Review - 'It's Just Sex' Is Just Awful
If the sexiest part of the body is the brain, Jeff Gould's comedy is an effective argument for celibacy.
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Review - Michael Urie Charms in 'Buyer and Cellar'
Jonathan Tolins' comical Streisand fantasy re-opens at Barrow Street Theater.
Review - The Comedy of Errors
Though I'll admit it strikes the ear rather oddly to hear a character referred to as another one's slave in a play set in 1930s upstate New York, that's just one of the risks involved when transporting Shakespeare into a more modern setting.
Review - Somewhere Fun
Jenny Schwartz's Somewhere Fun, receiving a splendidly performed and whimsically mounted production from director Anne Kauffman at the Vineyard, is one of those plays where an author's traditional response to the traditional post-viewing question is, 'Well, what do you think it means?'
Review - Venice
The argument for using the pop music method of 'slant rhyming' (frowned on by musical theatre lyricists as 'false rhyming' or using 'sound-a-likes') is that by not limiting lyricists to using perfect rhymes it greatly expands the number of ideas that can be expressed.
Review - Sontag: Reborn
Through clever use of multimedia, playwright/performer Moe Angelos' Sontag: Reborn offers glimpses at both the precocious enthusiasm of youth and the wry remembrances of one looking back upon those same years.
Review - Enemies: A Love Story
I must admit to smirking a bit when, only a few minutes into Israel's Gesher Theater Company's stage adaption of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Enemies: A Love Story, the main character removed his clothing and started soaking in a bathtub, contributing to the odd trend that has hit New York stages in the
Review - The Little Mermaid & Patti LuPone at NJPAC
By Disney standards the year and a half run of the original Broadway production of The Little Mermaid was a bit of a disappointment.
Review - Far From Heaven
I'd be hard-pressed to find a more accurate musical theatre representation of the idealized fantasy of 1950s suburbia than the lovely Kelli O'Hara in a lovely housedress singing in her lovely soprano of her enrapturement with her lovely life via Far From Heaven's opening song, 'Autumn in Connecticut
Review - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Director Brian Kulick sets Classic Stage Company's interesting and spirited new production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle during the fall of the Soviet Union, 'when the hammer and sickle were replaced by the Coca-Cola bottle.
Review - The Giacomo Variations
If I were a classical music critic I might describe The Giacomo Variations as an ambitious exploration of common themes expressed in the three operas Mozart composed with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Review - Around The World In 80 Days
The last time Mark Brown's charming and witty stage adaptation of Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days played Off-Broadway, it was in a pocket-sized production highlighted by a pair of on-stage Foley artists providing live sound effects.
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Review - Nikolai and the Others & Pippin
One Chekhovian country house exits the Mitzi E.
Review - How I Voted: Drama Desk Awards
Earlier this week I posted how I voted for this season's Outer Critics Circle Awards, so now here are the picks from my ballot for the Drama Desk Awards, which will be presented Sunday night.
Review - Colin Quinn's Unconstitutional & The Trip To Bountiful
The Constitution is the only document you get more knowledge of it, the drunker you get.
Review - I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers
'Gossip is the lube by which this town slips it in.
Review - Bunty Berman Presents...
If Betty Comden and Adolph Green were both born in Bombay, Singin' In The Rain might have wound up resembling The New Group's new musical, Bunty Berman Presents….
Review - Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
I suppose Richard Foreman doesn't have many talkbacks after performances of his plays because, really, how many times can you respond to an audience member asking, 'What the f***?'
Review - On Your Toes
Five months… FIVE MONTHS after their previous musical comedy, Jumbo, opened at the Hippodrome, the trio of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott had a brand new one at the Imperial.
