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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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Off-Broadway Review: “Swing State” at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (Closed Saturday, October 28, 2023)

The latest production produced by Audible titled “Swing State”, which has transferred from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and is now playing at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is not really what the recognizable phrase in the title may imply. It does not focus on the present political great divide, even though playwright Rebecca Gilman touches on many current troubling themes including grief,…

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Off-Broadway News: Irish Repertory Theatre Announces Encore Presentation of A. R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” Beginning Wednesday, September 5, 2023

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) announced today that they will present an encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Endgame), following sold-out performances this past spring. The encore run will take place this fall, featuring five performances with returning star, Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick, joined by Talia…

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Off-Broadway Review: The Church Is on Trial in Landmark Productions “The Saviour” at the Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, August 13, 2023)

New York theater goers know Marie Mullen from her performance in “The Cripple of Inishmaan” as Billy Claven’s Aunt Kate who talks to stones, and from her performance in “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” as Meg who is desperate to escape from her tyrannical mother. Mullen returns to the New York Stage to play Maire the “Monster Irish Mother” in…

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