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Nicole Travolta, a member of the famous Hollywood family, has turned her life into a one-woman show that is introducing her to the New York stage. "Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright" is an en…
In Luke Murphy's astonishing "Scorched Earth," a vitality is rendered with a ferocity that feels at once ancient and bracingly new. Murphy, working under the banner of his multidisciplinary …
Gionfriddo's play, which runs nearly two and a half hours, is directed with finely calibrated control by Trip Cullman. It's a tart, unsettling, and often wickedly funny examination of the em…
If you ever wondered what it is really like to work in the corridors of power, "Public Charge" based on the political career of Julissa Reynoso, an idealistic diplomat who was Deputy Assista…
For all its incremental gestures toward inclusivity, "Saturday Night Live""now improbably in its 51st season"has remained curiously bereft of a regular South Asian cast member, a lacuna that…
"School Pictures," Milo Cramer's last New York show, a solo musical, was wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and extremely insightful about the New York education system, based on his own exp…
The narrative architecture of "Vanya""its languors, its longings"is assumed, even beside the point. In its essence, this distilled adaptation unfolds less as a conventional staging than as a…
There is, in "The Last Audition," something almost defiantly modest"a chamber piece of sorrow that refuses the grandiloquence of tragedy even as it circles one. The play, a solo vehicle of h…
The unprecedented, ongoing expansion of television and film production facilities in the New York-New Jersey area should be a boon for New York's whole entertainment community. New York-bas…
It must be mentioned that this excellent cast has an incredible charge put before it, to recreate some of the most legendary dances from Broadway and Hollywood, all of which were performed b…
The dominant form of American theater since Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf?" has been the dysfunctional family drama of which there have been countless such plays. The newest…
Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs in a scene from the York Theatre's production of the musical "Monte Cristo" at Theatre at St. Jean's (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) After the musicals based on t…
Hayes proves wholly persuasive, gliding among a gallery of supporting figures (Hayes delineates 11 distinct characters with astonishing lucidity, his transitions so fluid they seem almost in…
The world premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play, "Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)" now at The Public Theater, is one of four ambitious attempts to update Sophocles' tragedy playing …
Yet the production proves curiously reluctant to pursue the implications of its own provocations. The philosophers, rather than evolving into distinct and dynamically opposed sensibilities, …
John Kelly in a scene from Beth Henley and Martha Clarke's "Bughouse" at the Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Chicagoans Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner shared an inspired life: she tr…
Ryan Howell's Art Deco unit set with the outline of the Chrysler Building gives the story a midtown feel but does not make clear when all this is happening. The costumes by Cathy Small are c…
It doesn't matter that this debate never took place because, aside from an overly contrived moment regarding Jessie's copy of Dahl's review, it's plausible enough to believe in, and it makes…
New American Ensemble may be young, but this production announces a company of rare precision and ambition. Every element"the mulch underfoot, the bar at your shoulder, the dead tree overhea…
"Blood/Love," the Vampire Pop Opera, may just have the most energy of any musical in town. Dynamic, obsessive and seductive this rock opera is the kind they don't seem to write any more. Thi…
Anthony Rapp in Kenny Finkle's "Touch" at The East Village Basement (Photo credit: Table 7 Strategies/Kevin Kulp) In Touch, a work of disarming modesty and unnerving emotional precision, a l…
Mannes Opera's production of "The Silent Serenade" now seems retro with its lilting score, a combination of Johann Strauss II and Jerome Kern who was working in Hollywood during Korngold's t…
In the hands of Michael John LaChiusa (music, lyrics and book) and George C. Wolfe (book), the feral, syncopated verse of Joseph Moncure March's Prohibition-era poem is not so much adapted a…
In persistently hopeful defiance of its heavy subject matter, the show strives for lightness. That's largely achieved thanks to Radcliffe's affability, which also swiftly inoculates the audi…
"Burnout Paradise" is the most unique show in New York right now and enormous fun. A sort of athletic performance piece, it is also an interactive circus competition. Four members from the A…
