Off-Broadway Review: Gingold Theatrical Group’s New Production of “Bernard...
“Bernard Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra,” currently playing in Theatre 1 at Theatre Row, injects a palpable dose of modernity into the history of the relationship between Caesar’s Rome and Cleopatra’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Sunday” at Atlantic Therater Company’s Linda Gross Theater
Jack Thorne’s “Sunday,” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, seems to elicit one of two responses: disappointment or robust enthusiasm. A group of Gen Z friends gather...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Slave Play” at the Golden Theatre
“Slave Play,” currently running on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, reiterates the events on the fourth day of the Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy being held at MacGregor Plantation, a few miles...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Kingfishers Catch Fire” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W....
Four years after the Ardeatine Caves Nazi Massacre, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (a conflicted and contrite Sean Gormley) visits Colonel Herbert Kappler (a robust and tenacious Haskell King) in his cell...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Westside Theatre
The most recent revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” by the musical theatre team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken surely proves to be timeless and timely. The musical numbers still seem to linger in your...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Linda Vista” at Second Stage Theater’s Helen Hayes Theater
The sharp and witty dialogue of the latest dramedy penned by playwright Tracy Letts is foreshadowed by the title “Linda Vista” which means “pretty view” in Spanish. The midlife crisis of a bitter...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Scotland, PA” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura...
Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage would...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons...
Three Gen Y Conservative Christians gather at Justin’s (a thoughtful and broken Jeb Kraeger) backyard in Lander, Wyoming to celebrate Generation X Gina’s (a confident and willful Michelle Pawk)...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Great Society” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater
“The Great Society,” the second installment of playwright Robert Schenkkan’s biographical account of the years Lyndon B. Johnson spent as president in the White House, is less a drama and more a...
View ArticleBroadway’s Circle in the Square Preview: THE CIRCLE SERIES Announces...
Over the past several weeks, The Circle Series has brought the theatre community together on Monday evenings to explore developing works and celebrate the classics in a new way. Concluding their first...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Soft Power” at the Public’s Newman Theater
“Soft Power” – the culture-bending, plot-twisting musical within a play currently running at The Public’s Newman Theater – challenges the notion that the only effective parameters of power are money,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the...
Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozake Shange in...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Rose Tattoo” at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
Following in the footsteps of Maureen Stapleton in the original and first revival and Mercedes Ruehl featured in the second revival on Broadway comes Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose in the current...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
There are two major elements that undeniably contribute to the success of the entrancing new Broadway Show “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” now playing at the Lunt- Fontanne Theatre. The first is the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Macbeth” at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at Classic...
There has always been a curiosity and appreciation for bold attempts at new interpretations or the reimagining of the classics and it seems there have been endless attempts on putting a new spin on...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Sound Inside” at Studio 54
“In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Seán Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through and the shadow lands of the inner...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Ars Nova’s “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” at...
Commissioned by Ars Nova in 2016 and currently playing at New York City’s Greenwich House, “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” claims to be one thing but delivers something markedly different from its...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Fear” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Perhaps the most problematic element in the new play “Fear” by Matt Williams is that it is flooded with too many sources of fear that tend to diminish the fear that might actually be present during the...
View ArticleNew Jersey News: Jimmy Webb, Black Violin, Taylor 2 Dance Company, and...
Kean University continues to offer exciting and eclectic performances to the public, adding four new shows to its lineup for spring 2020 in Wilkins Theatre and the intimate Enlow Recital Hall. Taylor 2...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “One Discordant Violin” at 59E59 Theaters
Layers of discord populate the story line of Anthony Black’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s short story “The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the...
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