Review - Black Tie: Culture Club
The always pleasing Gregg Edelman is an actor with a special knack for revealing the educated, articulate side of America's Average Joe and in Black Tie, A.
Off-Broadway Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Off-Broadway.
Review - The Witch of Edmonton
The Red Bull Theater, those specialists in making Jacobean drama hip without going hipster, have assembled an excellent company for Jesse Berger's vividly realized mounting of the 1621 rarity, The Witch of Edmonton.
Review - I'd Rather Be Obama?
The biggest Broadway event of 1937 was undoubtedly the gala opening night of I'd Rather Be Right.
Review - The Road To Qatar!: Songs On The Sand
Name your musical The Road To Qatar! and in less than five words and an exclamation point you've communicated to your audience what to expect; a zany, lightweight, tuneful fish-out-of-water comedy set in an exotic locale featuring a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby-ish pair with a healthy dose of sex and romanc
Review - Lost In The Stars
In April of 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein shocked the Theatre World by writing a song for their new musical professing that humans developed racial prejudice by nurture and not by nature.
Review - Gruesome Playground Injuries: Glad To Be Unhappy
The New York stage is often a haven for self-destructive couples on display, but rarely is that self-destruction so bluntly in view as in Rajiv Joseph's intriguing Gruesome Playground Injuries.
Review - What The Public Wants: Turn Off The Dark
Though I try to avoid pronouncing century-old plays as being as relevant today they were a hundred years ago, a little tweaking here and there - perhaps the mentioning of a critically acclaimed musical that fails at the box office while another that suffers from horrible pre-opening word of mouth ne
Review - Knickerbocker Holiday
Back in the 1930s, when hip New Yorkers got their doses of political satire by taking in the latest Broadway musical comedy, it wasn't uncommon for then-President FDR to pop up in a show; either in person, as played by George M.
Review - Abbie & The Misanthrope
Actors who bear a substantial resemblance to a legendary celebrity or historical figure are often inspired to turn that stroke of luck into a one-person show.
Review - Carnival Round The Central Figure
The central figure of Diana Amsterdam's tragedy of manners is a young, terminally ill accountant named Paul (Ted Caine) who spends most of the evening silently lying in a hospital bed surrounded by a carnival of denial.
Review - Blood From A Stone
First-time playwright Tommy Nohilly seems intent on ramming edgy family dysfunctions in the audience's faces with Blood From A Stone.
Review - This Time, Glenn Beck, It's Personal...
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Review - A Small Fire
The old showbiz adage about always leavin' 'em wanting more isn't always the best advice, as exemplified Adam Bock's fascinating, understated and, in the end, frustratingly incomplete, A Small Fire.
Review - Dracula: They All Deserve To Undie
I'll resist the temptation to call director Paul Alexander's Off-Broadway mounting of Dracula anemic or toothless, but will note his remarkable achievement of assembling a production that manages to be aggressively bad in so many ways and yet never achieves the 'you gotta see how bad this is' status
Review - Three Pianos & The Mikado
No, that nice young man offering to pour you a glass of wine as you enter the New York Theatre Workshop's auditorium is not an intern or an Equity membership candidate earning weeks; it's one of the three madcap musicians who will be spending the next two hours trading punch lines, wheeling a trio o
Review - Is Michael Riedel The New Bob Uecker?
The First Amendment, that noble invention of our founding fathers that grants all Americans the right of free speech, must frequently be defended under less than noble circumstances; the right of a neo-Nazi group to hold a march in the heavily Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois, the right of Lenny
Review - Mummenschanz: That 70's Show
People usually think I'm joking when I tell them that one of my favorite original Broadway cast albums is the one for the Swiss mime troupe, Mummenschanz.
Review - Naked Holidays & Nancy Dussault at The Metropolitan Room
Before anyone removes a lick of clothing in EndTimes' decidedly secular song and sketch revue, Naked Holidays, an unlikely matchup of a perky and cultured Brit (Ruthie Stephens) and a snarling Mexican heavy metaler (Alessandro Colla) leads the cast of nineteen young and attractive performers, most o
Review - Nutcracker Rouge: Sweet Awakening
New Yorkers looking to make the yuletide a little decadent this year would be well-advised to drop the kiddies off at Mr.
Review - Suzanne Carrico's What Christmas Time Means To Me
'We found all the people who didn't see Donny and Marie tonight,' Suzanne Carrico chirps with a big smile as she surveys her Metropolitan Room audience.
Review - Not Since Not Since Carrie
Listening to the popular theatre critic/journalist Peter Filichia talk about musicals can be twice as entertaining as half the shows on Broadway.
BWW Review: The Yorkville Nutcracker
Dances Patrelle returned this holiday season with their 15th anniversary production of The Yorkville Nutcracker.
THE EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY - The Tragedies of the Bourgeoisie
Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel's new musical THE EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY presented by Dream Light Theatre Company is an exploration of love, friendship, and those pesky, unwanted household appliances.
Review - Les Miserables & Long Story Short
Cameron Mackintosh's 25th Anniversary production of Les Misérables, presented by The Paper Mill Playhouse, has finally hit the friendly American shores after touring Britain, and perhaps symbolic of its Atlantic crossing is the new opening picture devised by co-directors Laurence Conner and James P
BWW Reviews: The New York Pops Salute Stephen Sondheim
2010 marked the year the legendary American Composer Stephen Sondheim had his 80th Birthday, and there were many celebrations in his honour.
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THE DEATH CHRONICLES (portraits)|S&F Summer Season at Marist Marist University Symphonic Hall (8/01-8/01) |
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WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND | Stage & Film Summer Season at the Bardavon Bardavon 1869 Opera House (8/01-8/02) |
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Hadid 59E59 Theatres (7/10-7/21) |
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PAPER MENAGERIE | Stage & Film Summer Season at the Bardavon Bardavon 1869 Opera House (7/19-7/19) |
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LAGNIAPPE | Stage & Film Summer Season at Marist University Marist University Symphonic Hall (7/11-7/11) |
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EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS Repertorio (1/07-12/31) |
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TRIP AROUND THE SUN | Stage & Film Summer Season at Marist University Marist University Symphonic Hall (7/26-7/26) |
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WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND | Stage & Film Summer Season at Bardavon Bardavon 1869 Opera House (7/31-7/31) |
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LA GRINGA Repertorio (2/08-12/31) |
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MENAFEE | Stage & Film Summer Season at Marist University Marist University Symphonic Hall (7/25-7/25) |