Off-Broadway Review: “The Gentleman Caller” at the Cherry Lane Theatre
“The Gentleman Caller” was the predecessor of Tennessee Williams first successful play “The Glass Menagerie” which opened in 1944 in Chicago and happens to be the title of a new play by Philip Dawkins...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
“Call the DJ, call the station/Dancing all across the nation/Here for every generation/Now you know your queen is back.” – “The Queen Is Back” by Donna Summer The fact is that she never really left,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Peace for Mary Frances” at the New Group at Pershing...
There are many victims in the new family drama penned by Lily Thorne, but perhaps the audience is the most unfortunate casualty, having to suffer through this slow, protracted, insipid production for...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Beast in the Jungle” at the Vineyard Theatre
A novella by Henry James is the inspiration for the new Dance Play “The Beast in the Jungle” which marks the final mainstage production of the Vineyard Theater’s 35th Anniversary Season. The book by...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Woman and Scarecrow” Challenges the Living at Irish...
“[One] not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” It is one thing to have an imaginary friend, created to be summoned at will for conversation, company, and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire” Muses Successfully on...
In an October 17, 2015 “New York Post” article, Michael Goodwin raises the rich, albeit uncomfortable, proposition of James Piereson in his July 2015 book “Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Devil of Choice” Falters at LAByrinth Theater Company...
“Faustian bargain: (idiomatic) A deal in which one focuses on present gain without considering the long-term consequences.” Although one of the characters in the new play “Devil of Choice,” produced by...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Saint Joan” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman...
“No sir: we are afraid of you; but she puts courage into us. She really doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything. Perhaps you could frighten her, sir.” – Robert de Baudricourt’s Steward, Scene 1, “Saint...
View ArticleOff-Broadway: Preview: Performances Begin for “Sugar in Our Wounds” at...
Performances begin tomorrow – Tuesday, June 5 – for Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Sugar in Our Wounds, a new play by Donja R. Love, directed by Saheem Ali (Twelfth Night for the Public...
View ArticleNews: Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Extends Application Deadline for The BMI...
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), global leader in music rights management, has extended the application deadline for The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop to Friday, June 8th. This...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Abingdon Theatre Company’s Production of “Fruit...
Eve Ensler’s commitment to ending violence against cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming women and girls globally (V-Day: A Global Movement to End Violence Against Women) has been...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Elevator Repair Service’s “Everybody’s Fine with...
In Act III of Edward Albee’s classic play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (The Exorcism), George and Martha are alone following Nick and Honey’s departure. The deception that has haunted their...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Desperate Measures” at New World Stages
After its previous three-time extended sold out run at the York Theatre Company, “Desperate Measures” is back Off-Broadway and the antics of rabble-rousing Johnny Blood are as bodacious and bawdy as...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Secret Life of Humans” at 59E59 Theaters
It is difficult to parse David Byrne’s “Secret Life of Humans,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, without issuing spoiler alerts. As the eighty-five-minute play unfolds, three “stories” – one...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Founder Project’s “First Love” at Cherry Lane Theatre
With a nod to magical realism, Edward Albee’s “Zoo Story,” and a splash of the surreal – specifically the world of René François Ghislain Magrritte – Charles Mee provides a mostly realistic narrative...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “All I Want Is One Night” at 59E59 Theaters
Once again, a stage at 59E59 welcomes the wonderful Jessica Walker to Brits Off Broadway with her new show “All I Want Is One Night,” a somewhat bio-musical about the openly lesbian French chanteuse...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Blanket of Dust” at the Flea Theater Mainstage
“All they need now is to find an enemy.” – Senator Walter Crane in “A Blanket of Dust” After her husband Sam was killed (murdered?) when the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on September...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Mint Theater Company’s “Conflict” at the Beckett Theatre...
The themes of Miles Malleson’s “Conflict,” currently running at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, could not be more relevant and the playwright’s treatment of these themes could not be more modern or...
View ArticleBroadway Review and News: “A Bronx Tale” at the Longacre Theatre Closes on...
“I went out into the world and I kept my/promise. I became somebody. I owed that to my/parents and to Sonny.” – Cologero The ingredients: a wonderful story of redemption by Chazz Palminteri; an...
View ArticleConcert Review: Kathryn Stein Memorial Concert Featuring Chita Rivera at the...
To begin by stating that Chita Rivera is a legend in her own time would be a factual compliment, but it would not do justice to all that the musical theater icon has accomplished in her exuberant...
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