A delightful Midsummer Night's Dream in Central Park

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Lear deBessonet stages a delightfully diverting production of this beloved classic at the Delacorte. Read More

Curtainup's most recent review of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

www.curtainup.com/buriedchild16.html
 Sam Shepard  is  wth us  no more,  but  his  play live on--  to wit, the New Group's
fine production  of   Buried  Child last  season    For more about  his life,  style,  quotes,]
and links to  Shepherd  plays we reviewed  see  our  Playwrights Album
www.curtainup.com/shepard.html

A sad update to Curtainup's Sam Shepard's Playwright Album page

  We're  sad  to have to have to record Sam Shepard's  death in our Playwrights Album  Sam Shepard  page www.curtainup.com/shepard.html

Luckily  we  had a  chance  to review  his masterpiece,  Buried Child just a short while ago www.curtainup.com/buriedchild16.html

our 2nd summer 2017 outdoor Midsummer review

Coming  up:   The  current  production at  the Delacorte. . .

Midsummer Night's Dream - this fast-paced, 90-minute production makes for an engaging, entertaining evening for neophyte and veteran alike..

Tina Howe's Singing Beach: tmely but too flawed

Singing Beach - Tina Howe's worthy but flawed real-surreal new play about climate change and aging . . . Re

In London: Girl From the North Country a play with Bob Dylan songs

Girl From the North Country - Conor McPherson's play with Bob Dylan songs set in hiis birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota . . . Read More -

Two new reviews added to our NYMusic Festival page

2017 New York Music Festival - New: Peace Love and Cupcakes and Generation Me (previously reviewed: The Shakespearean Jazz Show, Previous reviws:,Numbers Nerds,Matthew McConnaughey v. the Devil, My Dear Watson. . . Read More

Sarah Ruhls comedy funny as ever at Williamstown

The Clean House - Sarah Ruhl's satire with an excellent cast to work their magic in a sublime production at Williamstown . . . Read

Our music festival coverage continues with a Shakespeare riff

nklin in song. Read More
2017 New York Music Festival - New: The Shakespearean Jazz Show, Previous reviws:,Numbers Nerds,Matthew McConnaughey v. the Devil, My Dear Watson. . . Read More

Money Tallks. . .sings well but could use a better book

Money Talks - a wacky new musical in which George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln join Benjamin Franklin in song

Our 3r NYMusic Festival review, Numbers Nerds just posted

2017 New York Music Festival -Numbers Nerds, the latest addition to our first Festival reviews: (more reviews coming up Read More

Potomac Theatre Project back with Howard Barker & Tom Stoppard

Potomac Theatre Project - Potomac pairs Howard Barker's Pity In History and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. . . Read More

Mitu's Death of a Salesman is not for everyone

Death of a Salesman - Mitu's production is for the most adventurous theater-goers and for serious students of contemporary drama.

Where Storms are Bon-- review of world premiere at Williamstown

Where Storms are Born - This world premiere by Harrison David Rivers is an ugly story of today. Read More

My review of Dominique Morrisseau's Pipeline

Pipeline - in her Lincoln Center debut Dominique Morrisseau once again tackles a universal social problem from a personal perspective. . . Read More

Encores! Off-Centre Assassins-- buoyed by stellar cast

Encores! Off-Centre Assassins- a here today-gone in 4 days revival of Sondheim's chilling yet thrilling killer show buoyed by a killer cast. . .

dominique Morissey's Pipeline-- leaves much to talk and think about

Pipeline  is  a  powerful  follow-up  to Morissey's  earlier plays--  my  review will be posted shorly

Encores! Assassins -- my post-run thoughts soon

Caught  the last  performance  of Encores!  reviival  of Assassins  today. . .great cast,  scarly relevant and strange as  ever. . .my more detailed thoughts  coming  up   

Our first 2 reviews of NYMUsic Festival are up. . .more to come

2017 New York Music Festival - Our first Festival reviews: Matthew McConnaughey v. the Devil. . . My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes Musical (other reviews coming up

My review of latest Hamlet: good acting, lots of newfangled staging. . .

Hamlet - Oscar Isaac as the melancholy Dane at the Pubic TheaterRead More

our critic loves Soulpepper's Spoon River Musical

Spoon River Soulpepper's exhilarating 95-minute musical adapted from the famous "anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters

Amerike- our critic loved this wonderful historical musical revival

AMERIKE— The Golden Land - This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August Read More

Catch Of Human Bondage's belated stagedebut while it's in NYC

It seems a shame that VernThiessen's  excellent adaptation-- the first ever for the stage-- hasn't gotten moreattention during  Soulpepper's month in New York where it's  one  of  the 3 mainattractons. . .below a link to my  review

Of Human Bondage - More than a hundred years and 3 movies later, W. Somerset Maugham's novel comes to the stage, courtesy of Toronto's Soulpepper Company. . . R

Maugham's Of Human Bondage on stage at last-- and beautifully done

Of Human Bondage - More than a hundred years and 3 movies later, W. Somerset Maugham's novel comes to the stage, courtesy of Toronto's Soulpepper Company. . .

Children of a Lesser God-a pre-Bway revival in Stockbridge?

Children of a Lesser God - Mark Medoff's play is still a challenging and touching play for people of both hearing and non-hearing worlds. Read More

The Roommate & Model American @ Williamstown Theater Festival

Berkshire Reviews

The Roommate - Jen Silverman's play for two terrific actresses of a certain age . . . Read More

Model American - an intriguing world premiere by Jason Kim at Williamstown's Nikos StageRead More

Kim's Convenience-- the first of 3 Soulpepper festival shows we're reviiewing

Kim's Convenience - Soulpepper's home grown comedy hit that seeded a TV sitcom is live and lively again on 42nd Street Read More

1984's belated Broadway debut reviewed

1984 - George Orwell's novel about a dystopian world has been relevant for almost 70 years. Current events have resulted in starry new Broadway production . . .