God of Vengeance--the Scholem Asch play that inspired Indecent

God of Vengeance - a wonderful opportunity to see the play that inspired Paula Vogel's Broadway bound Indecent. Read More

Wonderful DC revival of Titanic. . .

Titanic - 'Tis the season for choral music to be sure but none could sound sweeter or more harmonious than the sound coming from the stage of Signature Theatre. There is not a false note from beginning to end. . . Read Mo

Life Is For Living--a thumbs up review

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Life Is For Living - We see Coward's views of a changing world In Simon Green's exemplary performance Rea

Martin Luther on Trial-- reviewed at Curtainup

Martin Luther on Trial - filled to the brim with witty irreverence and impassioned rhetoric . . . Read More

Metaphor stuffed lyric from the delightful new musical, The Band's Visit

Time's Like A River, Sometimes.
Time Is An Ocean.
This Sofa Is My
Boat And I'm Just Drifting Right Along.
Time Is Like Syrup
and I'm The Bug Stuck In The syrup,
Just Kind Of Trying To Find
Out What I'm Doing Wrong.
Just Waiting For Something to Happen,
For Anything To Happen.
— Lyrics from ensemble's mood setting opening number   Waiting.

 Below a link to our review
www.curtainup.com/bandsvisit16.html

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart--a new immersive tenant at the McKittrick Hotel

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - There are surprises aplenty in this new take on the classic struggle of a human and the Devil, which is raising the roof at the Heath, a performing space and pub in the McKittrick Hotel. . . Read More

In Transit - a musical look at New York's life underground. . . Read More

we review NYTheatre Workshop's starry, modern Othello

Othello - TV's James Bond plays a malevolently cool Iago in the NYTheatre Workshop's modern day version of the Bard's green-eye-monster haunted soldier. Read More

Cheek by Jowl's The Winter's Tale-- makes brief stop at BAM

The Winter's Tale - Cheek by Jowl presents Shakepeare's late-career romance at BAM, exquisitely designed by Nick Ormerod. . . Read

The Band's Visit -- one of the most enjoyable shows in town

The Band's Visit - Erin Kollrin's award winning film successfully transitions from screen to stage play with a wonderful musical score by David Yazbek . . . Read More

Tiny Beautiful Things stage adaptation provides some tiny pleasures

Tiny Beautiful Things - Sheryl Strayed's "Sugar" adapted and performed by Nia Vardalos star of My Beautiful Greek Wedding . . . Read More

Rancho Viejo--we like some but not all of it

Rancho Viejo - Dan LeFranc intermittently satisfying quirky new co

Dear Evan Hansen-- it's a hit on Broadway

Dear Evan Hansen - A small musical's big heart and big on talent cast is now a welcome addition to the Broadway musical scene. . . Read More

A Bronx Tale, Chazz Palminteri's solo play now a big, glossy musical

A Bronx Tale - Chazz Palminteri's solo play gets yet another life as a Broadway musical. . . Read More

Ride the Cyclone-- a quirky charmer of a musical --but not for everyone

Ride the Cyclone - After getting killed in a roller coaster accident, members of a high school chorus compete for another chance at life in this quirky charmer of a musical.

Lucy Kirkwood's The Children impressed our London critic

The Children - Lucy Kirkwood's new play looks at the world after a nuclear power station disaster and the scientists who people it.

The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal review

The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal - Laoisa Sexton's play is an inventively staged, well-acted comic romp underpinned by a serious theme . . . Read More

The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal--a comic romp , but with something to say

The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal - Laoisa Sexton's play is an inventively staged, well-acted comic romp underpinned by a serious theme . . .

Our review othello: the Remix- a thumbs up

Othello: The Remix - The General as a hip-hop mogul...and it works

This Day Forward doesn't move Nicky Silver's career forward

This Day Forward - Nicky Silver's new play is a case of The Lyons/Redux. . .Read More

London rocks to School of Rock

School of Rock School of Rock comes to London with its talented teams of children playing their own instruments in this feel good family musical. . . . Read More -

Goldoni's farce at TNFA will be heaven for some, torture for others

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The Servant of Two Masters - TNFA's production of Carlo Goldoni's farce will be heaven for spectators swept up in

Sweet Charity --This small producton, offers big pleasures

Sweet Charity smartly streamlined - Sutton Foster is a delightful Charity Hope Valentine in this smartly streamlined revival. . . Rea

Review of Natasha, Pierre. . .with Groban'sstand-in

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 - The little musical engine that could makes a triumphant landing on Broadway Read More

Party People-- a timel slice-of-history musical

Party People - This hyper-relevant musical by UNIVERSES examines the legacies of the Black Panthers and Young Lords Parties and the state of activism today. Read More

Dead Poets Society-- another popular movie trying for a new life as a stage play

Dead Poets Society - your appreciation of this screen-to-stage adaptation will depend a lot on how you felt about the movie . .

