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Off-Broadway Review: “Devil of Choice” Falters at LAByrinth Theater Company at Cherry Lane’s Studio Theatre

May 29, 2018 | Off-Broadway > | "Devil of Choice", "Faust", Cherry Lane Theater, Daniel Melnick, David Zayas, David Zayas Jr., Elizabeth Canavan, Florencia Lozano, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kia Rogers, LAByrinth Theater Company, Lara De Bruijn, Maggie Diaz Bofill, Megan Tomei, Melisa McGregor, Raul Abrego, Shira-Lee Shalit

“Faustian bargain: (idiomatic) A deal in which one focuses on present gain without considering the long-term consequences.” Although one of the characters in the new play “Devil of Choice,” produced by Labyrinth Theater Company at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, is a popular professor whose highly sought-after class focuses on “Faust,” he certainly disregards the implications associated with violating morality….

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News: Under the Artistic Leadership of John Ortiz LAByrinth Theater Company Announces Plans for 25th Season

August 30, 2017 | broadway company mail, News, Off-Broadway, public theater > | Angelina Fiordelisi, Cherry Lane Theater, In Arabia, Janio Marrero, Jimmy Smits, John Ortiz, LAB25: FULL CIRCLE, LAByrinth Theater Company, Motherf**Cker with the Hat, Portia, Seri Lawrence, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Steppenwolf Theater Company, We’d All Be Kings

In the wake of a recent leadership change, LAByrinth Theater Company, now under the direction of Company Founder and Former Artistic Director John Ortiz, makes exciting plans for LAB’s upcoming 25th Anniversary Season in 2017-2018. In celebration of 25 years of creating vital new works of American Theater, LAByrinth kicks off the season with LAB25: FULL CIRCLE, a collection of…

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Off-Broadway Review: Lesser America’s “In a Word” at Cherry Lane Theatre

June 25, 2017 | Off-Broadway, the nap > | ADHD, Andrea Hood, Cherry Lane Theater, Hunter Canning, in a word, Jose Joaquin Perez, Justin Mark, Kidnapping, Laura Ramadei, Lesser America, Oona Curley, Stowe Nelson, Tyne Rafaeli

If America – and the global community – has learned anything since January 20, 2017 it is the message that “words matter.” Words – spoken and left unspoken – play the central role in Lauren Yee’s “In a Word” currently playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre’s Studio Theatre. Words – comforting and unacceptable – are stored on a shelf in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Daniel’s Husband” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre

“The thing was, I was really good at it. And I loved it. I just loved being able to . . . I don’t know . . . make someone more comfortable. Make some of their pain go away. And it wasn’t just because it was someone I loved. It was . . . the fact that I was in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fade” at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater

February 8, 2017 | Off-Broadway, transl > | Cherry Lane Theater, Primary Stages

For a brief time in Tanya Saracho’s “Fade,” currently playing at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theatre, the lines between class and status fade as Mexican-born script writer Lucia (Annie Dow) and American-born Chicano custodian Abel (Eddie Martinez) seem to drop their guards and allow their “similarities” to overshadow their “differences.” Abel “forgives” Lucia for her assumptions when he…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Roads to Home” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre

November 5, 2016 | mother night, Off-Broadway, sense and > | Cherry Lane Theater, Primary Stages

If the idiom “home is where the heart is” has any veracity, then the characters in Horton Foote’s 1982 “The Roads to Home” are as far from home as anyone might be. Geographically, the main characters – the three women in the first two short plays of the somewhat interconnected trilogy – are refugees from their original homes and have…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” Sparkles at the Cherry Lane Theatre

June 20, 2016 | Off-Broadway > | Cherry Lane Theater

Marie-Belle (played with a coy bravado by Francesca Choy-Kee) is the last wife of the recently deceased one-hundred-year-old man who – though unnamed – could easily be the protagonist of Israel Horovitz’s new play “Out of the Mouths of Babes” currently playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. After his death, Marie-Belle invites two of her husband’s former wives-lovers to the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Half Moon Bay” at the Cherry Lane Theatre

June 3, 2016 | frankie, keilly mcquail, mother night, Off-Broadway, pond theatre company > | Cherry Lane Theater, Lesser America

Okay. A Millennial young woman named Annie (Keilly McQuail) sits in a bowling alley bar late at night hunched over her beer as a second Millennial – a young man named Gabe (Gabriel King) – enters the bar from the lanes. Annie says, “Nice shoes.” Gabe responds, “What?” So begins Dan Moyer’s new play “Half Moon Bay” currently running at…

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Preview: Primary Stages Announces 32nd Season (Beginning September 2016)

March 14, 2016 | Off-Broadway, Previews > | Cherry Lane Theater, Primary Stages

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director) announced their upcoming 32nd Season on March 14 at a champagne reception celebrating the Centennial of the birth of late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Primary Stages collaborator, Horton Foote. The 2016/17 season, to be performed at New York’s historic Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, www.cherrylanetheatre.org), will feature…

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Review: “The Body of an American” at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Closed Sunday March 20, 2016)

February 23, 2016 | american psycho, Off-Broadway > | Cherry Lane Theater, Primary Stages

Dan O’Brien’s “The Body of an American,” currently running at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is oddly reminiscent of Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.” Discussions between the play’s characters – the main characters Dan (Michael Crane) and Paul (Michael Cumpsty) – and secondary characters (also played by…

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