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Broadway Review: “John Proctor is the Villain” at the Booth Theatre (Extended through Sunday, July 6, 2025)

May 4, 2025 | liberation, Off-Broadway > | "John Proctor is the Villain", Amalia Yoo, Booth Theatre, costume design by Sarah Laux, Danya Taymor, David Roberts, dramaturgy by Lauren Halvorsen, Fina Strazza, Fiona Robberson, Gabriel Ebert, Garrett Young, Hagan Oliveras, hair & makeup design by J. Jared Janas, intimacy coordination by Ann James, Julieta Cervantes, Kimberly Belflower, lighting design by Natasha Katz, Maggie Kuntz, Molly Griggs, Morgan Scott, movement direction by Tilly Evans-Krueger, New York Theatre Reviews, Nihar Duvvuri, Noah Pacht, production stage management by Kamra A. Jacobs, projection design by Hannah Wasileski, Sadie Sink, scenography by AMP featuring Teresa L. Williams, Shian Tomlinson, sound design and original composition by Palmer Hefferan, Taylor Williams, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Victoria Yoo, voice text and dialect coaching by Gigi Buffington

The “Match” in Kimberly Belflower’s thoughtful new play “John Proctor is the Villain,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, is between the heavyweight team “Toxic Masculinity” and the underdogs “The Feminist Club.” The match takes place in Mr. Carter Smith’s (a far-too-transparent Gabriel Ebert) classroom “during spring semester, junior year, 2018 at Helen County High, the only high school in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 30, 2025)

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is gratuitous and unnecessary nudity on stage that requires patrons to relinquish their phones before entering the theater. That nudity is completely unnecessary: the questions raised about the characters’…

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Preview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre

Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s Developmental Labs allow a playwright and director to explore a work-in-progress on its feet in collaboration with a full creative team, and include staging and design elements. Presentations are Thursday, July 26 –…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Amy and the Orphans” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

In the new play “Amy and the Orphans,” disability, dysfunction, and delusion are the contentious components that drive an anomalous family unit to a place they were not expecting to visit called reality. Presented by Roundabout Theater Company at The Laura Pels Theatre, the play is carefully and skillfully penned by Lindsey Ferrentino, is inspired by her own family members,…

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Preview: “Portrait of Myself as My Father” at The Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University (Performances Begin April 14, 2016)

March 11, 2016 | liberation, New Jersey, Previews > | Montclair State University

With “Portrait of Myself as My Father,” Zimbabwe-born dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire tackles our idea of masculinity with her fearless investigation of Africa and the black body. Chipaumire looks at the African male through many lenses: cultural traditions, colonialism, Christianity and liberation struggles. How has the African male’s turbulent experience impacted African society and families? What is it about the black male body that…

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Simon Callow in “Tuesday’s at Tesco’s” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday June 7, 2015)

May 20, 2015 | LGBTQ+, liberation, Off-Broadway, the piano > | 59E59 Theaters, LGBT

“Tuesdays that’s that. I spend the day there doing this and that dusting and all sorts. I shake out the tablecloth. I change the sheets. I empty the bin.” Pauline in “Tuesdays at Tesco’s” The only thing that interrupts the samsara of Pauline’s (Simon Callow) hum-drum life is the string of dream ballets that spontaneously burst forth from the piano…

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“Mr. Confidential” at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre (Closed on Sunday July 27, 2014)

July 27, 2014 | liberation, NY Musical Theatre, soft power, stephen nachamie > | NY Musical Theatre

“Mr. Confidential” is the new musical currently running as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. With an outstanding book, lyrics that complement and successfully expand the scope of the book, and music pleasing to the ear and heart, this is a big brassy musical with a Broadway beat begging for attention. With a cast headed up by Kevin…

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“A Fable” at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Closed Saturday June 28, 2014)

May 22, 2014 | liberation, Off-Broadway, once on this island > | Cherry Lane Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate” (“Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.”) – Dante Alighieri, “The Divine Comedy,” Canto III, line 9 of “The Inferno” One would think that with Dante Alighieri, Goethe, John Milton, Kurt Weill, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner (among others) in the house, nothing but a good time would be…

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Jason Morris: Musically Yogic at the Metropolitan Room (Closed Monday March 17, 2014)

February 6, 2014 | Cabaret, liberation, the ally, the room > | Metropolitan Room

MetroStar’s 1st Runner Up Jason Morris is not only an international trainer of yoga teachers and a successful entrepreneur involved in a successful chain of yoga centers; he is also an accomplished and unique performer. In his recent appearance at the Metropolitan Room, Mr. Morris continues to validate his mantra: “music has not only the power to move us to…

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