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.
Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.
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.
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.
BWW Reviews: FRIED CHICKEN AND LATKES - The Best Show You Haven't Seen Yet
Rain Pryor has had many television roles.
Review - The Memory Show
At separate moments early on in Sara Cooper (book/lyrics) and Zach Redler's (music) ambitious and noteworthy The Memory Show, each of the musical's two characters refers to herself as being a funny person while acknowledging that funny people are often the sad ones.
BWW Reviews: LOVE THERAPY Opens at the DR2 Theatre, 4/29
Wendy Beckett's LOVE THERAPY opens at the DR2 Theatre (101 East 15th Street) on Monday, April 29th.
BWW Reviews: Richard III: Born with Teeth
Epic Theatre Ensemble's new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic brings the Wars of the Roses into the present day.
Review - Here Lies Love
The only thing that'll keep you from dancing in aisles at The Public Theater's production of the enormously fun and exhilarating new musical, Here Lies Love, is the fact that there are no aisles.
Review - The Call
After numerous miscarriages, unsuccessful tries with fertility medications and an arrangement with a pregnant American woman that falls through, white metropolitan couple Annie and Peter (Kerry Butler and Kelly AuCoin) decide to adopt a child from Africa.
Review - Cirque du Soleil's Totem & The Broadway Musicals of 1961
A human ball of silver glitter hanging from a cord is lowered above what looks like a bungalow-sized muffin top.
Review - Detroit '67
Nearly 40 years ago, producer Norman Lear brought a television program about a black family's life in a Chicago housing project into millions of American homes.
Review - The Flick
On paper, Annie Baker's The Flick is 122 pages long.
BWW Review: Wave Productions' GOD STEELING Tackles Race and Culture in '80s NYC
GOD STEELING was a super interesting play.
BWW Review: Inspiring CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY (LIVE FROM LONDON) is Moving and Provocative
Before Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Robert Lopez's BOOK OF MORMON made Missionaries cool, Steven Fales began sharing his personal story in the riveting and compelling one-man show CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY.
Review - Candy Tastes Nice
The woman who went by the pseudonym Natalie Dylan, a self-described feminist with a B.
Review - Belleville & The Revisionist
As a public service for playgoers who do not understand French, nothing of any importance takes place in the final scene of Amy Herzog's Belleville.
Review - Passion
Out of necessity, people tend to fall in love rather quickly in musical theatre.
Review - Katie Roche
While several of New York's non-profit theatre companies have been pursuing the noble cause of creating more exposure for contemporary women playwrights, the Mint Theatre Company has been cornering the market on the dead ones.
BWW Reviews: Secret Theatre's DIE: ROLL TO PROCEED
DIE: Roll to Proceed opened this week as a part of the WiredArts Fest.
Review - All In The Timing
Near the end of 'Sure Thing,' one of the sextet of David Ives one-act comedies that make up All In The Timing, a pair of strangers meeting in a café bond over their mutual love for the early films of Woody Allen.
Review - What next? Glass Birkenstocks?
All these interesting rumors going around about how the new Broadway production of Cinderella is trying to make the title character more of a role model for young girls.
Review - Clive
Bertolt Brecht's Baal is pretty much the type of play you'd expect to be written by a 20-year-old student who would eventually become known for using dramatic techniques meant to alienate the audience from any emotional connection to the characters.
Review - Bad Pun Alert
Reading about the new Lanford Wilson revival makes me wonder if the weekly grosses for the last Stephen Sondheim Broadway revival were known as Follies' Tally.
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