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Ronnie Larsen, Allen Lewis Rickman and Jeni Hacker in a scene from Larsen's "The Actors" at Theatre Row (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Playwright and actor Ronnie Larsen, best known for his se…
Dan Lauria's "Just Another Day" is quite leisurely in its delivery but Lauria and McCormack inhabit their roles. While the play could use some pruning, it is a charming portrait of two elder…
Playwright and actor Ronnie Larsen, best known for his series of erotic plays with titles like "Making Porn" and "Sleeping with Straight Men," has now switched to a charmingly humorous Neil …
The eye-filling sets by Hannah Beachler and video and projection design by Daniel Brodie include subtle tributes to Black Culture that not all theatergoers may notice on a first look. When D…
The lead of the show is film star Eddie Redmayne, who won the Olivier Award for his performance as the Emcee in the London production and is also Tony nominated for this show. Director Rebec…
In fact, the play which ought to be hilarious is almost devoid of jokes as the premise which is politically incorrect will make many white playgoers uncomfortable " unless this is the point …
Director Nicholas Viselli has done well with the characterizations but is unable to resolve the thinness of the backstories which are not fleshed out by the script. The shallow set which has…
Jessica Burr's Blessed Unrest production of Marguerite Duras' "La Musica Deuxième"Â in the 1992 translation by Barbara Bray is like a violent Jean Paul Sartre short story directed in the …
The new musical "Hell's Kitchen" has made a successful transition to Broadway from The Public Theater and the new version seems to have corrected some of the flaws from before. This juke-box…
Things are not helped by Mini Lien's bland setting that looks more like a furniture showroom than the family manse held for decades and passed down to the present inhabitants. The new adapta…
In the very first scene it becomes apparent that we are watching "The Pursuit of Happiness," a new play from the Good Company, an indie theater group that has been known for radical and expe…
A good deal of fun is had by Brian Pacelli's projection design which is shown on the modern and chic living room/dining room set by Christopher and Justin Swader. It takes us to the virtual …
In attempting to make a feminist statement out of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Harris has made Lady Macbeth into the same murderous monster that her husband became in the original. This does not…
In telling the life story of Tamara de Lempicka, the show begins with a fascinating premise. Unfortunately, neither the score nor the book lives up to her high standards. Unlike "Sunday in t…
Nelson Diaz-Marcano's "Las Borinqueñas," the latest play in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Science and Technology Project, has a fascinating, little known story …
On April 10, 2024, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center presented a tantalizing teaser of a musical evening with the world premiere workshop of only the first act of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winni…
Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" d…
Playwright/bookwriter Rick Elice has written the greatest jukebox musical (so far) in his 2005 Jersey Boys. In his adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel Water for Elephants, he may ju…
While the characters age, the use of diversity here has them switch races, so that while one couple has a Black Allie and a white Noah, another has a white Allie and a Black Noah, as well as…
The concept of alternate facts was not created under the Trump Administration. In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in which a medical report that a town's new spa is polluted…
In this tour de force, Izzard has come up with a different voice and stance for each character: King Claudius is a baritone, Lord Polonius has a limp, Lady Ophelia has a somewhat breathy spe…
Playwright J.T. Rogers ("Oslo", 2017 Tony Award for Best Play) specializes in dramatizing the backstories to true scandals of which the real details behind the facts never made the news. His…
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck's inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems to …
Soutra Gilmour's setting is a sort of empty runway with the audience sitting on either side. The other props are two black chairs at either end for the two doctors. Scenes are created entire…
The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
