Review

JUDY GARLAND— A NIGHT IN THE LIFE...

In 1961, at the top of her game and enjoying her umpteenth triumphant comeback tour, Judy Garland walks into a little piano bar and joins a "name the show tune" contest because she just happens to know the song is from an MGM musical. She is persuaded by the engaging ...

Dear Charlotte

Presented by Nom de Plume Productions and The Powerhouse Theatre Company as part of the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church, 25 Carmine St., NYC, Aug. 8-9.

CHICKEN

at the Lillian Theatre

ACHIEVERS

Here's a little twist on the audience experience: Five actors appear onstage in various main roles, then most do double duty as various friends, parents, or fantasies of these main roles; but the closer each gets to his or her "character" role, the more that performance seems refined. We ...

JEWS AND JESUS

The dating rules change exponentially in proportion to the number of religions or cultures represented in the couplings. Although traditional wisdom says you're not marrying the family, just the man or woman you have chosen, this may be one of the touchiest areas of human interaction in young people ...

INNOCENT THOUGHTS

In playwright William Missouri Downs' drama, sparks fly as hotshot black defense attorney Ira (Spencer Scott) is paired with Jewish forensics expert Arlen (Matt Gould). The African-American lawyer and the white expert witness have been assigned to work on a racially charged murder case, involving a white cop who has ...

CLUTTER

Like Richard Greenberg's 2002 tragicomedy, The Dazzle, Mark Saltzman's new play is freely based on the real-life legend of the infamous Collyer Brothers in New York, 1919–1947. These orphaned sons of a wealthy gynecologist never grew up emotionally, progressing from youthful eccentricity to septuagenarian lunacy. They became ...

Something About You and the 4th of July

Presented by Apricot Sky Productions at the American Theatre of Actors (Chernuchin Theatre), 314 W. 54 St., NYC, June 3-15.

TWELFTH NIGHT (OR WHAT YOU WILL)

Anyone who has studied literature somewhat recently and has been assured that the only interesting approach to Shakespeare is by way of outrageous reinterpretation may be deeply delighted by the Globe's "original practices" offering. It is a production refreshingly free of novelty for novelty's sake, in which the ...

LES FEMMES QUI BURLESQUE

Burlesque (noun—Merriam Webster's DeLuxe Dictionary): "Theatrical entertainment of broadly humorous, often earthy character, consisting of short turns...." Burlesque (verb, transitive): "To imitate in a humorous manner." "Les trois femmes" fulfill both definitions with the title of their divertissement. Got a Left Bank longing? Craving cabaret? In the mood ...