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Off-Broadway Review: “Happy Talk” at the New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre

May 16, 2019 | Off-Broadway, pershing square > | "Happy Talk", Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, Clint Ramos, Daniel Oreskes, Derek McLane, Jeff Croiter, Jesse Eisenberg, Marin Ireland, Michael Bodeen, Monique Carboni, Nico Santos, Pershing Square Signature Center, Rob Milburn, Scott Elliott, Susan Saradon, Tedra Millan, The New Group

Happy talk – the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals – cascades across the stage at the New Group’s world premiere of Jesse Eisenberg’s “Happy Talk” at the New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. Lorraine (a broken and dangerous Susan…

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Off-Broadway Review: “BLKS” in the Newman Mills Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a “comedic look” at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, three twenty something black women living in New York City – a city where black lives seem not to matter and where, for that reason, it has become difficult for…

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Broadway and Off-Broadway News: 69th Annual Theater Awards – Outer Critics Circle Announce 2018-2019 Season Nominees

April 24, 2019 | be more, be more chill, bernhardt, Broadway, house that will, king kong, network, News, Off-Broadway, on beckett > | "Accidently Brave", "Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations", "All My Sons", "Apologia", "Be More Chill", "Beetlejuice", "Behind the Sheet", "Bernhardt/Hamlet", "Black Light", "By the Way. Meet Vera Stark", "Carmen Jones", "Choir Boy", "Downstairs", "Fairview", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Girl from the North Country", "Girls & Boys", "Head Over Heels", "Ink", "Juno and the Paycock", "King Kong", "Kiss Me Kate", "Lewiston / Clarkston", "Midnight at the Never Get", "Mother of the Maid", "My Life on a Diet", "Network", "Our Lady of 121st Street", "Slave Play", "Sugar in Our Wounds", "The Beast in the Jungle", "The Cher Show", "The Ferryman", "The Hello Girls", "The House That Will Not Stand", "The Lifespan of a Fact", "The Light", "The New One", "The Prom", "The True", "The Waverly Gallery", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Tootsie", "Usual Girls", "White Noise", “Smokey Joe’s Café”, “What the Constitution Means to Me”

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April 23, 2019) its nominees for the 2018-19 season. Broadway’s “Tootsie” star Julie Halston along with “Torch Song” sensation Michael Urie presided over the (11AM) announcement ceremony in the Oak Room at New York’s renowned…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center Theater

In the 18th and 19th centuries, new phrases entered the language of the sailors who took to the sea off the island of Nantucket, one of the whaling capitals of the world during that period. One specific expression “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” describes what happens when a harpooned whale drags the sailors in their long boat across the surface of the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Mother” in the Linda Gross Theater at Atlantic Theater Company

Somewhere in France, or perhaps in England in the nineteenth century, a young married woman is standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes after an evening meal. A dish slips from her hand, breaking I pieces as it hits the floor. The young woman begins to cry, sob really. Her husband not understanding any of this “odd behavior,” reaches out…

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Off-Broadway Review: “If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka” in the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons

Once upon a time, in a not so very long time ago there was a beautiful young Nigerian woman named Akim (a self-absorbed yet fragile Níkẹ Uche Kadri) whose Ma (a stern but loving Maechi Aharanwa) and Dad (a somewhat subservient Jason Bowen) project their own flawed conception of what real beauty is (a thoroughly Eurocentric standard of beauty) upon…

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Off-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at Stage 42

March 8, 2019 | awards, broadway grapples, dance nation, evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, last five, Off-Broadway, the collaboration, transl > | "Fiddler on the Roof", Abby Goldfarb, Adam B. Shapiro, Ann Hould-Ward, Ben Liebert, Beowulf Boritt, Bobby Underwood, Britni Serrano, Bruce Sabath, C.S.A., Cameron Johnson, Dan Moses Schreier, Drew Seigla, Evan Mayer, Jackie Hoffmann, James Monroe Števko, Jamibeth Margolis, Jennifer Babiak, Jerome Robbins, Jerry Bock, Joanne Borts, Jodi Snyder, Joel Grey, John Giesige, Jonathan Quigley, Joseph Stein, Kayleen Seidl, Kirk Geritano, Lauren Jeanne Thomas, Lisa Fishman, Matthew Murphy, Michael Einav, Michael Yashinsky, Moshe Lobel, Nick Raynor, Peter Kaczorowski, Rachel Zatcoff, Raquel Nobile, Rosie Jo Neddy, Samantha Hahn, Sheldon Harnick, Shraga Friedman, Stage 42, Staś Kmieć, Stephanie Lynne Mason, Steven Skybell, The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbeine, Tom Watson, Zalmen Mlotek

One father longing to be wealthy enough to adequately care for his family – and letting the Creator know he feels overlooked – and three “adult” daughters dodging the craft of the local matchmaker are the grist for an epic challenge to the traditions held dear by the members of Tevye’s Shtetlekh and its “on-the-fence” Der Rov (a confident yet…

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Off-Broadway News: “Avenue Q” to Play an Additional Four Weeks at New World Stages by Popular Demand

AVENUE Q – winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical – is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.), it has been announced by the show’s producers. In December it was revealed that the 15+ year…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Hurricane Diane” at New York Theatre Workshop

Playwright Madeleine George sets her “Hurricane Diane” in an Early Anthropocene Time, the era defined as “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.” Most, except members of the current Administration, see that influence to have been deleterious at best and are aware of the dire…

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Off-Broadway Review: Fiasco Theater’s Production of “Merrily We Roll Along” at Laura Pels Theatre

February 20, 2019 | Off-Broadway, the prom >

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” could prove to become the mantra of the famed Sondheim musical “Merrily We Roll Along” which was a dismal failure when it first opened on Broadway in 1981. There is a new production helmed by the Roundabout’s resident Fiasco Theater Company which falls short of delivering a new efficacious incarnation, becoming…

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