Saturday, March 23, 2013
This play by Anita Loos is the kind of play that begs for the lament “They don’t make them like that anymore.†Fortunately, TACT is still stagin…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
Target Margin's production of Peretz Hirschbein's play may leave even those familiar with Yiddish theater baffled.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The New Victory's presentation is so visually inventive and the story so intriguing that the 70 minutes, like Zorro, gallops by
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
he story of Jewish immigrants is really the story of the American nation. After all, what could be more American than the film industry, Broadway and a lot of Yiddish words that have effortl…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:59PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
The Pearl production is a most enjoyable experience. But let us not forget it preceded the French Revolution by only eleven years. Laughter can be dangerous. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Tourists (and natives) can now learn everything they ever wanted to know about the Big Apple, while enjoying a New York lunch at Sofia's Downstairs. The show, directed by Robert Ross Parker,…
SOURCE: www.nytheatre-wire.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
These are colorful characters indeed. And they are played by a versatile ensemble cast, dressed in dazzling costumes, complete with feathers and flowing scarves. Wilson's African-influenced …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Jim Henry's psychological drama, is being presented as a new play, but it has actually has been produced around the country for several years, including a stint at Missouri Valley College (2…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:31PM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
Despite Eve Brandstein's capable direction and fine performances by Lynne Wintersteller and Nancy Johnson, thi play never fulfills its potential.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2012
a traditional play waiting to come out of a solo show. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
The formidable Lynn Cohen is the best thing about Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg's first play . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monica Bauer's play at Urban Stages speaks not so much to the Omaha riots that inspired it as to the attitudes that led to racial strifea. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2012
In Catherine Treischmann's new play, the red and blue states worlds collide, with interesting results.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2011
Besides being imbued with Klezmer this offers many lessons. And you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate them and enjoy the show
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2011
The Prospect Theater's delightful musical gets a welcome second life .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Part cyber-thriller, part farce, tjos seems to be what we might get if Alfred Hitchcock and the Marx brothers had lived in the 21st century.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2011
for all who like their history tweaked a bit . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Josh Koenigsberg writes with both humor and insight. In the end, his new play is about something much more severe than a midlife crisis.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:18AM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2011
Musical celebration of New York's most beloved neighborhood . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
The famous gunslinger's story musicalized by an all female cast
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
a musical full of insistently Broadway-type tunes and actors straining to make every joke work even though many seem to be pulled in from nowhere and everywhere: references
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:34AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2011
Daniel Beaty's first full-length musical clearly speaks from the heart,. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:09PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2011
a fascinating psychological and cultural study. It is performed by an extremely talented actress
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
There's nothing terribly wrong with this musical, but neither is there anything terribly right.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2011
this revival's book and score work as organically as a tree growing from the soil. . . .
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