This sardonic comedy swipes at our need to control others and our masochistic desire to be controlled.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Maids’ by Jean Genet
Transposed to New Orleans, the French classic still poses difficult questions about action and inaction, masters and servants.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The God Projekt’
Inventive puppetry propels this story of an aging God who conceives a new project: to re-create mankind.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘One Night’ by Charles Fuller
One Night, Charles Fuller's play about wounded warriors attempting to deal with PTSD and the aftershocks of their time fighting in Iraq is not to be missed. The production's cultural currency and timeless relevance about the effects of war offers an essential view of the military that is rarely seen.
Read More »Carrie Underwood in New ‘The Sound of Music’ Live Broadcast and Soundtrack
This three-hour live broadcast, with accompanying soundtrack recording, take us back to 1930s Austria - but also to the golden age of live television.
Read More »‘Broadway or Bust’ Traces Trials and Tribulations of Aspiring Actors
Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts opens its doors to Red Hook High School Performing Arts Club with a world premiere musical by Rosary O'Neill and David Temple.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Cottage’ by Sandy Rustin
This thoroughly enjoyable farce picks up where Noël Coward left off, but with a female character in charge.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Starlight Express’
Strange and unique, especially for its time (it was first performed in 1984), 'Starlight Express' is still different in today's theatre landscape. But many of this musical's elements seem outdated.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘All That Fall,’ A Radio Play by Samuel Beckett
Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon are wonderful in Samuel Beckett's radio play directed by Trevor Nunn.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Norwegians’ by C. Denby Swanson
Olive and Betty need some hit men, Norwegian gangsters in particular. These are really, really nice gangsters who will straighten out a woman's unhappy love life for a reasonable fee.
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