Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway/Dance Review: “Ain’t Done Bad” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage (Through Sunday, September 1, 2024)

Jakob Karr’s “Ain’t Done Bad,” currently running at the Irene Diamond Stage, portrays the familiar story of a young LGBTQ man (Jakob Karr) attempting to grapple with his sexual identity in an abusive home atmosphere. His mother (Megumi Iwama) is supportive but his father (Adrian Lee), who is verbally and psychologically abusive to the son’s brother (Ian Spring), mostly keeps…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Breaking the Story” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater (Through Sunday, June 23, 2024)

The newest offering at Second Stage’s Kiser Theatre is a production of a new play penned by Alexis Scheer titled “Breaking the Story” which centers around a war correspondent who is actively reporting from the front line. The production directed by Jo Bonney was a bit confusing for this audience member, finding the elements of magical realism not clearly defined….

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Lonely Few” at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater (Through Sunday, June 2, 2024).

The most recent offering at MCC Theater is a new musical entitled “The Lonely Few” with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak and a book penned by Rachel Bonds. Basically, it can be considered a rom com musical with a simple plot that takes a bit too long to develop especially since the predictability level is very high. The length…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre (Through Sunday, June 9, 2024)

Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Riding Hood” (among other cautionary folklore narratives) in which The Big Bad Wolf appears. Stand-ins for Little Red Riding Hood and those Three Little Pigs are Susan (a manic and hedonistic Margo Seibert), Sadie (a…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Hamlet” at the Orpheum Theater (Through Sunday, April 14, 2024)

March 29, 2024 | hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Hamlet", David Roberts, Didi Hopkins (Movement Director), Eddie Izzard, John Gore, Mark Izzard, Mick Perrin Worldwide, New York Theatre Reviews, Selina Cadell, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Piper (Set), Tom Piper and Libby DaCosta (Costume Stylists), Tyler Elich (Lighting), WestBeth Entertainment

Adapted by Eddie Izzard’s sibling Mark Izzard, this “Hamlet” is among the best “Hamlets” on stage, screen, or stream. From the first scene of the iconic tragedy on the battlements of the royal castle at Elsinore when Marcellus relieves Francisco from his watch and where he, Horatio, and Bernardo encounter the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, to the closing scene where…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dead Outlaw” at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (Through Sunday, April 14, 2024)

March 26, 2024 | book review, Music, Off-Broadway, the seven year > | "Dead Outlaw", Andrew Durand, Ani Taj (movement direction), Arnulfo Maldonado (scenic design), Audible Theatre, Austin Ku, casting by Tara Rubin Casting, Cynthia Cahill (production stage manager), Dashiell Eaves, David Cromer, David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow (music supervisor), Dean Sharenow and David Yazbek (orchestrations), Eddie Cooper, Emily Fink, Erik Della Penna, Faye Armon-Troncoso (properties), general management by Baseline Theatrical’s Jonathan Whitton, George Merrick, Heather Gilbert (lighting design), Hudson Theatrical Associates’ Sean Gorski, Isabella Curry (soundscape composition), Itamar Moses, Jeb Brown, Joseph Verlezza, Julia Knitel, Kai Harada & Joshua Millican (sound design), Ken Marks, Max Sangerman, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York Theatre Reviews, Peter Van Dam CSA, Rebekah Bruce (music director), Sarah Laux (costume design), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Thom Sesma, Trent Saunders

Only in America, where greed, fame, crime and capitalism reign and members of a civilized society aspire to become part of the materialistic regime, can you discover the story of Elmer J. McCurdy, a futile outlaw who was gunned down in 1911. The new musical, which opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre with a book penned by Itamar Moses with…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Ally” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, March 24, 2024)

Asaf and the members of the audience are the unwitting protagonists of Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” which is currently running at the Public’s Anspacher Theater. Asaf Sternheim (a well-meaning but uncommitted Josh Radnor) is Jewish, a writer, and an adjunct professor of writing at a prestigious American University in a struggling American city where his Korean American wife Gwen Kim…

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Off-Broadway Review: “I Love You So Much I Could Die” at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Saturday, March 9, 2024)

March 5, 2024 | i love you so, Off-Broadway, the ally > | "I Love You So Much I Could Die", costume design by Enver Chakartash, David Roberts, Jenny Anderson, lighting design by Oona Curley, Lucas Hnath, Mona Pirnot, music direction by Will Butler, New York Theatre Reviews, New York Theatre Workshop, NYTW, scenic design by Mimi Lien, sound design by Mikhail Fiksel and Noel Nichols, Terri K. Kohler Miles, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Microsoft’s Text to Speech Voice read’s Mona Pirnot’s script aloud (scored with sequences of punctuation to create pauses and silences) as the playwright sits with her back to the audience at a small desk adorned by her laptop and a small lamp. Pirnot’s non-fictional narrative is the personal yet “Everyman” story of loneliness, love, loss, death, bereavement, acceptance, confession, forgiveness,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Connector” at MCC Theater (Closed Sunday, March 17, 2024)

March 5, 2024 | book review, Off-Broadway, the ally > | "The Connector", Ann Sanders, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Ben Levi Ross, casting by The Telsey Office, Cedric Lamar, costume design by Márion Tálan de la Rosa, Daisy Prince, Daniel Jenkins, Danielle Lee Greaves, Eliseo Román, Erin Gioia Albrecht, Fergie Philippe, George Dvorsky, Hannah Cruz, Jason Robert Brown, Jessica Molaskey, Joanna Carpenter, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joseph Verlezza, Karla Puno Garcia, Kristy Norter, Kyle Sherman, lighting design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Max Crumm, MCC Theater, Michael Winther, Mylinda Hull, New York Theatre Reviews, orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Robert Brown, scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, Scott Bakula, sound design by Jon Weston, Telsey + Company/Patrick Goodwin, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Murray

The world premiere musical “The Connector” with a book by Jonathon Marc Sherman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown now playing at MCC Theater certainly has a suitable title on many different levels. Although each character is pivotal in connecting the pieces of the puzzle to create the story, they are also connected by the same personality trait…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Jonah” at Roundabout Theatre Company (Closed Sunday, March 10, 2024)

The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippery.” ‘Slippery’ is the operative word here. Everything is slippery in “Jonah” in addition to the time: the series of bedrooms in Wilson Chin’s cerebral and surreal design; the changeability and moodiness…

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