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The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.

Review - Pipe Dream & Now. Here. This.

by Ben Peltz — March 30, 2012

Despite the loveable antics of those hard-working ladies from Texas, Broadway musicals have always been a little awkward around prostitutes.

Review - No Place To Go & The Broadway Musicals of 1950

by Ben Peltz — March 26, 2012

In the years between the fall of vaudeville and the rise of Comedy Clubs, Americans looking to enjoy some live stand-up would frequently gather at their local jazz venue, where rising stars like Lenny Bruce and Mort Saul would offer their observations in a rhythmic style that many would say mimicked

Review - Damn Yankees & Through The Eyes of Eak

by Ben Peltz — March 18, 2012

With its funny, sexy and sentimental book by master craftsman George Abbott and a catchy and clever score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Damn Yankees is a textbook example of the kind of big and brassy musicals that made Broadway's Golden Age glitter.

BWW Reviews: GRAPEFRUIT - A Sweet Tribute Despite Bitter Aftertaste

BWW Reviews: GRAPEFRUIT - A Sweet Tribute Despite Bitter Aftertaste

by Christina Mancuso — March 15, 2012

Actress, owner and artistic managing director of Stage Left Studio, Cheryl King, performs the one-woman play, Grapefruit, about the life of late opera singer and playwright, Sally Lambert, who was to appear in the show herself until unfortunately succumbing to cancer shortly prior to its opening.

Review - Hot Lunch Apostles & Gotham Burlesque

by Ben Peltz — March 10, 2012

Sidney Goldfarb's Hot Lunch Apostles might have been quite the shocker when The Talking Band's original production, with its run-down carnival setting that has strippers trying to spice up business by presenting religious tableaus, premiered at La MaMa in 1983.

Review - An Iliad

by Ben Peltz — March 8, 2012

Somewhere around the middle of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's solo play adaptation of Homer titled An Iliad, the storyteller, known simply as The Poet, halts his detailing of the Trojan War because something he just mentioned reminds him of an event that occurred in.

Review - Assistance: Caffeinate-the-Plow

by Ben Peltz — March 5, 2012

In its opening moments, it would be completely understandable to assume that Assistance, Leslye Headland's viciously fun satire of the cutthroat dealings among entry-level twenty-somethings, might be mimicking David Mamet's dark comedy of film executives, Speed-the-Plow.

Review - Blood Knot

by Ben Peltz — February 28, 2012

It's not your garden variety playwright who can draw you into a two-person drama with an extended dialogue comparing the healing effectiveness and fragrance of competing brands of foot salts.

Review - Beyond The Horizon: We've All Got Our Junk

by Ben Peltz — February 27, 2012

Though Eugene O'Neill was a grownup thirty-one years of age when Beyond The Horizon, his first full length play, opened on Broadway in 1920, the landmark domestic drama is boiling over with so much youthful angst you might expect its trio of lovers to start whipping out microphones to belt out emo

Review - Galileo

by Ben Peltz — February 26, 2012

Shortly into Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, the 17th Century Italian scientist shows his young companion a model of the Ptolemaic system of the universe, a gyroscope-looking creation depicting the sun and planets and other celestial bodies revolving on golden bands of orbits around the earth.

Review - How I Learned To Drive

by Ben Peltz — February 14, 2012

Given its pedigree as a Pulitzer winner that swept every playwriting award an Off-Broadway entry could win during its premiere run in 1997, you would think that Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive would follow the lead of other Off-Broadway successes like Driving Miss Daisy, Steel Magnolias and, mo

Review - Merrily We Roll Along: Back To Before

by Ben Peltz — February 13, 2012

The original Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along is one of those handful of recordings - like Mack and Mabel and Candide - that a musical theatre lover can listen to hundreds of times without hearing a clue as to why the show flopped.

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