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Will Arbery's Evanston "Salt Costs Climbing" (set in the city in which the author received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 2015) is a perplexing experience as it shifts from realism to abs…
"Camp Siegfried" is a new departure for the author of "Small Mouth Sounds," "Continuity," "Make Believe" and "Grand Horizons." Depicting an important piece of history in an age when hate spe…
Noel Coward's "The Rat Trap" is not only entertaining but seems to have been ahead of its time. Discounted by critics and the author alike when it had its only production until now in 1926, …
Writer/ director/actress Madeline Sayet is an engaging performer. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, her one-woman show "Where We Belong" is an autobiographical tale of her Mohegan roots and her seeki…
What Crowe has done in writing his own book for the new show is recreate almost exactly every scene in the movie starting from the time when 15-year-old hero William Miller meets rock critic…
Hudes has directed her own play in a delightful vaudeville/musical comedy style with dancing between the scenes to choreography by Ebony Williams to live music played by pianist Ariacne Truj…
The first Off Broadway revival of Edward Albee's " A elicate Balance," his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of three), is also the first to feature an all Asian American cast as well as be…
The 20th anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Topdog/Underdog," is just as powerful and absorbing as before with its story of two African American brothers …
Ralph Fiennes' towering performance as a megalomaniac who changes the face of New York as we know it is worth the price of admission. With his puffed out chest and nose in the air remaking h…
G.D. Kimble's "What Passes for Comedy" depicts the fascinating era of early live television talk shows and the racism and anti-Semitism which was acceptable in those days. However, it also h…
Mandi Masden, Tonya Pinkins and Toussaint Battiste in a scene from Robert O'Hara's production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at The Public Theater (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) …
While director Dustin Wills has given 'Montag" a superb production, the meaning and message of Kate Tarker's play remains obscure. Demonstrating female empowerment alone is not enough if the…
Many of Bedlam's productions have used small casts with most of the actors playing more than one role. In the case of "The Winter's Tale," not one of Shakespeare's more often produced plays,…
Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt" is a powerful achievement, a history of our time as well as a cautionary tale. In depicting Jewish life in Vienna from 1899 - 1955, It also reveals a way of lif…
Actor/writer/director Douglas McGrath is a charming storyteller and his one-man show "Everything's Fine" is a total delight. He tells the entertaining and poignant story of his eventful 14th…
"Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge" should stir up controversy as their 1965 topic is still relevant. Such a debate today would have a great deal more ammunition than either of these men ha…
Neith Boyce's "The Sea Lady," a Broadway-bound play in 1935, only now having its world premiere at Metropolitan Playhouse is an attempt at a Shavian play of ideas. Based on a 1901 novel by s…
On what is either a shoestring budget or a conscious effort to strip Henry James' novel down to its essentials, Randy Sharp's new adaptation of "Washington Square" is both exciting theater a…
There are two truisms in life in addition to the one about death and taxes: it takes all kinds of people to make a world and something will get everyone in the end. The world premiere of Gra…
"Weightless" is an engaging little indie rock musical, little in the sense that it has only three characters plus a narrator and runs only 75 minutes of playing time. The show features the B…
If you like your W.W. II history unadulterated, you may object to a love story between a French teenage girl and a Nazi soldier even if they are inexperienced and innocent and unaware of wha…
Is it possible to be completely truthful in attempting to tell the life of a famous author in a biofilm? That is the premise of Argentinian novelist and playwright Romina Paula's "Fauna" now…
Although Alan Cumming is a charismatic performer, the distracting video design, the often overpowering music, and the often flashing lighting by Tim Lutkin, gets in the way of viewing the sh…
The finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, …
Mark Wilding's "Our Man in Santiago" is billed as a "raucous political farce" but it is neither loud and noisy nor hilariously funny. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1974 article in Har…
