“This is exactly how it happened “ we are told, followed by a big wide screen opening that descends upon us, but it does not quite...
It was one of those spontaneous but well-planned cross-Atlantic journeys, fueled by a one-show idea that blossomed into something bigger. Antonio and I (two theatre junkies...
Weaving together a memory play with a psychological study of epic historical proportions, the National Theatre delivers a mystery revolving most dynamically around a murder up...
That young boy, running and dancing around that Classic Stage Company theatre floor, flinging fabric in exchange for coins has everything one would want in a...
“He’s not dead yet,” they sing, and (obviously) dance, naturally, about a plague that is rampaging across the country. One can’t help but wonder if they...
These three lost souls come forward, staring out into the audience in the warm glow of light, searching the unseen horizon with a questioning eye. What...
Danny DeVito (Roundabout’s The Price) is Sam, the grieving man at the center of this sweet-natured, cluttered play, I Need That. And even though I wouldn’t...
“Unsex me here!” An appropriate beginning for All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain, playing out and summoned with full force downtown at...
The last time I saw Noises Off, the nearly perfect British farce from 1982 by playwright Michael Frayn (Benefactors; Make and Break), now celebrating its 40th...
Music floats in, all around us, from all sides. Beautiful stringed instruments are played by secretive musicians standing there amongst us in the aisle at the...
She tells us she will “describe everything” for us, this little sparrow, who’s taken hostage by a soldier’s eyes in the first segment of Bad Roads,...
“Get me to the luck,” he cries out as he rides hard on that wooden rocking horse at the center of this captivating opera trying to...
By Dennis W How do you feel about death and grief? It seems like a straightforward question but try to answer it and you’ll trigger all...
By Dennis W What happens when two artists fall in love and become one artist, a collaboration? Pair playing at the 59E59 Theaters written and produced by...
As someone who has never read the book or seen any type of adaptation; film or small screen, I felt like a bit of a virgin...
“All I ever need is here, right here,” Ada tells us pretty much right off the bat. And the funny thing about the statement inside the...
I feel a bit silly to admit this, but I’ve been recommending the immersive Guys & Dolls production at the Bridge Theatre in London ever since...
“If I didn’t like hearing you talk, I wouldn’t be here,” says one not-so-young man to another, quite early on in this touchingly joyous and slow...
A quiet flies fast over the excited crowds in the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End of London, as Andrew Scott (Veracity Digital’s Sea Wall the...
Epic is the word, and fascinating. Even after three and a half hours. Making us lean in almost from the very moment they all file out,...
By Dennis W here are those moments in your life when it’s time to just take stock. To ask. How far have we come or have...
The energy in the room is infectious, with cabaret-style tables and chairs lining the runway of a stage at Soulpepper Theatre on the opening night of...
Sitting up high above, legs dangling, she takes in the surroundings, as some wild spirits run circles around her down below. It’s a memory-filled landscape, overflowing...
Entering with a quivering lip and a tense trembling foot, Cliff Cardinal (Soulpepper’s Huff), playwright and performer in this invested VideoCabaret production of (Everyone I Love...
“I wouldn’t scoff if I were you,” we are told within the first few moments of the deliciously fun new play, Dracula – A Comedy of...
