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The choreography by Toran X. Moore is exquisitely attuned to both context and cast. Moore's steps and motifs create a full canvas of movement that breathes with the beat and bends to the dem…
What "Dream Feed" does is evoke feelings, and images, and hopefully dreams. Most effective are the times when what I assume are actual dreams are recited, in one case through a voice changer…
While ABBA's "Chess" is receiving its first revival on Broadway, a delightful new musical about chess has come to Off Broadway's Players Theatre. "The Opening," billed as "The Second Most Fa…
Do we want to be led to a utopia full of shiny objects or can we find abundance at home, in friendship and family? Symbolically, and at times explicitly, Concrete Temple Theatre explores thi…
Sarah Kirkland Snider's first opera arrives with a confidence that feels almost paradoxical: it is at once tightly focused and lavishly expansive, a work that fixes its gaze on a single hing…
However, where the Peter Weir film used magical lighting and the atmosphere of the actual filming at Hanging Rock to recreate a mystical, supernatural feeling, the musical instead adds songs…
On Christmas Eve, a group of New York performing artists gathered outside Irving Berlin's longtime home to sing the songs he loved most. Begun by John Wallowitch in the 1980s, the tradition …
"Night Stories" is, first and foremost, about Jewish life. The show's characters are mainly Holocaust survivors, yet they are never reduced to simply being symbols of suffering. They go on t…
MOMIX's "Alice" returns to the Joyce Theater for the first time since its 2022 premiere and continues to dazzle in its inimitable way with illusion and dance. Choreographer Moses Pendleton's…
Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" at the Mitzi E. …
The opening sequence established that tone. "Deck the Hall" and "We Need a Little Christmas" moved briskly and confidently, their energy functional rather than decorative. Reineke kept the w…
Michelle Williams and Tom Sturridge in a scene from Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" at St. Ann's Warehouse (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Successful plays of one era tend to date badly a…
"Gotta Dance!" is a hugely entertaining revue of dance in the American musical recreating icon moments from 17 Broadway shows including four that started life as MGM movies starring Gene Kel…
What "If We Kiss" captures, with rare delicacy, is the way young people experience such convergences as both comic and catastrophic. The play treats adolescent feeling with respect, refusing…
Performed beneath Rashid Johnson's "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," "The Hikers" unfolds inside the Guggenheim rotunda, where architecture, elevation, and live music shape a restrained duet by Ll…
Jennifer Blackmer's "Predictor" expands a single moment of insight into a sharp examination of authorship and agency. Anchored by Caitlin Kinnunen's quietly compelling performance as Meg Cra…
Greenberg's greatest achievement is his refusal to inflate or apologize for the material. He treats "The Baker's Wife" as what it is: a musical of sensibility rather than momentum, concerned…
Director Anne Kauffman, who impressively guided the play's Off Broadway premiere a decade ago, returns to do the same for its Broadway debut. With Michael Almereyda's cinematic adaptation ha…
Icke's version avoids the religious and ethical themes of the original but instead makes it a riveting thriller as the tension rises to almost unbearable heights " even if you know the outco…
Dominick LaRuffa Jr. speaks without mythology about acting, teaching, and building a sustainable life in the business. In this conversation, he reflects on discipline, long-term patience, an…
According to the author's note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the "forgotten war" in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Sudanese M…
Most people delete scam emails. I don't. I answer them in character"Columbo, Paul Lynde, Truman Capote, Fred Garvin"to see what happens when urgency meets performance. What began as curiosit…
Cabaret artist and storyteller Fiona-Jane Weston launches a pair of online Christmas History Salons tracing the holiday's evolution from ancient ritual to modern tradition. Blending historic…
In "BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism)," EPIC Players"New York's indefatigable standard-bearer for neuroinclusive performance"unfurls a world premiere that feels less like a conventional ne…
In the cavernous expanse of the Park Avenue Armory, where spectacle often arrives inflated to mythic proportions, "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" materializes as a freque…
