alfred Tennyson The current Broadway revival of the groundbreaking play “Children...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Mlima’s Tale” at the Public’s Martinson Hall
“I’m Mlima of the Great Plains. Eldest of my clan. I was tracked for many days, taken by a poison arrow. Why are there so many of you?! Mumbi? Koko? Do you hear me?” Mighty Mlima, “Kenya’s most famous...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Seafarer” at Irish Repertory Theatre
The latest offering of the Irish Repertory Theatre is the revival of “The Seafearer” by Conor McPherson, which opened on Broadway in 2007 and was nominated for a TONY award for best play that season....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview: The Amoralists Announce Their Eleventh Season, “Ricochet”
The Amoralists (James Kautz, Artistic Director) announce their 11th season, RICOCHET: An Amoralists Anthology about Surviving an American Epidemic. RICOCHET will feature four boundary-pushing original,...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “My Fair Lady” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont...
There is something magnificent happening at Lincoln Center Theater, and it has to do with a powerful and intriguing woman, who has currently walked onto the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater,...
View ArticleOuter Critics Circle Announces Its 68th Annual Awards Nominees for the...
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Sensibility Reigns in “Summer and Smoke” at Classic...
Begun in 1945, and first produced in 1947, Tennessee Williams called “Summer and Smoke” a “drama of sensibility.” Rich in allegory, yet grounded in realism, the play explores the deep conflicts between...
View ArticleBroadway Review: Valor Rules Supreme in “Three Tall Women” at the John Golden...
“Three Tall Women” by Edward Albee Grapples with the Dignity and Valiancy of Death. What if the seven “characters” in Jacques the melancholy’s monologue in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” could “meet”...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Carousel” at the Imperial Theatre
The beloved Rogers and Hammerstein “Carousel” has not often been revived on the Broadway stage since it first opened to critical acclaim in 1945, so this third incarnation, after a long hiatus since...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” Explores the Angst of...
Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” Explores the Angst of Adolescence with Cathartic Wit. Separation-individuation is one of life’s most difficult passages: it is completed successfully by most; however,...
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