BWW Review: York Theatre Casts Broadway Kids In YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Charles M. Schulz's classic 'inner child' characters are played by children in the York's sunny and sweet production....
BWW Review: Nick Payne's INCOGNITO Is Brainy, But Muddy
Four actors play twenty roles telling three stories in a confusing exploration of the brain....
BWW Review: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Preach On Black Music For White Audiences in THE TOTAL BENT
Vondie Curtis Hall and Ato Blankson-Wood play father and son singers swimming through the mainstream....
BWW Review: SIGNATURE PLAYS: THE SANDBOX, DROWNING, FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO, Looking Back At An Absurdist Trio
Signature Theatre presents a program of one-acts by Edward Albee, Maria Irene Fornes and Adrienne Kennedy....
BWW Review: Joe Morton Spectacular as Dick Gregory in Gretchen Law's Dynamic TURN ME LOOSE
The actor convincingly recreates the finesse, the sublimated anger and the stinging wit of the comedy trailblazer and civil rights activist....
BWW Review: Penelope Skinner's THE RUINS OF CIVILIZATION, a Dystopian Dilemma
Skinner's futuristic drama combines issues of climate change, privilege, women having control of their bodies and putting up walls,...
BWW Review: Paula Vogel's INDECENT, an Uplifting Drama of The Power of Theatre
The true story of a Yiddish play with a lesbian love scene was embraced in Europe, but censored in New York....
BWW Review: Quiara Alegria Hudes' Warm and Inviting DAPHNE'S DIVE Is Worth A Visit
The Pulitzer-winner's new play takes on the familiar scenario of bar regulars forming a family....
BWW Review: THE SENSUALITY PARTY Is All Talk
Justin Kuritzkes' site-specific play is loaded with monologues about a college orgy and its aftermath....
BWW Review: Rodgers and Sondheim's DO I HEAR A WALTZ? Elegantly Presented By Encores!
The 1965 musical version of Arthur Laurents' THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO is the only Rodgers and Sondheim musical....
BWW Review: Christina Bianco Featured In THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
Roger Bean's salute to girl-group pop of the 50s and 60s returns to Off-Broadway...
BWW Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN, a Breathtakingly Emotional And Daring Original Musical
Composer/lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and bookwriter Steven Levenson's tale of social anxiety and social media....
BWW Review: Ragtag Theatre Company's THE COMMEDIA CINDERELLA Mixes Lessons with Laughs
Helmed by Sam LaFrage, the Ragtag Theatre Company is back. Following their rip-roaring THE COMMEDIA RAPUNZEL, the talented troupe is tickling ribs with their latest concoction: THE COMMEDIA CINDERELLA. Billed as LGBTQ theatre designed for the entire family, this show puts a refreshing and much appre...
BWW Review: 2015 BWW Award Nominee RAQUEL CION'S Riveting, Intensely Personal Tribute to 'Visionary' David Bowie Rocks The Slipper Room
'In his world, I find myself,' Raquel Cion pronounces with almost oracular force in her one-woman show, Me & Mr. Jones: My Intimate Relationship with David Bowie (performed on April 21 at The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side). The Connecticut-raised performer and director received a 2015 Broadway...
BWW Review: Mobile Shakespeare Unit's Spirited ROMEO & JULIET Settles Into The Public
After touring New York's prisons, nursing homes, community centers and shelters the compact production enjoys a run at the House of Papp....
BWW Review: F. Murray Abraham and Stark Sands Tackle Religious Tolerance In NATHAN THE WISE
German philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play was forbidden to be performed until after his death....
BWW Review: Cara Reichel and Peter Mills' DEATH FOR FIVE VOICES, A Compelling Musical of a Renaissance Composer
The new musical is inspired by the life of visionary composer, and murderer, Carlo Gesualdo....
BWW Review: Much-Improved Bio-Musical CAGNEY Returns Off-Broadway In A Flashy Producton
It was ten months ago when composer/lyricist Robert Creighton buck and winged it to the York Theatre with a spirited and gutsy performance as the screen's greatest tough guy song and dance man, James Cagney. His pocket-sized musical vehicle, Cagney, while certainly rousing and entertaining, came off...
BWW Review: Encores! Modern Dress, Diversely Cast 1776 Strikes Contemporary Chords
Santino Fontana's smart and empathetic performance highlights the production of one of Broadway's best-written musicals....
BWW Review: Six Performers ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE in A Salute to Iconic Lyricist Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) wrote the lyrics to more than 1500 songs, including dozens upon dozens for movies and Broadway shows. He received 19 Academy Award nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars. Mercer was also a composer, a vocalist and the foresighted founder of Capitol Records. To ...
BWW Review: HEAD OF PASSES; When It Pours, Phylicia Rashad Reigns
Tarell Alvin McCraney's drama inspired by the Book of Job ends with a thrilling acting performance....
BWW Review: HOLD ON TO ME DARLING, A Country Music Superstar Tries Ditching Fame
Kenneth Lonergan's new play seems to have satirical intentions, but the lethargic production plays for naturalism....
BWW Review: Sarah Burgess' DRY POWDER, an Aridly Humored Exercise in Corporate Ethics
Thomas Kail's bracing production matches the playwright's vicious verbal chess match with plenty of pop and vibrancy....
BWW Review: Is It Love Or Chemistry? Lucy Prebble's Intriguing THE EFFECT
Two volunteers for a pharmaceutical study fall in love, but is it a drug-induced emotion?...
BWW Review: Transgender-Themed SOUTHERN COMFORT, Another Groundbreaking Musical at The Public
Annette O'Toole gives an outstanding performance in a musical based on Kate Davis' documentary....
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