A Connecticut musical that could be Browadway bound. . .

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder - Merry. Melodious. Macabre. Three little words that aptly describe the delicious new musical treat at Hartford Stage. . . . Read More

You won't go broke seeing Sowa's Red Gravy

Sowa’s Red Gravy - These are colorful characters indeed. And they are played by a versatile ensemble cast, dressed in dazzling costumes, complete with feathers and flowing scarves. Wilson’s African-influenced dancing and David D. Wright’s Djembe playing accentuate many of the stories. . .

Philadelphia premiere review

The Exit Interview - William Missouri Downs applies a Brecht-inspired distancing approach to brazen scattershot comedy in the National New Play Network rolling world premiere. Pieces of story collide with extraneous elements and with an array of seriously intended underlying messages. Yet a distinctly non-Brechtian suspense hangs over everything in the ever-present threat of a gunman on the loose . .

Philadelphia premier review

The Exit Interview - William Missouri Downs applies a Brecht-inspired distancing approach to brazen scattershot comedy in the National New Play Network rolling world premiere. Pieces of story collide with extraneous elements and with an array of seriously intended underlying messages. Yet a distinctly non-Brechtian suspense hangs over everything in the ever-present threat of a gunman on the loose . .

For escapist fun, see The Other Josh Cohen

The Other Josh Cohen - When baseball manager Leo Durocher coined his famous "nice guys finish last" back in 1938 he wasn't thinking of nice nebbishes like Josh Cohen for whom Valentine's Day is the unhappiest day of the year. This endearing little musical the nice guys finish last idiom an enjoyable everyman musical twist . . . Read More Our Review.

Norwegian playwright premieres in West Village

A Summer Day - I was a bit startled to read in the program that John Fosse is considered one of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights, as I'd never heard of him before. I'm a little closer to understanding this pronouncement after experiencing the bracingly haunting, if also pretentiously spare play . . .

theater goers invited to odd "open house"

House for Sale - The Transport group mission to explore the work of major American writers has produced a variety of hits. While this stage adaptation of Jontthan Franzen's essay is more miss than hit, it doesn't miss for lack of theatrical chutzpa. . . . Read More

Terrorism could be but isn't funny. . .

Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How We Learn To Love Them -The plot of Jon Ken's play is as awkwardly convoluted as its unwieldy title. . . . Read More

Tolstoy to an electro pop beat. . .

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Even if you aren't an opera fan, you will become enamored with the spectacle of this full-scale production of painstakingly high quality. . . . Read More

A painful story, well dramatized in DC

Our Class - thought-provoking theatre, exceptionally well directed and performed, with a resonance that continues long after the lights go down.. . . Read More

A bravura Michal Cristofer in new off-Broadway play

Don’t Go Gentle - Read More In Stephen Belber's new play the father faced with what Dylan Thomas so beautifully described as the not so gentle descent into the good night, is a 72-year-old retired Buffalo Judge coming face to face with the fallout of both his successful career and domestic failures. .

An exciting Brial Friel from the Irish Rep

The Freedom of the City - The Irish Repertory Theater's gripping and moving performance of Brian Friel’s 1973 play . . . Read More

Another up and coming Brit fnds an American home

Harper Regan - In Simon Stephen's play, the title character's "disappearance" takes the audience on a journey with a woman whose normal behavior mechanism cracks . . . Read More

The Footr playwriting legacy continues

Him - Daisy Foote's character in her sister's dark family drama brings to mind the famous "I'm mourning for my life" comment of Chekhov's Masha . . . Read More

Our London critic's been a busy bee. . .

Here are   links our busy London Lizzie's  latest postings 

Our Boys - Television and film stars Arthur Darvill , Laurence Fox and Matthew Lewis are in a revival of Jonathan Lewis’ 1993 play set in the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital in Woolwich in 1984 where the British army would treat its sick. Some were wounded in conflicts, some in the Faulklands, other victims in Northern Ireland or of bombings on the mainland as well as army personnel or their families needing medical intervention. . . . Read More


The Enquirer - Directors and Editors, Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany with author Andrew O’Hagan have the imagination and skill to have turned this mass of words into exciting theatre as they explore the theme of “how British journalism has fallen so low?” . . . Read More

Fireface - Marius von Mayenburg’s early non-compromising study of two German teenagers in a dysfunctional family whose dysfunctional behaviour spills into outside society with terrible consequences. . . . Read More



Berenice> Alan Hollinghurst’s blank verse translation makes Racine accessible as opposed to those interminable speeches in French . . . Read More







Paul Merton's Out of My Head -Paul Merton’s strength is working off script, something difficult to recreate on the West End staged . . . ead More

Broadway takes a look at faith. . .

Grace - You never know what to expect from Craig Wright. In Grace he uses the familiarity with absolute evangelical theory gained while earning Masters of Divinity degreeto explore competing theories as to the meaning of life and man's place in the universe.. . . Read More

A backstage look at a legendary acting couple

Ten Chimneys - You can visit Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Luntr landmarked summer retreat right here in Manhattan with a ticket to Jeffrey Hatcher's backstage look at the legendary actors' lives . . . Read More

A Sondheim chamber revue, mostly for Sondheimians

Marry Me a Little - Stephen Sondheim aficionados will accept the limitations of this patchwork style mini musical. Sondheim Newbies would be better off with some cast recordings of his big hits. . . . Read More