What makes a play Irish? In 'Irishtown' the acting company struggles to find out when the playwright ditches them days before their Broadway debut.
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Theater Review: Glass. Kill. What if if Only. Imp.
In a suite of four powerful one-acts Caryl Churchill threads themes about vulnerability, powerlessness, and loss.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ with Sadie Sink – Powerful, Thrilling
'John Proctor is the Villain' deals with a conservative, religious community where girls confront issues paralleling those in 'The Crucible.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Café Resistance’
Failures of script, storyline, direction and acting make 'Café Resistance' a misbegotten attempt at a play-with-music on a serious subject.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ – An Astonishing Sarah Snook
The Picture of Dorian Gray Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for her role as Shiv in Succession, Sarah Snook makes her debut exploding out of the Broadway gate with her shattering, one-woman, whirlwind performance of Dorian Gray. Donning 26 roles, she gives twenty-six performances, all of them profoundly realized …
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): In ‘Operation Mincemeat’ History Meets Hilarity
'Operation Mincemeat' is a rollicking yet profoundly ironic and nuanced musical about a WWII British espionage scheme that duped Hitler.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Trojans,’ a New SynthWave Musical by Leegrid Stevens
This high-school-football retelling of 'The Iliad' is a voluminous, rainbow-hued spectacle of glory days and myth, staged and played with pomp and passion.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Ghosts,’ Starring Lily Rabe, Billy Crudup
Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' starring Lily Rabe and Billy Crudup, with Mark O'Rowe's updated script and Jack O'Brien's steely direction is superb.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Liberation’
'Liberation' questions and explores the strides of feminism in this time when the movement looks as if it has failed.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class,’ Starring Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart
Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard’s popular Curse of the Starving Class in a New Group revival thematically resonates with hunger, spiritually, psychically, emotionally. First appearing at the Public Theater, the play won an Obie for Best New American Play during the 1976-1977 season. Since then, Shepard’s sardonic comedy …
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