The Saviors

You can imagine a pitch meeting along these lines: “I’ve written a play that depicts the difference between being religious and acting godly.  Oh, and the lead roles are 13 and 14 year old boy…

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Hadestown: The Musical — The Film

On July 24, Cross Walk (a division of Bleeker Street Films) and LD Entertainment will be releasing their much-anticipated live theater capture of the West End production of Hadestown: The Musical.&…

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A Walk on the Moon: A New Musical

After ambling through San Francisco and New Jersey, the musical version of A Walk on the Moon has landed Off-Broadway.  The story is set in 1969 during a summer of great societal change.  America i…

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Pied-À-Terre

At first glance, John S. Anastasi’s Pied-À-Terre appears to be just another version of an oft-repeated story.  Jack, a middle-aged, financially successful lawyer, picks up Katie, a teen prosti…

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Fear & Wonder

In the new comedic drama Fear & Wonder, two teen boys meet at a Christian summer camp in Orlando, Florida.  Ryan is an African American with dreams of becoming a Youth Minister.  Jabe…

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Eureka Day — Boston, MA

I don’t remember the last time I attended a play at which everyone was laughing so loudly I couldn’t hear the dialogue… and I didn’t mind because I was laughing too.  That was the most unforge…

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Lauder: Scotland’s Kilted King of Broadway

Part biography, part musical revue, Jimmy Logan’s Lauder is a jubilant celebration of “Scotland’s Kilted King of Broadway.”  Born in 1870 in Edinburgh, Harry Lauder used laughter, imagination,…

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Indian Princesses

YMCA’s Indian Princesses was originally established in the mid-1950s.  The objective was to nurture the bond between white fathers and daughters with Native American heritage.  The good i…

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The Receptionist

From the beginning, there is something off about the Northeast Office in Adam Bock’s The Receptionist.  There is a squishy sense of period and an even sparser sense of location beyond a workpl…

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The Door Slams, A Glass Trembles

A Talking Band production is to a typical scripted play what an impressionist painting is to a photograph.  The plot lines are delineated, but the total picture is brought into focus through i…

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The Balusters

Balusters are the tiny pillars that support handrails on a deck or staircase.  Not just an architectural flourish, these critical structures provide safety and support.  In David Lindsay-…

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The Approach

Composed as a round-robin of tête-à-têtes between Cora (Carmen M. Herlihy) and sisters Denise (Kate MacCluggage) and Anna (Danielle Ryan), The Approach explores the fragile mechanics that underpin …

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Transcendency Rising

Since expanding their initial mission as a theater for the blind, Theater Breaking Through Barriers has become one of America’s few companies for artists with disabilities.  Their current prod…

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Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare’s first “stab” at tragedy.  Unlike his soon-to-arrive Romeo and Juliet, it has no characters to fully invest in and bears many of the hallmarks of a brilliant …

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Monte Cristo: A New Musical

In The Count of Monte Cristo, an 1846 book by Alexandre Dumas, revenge is a chef’s tasting menu of dishes best served cold.  In Monte Cristo, a new musical by Peter Kellogg and Stephen Weiner,…

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Spare Parts

In Spare Parts, a well-meaning Columbia University Assistant Professor and a dedicated graduate student are studying the aging process; experimenting with possibilities for slowing or reversing it.…

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Mother Russia

When I went to Russia as a child, my parents and I brought Skippy, Hanes, and Levis to a friend’s niece in Moscow.  All the best restaurants only took American dollars, which were unavailable to lo…

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Chinese Republicans

In Chinese Republicans, four women of Chinese heritage and spanning three generations are gathered for an Affinity Luncheon near their New York City office.  As co-workers at a stressful inter…

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Not Nobody

Retired professor McAlester Daily does not want to be labeled.  Given the nature of a spectrum, he posits, aren’t we all on it?  True, he insists on clarity: of the questions being asked of him and…

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The First Line of Dante’s Inferno

The presiding character in The First Line of Dante’s Inferno has no lines, but dominates and literally overhangs the dialogue.  It is the dark outlying woods represented by Lauren Helpern’s evocati…

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The Opening

The lead character of the new musical The Opening is Newton Anderson, a nerdy, sweet 17 year old. When he’s not compulsively playing chess, he’s daydreaming about his classmate Jenny or doing the h…

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Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box

At the intersection of visual art, movement, music, and the written word lives the collaborative company Happenstance Theater.  Under the Artistic Co-Direction of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Selma…

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Predictor

Too few productions hit that magical sweet spot of addressing a pressing issue while remaining entertaining and even funny.  This is what makes Predictor such a refreshing addition to the wint…

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Lennox Mutual

Post pandemic lockdown, I have taken an interest in theater that can be enjoyed from home.  There are many people with mobility, childcare, and transportation issues who deserve to be thorough…

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Archduke

Of all the action leading up to World War I, the chapter most remembered by students of that era is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the vast Austro-Hungary empi…

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Friends! The Unauthorized Musical Parody

My friends will confirm:  I am not a Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte or Samantha.  I am a Monica.  If that doesn’t conjure up a distinct image, Friends! The Unauthorized Musical Parody is…

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Meet the Cartozians

What establishes our identity?  Skin color?  Language?  Scientific evidence?  In a country comprised primarily of immigrants, how do we balance our cultural heritage with our re…

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Robert Icke’s Oedipus

Restrict your liquids and buckle up for the ride.  Robert Icke’s multiple Olivier Award Winning Oedipus has landed on Broadway.  The writer/director phenom transforms the 2500 year old Greek myth t…

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Malcolm X & Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem

In June of 1943, Malcolm Little and John Elroy Sanford crossed paths as dishwashers in the same Harlem fried chicken joint.  At ages 19 and 20 respectively, they were still finding their footing as…

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