Broadway Review: “Be More Chill” at the Lyceum Theatre
It is difficult to separate “Be More Chill,” currently running at the Lyceum Theatre, from the hype surrounding what has become a teenage cult musical since its 2015 run at the Two River Theater in Red...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Tootsie” Grapples with Gender at the Marquis Theatre
“Tootsie” has arrived and the lights on Broadway, especially those the Marquis theater where the musical is in residence, are shining much brighter because of the energy generated by the incredible...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “BLKS” in the Newman Mills Theater at the Robert W....
Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a “comedic look” at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Happy Talk” at the New Group at Pershing Square...
Happy talk – the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals – cascades across the stage at the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Original Sound” at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre
What a pleasant surprise to walk into the Studio space at Cherry Lane Theatre and see a fresh, new look developed for the exciting new production “Original Sound” by Adam Seidel. Scenic designer,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Pink Unicorn” at the Episcopal Actors’ Guild
“I am gender queer, Ma. Look it up.” – Jolene Lee to Her Mother Trisha The LGBTQ+ communities have undergone significant and healthy upheaval since Elise Forier Edie developed “The Pink Unicorn” in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Something Clean” at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold...
Charlotte and Doug Walker’s son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a black female...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune” at the Broadhurst...
“Pretend that we’re the only two people in the entire world, that’s what I’m doing, and it all falls into place.” – Johnny to Frankie Moonlight – the kind of light that shines into Frankie’s (Audra...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Primary Stage’s “Little Women” at Cherry Lane Theatre
“I can’t abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role.” – Jo to Meg in “Little Women” Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” plays at Primary Stages at an auspicious time....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Octet” in the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The...
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts in Dave Malloy’s a cappela musical “Octet” currently playing in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. A group of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dying City” at Second Stage Theater’s Tony Kiser Theater
With renewed concerns about an escalation of conflict in Iraq and the possibility of a new war initiative there, one would tend to believe that the revival of Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City,”...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Nomad Motel” at Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2
With a nod (intentional/unintentional) to the genre of disillusioned youth represented by Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 “This Is Our Youth,” Carla Ching’s “Nomad Motel” currently running at Atlantic Theater...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Enter Laughing: The Musical” at York Theatre Company
After a successful run in 2008 of the musical “Enter Laughing” a revised version of the original “So Long 174th Street” which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company has revived that...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Strange Loop” at Playwrights Horizons
Last season, two off-Broadway plays – “Daddy” and “Slave Play” (both by Jeremy O. Harris) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised rich and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Final Performances of “The Plough and the Stars” at...
Irish Rep’s “The Plough and the Stars” (1926) closes after the Sunday June 22nd performance. Part of the Sean O’Casey Cycle (the Dublin Trilogy) at Irish Repertory Theatre, the groundbreaking play ran...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson” at A.R.T./New York...
“Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson” a new play by Rob Ackerman is based on the actual making of an ill-fated television commercial by AT&T that discredits the cell phone coverage of rival Verizon’s...
View ArticleOpera Review: “Stonewall” at the Rose Theater in Jazz at Lincoln Center
To celebrate its third year of presenting an LGBTQ+ opera in the month of June – and the 50th Anniversary of the Riots at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn – the New York City Opera commissioned the...
View ArticleOff Broadway Preview: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival Announces 2019 Lineup...
In a celebratory move uptown to the theater district, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, celebrating its third year in Manhattan, has announced its 2019 season lineup at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Little Gem” at Irish Repertory Theatre
Over the period of a year, three generations of Irish women share their stories ad seriatim while in a medical office waiting room. Amber (a spitfire Lauren O’Leary) rehearses her life from taking her...
View ArticleOff-Off-Broadway Review: “Florida Man” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival
In “Florida Man” by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral he always...
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