REVIEW: Photographic Memory: Girl From the North Country (for Parterre Box)
For a show set during the hardscrabble 1930s, few performances suggest downtroddedness.
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REVIEW: Unfinished Sympathy: Unknown Soldier at Playwrights Horizons (for Parterre Box)
It’s difficult to discuss Unknown Soldier without considering the impact of legacy.
REVIEW: In Theatre Horizon’s The Agitators, Two 19th Century Superheroes Join Forces
Opening night had an extraordinary feeling of community. Isn’t that what theater should be about?
REVIEW: Azuka’s Ship Is Funny, Poignant, and Altogether Engrossing
Playwright Douglas Williams’ ear for Millennial patois is superb… and his eye for character even better.
REVIEW: Look What Happened to Mabel: Mack and Mabel at Encores (for Parterre Box)
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
REVIEW: After the Parade: Hello, Dolly! at the Academy of Music (for Parterre Box)
This charmless, shrill Dolly did not have me at Hello!
REVIEW: In EgoPo’s Fool for Love, Intimacy Gone to Waste
The electric current that needs to run through Sam Shepard’s great play is curiously low-voltage here.
REVIEW: Curio Theatre’s I Heart Alice Heart I—A Small Thing Done With Great Love
At 48th and Baltimore, a performance worthy of a Tony, and an enchanting show.
REVIEW: Bedlam’s King Lear Is Deconstruction Without Reconstruction
Director Eric Tucker’s production seems like an exercise in “épater la bourgeoisie” smart ass-ness.
reclining standards 