61 stories by "Brittany Crowell"
Playing now at the Barrymore Theater, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone grapples with a nation in transition, showcasing an America shortly after the Civil War, and a community …
Proof is a beautiful piece about family and legacy, and has returned to Broadway 25 years after its Pulitzer and Tony winning premier. The piece, by David Auburn, is timeless in its storyt…
Titanique is not high brow art, but it is a highly entertaining night at the theater.Â
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Dear John is delightfully unexpected. Full of playful moments and delicious surprises, it is theatricality at its best.Â
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Hate Radio, playing through the end of the month is an important allegory for today's world, warning of the harm that our media's tonality and messaging can cause and how influential it can …
The Waterfall, directed by Taylor Reynnolds starts as an intimate family journey but ends as one that takes on many generations and opens up the identity crisis of a first-generation America…
Data, playing now through March 29th, begs the question: Who are the systems governing us actually serving, and how do we impact them? Sure to give you something to discuss on the cab ri…
A solid performance that is sure to leave guests feeling lighter and eager to embody the holiday spirit, It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is a great way to spend an afternoon or even…
In INITIATIVE, seven Millennials are growing up at the turn of the millennium; dealing with post-9/11 America & high school in small-town California. Throughout Else Went's five hour…
Torera is about the cost of breaking tradition and following your dreams; it's about deep and long-lasting friendship and how culture and tradition can hold us back, even as we honor them.Â…
THE ESSENTIALISN'T brings the notion of theater beyond plays and performances and creates a genre-defying experience: part litmus test, part ancient ritual.Â
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And at the end of the piece, the audience was asked to then exit through the gift shop. Â I think McQueen (similarly to Banksy who so famously coined the phrase) would frown on this and ta…
It's a play about two skaters smoking and drinking and writing their first rap album together, yes; but more than that it's about the cost of intimacy and what happens when two people connec…
Amber Iman has a voice of the gods, easily filling the theater with beautiful tones as the goddess of music. Iman leads the audience down a winding path of emotion with Thurber's labyrin…
Real Women Have Curves lifts up those tired and poor, it celebrates them (and the audience) and encourages us to show up as we are. It teaches us to fight for our dreams and stand up for…
Something strange has indeed opened on Broadway in the form of the uncanny, magical, terrifying, theatrical show-stopper Stranger Things: The First Shadow.Â
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While SUMO is a piece about wrestling and tradition, the play encompasses so much more about humanity, spirituality, and sacrifice. Sumo, as a sport, is mired in honor and strength, and …
Urinetown (the musical) then follows Bobby's journey from zero to hero, citizen to revolutionary. What results is a quippy show that pokes fun at form and systems and can now, twenty-fo…
We laugh along the way, but what Kissajukian shows us is something refreshingly creative and unusually original - much like himself and the art he makes. Perhaps it takes an unconven…
A Wonderful World is an important story, a hopeful story with a sunny disposition, a story that believes in the possibility of change and in seeing the beauty in the world and trying to buil…
Romeo + Juliet drips vibe... The tale is as old as time, but the telling is new, exciting, and refreshed.
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TEETH is charming, funny, poignant, timely, and a piece that you can really sink your teeth into (wherever you may have them). Don't try to resist temptation, make your way to New World …
Everyone loves a good love story and everyone loves a story about conquering the odds, second chances, and living life to its fullest. Unfortunately Delia Ephron's Left of Tenth simply d…
Overall the piece is enjoyable, but not as strong as it would be with either a little more rehearsal, a snappier pace, and/or better chemistry between performers. As it stands, it's a wo…
But is it hopeless? David Finnigan's solo show asks. Can we learn from the past to improve the future? Can theater impact society's outlook on climate change? Can we have hope and positivi…
