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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Grandliloquent by Tony Marinelli

Gary Gulman in his one-man show "Grandiloquent" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Michaelah Reynolds) Writer and memoirist Gary Gulman looks comfortable as that raconteur that wil…

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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Dead as a Dodo by Tony Marinelli

While they credit the eight puppeteers textually, "with help from the ensemble," Warnock and Waage are also credited as executive producers along with set and costume design. Mr. Waage is gi…

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

True Love Forever by Tony Marinelli

Girelli's lyrics provide wonderful support to Willett's choreography. A motif for the song "Valentine" has the dancers in tango movements covering their hearts with their palms. The playfuln…

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Friday, December 6, 2024

This Is My Favorite Song by Tony Marinelli

Walking into the Peter Sharp Theater we have no hint of what is behind what look like opaque vinyl shower curtains from one end of the stage to the other. Within moments of her appearance, d…

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! by Tony Marinelli

The success of this play and our ability to navigate the ride relies heavily on the flawless cast led by Troyano herself. She shepherds us through every turn of the script and we willingly f…

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Monday, November 25, 2024

We Are Your Robots by Tony Marinelli

While the musicians are exemplary, it is Lipton who does the heavy lifting in the show. With what amounts to a very witty hosting duty, his singing voice is one that is rich and quite comfor…

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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves by Tony Marinelli

Director Scott Ebersold works wonders with the double-edged sword of the audience knowing full well these performances are colored by the play taking place close to 20 years ago when girls t…

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Triptych by Tony Marinelli

As long as you come to John Yearley's "Triptych" with the understanding that grief is a deeply personal and complex emotion and that just because two people are married doesn't mean they wil…

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Friday, November 8, 2024

Another Shot by Tony Marinelli

As both playwright Harry Teinowitz and his co-author Spike Manton spent time in rehab, they carry us through the epiphanies as well as the relapses by injecting humor in every "shot glass" o…

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Bad Kreyòl by Tony Marinelli

"Bad Kreyòl" is gifted with a pre-show voiceover from the playwright herself: "To love a people is to learn their language." This speaks volumes for two women who know what they know, are…

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The Beastiary by Tony Marinelli

This stunning theatrical work is a creation of the two-member On The Rocks Theatre Co. (Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose), two ingenious artists who have been at work on "The Beastiary" sinc…

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Monday, October 14, 2024

The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny's Bar by Tony Marinelli

Director Jared Mezzocchi uses the proximity of the actors to the audience to its best advantage. We don't even question when one of our ranks is pulled out to play Young Sunny. It adds to th…

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Magnificent Bird/Book of Travelers by Tony Marinelli

Gabriel Kahane's pair of song cycles are a welcome throwback to when lyrics were poetry and told great stories. Think of the 70's when the airwaves were blessed with the voices and songwriti…

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

The Witness Room by Tony Marinelli

Four hardened male plainclothes police officers are being coached for a "suppression hearing" " that is a court proceeding prior to trial to challenge the legality of the evidence taken from…

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The Voices in Your Head by Tony Marinelli

In this return engagement of the site-specific "The Voices in Your Head" we are often asked to give pause in order to consider how differently we all process our grief. Earlier this summer a…

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Friday, September 13, 2024

The Ask by Tony Marinelli

Betsy Aidem and Colleen Litchfield in Matthew Freeman's "The Ask" at the wild project (Photo credit:  Kent Meister) We are still not done blaming Covid for the upsetting of our routines. …

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Monday, August 26, 2024

Pretty Perfect Lives by Tony Marinelli

Tarlton's work is not without promise. As a social critique of people who are surgically attached to their smartphones, it is somewhat spot-on. (Heaven forbid we miss that recent post docume…

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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Clowns Like Me by Tony Marinelli

Ehrenpreis' "Clowns Like Me" is sad, but true, and with the help of writer and director Jason Cannon, the brutally honest tale finds all the humor that's possible. Within a very few minutes …

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Midnight Coleslaw's Tales from Beyond The Closet!!! by Tony Marinelli

Perhaps "Midnight Coleslaw's Tales from Beyond The Closet!!!" 's tagline "an evening of boner-chilling terror" was not meant to be a typo. The premise of an evening of one-act plays that exp…

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

The Fires by Tony Marinelli

Raja Feather Kelly, an award-winning choreographer of recent Broadway musicals "A Strange Loop" and "Lempicka," as well as "Teeth," the recent Playwrights Horizons success imminently getting…

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Saturday, May 25, 2024

Three Houses by Tony Marinelli

Someone once coined the adage, "Write what you know."  For the past few seasons, we have seen many writers have a lot to say about surviving the Covid lockdown, but none so eloquently as …

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Staff Meal by Tony Marinelli

Koogler began writing "Staff Meal" in January 2020 and completed the first draft in April 2020…well, he certainly had time on his hands, but so did a lot of people. It's a wonder we didn't…

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Exagoge by Tony Marinelli

As we are instructed early on, the meal and the service are divided into 15 sections. The Seder is held in the midst, or as a significant part, of the whole of the play. It is then complemen…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Orlando by Tony Marinelli

While the ensemble cast is excellent throughout, we do feel Taylor Mac's absence when he goes offstage to change costumes (and that is quite a few times, one more sumptuous than the other " …

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Still by Tony Marinelli

The performances are quite stellar. Jayne Atkinson's Helen is simply gorgeous. We do see that woman who 30 years ago wore a red dress to a party…and that was enough for Mark and Lorraine t…

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Friday, April 19, 2024

House of Telescopes by Tony Marinelli

Playwright Kairos Looney has given us a gift in these painfully beautiful moments. We explore a family's various ways of approaching love for and duty to each other with the result that we a…

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Teeth by Tony Marinelli

Sarah Benson's direction is spot-on, but we find ourselves wishing the closing scene was more than just a plethora of bloody penises. This is where the creatives needed to say, "Okay, this i…

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

Eugene Onegin by Tony Marinelli

Enter young baritone Edwin Joseph. He has that dark curly hair and handsome face, yes, and the crucial understanding of the necessary swagger and selfishness that carries this character thro…

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Existentialism by Tony Marinelli

The text created by Bogart in collaboration with Maddow and Zimet is a collage of assembled passages from the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir, amongst others. Maddow and Zimet don't often sp…

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Spiritus/Virgil's Dance by Tony Marinelli

It is a rare author indeed that can take uncomfortable material, and by uncomfortable that is, to hear, digest, and process a subject no one likes as a subject of conversation, and then give…

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

White Rose: The Musical by Tony Marinelli

While we are presented with characters who are doing a noble thing and can be touched by what they go through to accomplish their task, Brian Belding's book and lyrics repeatedly take us out…

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