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Off-Broadway Review: “Between the Lines” at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage (Through Sunday, October 2, 2022)

July 23, 2022 | Off-Broadway, transl > | "Between the Lines", and music supervision by Gregory Rassen, Arielle Jacobs, arrangements, Aubrey Matalon, casting by Tara Rubin Casting, costume design by Gregg Barnes, Dan Hoy, Elyssa Samsel, hair and makeup design by J. Jared Janas, Heather Ayers, Hillary Fisher, Jake David Smith, Jeff Calhoun, Jerusha Cavazos, John Rapson, Joseph Verlezza, Julia Murney, Kate Anderson, lighting design by Jason Lyons, Martin Landry, Matt Murphy, music direction by Chris Gurr, music supervision and additional arrangements by Daniel Green, orchestrations, Paul McGill, projection design by Caite Hevner, scenic design by Tobin Ost, Sean Stack, Second Stage, sound design by Ken Travis, Theatre Reviews Limited, Timothy Allen McDonald, Tony Kiser Theater, Vicki Lewis, Will Burton, Wren Rivera

“Fairy Tales” and “Happily Ever After” have been great fodder for musical theater usually targeting multi-generational audiences, being prudent to include visual and intellectual content that will entertain all ages. Disney has had remarkable success bringing their animated characters to the stage surrounding them with lavish sets, adorning them in gorgeous costumes, and infusing intricate stagecraft into the production that…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Shubert Theatre Review: “Much Ado About Nothing” (Closed Sunday, August 7, 2022)

Under director Matt Pfeiffer’s helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of “Much Ado About Nothing” bring Shakespeare’s late comedy (1598 or shortly thereafter) to a welcomed level of excellence at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022. This is a “Much Ado” not to be missed. In this pleasing production, Don Pedro (a likeable and energetic Lindsay…

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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: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT) Production of “Fat Ham” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

June 29, 2022 | a christmas carol, black no, hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, public, public theater > | "Fat Ham", Adrianna Mitchell, Alexandria Brienne Lewis, Anspacher Theater, Benja Kay Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Calvin Leon Smith, Choreography by Darrell Moultrie, Chris Herbie Holland, Costume design by Dominique Fawn Hill, David Roberts, Fight direction by Lisa Kopitsky, Hair and wig design by Earon Nealey, Illusions design by Skylar Fox, James iJames, Jereme Kyle serves as the Production Stage Manager, Joan Marcus, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Marcel Spears, Marquis D. Gibson, Matthew Elijah Webb, National Black Theatre, NBT, Nikki Crawford, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, RJ Foster, Ryan Kane serves as the Stage Manager, Saheem Ali, Scenic design by Maruti Evans, Sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, Tanesha Gary, Theatre Reviews Limited

Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris Herbie Holland who is a stoner) set up for what appears to be his mother’s wedding reception at her house in North Carolina. Earlier in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Bedwetter” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 13, 2022 | Off-Broadway, the bedwetter > | "The Bedwetter", Adam Schlesinger, Ahron R. Foster, Anne Kauffman, Ashley Blanchet, Atlantic Theater Company, Bebe Neuwirth, Caissie Levy, Charlotte Elizabeth Curtis, Charlotte MacLeod, costume design by Kaye Voyce, Darren Goldstein, dialects by Kate Wilson, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Emily Zimmerman, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Harmon, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, Linda Gross Theater, Margot Weintraub, music direction by Henry Aronson, music supervision and coordination by Dean Sharenow, orchestrations by David Chase, projection design by Lucy Mackinnon, Richard Hodge, Rick Crom, Sarah Silverman, scenic design by Laura Jellinek, sound design by Kai Harada, Telsey + Company / Rachel Hoffman, Theatre Reviews Limited, Zoe Glick

Comedy is usually a successful way to approach any discussion about a difficult and awkward situation and often eases the tension surrounding the stigma that might be associated with the uncomfortable problem. Comedy writers have used this technique for years creating some of the most successful sitcoms that deal with controversial social issues. It may be more difficult to implement…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Exception to the Rule” at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (Closed Sunday, June 26, 2022)

In “Exception to the Rule,” currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the exception to the rule in his play’s inner-city high school classroom or what is the rule that looms over classroom one eleven’s detainees on the last day of the week…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn” at Theater 555 (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

There are times when a trip to the theatre should being nothing but fun and entertainment. A clever and ingenious musical performed by a remarkable cast is an additional bonus. One need to look no further than the stage of Theater 555 where the production of “Romeo and Bernadette” graces the stage and provides the audience a skillful and crafty…

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Broadway Review: “A Strange Loop” at the Lyceum Theatre (Currently On)

Two deeply significant plays by Jeremy O. Harris – “Daddy” (Off-Broadway 2019) and “Slave Play” (Broadway 2021) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised rich and enduring questions about the role of family, friends, culture, and “indifferent yet fetishizing white gays” in that process of discovery. This season, Michael R. Jackson’s…

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Broadway Review: “Hangmen” at the Golden Theatre” (Closed on Saturday, June 18, 2022)

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the jibber-jabber to the riff-raff, the riff-raff,” former hangman Harry Wade (played with a menacing panache by David Threlfall) seems quite content to…

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Broadway Review: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” at the Booth Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 5, 2022)

“Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozake Shange in her choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” currently running at the Booth Theatre for the second time…

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