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Off-Broadway Preview/News: “Melissa Etheridge Off-Broadway: My Window – A Journey Through Life” at New World Stages (Through Sunday. October 23, 2022)

Producers Michael Cohl and EMC Presents, in association with Larry Mestel, Deborah Klein, and Steven Greener for Primary Wave Music announce today the world premiere of Grammy & Academy Award winner Melissa Etheridge’s new Off Broadway solo show, Melissa Etheridge Off Broadway: My Window – A Journey Through Life. Beginning Thursday, October 13, 2022, the show will play twelve performances…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” at the DR2 Theatre (Closed Sunday November 21, 2021)

November 15, 2021 | asi wind, Off-Broadway > | “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet”, Aja M. Jackson, Alex Goldie Golden, Alex Wyse, Ben Fankhauser, DR2 Theatre, Hannah Woodward, Marshall Pailet, Matthew Murphy, Sarita Fellows, Stephanie Klemons, Twi McCallum, Wilson Chin

The new musical “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” with music, book and lyrics by Ben Fankhauser and Alex Wyse, who also star in the Off-Broadway production now occupying the DR2 Theater is old. That’s a compliment and a good thing. It comes across as a good old fashioned musical comedy from decades ago with a present-day spin. The book…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bella Bella” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I

November 26, 2019 | a man of, asi wind, kimberly, Off-Broadway, the old man > | "Bella Bella", Caite Hevner, Harvey Fierstein, Jeremy Daniel, Jill BC Du Boff, John Lee Beatty, Kimberly Senior, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City Center Stage I, Rita Ryack, Tyler Micoleau

There are times during Harvey Fierstein’s performance in his “Bella Bella,” currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I, that the audience is convinced – sans dress, sans hat, sans props – that he is the iconic social activist “Battling Bella.” When Mr. Fierstein channels Bella’s admonitions about the “voice of the people” superseding the importance…

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Broadway Review: “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although the new Broadway musical “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” takes place in Paris in 1899, it is without a doubt a “Cabaret” for the 21st Century. It captures the sounds of Lady Gaga, Katie Perry, Patti Labelle, Beyonce, Elton John and an endless host of others as they are woven into the plot with unequivocal brilliance. Those all familiar high-octane…

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Broadway Review: “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” at the Broadhurst Theatre

“Pretend that we’re the only two people in the entire world, that’s what I’m doing, and it all falls into place.” – Johnny to Frankie Moonlight – the kind of light that shines into Frankie’s (Audra McDonald) apartment window at night – provides the best light for pretending. The kind of pretending that has the chance of making an incursion…

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Off-Broadway Review: “BLKS” in the Newman Mills Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a “comedic look” at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, three twenty something black women living in New York City – a city where black lives seem not to matter and where, for that reason, it has become difficult for…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Lewsiton/Clarkston” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

There is quite an intriguing theatrical event occurring at the Rattlestick Theater, where two ninety-minute plays separated by a thirty-minute communal dinner break takes the stage to engage an audience of fifty, in two compelling dramas. The playhouse is stripped down to its original walls discovering weathered multi paned windows and worn wainscoting, wearing years of neglect, with some sections…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Party Face” at New York City Center Stage II

February 17, 2018 | asi wind, Off-Broadway > | "Party Face", Allison Jean White, Amanda Bearse, Brenda Meaney, Damien Figueras, Gina Costigan, Hayley Mills, Isobel Mahon, Jeff Ridenour, Jeremy Daniel, Joyce Liao, Klea Blackhurst, Lara De Bruijn, Melanie T. Morgan, New York City Center Stage II

There is yet another theatrical party occurring on stage at City Center developed by Isobel Mahon and billed as the new comedy entitled “Party Face.” This soiree is celebrating the newly designed kitchen by the absentee husband of Mollie Mae (played with distinct dismal despair by Gina Costigan), who has just been released from the psychiatric ward after having a…

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Broadway Review: “1984” Wrinkles Reality at the Hudson Theatre

September 9, 2017 | asi wind, Broadway > | "1984", “Blowin’ in the Wind”, Bob Dylan, Cara Seymour, Carl Hendrick Louis, Chloe Lamford, Duncan Macmillan, George Orwell, Hudson Theatre, Julieta Cervantes, Michael Potts, Natasha Chivers, Nick Mills, Olivia Wilde, Reed Birney, Robert Icke, Tim Reid, Tom Gibbons, Tom Sturridge, Wayne Duvall

“Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist/Before they’re allowed to be free/Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head/And pretend that he just doesn’t see/The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind/The answer is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1962) Did the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties at the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Arcadia” at PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2

“I’m the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. Forever. Endlessly.” – Tom Stoppard in an Interview with Mel Gussow about “The Real Inspector Hound,” “New York Times,” April 26, 1972 Apparently, Tom Stoppard practices what he preaches. The type…

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