Review - STOP. RESET. Explores The Future of History
Regina Taylor's intriguing play has an African-American book publisher confronting the way technology has changed memory.
Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.
BWW Reviews: National Asian-American Theater Company Revives Clifford Odets' AWAKE AND SING
The National Asian American Theater Company's solid if unexceptional production of Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets 1935 drama of a struggling immigrant Jewish family in The Bronx, is opening just a few days after the 50th anniversary of the death of Odets
BWW Reviews: TIMMY THE GREAT, 'Madcap Musical for Revolutionaries of All Ages', Entertains Too Much
Timmy The Great bills itself as 'a madcap musical for revolutionaries of all ages.
BWW CD Reviews: NOW. HERE. THIS. (Original Cast Recording) is Empowering and Uplifting
With [TITLE OF SHOW] receiving mostly glowing reviews for its London premiere, I couldn't help but hope that the creative team that took the quirky, meta-musical from Off-Off-Broadway, to Off-Broadway, to Broadway (Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Michael Berresse, and L
Review - LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST; a Rowdy and Mirthful Summer Night
The boys behind Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson offer a crazily antic new Shakespeare musical.
BWW Reviews: THE GREAT SOCIETY Offers History Lesson on LBJ
One of two plays about LBJ aiming for Broadway, 'The Great Society' is a three-hour history lesson about the Johnson Presidency, from the shot that killed JFK, giving Johnson the office he'd always wanted, to LBJ's televised speech five years later announcing that he would not run again.
BWW Reviews: GHETTO BABYLON Hits It Out Of The Park
Baseball, girls, high school, and getting out: of course, these are the normal pressures of every fourteen-year-old boy.
BWW Reviews: 59E59's SUMMER SHORTS SERIES A Delivers Desire in 3 Short Plays
Summer in New York City is filled with outdoor theater events and different festivals.
Review - 'Dancing On Nails' Requires Sharpening
Paul Manuel Kane's interracial May/December romantic drama is very much a work-in-progress.
BWW CD REVIEWS: BUNNICULA (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) is Quirky and Laugh Out Loud Funny
Our favourite childhood vampire rabbit is back, and ready to sing.
BWW CD Reviews: FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL (Off-Broadway Cast Recording) is Bright, Bubbly, and Forgettable
FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL, produced by The Vital Theatre Company, opened Off-Broadway at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre in New York City on September 29, 2012.
Review - Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' Intrigues at The Public
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory team up for another look at the disdain for intellectualism.
BWW CD Reviews: LYSISTRATA JONES (Original Broadway Cast Album) is Witty, Cheerful, and Effervescent
LYSISTRATA JONES had its New York premiere in a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production at The Gym at Judson.
BWW Reviews: POTTED POTTER Perfect Family Summer Show
Summers away from Hogwarts might have been rough on Harry Potter, but Potter fans can celebrate this summer with the return of Potted Potter - The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff to the Little Shubert Theater after its New York premiere last year.
BWW CD REVIEW: Socially Relevant THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA (Original Cast Recording) Makes a Hysterical Social Commentary
With book and lyrics by Bill Russel, music by Peter Menick, and direction by Andy Sandberg, Off-Broadway's THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA is full of laughs and wit.
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.
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 - 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.
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