BWW Reviews: DADDY: Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me
Dan Via's great new play 'Daddy' delves into the issues surrounding May/December Gay relationships with wit and style....
BWW Reviews: DARK RAPTURE, Fete Noir
The Attic Theater Company presents a lackluster production of Eric Overmyer's modern noir 'Dark Rapture'....
BWW Reviews: DORIAN GRAY, A Rather 'Gray' Picture
'Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks me: Dorian is what I would like to be...' said Oscar Wilde when asked about the inspiration for the main characters of his infamous novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' This quote eludes to the main problem with the theatrical ...
BWW Reviews: TEASER COW: Burger Kingdom Come
Clay McLeod Chapman's new play 'teaser cow' mixes the myth of the Minotaur with 'Fast Food Nation' to create a viscerally thrilling piece of work....
BWW Review: Evergreen, A Musical Holiday Fantasy
Sometimes, Christmas vacations come at a terribly inconvenient time. For a personal example, I left New York for the holidays just as Prospect Theater Company's newest musical, Evergreen, debuted. As such, I only got to attend the show on the day it closed. This is somewhat of a tragedy, because giv...
BWW Review: RADIO STAR At The Red Room
Tanya O'Debra's 1940's radio detective spoof Radio Star is the ideal comedic one-woman show. Short and sweet, bawdy and hilarious, this performance reminds us why we must always appreciate the off-off theater scene. Set deep in the mystery of New York City, the audience watches (well, listens) as O'...
BWW REVIEWS: SCROOGE AND MARLEY - More of Gravy than the Grave
Barefoot Theatre Company presents 'A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley', an adaptation of the Dickens novel by Israel Horovitz, in a cartoonish and lackluster production....
Bail Out The Musical: Sell Out, Louise!
Wreckio Ensemble's new play 'Bail Out: The Musical' is a clever piece about theatre artists and compromising one's ideals....
REVIEW: The Late Christopher Bean: Is He Dead?
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) delivers yet another neglected gem from theatre's past: 'The Late Christopher Bean', a delightful farce from 1932....
PENANG: Privates War
James L. Larocca's 'Penang', presented by BOO-Arts, is an over-long examination of the friendship of two men during the Vietnam war....
Review - Love Child: (Off-Off) Broadway Baby
Opening night isn't exactly going smoothly for the Off-Off Broadway production of Love Child, a modern adaptation of the infrequently performed Euripides drama Ion, presented at the Sausage King Space in Red Hook. A noisy audience member in the front row can't silence her cell phone and hearing aid...
Sex Ed: Bizarre Love Triangle
Suzanne Bachner?s gripping comic drama Sex Ed examines the lives of students and cluelessness of teachers in a private school, as three performers play the teachers and the students....
LOL: On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog.
The revival of Tony Sportiello's dark Internet comedy 'LOL' at his Algonquin Theater has a talented and funny cast....
FATHERS & SONS: 12 Characters in Search of a Father
Richard Hoehler's new play 'Fathers & Sons' is a tour-de-force for two actors who play variations on paternal relationships....
MilkMilkLemonade: To Be Young, Gifted, and Queer
Joshua Conkel's brilliant new play 'MilkMilkLemonade' is the hilariously absurd and moving tale of a young boy growing up Gay and artistic in a world that values neither....
Fringe: Eat, Drink & be Merry: The Skin of Our Teeth
Paul Schultz's new musical 'Eat, Drink & be Merry' is a confused revue of skits following Adam and Eve through centuries of food....
Fringe: His Greatness: The Glass Menage A Trois
Daniel MacIvor's new play 'His Greatness' (according to the program, 'Inspired by a potentially true story about playwright Tennessee Williams'), is a funny and touching play about fading glory and addiction to fame and other narcotics....
Fringe: Candide Americana: Optimism
Rabbit Hole Ensemble presents Stanton Wood?s Candide Americana, a brilliant new adaptation of Voltaire?s classic, which drops the optimistic hero amid the most recent American disasters....
Fringe: Look After You: Focus on the Positive
In Louise Flory's 'Look After You', part of the 2009 FringeNYC, a photographer with a brain aneurysm has conflicts with her family while struggling with the loss of her short-term memory....
Summer Shorts 3: Series B
J.J. Kandel and John McCormack present 'Summer Shorts 3: Series B', the latest in their annual festival of new short American plays, with a group of plays wildly diverse in both type and quality....
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side: Utopia vs. Manhattan
An extended sexual family living above a vegan restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side must deal with the harsh realities of the world surrounding the utopian world of free expression and free love they've created in their apartment....
Mrs. Warren's Profession: I've Got the Whores Right Here
BOO-Arts presents a lively production of George Bernard Shaw's classic 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' at Manhattan Theatre Source....
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Shotgun Players present 'Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage', a Banana Bag and Bodice Songplay, a meta-Brechtian Weill-rock experience....
Belles: Does Anyone Still Use A Service?
Heiress Productions presents Mark Dunn's 'Belles: a play in two acts and forty-five phone calls', about 6 sisters from Texas who keep in touch by phone....
Incident at Vichy: A Coarse Line
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) presents the first New York revival of Arthur Miller's 'Incident at Vichy' in 25 years....
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