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Review - Rx: Lovesick

February 8, 2012

'If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research,' explains a pharmaceutical professional in Rx, Kate Fodor's comic romance set around the big business of health care.

Review - Ionescopade & 10th Annual New York Nightlife Awards

February 6, 2012

Let's face it, nobody produces a song and sketch revue based on the plays of Ionesco in a theatre on the western outskirts of 55th Street expecting a commercial smash.

Review - Wit

February 2, 2012

Despite its title, it's easy to forget what a funny play Margaret Edson's Wit is.

Review - Russian Transport: The Second Oldest Profession

February 1, 2012

'It's not fair,' the 14-year-old girl complains to her mom.

Review - Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)

January 24, 2012

Is it possible to recreate someone else's authenticity seven times a week doing the same Off-Broadway show? If last Saturday night's performance of Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) is any indication, the answer is a resounding.

Review - The Road To Mecca

January 23, 2012

There's a beautiful softness that bathes every artistic aspect of director Gordon Edelstein's graceful and endearing production of Athol Fugard's meditation on independence through creativity, The Road To Mecca.

Review - Fred Barton Presents - And Thinks You're Gonna Love It!

January 21, 2012

In these days of ever-shrinking Broadway orchestras, it's rather refreshing to walk into a cabaret room and find that seats have been removed from an otherwise sold-out house in order to fit a nine-piece musical ensemble.

Review - Marilyn Maye: By Request

January 13, 2012

I've heard it said that there was this Australian fellow playing the Broadhurst recently who regularly had his audiences whipped up into quite a frenzy.

Review - Outside People: I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

January 11, 2012

By my count, Outside People is the third theatre piece about a white American in contemporary China to hit town this season.

Review - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever: Don't Tamper With Their Musical

December 29, 2011

Hang around the theatre long enough and you grow accustomed to hearing the word 'problematic' applied primarily to two things: a Shakespeare play that's not one of his better efforts or the book of a musical that's rarely revived, despite an excellent score.

Review - Jackie Hoffman's A Chanukah Charol

December 23, 2011

The audience greets their star's entrance with a long round of enthusiastic cheers as she takes her place center stage and she, in turn, glares back at them with a look of unrestrained contempt.

Review - Lysistrata Jones: A Damned Exasperating Woman

December 20, 2011

When it was announced that Transport Group's compact production of bookwriter Douglas Carter Beane and composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn's giddily fun and sexy musical combo of Aristophanes and college hoops, Lysistrata Jones, was moving to Broadway, there was some understandable concern about the Off-B

Review - Stick Fly

December 18, 2011

Call me envious, but the genre of plays that feature smart, educated, financially well-off characters screwing up their lives under the knowing smirks of the maid serves as a kind of comfort food for me.

Review - Snow White

December 16, 2011

While you probably wouldn't expect period recordings of 'Let's Do It' and 'St.

Review - Titus Andronicus

December 15, 2011

'We began this production with the simplest and most time-honored of theatrical practices,' writes New York Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis.

Review - Bonnie and Clyde & The Man Who Came To Dinner

December 13, 2011

The new musical inspired by the careers of Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow begins with stars Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes, as the infamous title duo, sitting dead from multiple bullet wounds in the front seat of a Ford.

Review - Maple and Vine: My Favorite Year

December 8, 2011

For many Americans - okay, white suburban middle classers into traditional gender roles - the 1950s was an idyllic time when the country could rest easily with our post-war status as the world's super-power before the internal unrest of the 60s began exposing the ugly imperfections.

Review - Once: Love Notes

December 7, 2011

No matter how early you enter the house for New York Theatre Workshop's production of Once, the play is already well underway.

Review - The Cherry Orchard: Strange Fruit

December 5, 2011

Whether it's historic Off-Broadway theatres being replaced by chain stores and condos after their rents are tripled or beloved long-time Coney Island businesses facing eviction if they don't conform to the bland, antiseptic vision of new planners, New Yorkers are very familiar with the culture vs.

Review - Jacques Brel Returns & Wild Animals You Should Know

December 4, 2011

Jacques Brel is dead and buried and entombed in French Polynesia and the Zipper Theatre, home of the very satisfying revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris several seasons back is now a beloved memory, but the producers of that mounting have been keeping the 'ol carousel madly turning

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