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Off-Broadway Review: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature Center (Through 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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News: Announcing the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Commemorating the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway Season

May 17, 2022 | awards, black no, Broadway, kimberly, lehman, News, Off-Broadway, public, sanctuary city, the lehman > | 2021-2022 Season, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, is pleased to announce the winners of the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy leads the pack with six wins, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, followed by…

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News: The Murky Side of America Reflected in Two Broadway Plays: “The Terms of My Surrender” and “1984”

Theatre remains one of the most effective ways to look at the world. Recently, Theatre Reviews Limited critiqued Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” playing at the Belasco Theatre. The review stated, “In short, the effect of Michael Moore’s monologue is a significant contribution to the discussion about what Americans can and should do to in the current political upheaval since Donald…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The End of Longing” at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

“The End of Longing,” now playing and extended by popular demand at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is yet another example of the evermore trending evidence that the use of star power will attract an audience regardless of the merit of the vehicle. In this case it is Matthew Perry starring in his less than interesting playwriting debut, which only…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” at the Irish Repertory Theatre

June 23, 2017 | irish repertory, Off-Broadway > | "Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie", Andy Teirstein, Arlo Guthrie, Carol Rosegg, Darcie Deaville, David M. Lutken, Helen J. Russell, Huntington's Disease, Irish Rep, Jeffrey Meek, Leonard Bernstein, Luke Hegel-Cantarella, Michael Gottlieb, Nick Corley, Off-Broadway, Tony Award Winner, Woody Guthrie

Currently playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre is a musical revue that has been making the International rounds for the last ten years appropriately titled “Woody Sez: the Life and Music of Woody Guthrie.” The cast of four perform about forty musical numbers from Guthrie’s songbook that conquer the feelings, sights, hardships and situations he experienced: from the Great Depression,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Gambler’s Guide to Dying” Grapples with Universal Truths at 59E59 Theaters

April 9, 2017 | broadway grapples, Off-Broadway > | 59E59 Theaters, A Gambler's Guide to Dying, Benjamin Cowie, Brits Off-Broadway, Creative Scotland, Fiona Johnston, Gareth Nicholls, Gary McNair, Made In Scotland, Michael John McCarthy, Off-Broadway, Show And Tell, Simon Hayes, The Traverse Theatre

“And yet we have been here. And yet we remain. We remain in the genes of our children, everything we build and destroy, the people we touch, songs we sing, the stories we tell and leave behind. We echo into the ages and that has to be enough because it’s all we have.” – Narrator In the Boy’s “first ever…

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Off-Broadway Review: Bated Breath Theatre Company’s “Beneath the Gavel” at 59E59 Theaters

When one visits an art museum and stands in front of a painting – let us say Jeff Koons’s “Woman in Tub” – one reacts in one of perhaps three ways: the visitor “likes, just likes it” and snaps a digital image and moves on to another contemporary artist; the visitor pauses for some time and examines the work, deciding…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Sundown, Yellow Moon” at the McGinn/Cazale (WP Theater)

March 20, 2017 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, the nap > | Anne Kauffman, Anne L. Nathan, Ars Nova, Eboni Booth, Greg Keller, Isabella Byrd, JD Taylor, Jessica Pabst, Lauren Helpern, Leah Gelpe, Lilli Cooper, Matt Frey, Michael Pemberton, Off-Broadway, Peter Friedman, Rachel Bonds, Sundown, The Bengsons, Theater Reviews, Tow Foundation, WP Theater, Yellow Moon

At sundown, when objects lose their precise “black-and-white” identity, the yellow moon begins to assume the role of providing “light.” Moonlight is far more forgiving than sunlight – it is the light of all things Eastern, leaving the bright Western light to its own devices of conditional judgement. It is the salvific murkiness of the yellow moon that draws fraternal…

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31st Annual Easter Bonnet Competition at the Minskoff Theatre

March 10, 2017 | News, sunset, the lion king > | Broadway, Broadway Bonnets, Broadway Cares, Easter, Easter Bonnet, Easter Bonnet Competition, Equity Fights AIDS, Minskoff Theatre, Off-Broadway

A spectacular showcase of Broadway’s best performers and beautiful, handcrafted bonnets will celebrate six weeks of fundraising when the 31st annual Easter Bonnet Competition (#BroadwayBonnets) returns Monday, April 24, and Tuesday, April 25, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Performers from Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies will share unforgettable original skits, songs and dances, as well as their unique bonnet…

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