"The Jerusalem Syndrome" is a pleasant new musical comedy with some fine clever songs and good comic moments. However, Don Stephenson's production does not take the farcical elements far eno…
Michael John LaChiusa's "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele's adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the case…
"Hell's Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters develo…
Milo Cramer's delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and ex…
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: Fo…
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don't …
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that "all characters appearing in this work are fictitious," in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manhattan…
Philip Roth's 1995 Rabelaisian novel "Sabbath's Theater" would seem a strange choice for stage adaptation both as it is considered Roth's raunchiest " if not filthiest " book and it moves ar…
MasterVoices acquitted itself well in this deliciously comic concert staging of "The Frogs." Why this Stephen Sondheim score is not better known or revived more often remains a mystery after…
The three plays in the "Meet Miss Baker" Project, "The Price of Thomas Scott" in 2019, "Chains" in 2022 and now "Partnership" in 2023 are quite different. While Partnership is the only one y…
The subtitle of Patrick Page's absorbing and informative one-man show "All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain" is an actuate description of the content of his presenta…
Not only is Jeremy Tiang's "Salesman 之æ»I" an important document of a classic American play, it is also an illustrative reminder of the cultural differences between China and the U…
"Jaja" is quite different from Bioh's other plays in that it is also very revealing about life in NYC for African immigrants. Directed by Whitney White who has piloted several major new Blac…
Elinor T Vanderburg's "Bloodspot" is a fascinating attempt to create a film noir play for the stage. The visuals do not live up to the script's promise, but it remains entertaining and engro…
The 1968 musical 'Golden Rainbow" (the show that gave us the song sensation "I've Gotta Be Me") was so identified with its stars Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé that it has not been seen in 5…
Each generation gets its own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the classic vampire horror story, that possibly reflects its needs of it own time. The latest version now called "Dracula: …
From the playing style, as directed by Josiah Davis, the play seems to be a spoof. Unfortunately, it is not funny though the actors cheerfully mug their way through Horwitz's text as though …
Ever since Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker adapted 'Uncle Vanya" for a 2012 production at the Soho Rep, her plays like "The Flick," "John" and "The Antipodes" have becomes more…
Max Wolf Friedlich's "Job" is as tense as a thriller, as compelling as a psychological drama and as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. As directed by Michael Herwitz, Peter Friedman and Syd…
Catherine Waller's one person show, "The Creeps", has all the elements of a successful horror show: a macabre setting, dark lighting, off-beat characters, and strange unexplained going-ons. …
Visually, the show is not as effective as it might have been considering the play usually includes a great deal of magic. Here there is very little in the way of scenic illusions or legerdem…
While the misnamed "How to Steal an Election: A Dirty Politics Musical" is no lost masterpiece and at times seems long, it is a diverting political revue which offers an interesting take on …
Directed by Karen Carpenter, "Pay the Writer" by best-selling novelist Tawni O'Dell is slick and superficial but entertaining and engrossing. The play about the 45 year friendship between an…