Friday, September 29, 2023
Melissa Etheridge’s self-penned show is full of luster, vulnerability and pride — so full it almost aches for an editor.
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The revival of Ossie Davis’ killingly funny and perceptive 1961 play is as close to Biblical scripture as Black theater gets.
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Awe-inspiring visual effects and hilarious performances drive this theatrical adaptation of the iconic film
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Sandy Rustin’s version of a drawing room farce falls short of both feminism and comedy.
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David Byrne’s immersive musical is a thrilling pageant of theatrics, but abstracts Filipino history better than enacting it.
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Richard Hollman’s tender, site-specific play explores the awkward resumption of a Covid-interrupted friendship over a deceptively innocent game of catch.
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Liza Birkenmeier’s abstract play is a unique exploration of romantic relationships but suffers from sleepy direction and a lack of character enrichment.
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Alex Edelman’s solo show about his drop-into a white nationalist meeting entertains and illuminates.
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The musical of Britney Spears songs hits all the right notes of zaniness, creativity and unbridled joy.
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Blankson-Wood plays the Danish Prince at Free Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet this summer, while Spears stars in Fat Ham on Broadway.
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Friday, May 26, 2023
In her adaptation of Lorca, Diane Exavier emphasizes the importance of belonging to a place, and how painful it is to consign memories of it to the grave.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
David Auburn’s eventless play bargains on feverish nostalgia and a paper-thin portrayal of friendship.
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Entering the Broadway production of “Good Night, Oscar,” I knew nothing about playwright Doug Wright’s titular figure, Oscar Levant, but I left caring for the crotchety old man as if h…
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Since the establishment of modern democracy, several men — and fewer women — have inked policies that govern civic activity, yielding black-and-white legal truths of what constitutes a c…
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Satire is one of the American theater’s greatest tools. At its best, the genre is both an effective pedagogical tool for change and a sharply-aimed weapon for critical analysis. Larissa Fa…
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In theater, catastrophes are usually reserved for dramatic works. But in Broadway’s “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” calamity drives farce forward. British co-conspirators Henry Lewis, Jonathan…
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Few would call the Middle Ages a period of thriving liberal democracy, but in Aaron Sorkin’s modernized upgrade to Lerner & Loewe’s 1960 classic “Camelot,” the quest for equality…
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Few scenarios are ripe with as much drama as a Black family barbecue. Secrets, revenge and war (usually over the best dishes, but war nonetheless) play out over a steaming grill and a good b…
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In his solo show about the death of his teenage children, Colin Campbell recounts his calamitous relationship with the darkest of emotions.
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Seedy is normally the last descriptor any new comedy wants to earn, but in the case of the newBroadway musical “Shucked,” nothing is as consecrated as the kernel. The riotous new work, w…
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The life of pi is infinite. Literally, because the mathematical constant “pi” is a limitless irrational number. And figuratively, because Yann Martel’s bestselling book “Life of Pi�…
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If I ever had to write a musical, I would start by etching out the play and characters underneath it. Great music will captivate an audience, but a complex man will change them. The protagon…
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Ugly is not a life sentence. Nearly every inch of the human body can be tweaked, sucked and tightened, and there’s nothing quite like a makeover scene to remind us of this. Whether it’s …
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New York City streets dance with Bob Fosse’s influence. The American artist materialized as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the mid-20th century with a genre of choreography tha…
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On January 6, 2021, Kevin Seefried traveled 100 miles to join thousands who stormed the U.S. Capitol, and the image of him armed with a Confederate flag became synonymous with insurrection. …
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Take a picture, it’ll last longer. This phrase transcended from sarcastic adage to artistic mission in the hands of American photographer Larry Sultan. In 1992, Sultan published “Picture…
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