Reviews
Pompano Players’ Enthusiasm & Skill Power Fresh Take In Side By Side By Sondheim Revue
Acting through a song is precisely the supreme virtue in Pompano Players’ Side by Side by Sondheim. Savor a superbly delivered gift from full-throated yet textured voices who provide slightly individualized phrasing that makes the familiar seem fresh.
My Take On: More Reviews of New York City Plays & Musicals
OUR REVIEWS OF SCHMIGDOON, THE LOST BOYS, SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK), FALLEN WOMEN, MONTE CRISTO, THE RECEPTIONIST
Zoetic Stage’s Power of Storytelling Drives Hard To Decode Moses
The unique magic of skilled storytelling is truly the compelling virtue of Zoetic Stage’s engaging drama Moses. But this observer wrestled in vain to find, let alone follow, the propelling essence.
Odds Are Riverside’s 9 To 5 Musical Will Delight Film’s Fans
Fans of the movie 9 to 5 will be delighted by 9 to 5: The Musical, playing through May 10 at the Riverside Theatre, The characters you remember and the premise of three working women coping with their domineering boss are the same, with changes made for the musical story to flow better.
M Ensemble’s Searching for Willie Lynch Crosses Eras to Explore Inherited Trauma
Time, memory and history overlap in Layon Gray’s semi-surrealist Searching for Willie Lynch for M Ensemble exploring the legacy of the infamous Willie Lynch speech twhere characters from different periods coexist and interact across generations with themes of inherited trauma, history, division, and resilience within Black communities.
Miami New Drama’s The Zionists Digs Even More Broadly Into Effectiveness of Debate
Yes, The Zionists: A Family Storm provides an incisive and fair examination of the clashing issues of Jews’ and Palestinians’ rights to call Israel home. But that comprehensive inquiry in this powerful drama at Miami New Drama extends much farther, broader and deeper than that sole central topic on the table.
Gulfshore’s ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’: Review Written as Letter About Epistolary Play
Though it may seem obvious to say, Dear Jack, Dear Louise is itself a love letter to both love and letters at the Gulfshore Playhouse, inspired by the playwright’s parents, who met and courted via letters during World War II.
Slow Burn’s Vigorous Hairspray As Fresh and Relevant As Ever
Hairspray isn’t a “new” musical anymore. But with director Patrick Fitzwater at the helm of this Slow Burn Theatre Co. production, Hairspray is as fresh and even more relevant as when it landed on the Broadway stage in 2002.
Theater Lab’s INFERNA: Traditional Indoctrination Doesn’t Deal With Sexual Abuse
We all have scripts. In her INFERNA at Theatre Lab playwright’actress Joanna Castle Miller says they are values and mores inculcated since childhood especially by religion. But sometimes we have been indoctrinated in multiple scripts; some don’t sync, some counter each other, some which don’t even address issues.
No Bull: Bridge Across The Pond’s Look At Women’s Movement
Before Suffs or Liberation looking at women’s rights movement, Bull in a China Shop gives another historical view of the fight of more than a century ago, now being staged by Bridge Across the Pond at Empire Stage
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