Off-Broadway Review: “Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion” (Through...
Mischief Theatre, responsible for “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is at it again, bringing yet another production to the New York stage billed as “Mind Mangler, A Night of Tragic...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Translations” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through...
Language and translation serve as powerful tropes for colonial ownership in Brian Friel’s “Translations” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company through Sunday. December 31, 2023. Headmaster Hugh...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hell’s Kitchen” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Through...
Immediately after the first number in the new musical “Hell’s Kitchen” which is a loosely based auto biographical story about musician Alicia Keys growing up and coming of age during the late nineties...
View ArticleLiver & Lung’s Queer, Muslim Cabaret Preview: “Shafeeq Shajahan Shivam...
Award-winning Malaysian director and performer, Shafeeq Shajahan, invites you to “Satyam Shivam Sundaram”, a cabaret odyssey that peels back the layers of his queer, Muslim heritage. Presented at the...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Days of Wine and Roses” at Studio 54 (Currently On)
Since the Atlantic Theater Company first announced that Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara would lead the cast of the new musical “Days of Wine and Roses” based on the book by JP Miller, it was...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Jonah” at Roundabout Theatre Company (Through Sunday,...
The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippery.” ‘Slippery’ is...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Connector” at MCC Theater (Closed Sunday, March 17,...
The world premiere musical “The Connector” with a book by Jonathon Marc Sherman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown now playing at MCC Theater certainly has a suitable title on many different...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I Love You So Much I Could Die” at New York Theatre...
Microsoft’s Text to Speech Voice read’s Mona Pirnot’s script aloud (scored with sequences of punctuation to create pauses and silences) as the playwright sits with her back to the audience at a small...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Appropriate” at the Hayes Theater (Currently On)
According to the dictionary, there are several definitions of the word ‘appropriate,’ but there may possibly be one that could be added, that being “a brilliant play by Brandon Jacob-Jenkins.” which is...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Ally” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed...
Asaf and the members of the audience are the unwitting protagonists of Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” which is currently running at the Public’s Anspacher Theater. Asaf Sternheim (a well-meaning but...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Notebook” at the Gerald Schoenfield Theatre (Currently On)
If you did not read the Nicholas Sparks novel “The Notebook,” you most likely saw the movie of the same name based on the novel and if you saw the movie chances are you have plans to see the new...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Doubt: A Parable” at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Through...
“Doubt” can produce several similar congenial feelings such as uncertainty, suspicion, uneasiness, apprehension, distrust and confusion. Usually there is a situation or event that occurs that may be...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature...
As patrons enter the performance of Jordan Seavey’s “The Seven Year Disappear” at The Pershing Square Signature Center, they see Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) sitting across from her thirty-something son...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dead Outlaw” at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (Through...
Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. McCurdy, a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hamlet” at the Orpheum Theater (Through Sunday, April...
Adapted by Eddie Izzard’s sibling Mark Izzard, this “Hamlet” is among the best “Hamlets” on stage, screen, or stream. From the first scene of the iconic tragedy on the battlements of the royal castle...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Water for Elephants” at the Imperial Theatre (Currently On)
When does “life” begin? Depending upon one’s religious beliefs, or scientific beliefs, or social media threads, the answer to the question is different. Does “life” begin at conception; in utero; at...
View ArticleBroadway Review: The Who’s “Tommy” at the Nederlander Theatre (Currently On)
There are very few words not sung but spoken in the rock musical “Tommy,” but three that might be relevant are “Brilliant, wasn’t it?” spoken by a local lad that happens to be part of a larger...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre...
Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Riding Hood” (among other...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Lonely Few” at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater...
The most recent offering at MCC Theater is a new musical entitled “The Lonely Few” with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and a book penned by Rachel Bonds. Basically, it can be considered a rom com...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Breaking the Story” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser...
The newest offering at Second Stage’s Kiser Theatre is a production of a new play penned by Alexis Scheer titled “Breaking the Story” which centers around a war correspondent who is actively reporting...
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