David Roberts

Off-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre (Closed on 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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Broadway Review: “Water for Elephants” at the Imperial Theatre (Closes on Sunday, December 8, 2024)

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When does “life” begin? Depending upon one’s religious beliefs, or scientific beliefs, or social media threads, the answer to the question is different. Does “life” begin at conception; in utero; at birth; in childhood; in adolescence; in old age; in death; or after death? Seen through the eyes of his older self in “Water for Elephants” (currently on at the…

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

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: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature Center (Closed on Sunday, March 31, 2024)

As patrons enter the performance of Jordan Seavey’s “The Seven Year Disappear” at The Pershing Square Signature Center, they see Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) sitting across from her thirty-something son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch). The two are motionless and intently staring at one another in the style of Yugoslav performance artist Marina Abramović facing off with a MoMA patron in the famed…

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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)

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: “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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Liver & Lung’s Queer, Muslim Cabaret Preview: “Shafeeq Shajahan Shivam Sundaram” at London’s Soho Theatre (10th and 17th February, 2024 Only)

Award-winning Malaysian director and performer, Shafeeq Shajahan, invites you to “Satyam Shivam Sundaram”, a cabaret odyssey that peels back the layers of his queer, Muslim heritage. Presented at the Soho Theatre, the show is part of Soho Rising, a celebration of new work created by comedians, writers and performers who have taken part in the Soho Theatre’s Lab programmes. An…

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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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Theatre News: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, in Partnership with The Town Players of New Cannan, Connecticut, Finds a New Home

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, the only theatre festival where playwrights take center stage, will be back and better than ever in the summer of 2024 with a beautiful new theatre space thanks to an exciting new partnership with The Town Players of New Canaan. When asked about the festival’s return, Festival Director Lenore Skomal said “After five successful seasons and…

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