El Insólito Caso de Mis’ Piña Colada (The Preposterous Case of Miss Piña Colada)
Though cartoonish in tone and performance, Carlos Ferrari's comedy about a woman who will stop at nothing to see that her daughter wins a beauty pageant is a true crowd-pleaser.
Using Kabuki movements, expressive dance, and broad comedy, Pat Kinevane inhabits four people forgotten in old-age homes in this show with a serious heart.
Melissa Errico makes a radiant leading lady, but each of the six characters is given equal weight in this witty debate on the nature of marriage and romantic love.
Doctor Knock or the Triumph of Medicine
Even today, this sly satire of the medical profession, first presented in France in 1923, still seems astonishingly healthy.
As long as Alan Brody's play remains a slice-of-life portrayal of four Jewish women living in a Brooklyn apartment building in 1944, it is luminous and affecting.
There's plenty of sound and fury in this rendering of Shakespeare's farce, but it doesn't signify much as far as genuine comedy is concerned.
Director Howard Davies lets us see Chekhov's classic with new eyes in this fresh and sensitive stage production from London's National Theatre, broadcast live for international audiences.
Director Lucy Bailey's full-volume approach to Shakespeare's tragedy tends to flatten it into melodrama, but one that hurtles forward with such speed that we're largely swept along with it.
Director Sherri Eden Barber delivers a compassionate production of this choppy, sometimes lagging, slice-of-life drama by Josh Koenigsberg.
Playwright-director Tony Georges tries for "August: Osage County" territory with this deep-fried melodrama but only comes up with an overcooked mess.
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