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Who knew that a biographical play could be so witty, entertaining and charming? The latest EST/Sloan Project science play, Michael Walek's "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is one …
The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer's (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: "I mig…
Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
While Dickson's production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled a…
Bess Wohl's latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women's Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary …
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung's My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was cau…
Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked." The perform…
Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison's "The Antiquities" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison's plays like Marjorie Prime and Log …
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo's "Still" at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo's bittersweet Still …
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin's "Kowalski" at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee William…
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackso…
If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe's production of "Gypsy" at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of Arthu…
Must you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
Typical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
Director Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
If one did not read Laura's extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters of …
The trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur's loud, clarion voice, Bundy's wry wit and Butler's recounting he…
Katori Halls' "The Blood Quilt" is fine as a family drama about warring sisters who both love and resent the mother who has just died. However, as a story of secrets and revelations it takes…
There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare's sonnets ("My Mistress' eyes are nothing like t…
