Tag: Vol. 35 No. 37

Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle, which details the rise and fall of a relationship, was last performed here less than three months ago by La Costa Theatre Company. Josh Solomon’s One Theatre Company staging features a full orchestration (as in Northlight’s 2001 debut), and Andrew Weir and Diane Mair deliver ardent performances, his songs recounting […]

This staging by Will Act for Food lacks the sense of ease needed to make Alan Ayckbourn’s farce brightly entertaining. The situation–an afternoon tea party where unhappily married couples gather to comfort a friend after his fiancee’s death–is meant to be awkward, but the actors themselves appear uncomfortable: quick wit and physical antics elude most […]

Stephen Belber’s comedy drama features one fabulous character: 62-year-old Tobi, a bisexual dancer-choreographer with lots of ripsnortin’ throwaway lines. The two others are a married couple who arrive at his apartment, doggedly pursuing the agenda that ostensibly gives this rambling, overlong work a through line. In Lauren Golanty’s staging for Appetite Theatre, Michael D. Graham […]

Set in 1950 Brooklyn, Lynn Nottage’s vibrant comedy sets a coming-of-age story against a web of racial, sexual, and political conflicts. It tells of two African-American teenagers whose recently widowed father is torn between born-again Christian morals and attraction to his sister-in-law, a hard-drinking Harlemite who preaches communism and feminism as the salvation of blacks. […]

Adapter Frances Limoncelli and director Dorothy Milne do a remarkable job carving a two-act play out of Dorothy L. Sayer’s 500-plus-page novel. Set at a fictional women’s college at Oxford University and featuring detective work by Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, the book is packed with fascinating eccentrics and witty dialogue. The stage version […]