Tuesday, June 17, 2014
When We Were Young and Unafraid
Off Broadway, New York City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club
Reviewed by Jack Smart
BOTTOM LINE: This riveting and fearsome new play takes on feminis…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:03AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Carnival Kids
Off Off Broadway, TBG Theatre, Lesser America
Reviewed by Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This drama, focusing on one man's struggle to start a new life and repair his relati…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:22AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
The Story of Yu-Huan
Off Off Broadway, Theatre for the New City, Yangtze Repertory Theatre
Reviewed by Angel Lam
BOTTOM LINE: Fantastic new classical Chinese dance in this important histo…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:53AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Arrivals and Departures
Off Broadway, 59E59 Theatres, Brits Off Broadway
Reviewed by Shoshana Roberts
BOTTOM LINE: Come for the writing, stay for the acting, and leave with a tear in your…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:00AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Just Jim Dale
Off Broadway, Laura Pels Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: The talented and energetic multi-hyphenate will delight song and danc…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:38PMSunday, June 1, 2014
The Chairs
Off Off Broadway, La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre
Reviewed by Jack Smart
BOTTOM LINE: A contrived reinterpretation of Ionesco’s The Chairs featuring some visually extraordina…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 02:40PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
The Diorama
Off Broadway, The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
Reviewed by Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This romantic comedy, centered around a quirky artist, is a bit predictable and formul…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:16PMFriday, May 30, 2014
Deepest Man
Off Off Broadway, 3LD Art and Technology Center
Reviewed by Dillon Slagle
BOTTOM LINE: Holograms, projections, and live action tell the story of Dr. Sommers in a compelling pr…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 03:19PMThursday, May 29, 2014
Chalk Farm
Off Broadway, 59E59 Theatres
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: A gripping, understated, and brilliantly-written look at the overt and covert political tensions that sur…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:47AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Four Clowns
Off Off Broadway, The Club at La MaMa
Reviewed by Amanda LaPergola
BOTTOM LINE: Not just a clever name, Four Clowns features four clowns enacting pathetic and tragic human lif…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 05:29PMMonday, May 26, 2014
A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes
Off Off Broadway, Dixon Place, New Georges
Reviewed by Shawna Cormier
BOTTOM LINE: The story of the preparation…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:33AMThursday, May 22, 2014
Enchanted Arms
Off Off Broadway, UNDER St. Marks, StrangeDog Theatre
Reviewed by Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This offering of four reworked fairy tales provides comic relief and tense,…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:23AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Jane the Plain
Off Off Broadway, 4th Street Theatre, Flux Theatre Ensemble
Reviewed by Amanda LaPergola
BOTTOM LINE: A weird, funny, and fantastical look back at high school life.
Is the…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:04AMFriday, May 9, 2014
Family Play (1979 to Present)
Off Off Broadway, New Ohio Theatre
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: A collection of conversations that holds up a mirror to human nature as the sta…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 04:27PMThursday, May 8, 2014
Playing With Grown Ups
Off Broadway, 59E59 Theatres
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: Sharp wit and clever one-liners make this an entertaining, but ultimately devastating, look a…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:49AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
The Look of Feeling
Off Off Broadway, Susan Batson Studio Theater
Reviewed by Zahra Sadjadi
BOTTOM LINE: An inspiring portrait of a woman who impacted modern dance, loved being an artist,…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:45AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Sea Marks
Off Broadway, Irish Repertory Theatre
Reviewed by Jason Rost
BOTTOM LINE: Sleepless in the West of Galway -- this romantic comedy for Irish fishermen is a predictable, but fun, …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:08AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Keep Your Electric Eye On Me
Off Off Broadway, HERE
Reviewed by Dillon Slagle
BOTTOM LINE: The collage of live, recorded, and found footage creates an experience that is deeply alienating…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:29AMSunday, May 4, 2014
Annapurna
Off Broadway, Theatre Row, The New Group
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: An absorbing two character drama about the hold past loves can have, especially the all-consu…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:32PMRed-Eye to Havre de Grace
Off Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop
Reviewed by Angel
BOTTOM LINE: One of the most interesting and adventurous musicals in recent memory, based on the last t…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:58AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Cherry Smoke
Off Broadway, Urban Stages
Reviewed by Shoshana
BOTTOM LINE: An emotional and impressive immersion into a world of poverty, immeasurable love, and fighting.
Even when machin…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:57AMThe Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 2
Off Off Broadway, Theatre for the New City / New York Neo-Futurists
Reviewed by Jack Smart
BOTTOM LINE: A clever illu…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 01:16AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Broadway, Cort Theater
Reviewed by Molly
BOTTOM LINE: People can be jerks, and that makes for very funny characters. This is readily apparent in The Cripple of In…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:44PMThe Mysteries
Off Off Broadway, The Flea Theater
Reviewed by Joseph
BOTTOM LINE: An epic theatricalization of the Greatest Story Ever Told -- 48 playwrights, 53 actors, and six hours!
Ed …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:31AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Rent
Off Off Broadway, The Gallery Players
Reviewed by Greg
BOTTOM LINE: Although this billed "reinvention" of Rent is more of a homage, there is a great deal of heart in this production a…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:41PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Tony N Tina's Wedding
Off Broadway, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School
Reviewed by Brett
BOTTOM LINE: Go for the experience, not the production values.
It’s somewhat difficult to wr…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:49PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Cabaret
Broadway, Studio 54/Roundabout Theatre
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A direct revival of the 1998 Broadway run that lacks freshness and originality.
Have you ever heard a …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 01:23AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Broadway, Belasco Theatre
Reviewed by Greg Solomon
BOTTOM LINE: A triumphant revival of a show finally making its Broadway debut -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch may…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:06AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Ballet Hispanico: 2014 Joyce Season
Off Broadway, The Joyce Theatre
Reviewed by Jane Sato
BOTTOM LINE: An enjoyable dance show highlighting Latino culture and the company's talented dance…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:12AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Nicholas Nickleby
Off Off Broadway, Theatre for the New City
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: An entertaining, if intentionally melodramatic, musical drubbing of Victorian Englan…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:48PMSunday, April 20, 2014
The Tower
Off Off Broadway, Standard Toykraft, AntiMatter Collective
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A strange and psychedelic retelling of the events of the Donner Party.
In a Taro…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:23AM 
