'Cocktail Magique' review — cue the alcohol and the abracadabra
Read our five-star review of CocktaiL Magique, Company XIV's burlesque variety show playing at the Cocktail Magique Theatre in Brooklyn through August 20.
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Read our five-star review of CocktaiL Magique, Company XIV's burlesque variety show playing at the Cocktail Magique Theatre in Brooklyn through August 20.
Read our review of Samuel D. Hunter's Obie Award-winning play A Bright New Boise, now making its Off-Broadway debut with Signature Theatre through March 12.
Read our review of Anna Ziegler's new play The Wanderers, starring Katie Holmes, at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre through April 2.
Read our review of Cornelia Street, starring Norbert Leo Butz, off Broadway, currently playing at Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2 through March 5.
Read our four-star review of Hansol Jung's Wolf Play, currently making its Off-Broadway debut at MCC Theater through March 19 after premiering with Soho Rep.
"It's me. Hi. I'm the problem, it's me." That quote from the Taylor Swift tune "Anti-Hero" is apt for Lucy, a "comedic horror" produced by Audible Theater. It's also included in the show. New nanny Ashling and six-year-old Lucy perform a joyful singalong in the show's second scene while Mary, Lucy's frazzled, pregnant mother, looks on with a rare smile. But who really is an anti-hero here, and who's purely a villain? Playwright/director Erica Schmidt mostly leaves that up to you. The ambiguity...
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A collection of blackboards, some covered with artwork and others with words like “persona,” is a clue that school is in session. The teacher turns out to be the class clown. That instructor is standup comedian Colin Quinn. His presentation is Small Talk, a fun, brief, and minor addition to his roster of compact observational monologues. The ex-Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” anchor’s past solo stage pieces have covered global studies in Long Story Short, our polarized nation in Red State...
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Does anyone still pinky swear? While watching the often stirring Merrily We Roll Along led by Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez, that question keeps popping up. It has each time I’ve seen the show on stage – and this version makes four since 1994. In 1981, this Stephen Sondheim musical started out as a dud, but it also introduced some of the composer/lyricist’s most enduring songs — “Not a Day Goes By” and “Good Thing Going” among them. The three stars' repeated interlocking...
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