BWW Reviews: MAKE MINE MANHATTAN - I'll Take a Double March 12, 2012Style. Class. Grace. Charm. MAKE MINE MANHATTAN returns to its roots on the New York stage as a pocket revue after a larger Broadway production opened in 1948 and ran for nearly a year at the Broadhurst Theatre. This new revival preserves all the old-fashioned style and charm that was originally conceived in its smaller form.
BWW REVIEWS: Everyone Needs PSYCHO THERAPYFebruary 9, 2012A stellar cast, smart script, and hilarious material make a successful therapy session in Frank Strausser's PSYCHO THERAPY at the Cherry Lane Theatre. A clever and witty take on couples therapy reveals unexpected twists and turns which leaves the audience refreshed and ready to tackle their own relationship crises.
BWW Reviews: MISS KIM Gives Smart, Honest Account of Tormented LifeJanuary 24, 2012Few plays can take a true account of sexual abuse, family betrayal, suicide attempts, HIV-scares, abortions, and failed relationships and turn it into a smart (and often funny) story of hope and survival with clever staging and amazing talent. MISS KIM does just that.
BWW Reviews: LOLA ASTANOVA Gives Stunning Tribute to HorowitzJanuary 23, 2012Donning gorgeous sequins gowns and dripping in $850,000 worth of Tiffany jewels, sexy 26-year-old Uzbekistan-born pianist and YouTube sensation, Lola Astanova, made her Carnegie Hall debut in 'A Tribute to Horowitz' performance which left the sold-out audience as dazzled as her diamonds.
BWW Reviews: LEO- A Twisted PerspectiveJanuary 16, 2012It's all about perspective. LEO, played by one-man actor-acrobat, Tobias Wegner, comes to us straight from the Berlin-based production company, Circle of Eleven. A simple, yet interesting concept of skewed reality where, because of innovative staging under the direction of Daniel Briere, Leo's world is transformed into a gravity-defying universe right before your very eyes.
BWW Reviews: Lady Bunny Gives Hair-Raising Performance in ‘THAT AIN’T NO LADY!’December 29, 2011In her first one-woman show in 10 years, Lady Bunny makes a fierce comeback to a packed crowd at La Escuelita Cabaret Theatre. While this self-professed "trash-talking filthy sewer mouth[ed]" drag queen keeps the audience deep into the gutters, only three blocks away, Mary Poppins is flying over the heads of children everywhere.
BWW Reviews: THE AMAZING MAX AND THE BOX OF INTERESTING THINGS Captivates Young and Old AlikeDecember 26, 2011A confident Max Darwin rolls into the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center Theater on his "magic dune buggy" and begins his show by encouraging everyone to come see it. "Tell your family, your friends...the guy sitting next to you on the subway...." He then goes on to say, "I'm the Amazing Max and I know what you're thinking... Are you going to be any good?" Well, he's not just good... He's AMAZING!
BWW Reviews: ‘NAKED HOLIDAYS’ Rises to the OccasionDecember 20, 2011EndTimes Productions presents its 5th annual Yuletide bacchanalia at the Times Square Arts Center, a hilarious, free-spirited debauchery of anything goes (and it pretty much does). This musical not only rises to the occasion, but also proves that this year, it's "not about the holidays... it's about the NAKED holidays."
BWW Reviews: FAIRY TALE Too Twisted to Have Happily Ever AfterDecember 6, 2011The Off-Broadway Shelter Theatre presents FAIRY TALE, of five original short plays inspired by the stories of The Brothers Grimm, Washington Irving, and Charles Perrault. Each story is a unique take on classic fairy tales, but unfortunately, there is hardly any semblance of the originals as these stories remain strange and often quite disturbing.
BWW Reviews: TWO MEN KIDNAPPING RULE Rules at the New Ohio Theatre November 14, 2011Joseph Gallo's male-bonding play about three friends from New Jersey is a hilarious insight in the typical male ego as it relates to women, sports, beer.... and of course, male friendship. The pact they make is to "kidnap" and prevent the third friend from making poor decisions, hence the "Two-Man Kidnapping Rule."
BWW Reviews: Off-Broadway's A CHARITY CASE Makes A Compelling ArgumentNovember 3, 2011Alison Fraser, Alysia Reiner, and Jill Shackner, together, are a powerful force to be reckoned with. A Charity Case opened Off-Broadway at the Clurman Theatre and gives us an insightful look into the private lives of a 17-year old adopted daughter who is torn between her biological mother, adoptive mother, and finding her own identity somewhere in between.