Off-Broadway

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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Off-Broadway Review: “Hell’s Kitchen” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, January 7, 2024 and Opens on Broadway Saturday, April 20, 2024)

December 26, 2023 | book review, hell's kitchen, Off-Broadway, the ally, the seven year > | "Hell's Kitchen", Aaron Nicholas Patterson, Alicia Keys, Badia Farha, Brandon Victor Dixon, Camille A. Brown, Chad Carstarphen, Chloe Davis, Chris Lee, Crystal Monee Hall, Danny Maly (Production Stage Manager), David Guzman, Dede Ayite (Costume Design), Desmond Sean Ellington, Donna Vivino, Foresight Theatrical (General Management), Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Gianna Harris, Jackie Leon, Jade Milan, Jakeim Hart, Joan Marcus, Joseph Verlezza, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Kristoffer Diaz, Lamont Walker II, Maleah Joi Moon, Mariand Torres, Mia Neal (hair and wig design), Michael Greif, Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), Newman Theater, Nico DeJesus, Niki Saludez, Onyxx Noel, Oscar Whitney Jr., Peter Nigrini (Projection Design), Public Theater, Raechelle Manalo, Reid Clarke, Robert Brill (Scenic Design), Sarah Parker, Shoshana Bean, Susan Oliveras, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Timothy L. Edwards, Vanessa Ferguson, William Roberson

Immediately after the first number in the new musical “Hell’s Kitchen” which is a loosely based auto biographical story about musician Alicia Keys growing up and coming of age during the late nineties in the New York City neighborhood which the show is named after, you get the feeling this might be headed to Broadway. That assumption would be right…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Translations” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, December 31, 2023)

Language and translation serve as powerful tropes for colonial ownership in Brian Friel’s “Translations” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company through Sunday. December 31, 2023. Headmaster Hugh (Sean McGinley) of the hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag/Balleybeg the Irish-speaking community in County Donegal and his eldest son Manus (Owen Campbell) teach Irish, Latin and Greek to the local students….

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Off-Broadway Review: “Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion” (Closed Monday, March 4, 2024)

Mischief Theatre, responsible for “The Play That Goes Wrong” and “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is at it again, bringing yet another production to the New York stage billed as “Mind Mangler, A Night of Tragic Illusion.” If you happened to view either of the two previous shows you might find yourself a bit disappointed with this newest endeavor, which might…

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Off-Broadway Review: “I Can Get It for You Wholesale” at Classic Stage Company (Closed Sunday, December 17, 2023)

The latest show offered at Classic Stage Company is the revival of the 1962 musical “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” with a book by Jerome Weidman and music and lyrics by Harold Rome. This is only the third revival since it’s run on Broadway featuring Barbra Streisand, with one in 1991 by American Jewish Theatre and one in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” at New World Stages (Closed Sunday, January 7, 2024)

The new Off-Broadway show “Dracula a Comedy of Terrors,” now playing at New World Stages, certainly lives up to its title, ensuring lots of laughs infused into the original storyline along with some brilliant performances. Playwrights Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen have penned a script that skewers the original novel with gender bending characters, risqué innuendos, and over the top…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Infinite Life” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Closed Saturday, October 14, 2023)

October 11, 2023 | book review, infinite, infinite life, Off-Broadway, the ally > | "Infinite Life", Annie Baker, Atlantic Theater Company, David Roberts, James Macdonald, Linda Gross Theater, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Five women in their forties to seventies and one man in his forties gather at a clinic two hours north of San Francisco to continue to deal with their pain. The regimen includes fasting and drinking a variety of beverages. Eileen (Marylouise Burke) is hungry and tired. Elaine (Brenda Pressley) has osteoporosis. Ginnie (Kristine Nielsen) has “auto-immune thyroid stuff but…

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Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stage’s “Dig” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday, October 22, 2023)

Primary Stages current offering is Theresa Rebeck’s new play entitled “Dig.” Now playing at 59E59 theatres, the play revolves around the situations that develop in a small plant shop that has its name “dig” stenciled on the glass window of the front door. The playwright takes every possible opportunity to utilize a plant or horticultural metaphor to translate or foreshadow…

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