Women of a Certain Age Women of a Certain Age complets the Gabriel trilogy on a melancholy note

Women of a Certain Age - turns out the Gabriels of Richard Nelson's Rhinebeck trilogy voted for the losing candidate

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World --not everyone's cup of theater

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead - Pulitzer Prize winner Suzann-Lori Parks takes us on a fantastical ride to reclaim the lives of black people in the history books . . . Read More

Falsettos-- not a false note in this revival

Falsettos - William Finn's chamber musical sings its way right into your heart. . .Read More

Athol Fugard's Master Harold. . .and the Boys at the Signature

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Master Harold . . .and the Boys - A beautifully staged, well-acted revival of Athol Fugard's autobiographical gem . . . Read More

Notes From the Field-- Anna Deveare Smith's latest solo

Notes From The Field - Anna Deveare Smith's provocative new 17-character solo

Fiinian's Rainbow delightfully revived at the renovated Irish Rep

Finian's Rainbow - the Irish Rep celebrates its renovated home's completion with this hit-after-hit musical from another era

My review of Sweat, Lynn Nottage's workplace drama

Sweat - Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes theater goers into the world of blue collar Americans faced with downsized and disappearing manufacturing jobs

Kings of War--just 4 performances to see Ivo vanHove's marathon at BAM

Kings of War - Except for the Dutch dialogue (and those supertitles), director Ivo van Hove's evening with these kings is like a binge-session of House of Cards. .

The Collector-a less than ideal adaptation of John Fowles' novel

The Collector - the two actors in this stage adaptation of John Fowles's novel do their best to provide the much needed tension and pace

Coriolanus --timely as usual at presidential election time election time

Coriolanus - a new production by the Red Bull Theatre Company just as New York voters are poised to vote for their next president.Read More

Les Liaisons Dangereuses back on Broadway with McTeer & Schreiber as the boured, troublemaking aristocrats

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber bring the bored, sexual predators of pre-revolutionary France back to Broadway

Two Class Acts--by A.R. Gurney at the Flea

Two Class Acts: Ajax and Squash - A double bill by A. R. Gurney ends the Flea Theater's residence on White Street, before moving to a larger space

Vietgone-- not everyone's romantic family story

Vietgone - sometimes funny, occasionally exasperating and totally confounding play

Freaky Friday, the musical-- big time fun in DC

Freaky Friday - A fun musical based on Mary Rodgers' novel with a top drawer creative team and performer. . .

A Life--David Hyde-Pierce Stars for most of Adam Bock's new play

A Life - Adam Bock's cautionary tale about committing ourselves to life while we can still change

The Front Page-- a Wow! cast but Lane is the one delivering the scoop

The Front Page - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's comedy with Nathan Lane heading a cast as much past history as city newsstands with six or seven newspapers d Read More

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: A Gangster Spectacle at Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: A Gangster Spectacle - The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's resourceful staging of Bertolt Brecht's 1941 epic cartoon.

Plenty--still plenty to enjoy in this revival

Plenty - David Hare's play gets a stylish revival at the same theater where it premiered in 1982. . .

The Cherry Orchard not quite as Chekhov intended it. . .

The Cherry Orchard - A starry cast in a sporadically satisfying new version of Chekhov's last play Read More

Love, Love, Love successfully crosses the pond

Love, Love, Love - Brtish playwright Mike Bartlett's latest play gets a well cast, smoothly directed American production Read More

Sell| Buy|Date, Sarah Jones's new multi-character solo

Sell/Buy/Date - Sarah Jones is back on stage with her usual array of characters, this time reflecting on the sex industry

She Stoops to Conquer--brings the 18th Century back to Off-Broadway

She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith's great farcical comedy given a crisp but true to its time revival by TACT

The Maids newly adapted at Intar

The Maids - The experimental and the traditional collide in José Rivera's adaptation of Jean Genet's play at INTAR.  Read More

Heisenberg--a quirky charmer now on Broadway

Heisenberg - No uncertainty Simon Stephen's quirky romance being a charmer, especially since it stars Mary Louise Parker Read More

Public Enemy-- Ibsen trimmed to a single act at the Pearl

Public Enemy - A slimmed down all too timely one-act version of Ibsen's play at the Pearl Theater Read More