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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle’ by Ross Dungan
Eric Argyle has just been hit by a car and killed. There just might be enough time to rectify something from his past to help someone in the present.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Awake’ by Ken Urban
Three dream-and-reality dualities reflect our topsy-turvy, almost fantastical post-9/11 world of secret prisons and climate disasters.
Read More »Theater/Concert Review (NYC): ‘The Anderson Twins Play the Fabulous Dorseys’
A concept-concert featuring the phenomenally talented Anderson brothers pays tribute to Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): My Mind is Like an Open Meadow
Solo performer Erin Leddy digs into an ancestor's life...until Grandma finally says, "No more digging dear, I'm all dug up."
Read More »Opera Review (NYC): ‘Travelers: “The Wandering Scholar” and “Savitri”‘ by Gustav Holst
A trickster theme and Holst's tricky music unite these two mini-operas, whose moods couldn't be more different.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ by Alan Ayckbourn
In Ayckbourn's 75th play, mild-mannered Martin marshals his neighbors into an increasingly strident and fascistic neighborhood watchdog group.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pillow Book’ by Anna Moench
This powerful new work, inspired by the thousand-year-old Japanese literary classic, is well worth seeing – and getting a bit perplexed about.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman’
The composer of Barnum, Sweet Charity, City of Angels and other classic shows was at the peak of his powers to the end of his days.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Haunted’ by Edna O’Brien, Starring Brenda Blethyn
A triple character study as well as something of a psychological thriller, Haunted with its bang-up cast is a doozy—and a delight.
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