Despite some narrative weakness, this new musical from the writers of 'Bedbugs!!!' is well worth seeing for its great music, wacky (true) stories, and fabulous cast.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Radio Mystery 1949’ by Dennis Richard
The concept of an old-time live radio broadcast turning into a kind of reality show might ring bells for today's audience if it were handled cleverly, but 'Radio Mystery 1949' drops the ball.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘The Singularity’ by Crystal Jackson
In a rather dystopian future and on the verge of menopause, a woman is at a fertility clinic hoping to have her very last egg artificially inseminated. But things aren't going her way.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘the dreamer examines his pillow’ by John Patrick Shanley
In its first NYC revival since its 1986 debut, the play mingles passages of naturalistic dialogue with fanciful poetic flowerings to expose depths of passion and self-doubt. And for long swaths of the 90-minute one-act, the Attic Theater Company cast carries this difficult material off with a crazed, sparkling bravado.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come’
Lit only by the actors' headlamps, this dark poetic drama about trapped coal miners grew on me – like a clammy mold.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Songs for the Fallen’ at the New York Musical Theatre Festival
Fizzy direction, brutally comic onstage energy, crafty songs and costumes, and overall technical sheen bring to pulse-pounding life this new musical version of Dumas's never-tired story of Marie Duplessis, the Lady of the Camellias.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ by The Trip
This experimental treatment of the ancient myth takes in video, music, dance, and the online world as it plays with your expectations.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Wild Women of Planet Wongo’
This immersive sci-fi fantasy musical is crammed with good-natured energy and nonstop campy humor.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘Unveiled’ Written and Performed by Rohina Malik
In her five monologues about post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment, Malik comes across as one of those actors whose performances seem powered as much by moral spirit as by craft.
Read More »Interview: Flux Theatre Ensemble’s August Schulenburg on Open Source Theatre
Recently Flux began publishing its budget with its Open Book program. Then the company again broke ground by debuting a pay-what-you-can policy it calls Living Ticket.
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