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Friday, August 6, 2021

Standing on the Edge of Time by Wendy Caster

The Potomac Theatre Project's recent streaming play, Standing on the Edge of Time, consists largely of people talking--alone, in pairs, or in groups--about  history, theatre, relationships …

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Friday, April 9, 2021

The Untold Stories of Broadway: Volume 4 (book review) by Wendy Caster

 My latest review is up at Talkin' Broadway. According to their interviews in The Untold Stories of Broadway: Volume 4, Ed Dixon has great affection for The Scarlet Pimpernel; Krysta Rodr…

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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Tom Stoppard: A Life (book review) by Wendy Caster

My review of Tom Stoppard: A Life appears on Talkin' Broadway. Hermione Lee's Tom Stoppard: A Life is a formidable achievement. Not only does Lee cover the story of Stoppard's life in gr…

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Myths and Hymns (Chapter 1): Flight by Wendy Caster

I'm going to cut to the chase here. I highly, highly, highly recommend the MasterVoices streaming production of Myths and Hymns, chapter one of which is available right now. The music, by Ad…

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Singular Sensation (book review) by Wendy Caster

I reviewed Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway by Michael Riedel, on Talkin' Broadway. I had mixed feelings.  To read the review, please click here.

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:42AM
Friday, October 30, 2020

Conflict by Wendy Caster

Great news: It's not too late to watch The Mint's fabulous production of the painfully timely 1925 play Conflict. (Review of the production here.) For free. This is a nicely done video of …

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Far Away (PTP/NYC) by Wendy Caster

In the past couple of decades, Caryl Churchill has perfected the oblique and concentrated one-act play, somehow providing the intellectual challenge and emotional punch of the best of full-…

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Seven Sins by Sandra Mardenfeld

Company XIV cast of Seven Sins. Photo by Mark Shelby Perry. Seven Sins by Company XIV, their most cohesive production to date, tells the story of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace and the i…

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Friday, February 21, 2020

West Side Story by Liz Wollman

While it seems that a good half the theater-going public in and around New York City hotly disagrees with me, I'm squarely in the camp that believes Ivo Van Hove's maximal minimalism fails …

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Coal Country by Wendy Caster

I saw a very early performance of Coal Country, so this is a brief report rather than a review. Coal Country is a documentary theatre performance developed by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen,…

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Saturday, February 1, 2020

The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker by Wendy Caster

One of the many joys of theatre is getting to experience how another person's brain and imagination work. Last night at La Mama, the brain and imagination belonged to Theodora Skipitares, w…

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

2019-2020: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Glories of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway by Wendy Caster

I was going to do a "best-of" for 2019 plus a "looking forward" for 2020, when I realized that their focus would be much the same: the treasure that is non-Broadway theatre.I'm not denying t…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:42PM
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Jagged Little Pill by Liz Wollman

There's a lot going on in Jagged Little Pill, which has to be the wokest jukebox musical you're likely to see on Broadway lately. Built around the era-defining third album of the same name b…

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Monday, December 16, 2019

Where Are We Now by Sandra Mardenfeld

Sven Ratzke; Photo by Hanneke Wetzer Dutch-German performer Sven Ratzke is the best kind of David Bowie fan. When he sings his Ziggy Stardust songs, he closes his eyes, softens his face and …

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Nutcracker Rouge by Sandra Mardenfeld

Ashley Dragon. Credit: Mark Shelby Perry Even when Company XIV produces a problematic show, it’s vastly entertaining. While the Nutcracker Rouge’s version of this well-known holiday t…

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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Let 'Em Eat Cake by Wendy Caster

The narration for the MasterVoices production of the Gershwins' Let 'Em Eat Cake mentions that (1) it was the very first musical sequel (to Of Thee I Sing), and (2) it set the precedent fo…

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Monday, November 18, 2019

Fires in the Mirror by Liz Wollman

Midway through Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith's moving and generous one-person show about the 1991 Crown Heights riots, Robert Sherman, the head of the City of New York's Increase t…

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Saturday, November 9, 2019

The Hope Hypothesis by Wendy Caster

In the excellent Voyage Theater Company production of The Hope Hypothesis, running through November 15 at the Sheen Center, playwright-director Cat Miller deftly shows how easily innocence c…

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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Molly Sweeney by Wendy Caster

What is a play? There are many definitions, of which this one (from the Merriam-Webster website) is a representative example: A composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or char…

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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Panama Hattie by Wendy Caster

Panama Hattie, the third show in the York Theatre Company's Cole Porter-a-thon, is a mixed bag that is ultimately great fun. Simon Jones, Kylie Kuioka, Stephen Bogardus, Klea Blackhurst, An…

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Big Apple Circus by Wendy Caster

Tired of the news? Depressed by the weird meanness of humans? Maybe you need a mini-vacation. Maybe you need to bask in the weird wonder of humans. Jayson Dominguez and the Wheel of DeathP…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:18AM
Monday, October 28, 2019

Macbeth by Wendy Caster

The production of Macbeth at the Classic Stage Company (CSC), directed and designed by John Doyle, is a streamlined affair. It runs 1:40 without an intermission; it has a cast of only nine …

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation by Wendy Caster

Once upon a time, Broadway was full of larger-than-life stars (often women) easily identified by their distinctive voices and mannerisms. Gwen Verdon. Carol Channing. Ethel Merman. Elaine St…

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All Hallow's Eve by Wendy Caster

When a set of twins (Eve and Evan) press the wrong doorbell on Halloween, they are forced to fight for their lives against a manipulative, mean, and hungry witch. Can they save themselves? C…

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Betrayal by Liz Wollman

On the surface, Betrayal is about entitled Londoners who meet for fancy lunches, during which they chat about art and literature and the best way to get to Torcello from Venice during summe…

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter by Wendy Caster

I bought my first Ben Bagley record, Irving Berlin Revisited, for 69 cents at a flea market in New Jersey a million years ago. Albums those days cost around four dollars, so it was quite a …

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Tonya Pinkins' Truth and Reconciliation: Womyn Working it Out! by Sandra Mardenfeld

The cast; Photo by Katie Walenta While much of Tonya Pinkins' Truth and Reconciliation: Womyn Working it Out, a collective of nine 10-minute plays and songs about women and oppression per…

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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Laughing Liberally: Make America Laugh Again by Wendy Caster

Laughing Liberally: Make America Laugh Again, an evening of left-leaning stand-up comedy, provides a bubble of shared beliefs, politically correct (and occasionally incorrect) commentary, …

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Monday, September 9, 2019

American Moor by Wendy Caster

When Keith Hamilton Cobb first took an acting class, he wanted to play Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream. His acting teacher said no. Cobb continued to make creative suggestions; his t…

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Monday, August 19, 2019

Art Times: Whose Opinion Matters? by Wendy Caster

My latest essay is up at Art Times:The holy grail of New York theater is a rave review in the New York Times. It doesn’t guarantee success (and a pan doesn’t guarantee failure), but a …

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Queen of Hearts by Sandra Mardenfeld

Ian Spring and LEXXE as Alice. Photo: Mark Shelby Perry This burlesque journey down the rabbit hole transforms Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into a circus-tinged, sex…

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