Review: “The Sensuality Party” at the New Group at Baruch College
The main issue with playwright Justin Kuritzkes’ new work “The Sensuality Party” is that it seriously lacks sensuality and it certainly is no party. In fact, perhaps the young author needs to get out...
View ArticleReview: “Kentucky” at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Armed with the promise of her therapist’s willingness to offer phone support and clutching a bottle of sedatives from the same therapist, Hiro (played with a steely vulnerability by Satomi Blair) flies...
View ArticleReview: “Toast” at 59E59 Theaters
Currently running at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway Series, Richard Bean’s 1999 “Toast” slices its way through layers of delicious intrigue to a tasty core of surprises that make the...
View ArticlePreview: The New Group Announces 2016-2017 Season
The New Group has announced four productions for its 2016-2017 Season. The company’s new season begins in Fall 2016 with the musical “Sweet Charity,” with choreography by Joshua Bergasse, directed by...
View ArticleReview: “The Place We Built” at the Flea Theater
“I like being able to define my species. And so I guess for the Seagull I don’t know anything, I’m an outside observer, but I think They found the beauty in being outside They made a place where they...
View ArticleReview: “Waitress” Satisfies the Senses at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
You will be forgiven if you walk into the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and wonder if you have mistakenly ended up at the neighborhood diner. Yes, that is the aroma of warm cinnamon tickling your nose. And...
View ArticleNews: The Artist Co-op Pop Up at the Center for Social Innovation
NEW YORK, NY – May 23, 2016 – The Artist Co-op Pop Up, a shared workspace for performing artists, uniting New York City’s actors directors, dancers, playwrights, and more, with programs and services to...
View ArticleReview: “Indecent” Challenges the Power of Death at the Vineyard Theatre
Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” could not have opened at the Vineyard Theatre at a more auspicious time. In the midst of an increasingly frenzied discussion about what is and...
View ArticleReview: “Hadestown” Redefines Mythos at the New York Theatre Workshop
With some surprise – and a modicum of disbelief – I overheard the two Millennials settling in behind me at the performance of “Hadestown” I attended at the New York Theatre Workshop sharing that they...
View ArticleReview: “Incognito” at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center Stage I
The jury remains out in the scientific community: which came first the brain or the mind? Throw into the discussion precisely where memory resides and how it is accessed and the debate becomes even...
View ArticleReview: “Peer Gynt” at the Classic Stage Company
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the...
View ArticleReview: “American Psycho” Teases the Psyche at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Change one letter in the phrase ‘American Psycho’ to form a phrase that describes the essence of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa/Duncan Sheik’s musical currently playing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre – a...
View ArticleReview: “Cal in Camo” Rattles the Psyche at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Cal (played with a haunting despair by Katya Campbell) is in a mess. Urban Chicago was the ideal place for her husband Tim (played with a brave vulnerability by David Harbour) to make money pitching...
View ArticleReview: “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” at the York Theatre Company
The new production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” at the York Theater Company would seem to be a clever idea, using age appropriate actors to portray the renowned Peanuts characters, especially...
View ArticleWomen’s Project Theatre Announces World Premiere of “Stuffed”
The Women’s Project Theater (WP Theater) has announced the world premiere of Stuffed, written by and starring internationally renowned comedian and two-time Grammy Award nominee Lisa Lampanelli (HBO,...
View ArticleReview: “Half Moon Bay” at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Okay. A Millennial young woman named Annie (Keilly McQuail) sits in a bowling alley bar late at night hunched over her beer as a second Millennial – a young man named Gabe (Gabriel King) – enters the...
View ArticleReview: “Himself and Nora” Takes Risks at the Minetta Lane Theatre
“Himself and Nora,” currently playing at the Minetta Lane Theatre, follows the life and career of the iconic James Joyce (played with a stolid cheerfulness by Matt Bogart) and his muse Nora Barnacle...
View ArticleReview: The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois at Atlantic Stage 2
“I like your sweater. That color’s good on you. Is that purple? (Ellis to his daughter) “So sometimes when I close my eyes there are cats and ocelots and burning trees. And sometimes the trees run like...
View ArticleReview: “Confusions” Grabs for Laughs at 59E59 Theaters
Alan Ayckbourn is unquestionably a prolific and popular playwright whose seventy-nine plays have delighted and challenged audiences for almost sixty years. He has explored the vicissitudes of the human...
View ArticleReview: “Hero’s Welcome” at 59E59 Theaters
In Alan Ayckbourn’s new play “Hero’s Welcome,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters at part of the Brits Off Broadway Series, a young British soldier returns home from military conflict for the first...
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