Tag Archives: Off-Broadway

Linklater's new tragicomedy doesn't sustain its dreamy magic consistently, but it offers much to appreciate.

Though his ongoing fame today rests almost entirely on his writing for children, especially the world of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne (1882-1956) was a literary polymath who had a successful career on the London and Broadway stages in the 1920s. The Mint Theater reminds us with the first New York revival of this "serious comedy," a character study of two brothers.

A typhoon of a performance by Sophie Melville drives toward – and justifies – a wrenching twist. Directed with just-shy-of-frantic energy by Rachel O'Riordan, Sophie Melville's Effie is a raw slice of humanity, baring her ragged soul and bringing us her milieu, a few of the people in her life, and a critical encounter with a war veteran that bends the arc of her history toward, if not justice, a kind of heroism.

As a 'Ragtime' newbie, I wondered how E.L. Doctorow's three connected stories of early-20th-century America fit together in a musical theater context. The answer, on the evidence of this fine new production, is: brilliantly.

This nightmare future scenario asks: Are citizens responsible for crimes their lifestyles have perpetuated?

William Kunstler was a towering figure in the 1960s and 1970s; wherever he went controversy followed him.

Is open marriage a sacrifice of marriage bonds or an enhancement?

The first musical from this fabulously inventive puppeteer ensemble may be the troupe's most charming production yet. Brightly gripping, and written and directed in a classic fabulist style, it's replete with innovative marvels of illusion.

Sir Noël Peirce Coward is a cultural icon you may be surprised to know inspired Elton John, Sting and Paul McCartney to sing some of his songs.

Are you down with being hip or are you uptight as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs?