Tag: New York
In the Moment: ‘A View From the Bridge’ at The Kennedy...
Even having inklings of what to expect, there was no protecting myself from the shattering production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge...
Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812’ at the...
A most elaborate and tastefully glamorous musical has arrived in town to brighten the holiday season. That’s Natasha, Pierre and their sisters and their...
Review: Concerto for Violin, Rock Band & String Orchestra: Composed by...
When I saw Mike Mills of R.E.M. was coming to town, I knew I had to see him because I grew up on his...
An Interview with the Producers and the Creative Team of ‘IN...
The popular creative team of composer and musician Dan Martin and lyricist and artist Michael Biello, well-known for their many artistic ventures in both...
A Preview of Inis Nua Theatre Company’s ‘Dublin by Lamplight’ with...
Hot off a Barrymore win for Best Ensemble in a Play for Inis Nua Theatre Company’s The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning and having received...
Fringe Encore Series Review:‘The Radicalization of Rolfe’ at SoHo Playhouse in...
A deserving winner of the FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for a play, The Radicalization of Rolfe, produced by Glenn Krutoff, is a uniquely witty...
United Solo Review: ‘Listen . . . Can You Hear Me...
Growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents, Gloria Rosen faced many challenges, both in interpreting for and communicating with her family, and...
Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Homo Sapiens Interruptus’ at The Huron Club...
Following the trajectory of his career from heavy-metal rocker to student, writer, and theater artist, Carlos Dengler not only recounts his own personal development,...
Review: ‘Inner Voices’ at Premieres in NYC
The human condition can be challenging, whatever your age, gender, background, or experience. Inner Voices explores, with insight and humor, some of those debilitating...
Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Piaf and Brel (The Impossible Concert)’ at...
Though they never met or performed together, Édith Piaf (1915-63) and Jacques Brel (1929-78), nearly fifteen years apart in age, both became legends of...
Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Opera Mouse’ at SoHo Playhouse in NYC
An engaging storyteller, a gifted soprano, and a natural with children, Melanie Gall brings her warmth, talent, and stage presence to the Fringe Encore...
Fringe Encore Series Review: ‘Rent Control’ at The Huron Club at...
This autobiographical one-man show Rent Control, which won the 2016 FringeNYC Award for Overall Excellence in Solo Performance, Evan Zes turns his comic eye...
FringeNYC Encore Series Review: ‘ChipandGus’ at SoHo Playhouse in NYC
Winner of the 2016 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble, ChipandGus-- written, directed, and performed by John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen, and produced...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Imaginary Music’ by PhEAD at the...
A one-night-only multimedia concert that paired Minimalist music--a movement that originated in downtown New York in the 1960s--with visual imagery and current digital technology,...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Room 21’ by Jace Clayton at...
The 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival celebrated its official launch at the Barnes Foundation on Friday evening with an extraordinary one-night-only sold-out event in the...
Review: ‘EDWIN, The Story of Edwin Booth’ at The Theatre at...
Renowned as the greatest American Shakespearean actor of his day, Edwin Booth (1833-93), the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s killer John Wilkes Booth, could have...
A Preview with the Cast and Team of ‘The Vanity’ at...
What do you get when you mix The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sunset Boulevard and Valley of the Dolls? A high-camp melodramatic parody...
2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Cyrano: A Love Letter To A Friendship’
Edmond Rostand’s classic French play of 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac, is re-envisioned through a post-modern gay lens in Grind Arts Company’s Cyrano: a love...
2016 FringeNYC Review: “Steve Got Raped”
Relationships are hard. And that goes double if you’re pushing 30, but still haven’t made the psychological and emotional transition from youth to adulthood....
2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Take One”
Sometimes even the most inspired geniuses need to do some rethinking, reworking, and rewrites of their greatest creations to forge an unforgettable masterpiece. Such...