BWW Review: TOAST at 59E59 Entertains with Stark Realism
'TOAST' is making its US Premiere at 59E59 Theaters through May 22nd as part of the Brits Off-Broadway festival. Written by Richard Bean and directed by Eleanor Rhode, the play features a cast with some of Britain's most celebrated actors in a realistic, humorous depiction of factory life....
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: ECHOES at 59E59 is Poignant and Haunting
'ECHOES' is now being performed at 59E59 Theaters through Wednesday, May 4th. Written by Henry Naylor and directed by Mr. Naylor and Emma Buttler, this is a haunting, poignant play that must be seen....
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: IDEATION at 59E59 Theaters is Captivating
See 'IDEATION' at 59E59 Theater through April 17th. This thought-provoking play is insightful and humorous....
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....
BWW Review: THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM Returns With A Rollicking And Sexy Revival
Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's Mississippi musical steals hearts with style....
BWW Review: Marco Ramirez's Inventively-Crafted Boxing Drama THE ROYALE Spars With Racism
Director Rachel Chavkin offers a tense, rhythmic and evocative mounting of a play inspired by the career of Jack Johnson...
BWW Review: Site-Specific INSIGNIFICANCE Played Out In A Luxury Hotel Room
Terry Johnson's drama depicts encounters between Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio....
BWW Review: Richard Nelson Offers a Taste Of A New Rhinebeck Family in HUNGRY
The playwright follows his quartet of Apple Family plays with the first of an election year trilogy....
BWW Review: Danai Gurira's FAMILIAR, a Warm and Funny Family Drama
With her wartime drama ECLIPSED about to open on Broadway, her new Off-Broadway play has a comfortable familiarity....
BWW Review: Hazel Ellis' 1938 Social Commentary WOMEN WITHOUT MEN Receives a Splendid Mint Mounting
The Irish playwright's second work premiered after her country adopted a new constitution limiting women's rights....
BWW Review: DEAD DOG PARK at 59E59 – An Excellent Pointed Play About Racial Tension
'Dead Dog Park' is on stage at 59E59 now through Sunday, March 6th. This is one to see, an excellent, pointed play that deals with racial tensions as a white officer is accused of pushing an African-American youth out of a four-story window....
BWW Review: Robert Klein Stars in FROM MOSES TO MOSTEL: A HISTORY OF THE JEWS (ACCORDING TO MUSICAL THEATRE)
The one night concert event told the story of the Jewish people through musical theatre songs....
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