Review: “Shining City” at the Irish Repertory Theatre
“And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on...
View ArticleReview: “Fragments of Marilyn” at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
“Fragments of Marilyn” is much more a theater piece than a cabaret show as presented at the Laurie Beechman Theater by the talented actor/singer Marissa Mulder. It can be described as a stream of...
View ArticleNews: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Announces Initial Slate of Performers...
The New York Musical Festival (NYMF), previously known as The New York Musical Theatre Festival, announced the initial slate of artists participating in NYMF 2016, taking place from July 11 through...
View ArticleReview: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” Sparkles at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Marie-Belle (played with a coy bravado by Francesca Choy-Kee) is the last wife of the recently deceased one-hundred-year-old man who – though unnamed – could easily be the protagonist of Israel...
View ArticleReview: “A Funny Thing Happened…” Teases the Psyche at the Lucille Lortel...
If the title of Halley Feiffer’s new play “A Funny Thing Happened…” has any relevance – and this critic believes all titles are chosen for a specific purpose – then what happens before the audience...
View ArticleNews: The Flea Theater Announces Its Fall 2016 Season
The Flea Theater’s Artistic Director Niegel Smith and Producing Director Carol Ostrow have announced its fall 2016 season, which will include an A.R. Gurney World Premiere and a new look at the Greeks...
View ArticleReview: “On The Verge” at the Attic Theater Company at Walkerspace
In the Attic Theater Company’s production of Eric Overmyer’s démodé “On The Verge,” currently playing at Walkerspace, three women venture forth from the relative safety of late nineteenth-century Terra...
View ArticleThe Archives of La Mama Announce the Launch of La Mama’s Digital Collections...
The Archives of La MaMa is pleased to announce the launch of La MaMa’s Digital Collections Website (http://catalog.lamama.org.) Its development was made possible by a generous “hidden archival...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “On Your Feet” at the Marquis Theatre
Exactly how easy is it to get up on one’s feet after a significant life challenge? “On Your Feet!,” currently playing at the Marquis Theatre, addresses this enduring question by focusing on the lives...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Are We Human” at Ice Factory 2016 at The New Ohio Theatre
“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity” ― James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Oslo” Enacts History on Stage at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi...
If I told you—and I will —the components of the new show at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, my guess is you might not run out to see it. It is three hours long. There are two intermissions....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Good” Grapples with Evil at PTP/NYC 2016 at Atlantic...
“In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Letters and Papers from Prison” When...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Annotated History of the American Muskrat” Stays...
“I want us to start over. I don’t want to fight any more. I don’t want to be angry, all the time. I just want us to be happy, just you and me. No one else.” – Patsy to Trevor, Part 3 “And a garden [for...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming” at PTP/NYC 2016...
“Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” – Seamus Heaney, “Digging” “Give us a pencil. . .Somebody. . .Give us a pencil.” – Bela in “No End of Blame” The Potomac Theatre...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “12th Nighted” and “Fire on Babyon” at Fresh Fruit...
Hands down, Patrick Thomas McCarthy has written a slam-dunk retelling of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” aptly entitled “12th Nighted” which enjoyed its final performance at Fresh Fruit Festival 2016 on...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Small Mouth Sounds” at Ars Nova at the Romulus Linney...
When a play is about something more than boy meets girl or boy meets boy, (or boy becomes girl) it can be an inspiring, even cathartic experience. This week, for example, I saw a show that is...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The First Church of Mary…” at the 2016 New York Musical...
“The medium is the message.” – Marshall McLuhan Evangelist preacher Adamenses Huckster (Geoff Davin) is a huckster indeed. Her “redemptive” message seems simple enough: “You can choose to see things...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Either/Or” Misses the Mark at the Midtown International...
In Dayle Ann Hunt’s uber-dysfunctional family play “Either/Or,” currently running at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, protagonist Deni Rutland (Courtney Bess) contemplates a way to escape...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Crusade of Connor Stephens” Searches the Soul at...
Big Jim’s (James Kiberd) Baptist Mega-Church is expanding. More space is need for its growing congregation. That conservative congregation also seems to need a television studio and a gym with a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Normativity” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
“It’s not always the way it is in plays. Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story!” – Michael in “The Boys in the Band” by...
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