Jeremy Daniel

Off-Broadway Review: “Vladimir” at New York City Center Stage I (Closed on Sunday, November 10, 2024)

At first glance, Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Vladimir,” currently at New York City Center Stage I, might receive a “what’s new” reaction from the audience. But the importance Erika Sheffer’s well-constructed play takes us far beyond the boundaries of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s Russia. “Vladimir” focuses on the enduring themes of love and relationships, the dichotomy of freedom and oppression, and the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Triple Threat” at Theatre Row (Closed Sunday, July 30, 2023)

James T. Lane portrayed choreographer Paul Williams in the American tour of “Ain’t Too Proud” and his many Broadway roles have included “Chicago” (Billy Flynn), “Kiss Me Kate” (Paul), “King Kong,” “The Scottsboro Boys” (Ozie Powell and Ruby Bates), and “A Chorus Line” (Richie Walters). Lane’s movie and television credits are equally impressive including his recurring role on Peacock’s “The…

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Off-Broadway Review: Audible Theater’s “Sorry For Your Loss” at Minetta Lane Theatre (Closed Sunday, June 4, 2023)

Audible Theater is currently presenting “Sorry For Your Loss” a solo show written and performed by Michael Cruz Kayne at The Minetta Lane Theatre, which approaches the subject of grieving with a touch of humor in an attempt to understand and absorb the process easier. The show straddles a line between stand-up comedy and storytelling, but delves a bit deeper,…

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Broadway Review: “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Closed July 23, 2023)

Mischief Theatre has returned to Broadway with another play that isn’t going exactly as planned, exactly the way the creative team wanted it to, now on stage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, aptly titled “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” based on the play “Peter Pan” by JM Barrie. The book showcases everything, and in this case take that word literally, that…

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Broadway Review: “The Collaboration” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Saturday, February 11, 2023)

Unlike the typical one-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle where the completed puzzle matches the image on the cover, “The Collaboration’s” dénouement and resolution are nothing like the playwright’s supposed intention when writing the script. Anthony McCarten sets us up for a scuba diving expedition. The playwright teases us into a deep-sea dive into the wreckage that is the lives of two disparate…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Epiphany” Tackles Wonder Head-On at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E Newhouse Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her “very big house, on the banks of a large river, just north of a big city” to celebrate Epiphany and meet the honored guest, Gabriel. This is the setting for one of the most…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bella Bella” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I

There are times during Harvey Fierstein’s performance in his “Bella Bella,” currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I, that the audience is convinced – sans dress, sans hat, sans props – that he is the iconic social activist “Battling Bella.” When Mr. Fierstein channels Bella’s admonitions about the “voice of the people” superseding the importance…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fear” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

Perhaps the most problematic element in the new play “Fear” by Matt Williams is that it is flooded with too many sources of fear that tend to diminish the fear that might actually be present during the action of the play. Characters display their fear of infidelity, bullying, child welfare and safety. These concerns and fears are all revealed while…

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Broadway Review: “The Sound Inside” at Studio 54

“In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Seán Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through and the shadow lands of the inner psyche. Our mind is a canvas on which the colours of the sound world leave permanent impressions. It is the root of all listening.” – “The Sound inside the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Lewsiton/Clarkston” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

There is quite an intriguing theatrical event occurring at the Rattlestick Theater, where two ninety-minute plays separated by a thirty-minute communal dinner break takes the stage to engage an audience of fifty, in two compelling dramas. The playhouse is stripped down to its original walls discovering weathered multi paned windows and worn wainscoting, wearing years of neglect, with some sections…

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