Off-Broadway Review: “In the Shadow of a Dream” at the Midtown International...
Joey Miller’s (Nick Ryan) dream in college in 1985 is to play professional basketball after graduating. Ideally – like his favorite player Larry Bird – he would play for his favorite team the Boston...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Children of Salt” Lacks Flavor at the New York Musical...
Jaime Lozano’s and Lauren Epsenhart’s new musical from Mexico follows successful entrepreneur Raul’s (Mauricio Martinez) return to his childhood seaside home to visit his ailing grandmother Marina...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “ICON” at the New York Musical Festival at the Duke on...
A tiny foreign nation, a people’s princess, a gay prince, an arranged marriage, a scandal, a revolution, and a fire that destroys lovers’ hopes and dreams certainly makes interesting material for good...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Scythe of Time” at the New York Musical Festival at...
Creating a musical based on two Edgar Allen Poe short stories, “How to Write a Blackwood Article” and “A Predicament”, is no easy task given the subject matter and the genre. In this day and age...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Mr. Toole” at the Midtown International Theatre...
“Do I dare/Disturb the universe?/In a minute there is time/For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” After a successful run at the...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Butler” Abolishes Stereotypes at 59E59 Theaters
“General Butler, you are fighting a war because some men saw things differently from some other men.” – Shepard Mallory Based on true events, Richard Strand’s scintillating “Butler,” currently playing...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: The Abbey Theatre’s “Quietly” Shouts Out at the Irish...
“A bit of shouting – everyone shouts here – it’s the national sport.” – Robert to Jimmy in “Quietly” Fifty-two-year-old Ian (Declan Conlon) appeals to his teen years’ nemesis Jimmy (Patrick O’Kane) to...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Lisa and Leonardo” Goes into a Tailspin at the New York...
Never has a musical been so at war with itself than is “Lisa and Leonardo,” the new musical that finished its run at the New York Musical Festival on Thursday July 28, 2016. It is difficult to know how...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Tink!” at the New York Musical Festival at the Pearl...
The most significant accomplishment of the new musical “Tink!” is that it will send you flying back to the J.M. Barrie classic, yearning to reclaim the magic and fantasy created by the adventures of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Last Word” at the New York Musical Festival at the...
Brett Sullivan’s “The Last Word” is a delightful new musical with a great deal to offer. Mr. Sullivan and his creative team have carefully thought through a musical that features an outstanding cast, a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Men on Boats” at Playwrights Horizons Peter J. Sharp...
“On the 24th of May, 1869, we started down the Green River with provisions for eight or ten months, according to Major Powell. Our provisions got wet and were lost in different ways, and finally the...
View ArticleSignature Theatre Mourns the Passing of Founding Artistic Director James...
It is with sadness that Signature Theatre announces its Founder James Houghton passed away at his home in Manhattan on August 2, 2016 after a two year battle with stomach cancer. He was 57 years old....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Camp Rolling Hills” at the New York Musical Festival at...
“Yeah, it’s always summer somewhere.” – Smelly, Act II, “Camp Rolling Hills” The sixth musical number in “Camp Rolling Hills” is “A Reason to Smile” in which Slimey (camper Stephanie Gregson’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Dust Can’t Kill Me” Strikes a Redemptive Chord at the...
“By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 On its first return to New...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Insomnia” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival...
The new musical “Insomnia” played as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival. It is complicated, enjoyable and derivative, some of which might contribute to a possible successful future. The...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Summer Shorts 2016 – Series B” at 59E59 Theaters
“BLACK FLAG” – Written by Idris Goodwin and Directed by Logan Vaughn The success of Detroit native Deja’s (Suzette Azariah Gunn) freshman year depends – as it always does for every first-year college...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Newton’s Cradle” at the New York Musical Festival at...
“Newton’s Cradle” is an earnest attempt to create a serious musical that sheds some light on the subject of Autism by revealing some significant situations experienced by Evan Newton, who is living...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Implications of Cohabitation” Flounders at the Clurman...
The Homeless Man (David Pendleton) sums up Nelson’s (Anthony Ruiz) dilemma in a simple phrase, “You should know there are implications to cohabitation.” Nelson is the husband and father of two families...
View ArticleOff-Off-Broadway Review: “Black Magic” Transcends Death at FringeNYC 2016 at...
“I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times.” – Kathryn Lasky, “Frost Wolf” In forty powerfully engaging minutes, the cast...
View ArticleOff-Off-Broadway Review: “Let the Devil Take the Hindmost” at the SoHo Playhouse
Among the shows opening the FringeNYC 2016 season is “Let The Devil Take the Hindmost,” a new play by Maya Contreras who – in a program note from the playwright – shares that she penned the play in...
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