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The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.

Review - Burning: Oh! Theatre Row!

by Michael Dale — November 19, 2011

I don't think I'm giving away a major spoiler when I mention that toward the end of Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, there's a reference to one of the characters as having won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play.

Review - Iron Curtain: You Gotta Have Serdtse

by Ben Peltz — November 17, 2011

Known primarily for their excellent work with the Prospect Theatre Company (of which she is Producing Artistic Director and he is Resident Writer), the husband and wife team of director/bookwriter Cara Reichel and composer/lyricist/bookwriter Peter Mills are responsible for some of the most exciting

Review - The Blue Flower

by Ben Peltz — November 11, 2011

Three years ago I posted a review emphatically praising the Prospect Theatre Company's developmental production of Jim and Ruth Bauer's The Blue Flower, calling it, 'a unique, intelligent and wondrously creative evening of musical theatre' that 'skillfully tackles the tricky business of mixing the a

Review - King Lear

by Ben Peltz — November 9, 2011

If Hamlet is the reward an actor gets for showing great promise in his youth, King Lear is the thank you he receives in the latter years of a distinguished career.

Review - Queen of The Mist

by Ben Peltz — November 7, 2011

'You're an insane woman,' a character says to the protagonist in Michael John LaChiusa's intriguing new musical, Queen of The Mist.

Review - Milk Like Sugar

by Ben Peltz — November 2, 2011

The inner city teenage girls in Kirsten Greenidge's moving new drama, Milk Like Sugar, want only one thing from a boy.

BWW Reviews: Off-Broadway’s THE FARTISTE Will Blow You Away

BWW Reviews: Off-Broadway’s THE FARTISTE Will Blow You Away

by Christina Mancuso — November 4, 2011

What do you get when you combine a farting performer, a sex-crazed theatre director, and a bunch of scantily-clad can-can dancers? Not only a story that's true to life, but one that's actually quite compelling.

Review - Love's Labor's Lost: Bright College Days

by Ben Peltz — November 1, 2011

Love's Labor's Lost, generally not regarded as a top tier Shakespeare effort, might get performed a lot more frequently if more productions were as fun and frisky as director Karin Coonrod's madcap mounting for The Public Theater's Public Lab series.

Review - Dancing at Lughnasa & Jason Graae's Perfect Hermany

by Ben Peltz — October 31, 2011

'Atmosphere is more real than truth,' explains Michael Evans, the narrating character recalling his childhood days in Brian Friel's thickly atmospheric Dancing At Lughnasa, now enjoying a warm and lovely mounting by Charlotte Moore at the Irish Rep.

Review - Broadway Originals

by Ben Peltz — October 20, 2011

'I want you to know that the most exciting part I've received recently is my new knee.

Review - Motherhood Out Loud

by Ben Peltz — October 5, 2011

When considering the genre of 'girls night out' offerings currently playing Off-Broadway, the selection ranges from initially unintentional (Naked Boys Singing) to 'best when inebriated' (Miss Abigail's Guide.

Review - Lemon Sky

by Ben Peltz — September 30, 2011

Though he did have a brief - very brief - stint on Broadway before Lemon Sky premiered in 1970 at midtown's Off-Broadway Playhouse Theatre, Lanford Wilson was still at that point regarded as a downtown playwright.

Review - The Wood: Tabloid Theatre

by Ben Peltz — September 25, 2011

Tabloid theatre might be the best way of describing Dan Klores' The Wood, a drama that attempts hard-hitting, journalistic toughness in painting a somewhat nonobjective portrait of New York newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.

Review - Arias With A Twist

by Ben Peltz — September 22, 2011

This week I had my first experience with the joyful adult visual fantasia known as Arias With A Twist; a madcap collaboration between puppeteer/designer/director Basil Twist and cross-dressing chanteuse Joey Arias that first hit town three years ago.

Review - Sweet and Sad & Completeness

by Michael Dale — September 14, 2011

Last season, playwright Richard Nelson invited us to spend election night 2010 at the Rhinebeck home of schoolteacher Barbara Apple and her aging uncle, Benjamin as her left-leaning sisters and brother gathered for dinner and conversation about family matters and the country's political climate.

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Bardavon 1869 Opera House (7/31-7/31)
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Butoh: Into the Depth in Off-Broadway Butoh: Into the Depth
New York Butoh Institute/Vangeline (7/08-7/31)
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Marist University Symphonic Hall (8/01-8/01)
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Repertorio (11/15-12/31)
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND | Stage & Film Summer Season at the Bardavon in Off-Broadway WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND | Stage & Film Summer Season at the Bardavon
Bardavon 1869 Opera House (8/01-8/02)