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Off-Broadway Review: “Scotland, PA” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage would certainly be an audacious task. To go one step further, choose the horrific tale of Macbeth penned by William Shakespeare and take some extreme liberties to create…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Westside Theatre

The most recent revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” by the musical theatre team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken surely proves to be timeless and timely. The musical numbers still seem to linger in your head long after you leave the theater just as they did when the show first opened off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in 1982. The plot…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Kingfishers Catch Fire” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre

Four years after the Ardeatine Caves Nazi Massacre, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (a conflicted and contrite Sean Gormley) visits Colonel Herbert Kappler (a robust and tenacious Haskell King) in his cell in an old-fashioned prison in Gaeta, Southern Italy. Kappler, an SS Colonel and head of Hitler’s Gestapo in Rome, was responsible for the massacre of 355 Italians (a random number…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Sunday” at Atlantic Therater Company’s Linda Gross Theater

Jack Thorne’s “Sunday,” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, seems to elicit one of two responses: disappointment or robust enthusiasm. A group of Gen Z friends gather in a New York City apartment for one of what has become Sunday Book Club gatherings. This Sunday’s meeting is at Marie’s (a somewhat broken and conflicted Sadie Scott) and…

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Off-Broadway Review: Gingold Theatrical Group’s New Production of “Bernard Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra

October 3, 2019 | Off-Broadway, the old man, theresa alva lim > | April Ann Kline, Brenda Braxton, Brian Prather, Carol Rosegg, Dan Domingues, David Staller, Frederick Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, Jamie Roderick, Jeff Applegate, Jonathan Hadley, Rajesh Bose, Robert Cuccioli, Teresa Avia Lim, Theatre Row Theatre 1, Tracy Christensen

“Bernard Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra,” currently playing in Theatre 1 at Theatre Row, injects a palpable dose of modernity into the history of the relationship between Caesar’s Rome and Cleopatra’s Egypt. The 1898 play parses the political landscape in Shaw’s fictionalized account of the relationship between the royal pair and Cleopatra’s desire to assume complete control of the throne from…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dublin Carol” at Irish Repertory Theatre

October 1, 2019 | a christmas carol, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, review dublin carol > | "Dublin Carol", Carol Rosegg, Charlie Corcoran, Ciarán O’Reilly, Cillian Hegarty, Conor McPherson, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jeff Davolt, Jeffrey Bean, Leon Dobkowski, M. Florian Staab, Michael Gottlieb, Ryan Rumery, Sarah Street, Sven Henry Nelson

Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a service and John compliments Mark on his work at the graveside. With that non-descript arrival, Conor McPherson’s “Dublin Carol,” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company, begins its narrative. Over…

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Off-Broadway Review: “runboyrun” and “In Old Age” at New York Theatre Workshop

As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories more parsed than Nsikan Disciple Ufot and his wife Abasiama Ekpeyong Ufot. “runboyrun” and “In Old Age,” currently running at New York Theatre Workshop, are the third and eighth plays in Mfoniso…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fern Hill” at 59E59 Theaters

Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, “Fern Hill,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny’s (Jill Eikenberry) and Jer’s (Mark Blum) country farmhouse (Fern Hill) that take place with their close couple friends and frequent guests Vincent (John Glover) and Darla (Ellen Parker) and Billy (Mark Linn-Baker) and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Only Yesterday” at 59E59 Theaters

September 12, 2019 | Off-Broadway > | "Julia", "Let It Be", "Only Yesterday", 59E59 Theaters, Allison Crutchfield, Bob Stevens, Carol Dunne, Carol Rosegg, Christopher Flockton, Christopher Sears, Dan Kotlowitz, Danielle Zandri, George Harrison, Jane Shaw, John Lennon, Michael Ganio, Olivia Swayze, Psul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tommy Crawford

Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and readily available. For a script about the famous pair to be engaging and relevant, the writing needs to include either new information or it needs to attempt to bring some new…

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Off-Broadway Review: Colt Coeur’s “Eureka Day” at Walkerspace

What could go wrong at a private school whose board of directors (all five of them) make all decisions based on consensus and have only what benefits the community at heart. A board so committed to inclusion that the school’s cultural identity drop-down menu for prospective parents offers eleven choices. And if Eli (Brian Wiles) has his way, because of…

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