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Cost of Living
Cost of Living A Pulitzer Prize-winner following its Off-Broadway run five years ago, Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s paean to the disenfranchised, is enjoying a brief run at Manhattan Theater…
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When Irish Eyes Are Beguiling
A Man of No Importance features some of the most talented folks in town Call New York a big city all you want (and I typically do), but sometimes it…
Cast of Shared Sentences:
David Anzuelo, Emily Joy Weiner, Nikomeh Anderson, Raphael Nash Thompson, Glynis Bell and Yadira De La Riva © Russ Rowland
SHARED SENTENCES – 6 CHARACTERS IMPRISONED WITHOUT BARS
Review by Tita Anntares* As Shared Sentences opens, six men and women go through the intrusive, humiliating security checks for entering the visitor's area of a prison. Latino, Black, White…
Michael Myers is back, but to what end?
The scariest thing about Halloween Ends is how lazy it is He’s baa-aaaack! I know, I’m interpolating one scary movie with another, taking the Poltergeist tagline to the latest installment…
A Witches Brew, Re-Stirred
Hocus Pocus 2 aims to cast its thirty-year-old spell once more The original Hocus Pocus was a cinematic flash in the pan. Released in the summer of 1993 (in the…
A Tale of Two Kiddies: “Jasper” Review
Can an emotional affair be just as damaging as a physical one? Fate has not been kind to the Queens couple we meet in Grant MacDermott’s Jasper, a Yonder Window…
High Flying, Adorned
Can The Kite Runner soar as it glides from page to stage? “I became what I am today at the age of 12,” says Amir, the protagonist of The Kite…
Getting Piggy With It: “The Butcher Boy” is guilty of not digging deeper
Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re poor, have an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who is mentally at sea. Patrick McCabe knew this, and his trenchant 1992 novel…
Under the Dragon’s Tail: A Review
Characters endure a variety of transitional moments in playwright Isaac Byrne’s Under the Dragon’s Tail, a quartet of short plays at Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre. Also directed by Byrne and…
Four on the Floor: “Into the Woods” gives audiences what they want
Revisited but not revitalized, Into the Woods, the fabled James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, has been revived for a second time on Broadway, having immediately transferred over from a two-week New…