Act Three - The Reviews

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Mankind

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Playwright Robert O'Hara should never be accused of being timid.  In his bold, audacious new play, Mankind , he envisions a world wi...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Matilda

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Those Brits have a unique taste in musicals.  We Americans like sappy stories and saccharine musicals.  We like sad and depressing usually...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Almost, Maine

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Even if this was a High School production, it was a play that I had heard of but not yet seen.  The play, written by, now, Broadway music...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

The Treasurer

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A touching new play by a terrific American playwright, Max Posner .   The Treasurer tells the tale of an elderly mother, Ida Armstrong ( ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday

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Sarah Ruhl has a tender, touching new play running over at Playwrights Horizons .   For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday is a story about...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

The Terms of My Surrender

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Self promotion with a purpose.  Theatre?  Only in the abstract sense.  Entertainment, most certainly.   Michael Moore , an unconventional ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

A Parallelogram

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One of the few magical plays out there this season.   Bruce Norris is a master of subjects tangled up in mystery and time.   A Parallelo...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Spamilton

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The master or parody strikes again.   Gerard Alessandrini has penned yet another spoof - this time based on one show - Hamilton .   Howev...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Hello Dolly!

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Wow, Wow, Wow.  Dancing waiters, gorgeous gowns with gloves, gorgeous sets, fun, frivolity, and a magnificent score by Jerry Herman!  Wha...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Fulfillment Center

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With a name like this somehow you expect it to be it's namesake - fulfilling.  On the contrary, the play by Abe Koogler, performed on...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Darrow

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In what can only be described as a first-ever theatrical event - the indomitable Kevin Spacey (fresh off hosting the Tony Awards in New Y...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Man In The Ceiling

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A new musical isn't easy to nurture and bring to the stage.   Andrew Lippa has penned music and Lyrics to the book by Jules Feiffer ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Marvin's Room

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This revival of Marvin's Room may leave you wondering why people revive plays at all - especially when there have been a very success...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Bella: An American Tall Tale

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Bella - or Isabella Patterson ( Ashley D. Kelley ) has a vivid and wild imagination indeed.  When she gets on a train to escape the pursui...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Kennedy's Children

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This is a revival of an older play.  I'm not entirely convinced that it screams "revive me" or "this is all happening a...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Government Inspector

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What do you get when you combine a 200+ year old play, a movie musical with Danny Kaye, and really good contemporary comedic actors?   Mos...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Animal

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In this new play by Claire Lizzimore , you are expected to think... and connect dots... and solve her riddle....  It's not that compli...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Cost of Living

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In Martyna Majok's new play, Cost of Living, we come to realize the cost she is speaking of is mostly the emotional one.  What does it...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

1984

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George Orwell 's dystopian novel brought to the stage - first in London on the West End, now on Broadway.  The technology and video em...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Oslo

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It's official - I just saw the Tony award winning play of the year.   Oslo , a new docu-play by J.T. Rogers  being presented at the Vi...
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