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Review - Blood and Gifts & Private Lives

November 28, 2011

In The Book of Mormon, the young Ugandan ingénue sings of a fantasy world she imagines where all the warlords are friendly.

Review - White Christmas: Back to Berlin

November 24, 2011

White Christmas is just too good a musical to be limited to holiday-time productions.

Review - Seminar: Class Dismissed

November 21, 2011

Theresa Rebeck provides plenty of mindless fun for the aggressively hip in Seminar, a breezy and enjoyable new comedy that will especially appeal to those who love showing off their urban cultural elitism by laughing very loudly at derogatory references to short stories published in The New Yorker

Review - Iron Curtain: You Gotta Have Serdtse

November 17, 2011

Known primarily for their excellent work with the Prospect Theatre Company (of which she is Producing Artistic Director and he is Resident Writer), the husband and wife team of director/bookwriter Cara Reichel and composer/lyricist/bookwriter Peter Mills are responsible for some of the most exciting

Review - Godspell: In The Vernacular

November 15, 2011

Just like Pope Paul VI figured when The Vatican told followers to go ahead and celebrate mass in the vernacular, John-Michael Tebelak figured that if the musical he penned with Stephen Schwartz, based on the Gospel According to St.

Review - Other Desert Cities & Venus in Fur

November 13, 2011

The funny thing about the truth is that it can be totally subjective and personal stories rarely involve just one person.

Review - The Blue Flower

November 11, 2011

Three years ago I posted a review emphatically praising the Prospect Theatre Company's developmental production of Jim and Ruth Bauer's The Blue Flower, calling it, 'a unique, intelligent and wondrously creative evening of musical theatre' that 'skillfully tackles the tricky business of mixing the a

Review - King Lear

November 9, 2011

If Hamlet is the reward an actor gets for showing great promise in his youth, King Lear is the thank you he receives in the latter years of a distinguished career.

Review - Queen of The Mist

November 7, 2011

'You're an insane woman,' a character says to the protagonist in Michael John LaChiusa's intriguing new musical, Queen of The Mist.

Review - Milk Like Sugar

November 2, 2011

The inner city teenage girls in Kirsten Greenidge's moving new drama, Milk Like Sugar, want only one thing from a boy.

Review - Love's Labor's Lost: Bright College Days

November 1, 2011

Love's Labor's Lost, generally not regarded as a top tier Shakespeare effort, might get performed a lot more frequently if more productions were as fun and frisky as director Karin Coonrod's madcap mounting for The Public Theater's Public Lab series.

Review - Dancing at Lughnasa & Jason Graae's Perfect Hermany

October 31, 2011

'Atmosphere is more real than truth,' explains Michael Evans, the narrating character recalling his childhood days in Brian Friel's thickly atmospheric Dancing At Lughnasa, now enjoying a warm and lovely mounting by Charlotte Moore at the Irish Rep.

Review - Chinglish: Western People Funny

October 28, 2011

Ever hear the one about the handicapped restroom at a Chinese tourist attraction that was labeled for English-speaking visitors, 'Deformed Man's Toilet'? Or the one about the American trying to seduce his new Chinese love in her native language with the romantic words, 'Frog loves to pee'? Such

Review - Elaine Stritch at Town Hall

October 26, 2011

I'm taking up a collection to buy Elaine Stritch a pair of pants.

Review - Relatively Speaking & Man and Boy

October 21, 2011

The three one-act comedies that comprise Relatively Speaking are said to be connected by their common theme of finding humor blossoming from the family tree.

Review - Broadway Originals

October 20, 2011

'I want you to know that the most exciting part I've received recently is my new knee.

Review - The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

October 18, 2011

'Do you really think Apple doesn't know?'

Review - Freud's Last Session

October 17, 2011

After more than 14 months at the Marjorie S.

Review - The Mountaintop

October 14, 2011

Back in 2009, The Public Theatre presented Tracy Scott Wilson's ambitious and very capable drama, The Good Negro, a work of fiction with one character obviously meant as a stand-in for DR.

Review - Milk and Honey

October 13, 2011

When Jerry Herman was pegged by producer Gerard Oestreicher to write the score for a Broadway musical set in the fledgling State of Israel, he was a 28-year-old composer/lyricist mostly known for writing clever lyrics and snazzy tunes for Greenwich Village topical reviews like Nightcap and Parade.

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