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Review - Quick Comments

July 11, 2012

So now that Patrick Page will be ending his stint as The Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark and begin rehearsals for a piece just a tad worthier of his talents, Cyrano De Bergerac, his replacement Robert Cuccioli, a sensitive lyric interpreter with a beautifully masculine voice, will be t

Review - Rapture, Blister, Burn: Lashing Back

June 29, 2012

When the houselights went up for intermission at Gina Gionfriddo's  provocative comedy of gender issues, Rapture, Blister, Burn, my immediate impulse was to ask my guest – a 1980s Columbia University Women's Studies graduate who, like myself, remembers the days when an Upper West Side liberal's c

Review - Closer Than Ever: Opening Doors

June 25, 2012

Though the team of Richard Maltby, Jr.

Review - As You Like It: Into The Backwoods

June 23, 2012

Backwoods 1800s America proves an unlikely, but ideal setting for Shakespeare's As You Like It in director Daniel Sullivan's enormously entertaining Delacorte production that mixes dexterous wordplay with rowdy comedy.

Review - Love Goes To Press

June 21, 2012

By the third act of Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles' 1946 romantic comedy, Love Goes To Press, one of the play's leading characters, a female war correspondent considered tops in her field, begins discussing marriage with the handsome soldier who has captured her heart.

Review - The Broadway Musicals of 1987 & Zarkana

June 17, 2012

The words, “Once upon a time…,” were followed by that familiar Sondheim vamp, and Danielle Ferland skipped onto the stage just as she had 25 years ago as the original Little Red Riding Hood in Into The Woods.

Review - Food and Fadwa

June 10, 2012

Fadwa Faranesh, a bright, engaging Palestinian woman living in Bethlehem, hosts a cooking program from her home kitchen, where she prepares delectable dishes like tabouli and baba ghanoush in the traditional manner the women of her culture have been preparing them for centuries.

Review - Potted Potter - The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff

June 4, 2012

When I first heard the title Potted Potter – The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff, my American mind immediately thought of the slang term we use for inebriated and figured Jefferson Turner and Daniel Clarkson's two-person, 70-minute presentation would be some kind of irre

Review - My Sinatra & The Naked Truth

May 28, 2012

“Mensch” is not a word you might immediately think of to describe Frank Sinatra, but the label seems to fit Cary Hoffman quite snugly.

Review - Judge Me Paris

May 25, 2012

Snooty Manhattanites such as I generally have a short list of offerings that would lure us all the way out to Brooklyn.

Review - February House: Brooklyn Lodgers

May 24, 2012

Carson McCullers, Erika Mann and Gypsy Rose Lee are sharing a house in Brooklyn.

Review - Chlamydia Dell'Arte: A Sex Ed Burlesque & The Broadway Musicals of 1975

May 21, 2012

The admirable mission of Gigi Naglak and MeghAnn Williams, writer/performers of Chlamydia Dell'Arte: A Sex Ed Burlesque, is to remove some of the awkwardness in open discussions about human sexuality by treating intimate issues with humor.

Review - Triumphant Baby & The Columnist

May 14, 2012

Match.

Review - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: It's Delightful Down At City Center

May 11, 2012

Review - One Man, Two Guvnors & The Lyons

May 7, 2012

Broadway audiences can be forgiven if they don't quite recall being introduced to James Corden six years ago as one of The History Boys' ensemble of Oxbridge hopefuls, but in Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, the loveable harlequin makes an unforgettable sophomore appearance, taking center stage

Review - A Midsummer Night's Dream & An Early History of Fire

May 2, 2012

The lunatics, lovers and poets merrily charge onto the stage in full force in Classic Stage Company's raucous and witty, sexy and sensual mounting of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Review - Clybourne Park & The Sound of Music

April 30, 2012

It took two years, a Pulitzer Prize and an Olivier Award-winning London production before happening, but Bruce Norris' searing satire, Clybourne Park, has finally made the six-block transfer from Off-Broadway's Playwright's Horizon to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre.

Review - A Streetcar Named Desire & Evita

April 25, 2012

In every previous Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, a white Blanche DuBois has complained that her sister Stella's white husband Stanley has “something downright bestial about him.

Review - The Best Man & The Mikado

April 19, 2012

Remember when political conventions were fun?  When the delegates gathered into town, not to perfunctorily declare a pre-determined winner, but to debate through multiple votes, late night deals and maybe a few protest rallies to come up with a nominee?

Review - Peter And The Starcatcher

April 16, 2012

Last season's debate over whether the Best Play Tony should be awarded for the quality of the written text or for the production as a whole – set off by the nomination and subsequent victory of War Horse – is likely to be brought up again if the raucously funny and surprisingly tender Peter And