The Busy World Is Hushed: Mama, Don't Preach
Though Keith Bunin's comedy/drama contains many intriguing thoughts and clever passages in dealing with issues of faith, it gets a little preachy...
E.S.T.'s Festival of One-Acts: Series C is Mostly Compelling
Ensemble Studio Theatre bills itself as 'The Major Forum for One-Act Plays in America.' Having not surveyed too many of the minor forums, I can't necessarily second it. But if its 28th Festival of One-Act Plays 'Series C' is any indication, the company can pride itself on presenting intriguing wor...
Burleigh Grime$: How Dull, Dow Jones
Director David Warren's slick, sexy and fast-moving production can't save this weak script...
Some Girl(s): The Shallow End of the Dating Pool
Neil Labute's very funny and smart new comedy features one terribly clueless groom-to-be arranging reunions with the women he left behind...
Stopping Traffic: Slow Moving Vehicle
Mary Pat Gleason's solo play about her battle with bipolar disorder lacks focus...
Trout Stanley: 'You ever seen snails make love?'
The Renaissant Arts company presents Canadian playwright Claudia Deys' quirky new play. ...
Musicals Tonight! presents Oh Lady! Lady!!: Lady be Good!
Staged reading stalwarts Musicals Tonight! revives a Kern/Wodehouse gem....
A Fine and Private Place: Who Says Romance Is Dead?
Richard Isen and Erik Haagensen's charming and romantic musical fantasy expores love in a Bronx cemetary ...
Entertaining Mr. Sloane: A Walk on the Wild Side
Joe Orton's 1964 black comedy has returned to shock and amuse, with Alec Baldwin and Jan Maxwell in the leads....
Little Willy Offers Big Punch
Rude Mechanical's production of 'Little Willy' forces the audience to take a new perspective on last names....
How Convenient!
Desipina & Company's fourth annual edition of Seven.11 Convenience Theater offers up seven - 11 minute plays that will keep you coming back for more. ...
Iron Curtain: The Great Red Way
Because there just aren't enough retro-pastiche Cold War musical comedies out there....
The Property Known As Garland: She's Not In Kansas Anymore
Adrienne Barbeau stars as the legendary icon in a new one-woman play at the Actors Playhouse....
Men of Clay
Call Barry Levinson! Maybe he can turn this play about Jews in nostalgic Baltimore into something more memorable.
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A Jew Lingers in Manhattan
After years of entertaining audiences on
television('Meet the Mets'), Broadway ('They're
Playing Our Song') and cruise ships across the
friendly seas, Jake Ehrenreich opens off-Broadway at
the American Theatre of Actors, where his
entertainment career just got a bit bumpier than any
of those o...
Tryst: One Night Only
Karoline Leach's new play matches an Edwardian pick-up artist and a dazzled spinster...
Sandra Bernhard's Everything Bad & Beautiful: Rebel With Both a Cause and a Fabulous Personal Trainer
You can wear out a dozen loofahs exfoliating the layers of satire Sandra Bernhard uses to play her audience...
A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop: Post Cards From Brazil
Amy Irving plays American poet Elizabeth Bishop in Marta Góes' solo play...
Sarah, Kinda Hot and Tall
Becca Ayers is featured as plain(?) Sarah in a revival of the touching and funny family musical based on Patricia MacLachlan's book...
Full Bloom
Suzanne Bradbeer's study of teenage angst and identity opened last week at the Vital Theatre Company...
Family Secrets: Take My Family. Please.
Sherry Glaser uses a lot of Borscht Belt humor in playing five members of a Jewish family...
Measure For Pleasure: That Was No Lady, That Was My Prostitute
In David Grimm's Restoration style comedy, Michael Stuhlbar and Euan Morton are strong contenders for the title of cutest couple of the theatre season
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Grey Gardens: If Ever I Would Leave You
Christine Ebersole is sublime in the most perfectly matched starring role of her career...
Bernarda Alba: If Mama Was Married
With a majestic, flamenco-inspired score by Michael John LaChiusa, dynamic dance-infused direction by Graciela Daniele and a powerful, anguished performance by Phylicia Rashad in the title role, Bernarda Alba is a captivating ninety minutes of intense and inspired musical drama
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Soldier's Wife: Fighting For Their Marriage
Rose Franken's 1944 comedy tests a couple's marriage after wartime separation...
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