Off-Off-Broadway Review: “Just Outside the Door” at the Broadway Bound...
Necromancy does not fare well in Esteban R. Alvarez III’s “Just Outside the Door” which just ended its three-performance run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The play’s protagonist is Robert (a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview and Interview: Lenore Skomal Shares Her Thoughts on Her...
David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show “The Exes” officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That’s getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening approaches?...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Although the new Broadway musical “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” takes place in Paris in 1899, it is without a doubt a “Cabaret” for the 21st Century. It captures the sounds of Lady Gaga, Katie Perry,...
View ArticleTheatre News: “The 2019 State of the Theatre Address”
In years past, the common complaints one heard about “the state of theatre” were primarily about the steep prices that had seemed to rise ever so quickly but then were passed off as just a sign of the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview: “Little Shop of Horrors” Opens at The Westside Theatre
The producers of the Off-Broadway return of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s landmark musical “Little Shop of Horrors” have announced that Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick (“To Kill A Mockingbird,”...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Final Thoughts on the Engaging “Rinse, Repeat” at the...
Performances of a new off-Broadway play begin with previews, advance through opening night and reviews, and settle into a run of some indeterminate length depending on original projections of success...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Make Believe” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater
The nature-nurture psychological debate and the predestined-free will theological debate collide in Bess Wohl’s “Make Believe” currently running at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, resulting in the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “Felix Starro” at Theatre Row
Currently running at Theatre Row, Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “Felix Starro” launches the Company’s 30th Anniversary Season. The musical is based on Filipino-American writer Lysley Tenorio’s short story of...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Sea Wall / A Life” at the Hudson Theatre
After a successful run at the Public’s Newman Theater earlier this year, “Sea Wall / A Life” by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne opened at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre on August 8th, 2019. Both are haunting...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Chatillion Stage Company’s “Tech Support” at 59E59 Theaters
Chatillion Stage Company’s “Tech Support,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, begins with the play’s protagonist Pamela Stark (Margot White) frantically pacing around in her West Village...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dust” at New York Theater Workshop in the Fourth Street...
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s groundbreaking “On Death and Dying” was first published in 1969. The Grief Cycle outlined in this book remains the standard for understanding the “stages” of bereavement for...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Red Bull Theater’s “American Moor” at Cherry Lane Theatre
Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his “American Moor.” Mr. Cobb’s almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extended metaphor, for...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Colt Coeur’s “Eureka Day” at Walkerspace
What could go wrong at a private school whose board of directors (all five of them) make all decisions based on consensus and have only what benefits the community at heart. A board so committed to...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Only Yesterday” at 59E59 Theaters
Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and readily...
View ArticleOff-Off-Broadway Review: “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island” at The...
A grizzly and wisened Richard Roy emerges from the darkness at the beginning of “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island,” currently running at The Producers Club, to introduce his autobiographical...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Fern Hill” at 59E59 Theaters
Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, “Fern Hill,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny’s (Jill Eikenberry)...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “runboyrun” and “In Old Age” at New York Theatre Workshop
As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories more parsed than...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Derren Brown – Secret” at the Cort Theatre
The one and probably only thing you may be sure of when you leave the Cort Theatre after viewing the recent production of “Derren Brown: Secret” is that Mr. Brown is a very likable and convincing...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Height of the Storm” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel...
When couples have conversations about aging and approaching the end of their lives, generic yet fundamental questions arise. “What happens if I die before you? “Do you think you will die before I do?...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dublin Carol” at Irish Repertory Theatre
Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a service and John...
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