BWW Review: NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE Echoes Grief at Fourth Street Theatre
With a certain and subdued beauty, NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE softens the blow that expectations, memory and loss deal to a contemporary mother/son relationship.
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BWW Review: World Premiere of THE FLOORSHOW at Theatre 71 by Combustion Collective
Written by Dann Berg and Avital Asuleen (Director/Choreographer), THE FLOORSHOW intersperses song-and-dance numbers into the dramatization of the personal and professional hurdles that an all-female performance troupe faces in 1951 New York City.
BWW Review: Martin Moran Lets Loose in ALL THE RAGE at The Barrow Group
As ALL THE RAGE begins, warm stage light casts shadows across a simple set: a lamp, a globe, a long table, and a pair of blackboard maps.
BWW Review: QUILTING THE SUN Shines at Theater For The New City
Step aside, Joseph; your amazing technicolor dreamcoat has some serious competition.
BWW Review: SEE YOU at The New Ohio Theatre from The Bridge Production Group
Swipe, scan, pause, like.
BWW Review: CONTACT HIGH from Theater 511 Soars at Ars Nova
The whole of Contact High from Theater 511 is greater than the sum of its parts, which is a good thing in light of this show's plethora of moving parts within its kaleidoscopic plot.
BWW Review: World Premiere of PATIENCE Explores Competition and Commitment at The Paradise Factory
In Patience, Daniel (Joshua Gitta) is a former prodigy who is now the world's #1 professional solitaire player.
BWW Review: Identity Politics Twist in MONICA: THIS PLAY IS NOT ABOUT MONICA LEWINSKY at 59E59
This review is not about Monica Lewinsky.
BWW Review: A WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO RIKERS ISLAND at The Producers Club
A White Man's Guide to Rikers Island transports the audience from the privilege and prominence of a New Jersey golf club to the cacophony and brutality of New York's Rikers Island.
BWW Review: AT BLACK LAKE by Necessary Digression at The Tank
The thought of spending time at a lake for a reunion tends to conjure up images of relaxing on the dock, grilling food, and mixing drinks with conversation.
BWW Review: BLACK HOLE WEDDING at New York Music Festival
Technically, the silver lining of the black hole trash compactor featured in Black Hole Wedding is that whatever it doesn't suck in, it stretches out: a golf club, clothing, even a pom-pom shaking marketing director.
BWW Review: IMMINENTLY YOURS at The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.
The tragicomedy Imminently Yours buoys some historically heavy subject matter with a contemporary lift, giving voice to the experience of multiple generations of African-Americans who thrive in a contradictory space where secrecy and support are both critical to survival.
BWW Review: World Premiere of Working Theater's DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON
Dropped calls are the worst--unless you're Luke Wilson, and then dropped gumballs cause a bigger headache.
BWW Review: Unabashed, Unbound: UNMAKING TOULOUSE-LAUTREC By Bated Breath Theatre Company at MADAME X
Straying from the traditional 'one playwright, one narrative' dramatic structure, the through line of this devised 60-minute show is a series of 20+ vignettes skimming the life and times of notable and troubled French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
BWW Review: LAST MAN CLUB at Axis Theatre
Earth, air, water, and fire - every vital element reaches critical risk level in Last Man Club, an engaging, dystopian mood piece from writer/director Randy Sharp at Axis Theater.
BWW Review: Queer Consciousness and Hella Life Lessons Drive BRIEF CHRONICLE, BOOKS 6-8 at Access Theater
Absurd, engaging and frequently flat-out surprising, Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 is a tasty mouthful of downtown theater.
BWW Review: THE BUFFALO PLAY Roams Rogue at The Tank
At its core, The Buffalo Play is a unique contemporary centering of human folly set among flora and fauna, pitting Woman (apologetic and naive) against Buffalo (snorting and skeptical).
BWW Review: ORIGINAL SOUND Reverberates Realness at Cherry Lane Theatre
The turntables spin gold in 'Original Sound,' a fresh and frenetic take on the promise and perils of guarding intellectual content in the music industry.
BWW Review: THE BATTLES OF RICHMOND HILL Plays a Serious Drinking Game at HERE
Playwright Penny Jackson packs generations of family drama into this one-act 90-minute "jukebox" play, which has some memorable moments, lots of laughs, but an all-too-familiar feel where love, loss and liquor seep into every scene of Irish turmoil.
BWW Review: Swipe Right--ELECTRONIC CITY by New Stage Theatre Company is a Match
In a tale as old as FaceTime, Electronic City pulses with potential as a dynamic dystopian mash-up where LED, KLM, EDM and 'news' of J-Lo's CVS H20 all vie for our short attention spans.
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