The Michaels-- anoher dinner in Rhinebeck play

The Michaels: Conversations During Difficult Times - beautifully acted and meticulously directed by its author Richard NelsonRead More

A pared down Maxbeth at Classic Stage

Macbeth - Though John Doyle breaks the rules in all the right ways, newbies to the play are likely to t become confused at times by its gender-blind casting and the nine cast members who play multiple roles in this all-hands-on-deck production

Seared-- A tasty theatrical treat by Theresa Rebeck

w York Off-Broadway

Seared - Theresa Rebeck's literslly tasty comic take on art versus commerce is having its New York premiere at the beutiful new MCC Thesters's intimate Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater. Read Mor

Is This A Room -- our review of new documentary at the Vineyard Theater

New York Off-Broadway

Is This A Room - As an animation of a single document, that feels like a refreshingly innovative concept. Read More

Scott, PA -- an occasional clever version of Macbad as a musical

New York Off-Broadway

Scotland, PA - It's all very irreverent, casual, and American-- but is there enough Shakespeare to go along with its ambience? After all, the language has almost entirely gone missing here, so that the show counts on the spirit of the original to live in this equal-opportunity approach to Shakespeare. Still the Bard doesn't belong to any single class, race, creed, or geographical locale. He belongs to anybody with the imagination to transplant his tales to fresh new places. And, thanks to the musical's creative team that now includes the little town of Scotland, PA Read More

A welcome return of: for colored girls for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

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New York Off-Broadway

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - Director Leah C. Gardiner has crafted a production nourished by the affection shown and attention paid across this rainbowed community Read More

Bella Bella timely solo play about Bella Abzug that doesn't quite make it as a play

New York Off-Broadway

Bella Bella - Harvey Fierstone's biographical solo play is filled to the brim with Bella Abzug's trenchant wit and wisdom. For older theater goers, it's a trip down memory lane that spans many administrations, detailing presidential good deeds as well as the all too frequent surrenders to political expediency. . . for millenials it's an enlightening history lesson Read More

forbidden bway Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation - STILL GREAT FUN

New York Off-Broadway
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Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation - How did we survive this long interval without Alessandrini's insightful satirizing and inspired spoofing of Broadway shows both current and on occasion recent past? This corner welcomes it back as it again demonstrates that it has what it takes to mock the mediocre even as it also joyously celebrates the parodic life upon the wicked stage Read More

The Sound Inside-- a beutifully written 2-hander

Broadway
The Sound Inside - beautifully written/emotionally involving play by Adam Rappl Starring Mary Louise ParkerRead More

Linda Vista-- Trcy Leets takes on a modern misanthrope's mid-life crisis

Broadway
Linda Vista - Descriptive Excerpt: If the title were not already taken by a much produced French classic, Tracy Letts might well have called his play about a middle-aged guy who hates everything and everyone — including himself Read More

Soft Power: Flawed but fun and unquesionably original

New York Off-Broadway

Soft Power - With the key cast members as well as director, choreographer aboard , David Henry Hwang's and Jeanine Tesori's genre busting Soft Power has arrived in New York. I can't think of a better place than the Public's Newman Theater for it to find an audience ready to buy into Hwang's dazzlingly original but flawed mash up of fact and fiction.Read More

The Great Society --the 2nd of Robert Shenkkan's LBJ plays

Broadway
The Great Society - If you invest the time and money to watch Cox's LBJ get all these bills that made America greater than ever passed, I suspect you'll exit the theater fervently hoping that Robert Shenkkan — or some playwright — - will soon have the facts to write a play to fit the title The Rise and Fall of Donald J. Trump. Read More

There's plenty right about The Wrong Man

New York Off-Broadway

The Wrong Man With the help of Hamilton's director Thomas Kail and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire, Ross Golan's almost two dozen story telling songs became the musical, The Wrong Man, now premiering at MCC's beautiful new theater in Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan. Read More

Slave Play now on Broadway

Broadway
Slave Play - Jeremy O. Harris's uncompromising, graphic, sexually explicit play Read More

Free Style Love Supreme-- hip-hops to Broadway

Broadway

Free Style Love Supreme - This isn't an introspective show. No group member attempts to persuade you that anything done on stage is IMPORTANT. What IS important, however, is the shared theatrical experience between the artists and audience members and finding truth in the moment.Read More

The New Englander-- new look at fa,mily drama with too many plot threads

New York Off-Broadway

The New Englanders - The changes in the typical American family (if ever there really was one outside of Rockwell's famous idyllc canvases and 1940s movies) are indeed welcome. But these now acceptable new family units have brought on new new issues to deal with. And it t should thus not come as a surprise that the marriages possible in our more open minded societies don't all follow a blissfully ever after path Read More