Monday, September 16, 2013
SOMETIMES LONGER WOULD BE BETTER Anxious to have a child with the best possible genes and distrustful of sperm from anonymous donors, Gretchen (Halley Feiffer) convinces her “gold-star” …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:23PMThursday, August 29, 2013
A DRAGON IN BROOKLYN A true auteur and renaissance man of the theater, Robert Lepage returns with his troupe Ex Machina to The Brooklyn Academy of Music for its 2013 Next Wave Festival, this…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:40PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
STORY-LESS A rubber knife jiggles and bends during an ostensibly dramatic stabbing scene. Characters’ “trumpet playing” is out of sync with the actual trumpeter. Performers struggle to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:08PMMonday, June 24, 2013
HELLO, GORGEOUS Jonathan Tolkin’s keen and tremendously funny new show Buyer & Cellar, performed by Michael Urie, imagines what it would be like for Alex More, a young gay man struggl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:49PMSunday, June 16, 2013
LOVE, SEX AND POETRY Thoroughly delightful and hilarious throughout, Dirty Great Love Story, which is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, is just what its admittedly c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
REASONS TO SEE THIS SHOW Neil LaBute’s explosive and wildly funny new comedy Reasons to be Happy, which Mr. LaBute also directs, starts off with a bang as Steph (Jenna Fischer), having sta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
SOME PLAYS ARE “FORGOTTEN” FOR A REASON Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, Finborough Theatre’s classic staging of J.B. Priestley’s Cornelius, under Sam Yates…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
LOVE AS A MYTHICAL BEAST Compelling performances and Cat Parker’s surefooted direction overcome budgetary and other constraints associated with short-run, theater-festival productions, mak…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:15PMSaturday, June 1, 2013
CHILD’S PLAY Adapted by Jeremy Bloom from J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy and A Little White Bird, Peter/Wendy, which Mr. Bloom also directs, is a charming, semi-interactive theatrica…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:21PMSunday, May 26, 2013
A CURE FOR INSOMNIA Dan Frost’s evocative performance as the artist Roger Hilton isn’t enough to save Botallack O’Clock, written and directed by Eddie Elks and currently being performe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
SKETCHY BLUEPRINT The great John Turturro stars as the architect Halvard Solness in David Edgar’s translation of Ibsen’s enigmatic chef-d’oeuvre The Master Builder, which is curren…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
A PLAY CANNOT LIVE ON CONCEPT ALONE Works of art in themselves – namely Nicole Pearce’s lighting and Katie Down’s sound design and musical compositions — go a long way in helping…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AMMonday, May 13, 2013
WHAT MAKES A FAMILY What makes a family? What keeps one together? And what do you do when you’re stuck in one that doesn’t fit in with how you want yourself or your life to be? These are…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:25PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
THE RIGHT GIRL IN THE WRONG VENUE Created by Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker, The Girl I Left Behind Me – which is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival – is a tribute to British and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:45PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
WHITE-COLLAR BULLYING Mike Bartlett’s play Bull begins with a team of three white-collar salespeople, Tony (Adam James), Isobel (Eleanor Matsuura) and Thomas (Sam Throughton) awaiting the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
ALMOST MAGIC Although the magic tricks in Bullet Catch are not so much ends in themselves as they are tools used to help explore the show’s themes, the effectiveness of the play – named…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:12AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
SEEING ISN’T FEELING Blythe Duff and Andrew Scott-Ramsay deliver rich, convincing performances in David Harrower’s worthwhile if not completely satisfying play Good with People. Part of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PMA SHOWCASE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS When watching Artistic New Directions’ presentation of An Eclectic Evening of Shorts: Boxers and Briefs VI, a collection of six ten-minute plays, plus three…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02PMFriday, March 22, 2013
SUGAR RUSH An adorable piece of clever and very funny fluff, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike takes spoonfuls of ingredients from Chekhov’s plays and mixes them i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AMMonday, March 18, 2013
THE BEAUTY OF MAKESHIFT THEATER Even with all its flaws Bedlam’s revival of George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
A LESSON IN CHARACTERIZATION Carol Kane’s magnetic performance turns Craig Lucas’s dramatically thin comic thriller The Lying Lesson into compelling entertainment. Ms. Kane plays Bette D…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52PMFriday, February 8, 2013
A DULL DESCENT INTO HELL The charisma and passion Ethan Hawk brings to the title role, Vincent D’Onofrio’s powerful stage presence, a gnarly set by Derek McLane, lovely songs by Latham a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
FUNNY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH Hamish Linklater’s very funny, sharp and tender new play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
THE ANTICHRIST IN A COLLEGE DORM The Amoralists’ staging of Lyle Kessler’s new play Collision, directed by David Fofi, is an admirable but flawed effort to explore the motivations of a y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:12AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
AS HARMLESS AS A PICNIC Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic is the perfect show to take your mom to. I know because I did. An excell…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PMThursday, January 10, 2013
LAURIE METCALF BELONGS IN THE OTHER PLACE In The Other Place, Sharr White’s riveting and affective play, Laurie Metcalf delivers a poignant and masterfully crafted performance as Juliana, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PMFriday, December 21, 2012
CHEKHOV REINVENTED, SORT OF The whimsical premise behind Kristen Kosmas’ brilliantly conceived and deftly executed creation There There is this: Christopher Walken, while touring Russia in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
I THINK I HEARD BELLINI TURNING IN HIS GRAVE Imagine yourself sitting tied to a chair in a stuffy, dark room with a very dull senile old man who talks on and on and on and on and on and on a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
HALF & HALF Australian Made Entertainment’s new production of Andrew Bovell’s well-crafted relationship thriller Speaking in Tongues really gets going in the second act. The play, di…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:52PMMonday, November 19, 2012
DARK AND DELIGHTFUL A liberatingly surreal and exquisitely poetic masterwork, Fernando Arrabal’s Garden of Delights is a sinister fairytale that concerns itself with the inner struggles of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
AFLOAT ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS Many positive things can and should be said about Sheila Callaghan’s Port Out, Starboard Home, a play about a three-day cruise at the end of which the passengers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PM 
