In this age of downsizing, there's nothing minimal about "A Boy and His Soul," Colman Domingo's autobiographical effort, which opens the Vineyard Theatre's season.
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Vocalist Napua Davoy's one-woman autobiographical show "Stella Rising," at Pan Asian Rep, might work better as a cabaret evening than as a musical play.
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Spirited performances and some toe-tapping tunes, along with clever staging and design, are not enough to disguise the repetitive excesses of this promising tuner parodying spaghetti westerns.
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Though the writing is sharp enough to sustain interest from moment to moment, in the end this compact 75-minute work (including intermission) seems incomplete, as if it wants somehow to be part of a fuller canvas.
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This musical version of "Ninotchka" was a disappointing Broadway swansong for Cole Porter, and Musicals Tonight!'s inelegant concert presentation fails to mitigate history's verdict. - Review
So who knew? Santa Claus is a ho-ho homosexual. When the story goes public, it rocks the world. Well, at least in writer-performer Jeffrey Solomon's "Santa Claus Is Coming Out."
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While playwright and actor may know their Dylan Thomas and Welsh heritage, fans of the poet will learn little, and fans of the play may find it less satisfying than in previous productions.
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Forget that gritty, raw, sassy, often violent aesthetic that you may have come to associate with authentic hip-hop performance.
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Difficult to categorize but a privilege to absorb, the show is Shelley meets Beckett meets Rauschenberg, and it's all new again.
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"The Grand Manner" is a touching if slight fable inspired by a 1948 real-life backstage meeting between an 18-year-old A.R. Gurney and theater star Katharine Cornell.
