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Aside from his ability to create multiple characters with his voice and body language, Strathairn's physicality is remarkable in aging from a young man to a senior citizen before our eyes as…
"My Onliness," Robert Lyons' latest stage work, is a musical homage to Polish avant-garde playwright Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (active 1918-1934) but who resurfaced during the 1960's when …
A fresh antidote to the usual brassy, loud rock musicals of today, "Los Otros" slows down the tempo and the sound level with a story of the experiences of two people who learn to love, cope …
Public Works' musical adaptation of "As You Like It" is an enchanting evening of summer fun under the stars. Trimmed to a long one act, the story is accessible for both those who know the Sh…
'Hyprov" is a delightful and surprising evening as there is no telling how it will turn out. Will the Hyprovisers be good at their improvs? Will they stay in character? How will they deal wi…
"Titantique" is the most hilarious musical parody to play New York in many a year. Since international superstar Céline Dion only got to sing one song at the end of James Cameron's blockbus…
It is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh's new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking ab…
Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical" at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Editor…
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
Jake Shore's "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger student …
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC's "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"'s narrator and its protagon…
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of "Into the Woods" at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for Murp…
For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
And of his behavior Richard continues to explain, "And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain." In this production we see none of this though this speech…
Modern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don't plan out all the details. Robert Icke's staging for London's Almeida Theatre now at New York's Park Avenue Armor…
The Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished " maybe too polished " production like the earlier "…
Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
Comedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," Â into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author …
"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel's Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also directe…
Following the lead of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Siting Yang has updated Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the present but left the story mainly set in Africa. In "Sky of Darknes…
"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman's spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score w…
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time having …
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King's plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Golde…
