Off-Broadway Review: “The Field” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at...
At the beginning of Emily Emerson’s “The Field,” recently finishing its run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the 14th Street Y Theatre, the cornfields of Avon, Virginia are ready to be turned...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Bergen” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival at the...
There is a bleak, doleful new play entitled “Bergen” that is being presented as part of The Broadway Bound Festival at the 14th Street Y. More a play with songs than a musical, “Bergen” is set in the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Be More Chill” at The Irene Diamond Stage at The...
It is difficult to separate “Be More Chill,” currently running The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, from the hype surrounding what has become a teenage cult musical since...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Smokey Joe’s Café” at Stage 42
“Faded pictures in my scrapbook/Just thought I’d take one more look/And recall when we were all/In the neighborhood.” – “Neighborhood” The revival of Grammy-Award-Winning “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Days to Come” at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s...
The moral turpitude of those who “consume” is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman’s 1936 “Days to Come” currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre. On the surface,...
View ArticleNews: Outer Critics Circle Announces New Members of Executive/Nominating...
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced on Friday...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: The Pond Theatre Company’s “The Naturalists” at Walkerspace
Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company’s “The Naturalists” is a compelling look at how one’s “secret” past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the present and delay one’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur” at the Theatre at St....
Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish;/Come to the mercy-seat, fervently kneel;/Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;/Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” (Thomas Moore...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I Was Most Alive with You” at Playwrights Horizons...
Present, past, and several possible futures collide with the biblical story of Job in Craig Lucas’s “I Was Most Alive with You” currently playing at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage. And within each time...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Bernhardt/Hamlet” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American...
Sarah Bernhardt (an intense and commanding Janet McTeer) struggles with her decision to play Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” not because of self-doubt or weakness, but because she is not sure William...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Nap” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman...
One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean’s “The Nap,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortunately confirms that...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” at MCC Theater’s...
By agreeing to carefully examine the sex-role stereotypes attributed to women, five disparate women named ‘Betty’ cautiously approach self-acceptance and self-understanding in Jen Silverman’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “On Beckett” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J....
“On Beckett,” currently playing at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, is part performance, part graduate school lecture (with perambulation), part predilections on whether...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’“Final Follies” at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Given the long-term relationship that existed between A.R. Gurney and Primary Stages, it is befitting that the prolific playwright requested his agent to send his newest one act play “Final Follies” to...
View ArticleRegional Review: “Pamela’s First Musical at Two River Theater
The familiar phrase “Everything old is new again” is a perfect way to describe the current production at the delightful Two River Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. It is an old-fashioned musical comedy...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: The Custom Made Theatre Company’s “Kurt Vonnegut’s...
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Howard Campbell Howard Campbell’s (an even tempered and soft-spoken Gabriel Grilli) non-linear journey from Nazi...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hitler’s Tasters” at IRT Theater
Kudos to the team of women (all women!) that wrote, directed, performed in, and filled all positions in the creative team for “Hitler’s Tasters” currently running at IRT Theater. The play examines the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Midnight at the Never Get” at York Theatre Company
The latest offering at York Theater Company’s Main Stage Series is the new musical “Midnight at the Never Get.” The production history started with a successful short run at New York’s historical...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Fireflies” Redefines Love and Hope at Atlantic Theater...
It is clear from the start of Donja R. Love’s “Fireflies” that Olivia Grace (DeWanda Wise) is among the disconsolate: Olivia is languishing: Olivia’s wounded heart needs healing. There is a fire in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Black Light” at Greenwich House Theater
“We are stardust, we are golden/We are billion-year-old carbon/And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.” (“Woodstock” by Joni Mitchell) Jomama is the performer and alter ego of Daniel Alexander...
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