He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box--a new play by renowned dramatist Adrienne Kennedy

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box - Adrienne Kennedy is renowned for a style of dramatic writing that's all her own. And this new play is as poetic, mysterious, and intricately structured as one might expect from her past work.. .Read More

Cardinal--could painting a dying town red bring it back to life?

Cardinal - at the end of its fast-paced and provocative 90 minutes, Greg Pierce's new play is a mixed bag— one of those frustrating plays that coulda-shoulda-been-better.

The Home Coming Queen-- exemplifies talent by and about people from Trump's "s-holes"

The Homecoming Queen - Ngozi Anyanwu's play is a familiar yet unique story about one woman's return to the home she both loves and hates . . . Read More

The Homecoming Queen - Ngozi Anyanwu's play is a familiar yet unique story about one woman's return to the home she both loves and hates . . . Read More

The Homecoming Queen-- another example of work by talent we've imported from countries Trump has designated as s-holes

The Homecoming Queen - Ngozi Anyanwu's play is a familiar yet unique story about one woman's return to the home she both loves and hates . . . Read More

Our DC critic reviews Michael Urie's thoroughly modern Hamlet

Hamlet - Michael Urie's very modern and lively Hamlet . . Read More

You don't have to be a tennis buff to enjoy Balls

Balls - The famous Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" match serves as a lively framework for fifty years of social history. . . Read More

Until the Flood-- a theatrical conversation about race at the Rattlestick Theater

Until the Flood - Perhaps the real take-away from Dael Olandersmith's solo play is that the conversation on racism in our country must continue and that many voices need to be heard.

Our review of the solo bio about Josephine Baker at SoHo Playhouse

Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play -last year's Fringe International Encore Series hit returns for a run at the SoHo Playhouse

Curtainup's review of the Mad Ones' Miles for Mary at Playwrights Horizon

Miles For Mary - Anyone who's ever been in a school office will immediately recognize the verisimilitude of the set created for The Mad Ones Read More

Hindle Wakes--another fine Mint Theater re-discovery

Hindle Wakes - The Mint does it again with its latest re-discovery: a 100-year-old play about a once shocking illicit weekend. . .

The Undertaking-- The Civilian Theater's contemplation on death

The Undertaking - The Civilians Investigative Theater's artistic director Steve Cosson's two-hande is, primarily, a reflection on the dread of death. Read More

Our review of Enda Walsh's Ballyburk

Ballyturk - Enda Walsh at St. Ann's Warehouse Read More

John Lithgow's solo now on Broadway

John Lithgow: Stories By Heart - Oodles of charm and talent. . .but best for fans of audio books and solo plays Read More
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Reposting my review of John LIthgow solo without typo in heading

John Lithgow: Stories By Heart - Oodles of charm and talent. . .but best for fans of audio books and sol

Review of The Humans with it's fine new DC cast

Washington - DC

The Humans - Stephen Karam's multi-award winning play is blessed with a very fine cast at the Kennedy Center in DC . . . Read More

Fledgling play by book writer of the musical Once now at the Irish Rep

Disco Pigs - Enda Walsh's break-through 2-hander revived at the Irish Rep in Chelsea Read More

Robeert IO'Hara's new dysrtopian drama is an inreresrting misfire

Mankind - Robert O'Hara's interesting but overstuffed cautionary dystopian tale about a world without women. . .

Stage Talent Wins Big at Golden Globes

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