“The Landing” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed November 24, 2013)
“There’s a big boat with a long rope and the tide has turned/pull the long rope to stop the big boat/and all that happens is your hands get burned.” – Collin “The Landing” is a smart new musical that...
View Article“Arlington” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday March 23, 2014)
Channeling a more introspective and agonized June Cleaver, Sara Jane (Alexandra Silber) has an on-the-surface pleasant dialogue with all that is beyond theatre’s conventional fourth wall. In...
View Article“Too Much Sun” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday June 22, 2014)
“All the world’s a stage, /And all the men and women merely players:/They have their exits and their/entrances; /And one man in his time plays many parts.” – Jacques in “As You Like It” Act II, Scene...
View Article“Billy and Ray” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday November 23, 2014)
Plays about the making of plays or the making of movies ought to adhere to the conventions of the genre being dramatized. Playwright Mike Bencivenga fails to accomplish this important writer’s task in...
View ArticleReview: “Dot” at the Vineyard Theatre (Through Thursday March 24, 2016)
If the cacophony on stage during the Vineyard Theatre’s “Dot” even remotely characterizes the “noise” inside Dotty’s head, it is easy to understand the severity of her Alzheimer’s disease and just how...
View ArticleReview: “Indecent” Challenges the Power of Death at the Vineyard Theatre
Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” could not have opened at the Vineyard Theatre at a more auspicious time. In the midst of an increasingly frenzied discussion about what is and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “This Day Forward” at the Vineyard Theatre
“In the Name of God, I take you to be my husband/wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Can You Forgive Her?” Flounders at the Vineyard Theatre
After presenting a season that included the engaging “This Day Forward” by Nicky Silver and the soaring “Kid Victory” by Greg Pierce and John Kander, the iconic Vineyard Theatre has chosen to present...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Indecent” Challenges the Power of Death at the Vineyard...
Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” could not have opened at the Vineyard Theatre at a more auspicious time. In the midst of an increasingly frenzied discussion about what is and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “This Day Forward” at the Vineyard Theatre
“In the Name of God, I take you to be my husband/wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Can You Forgive Her?” Flounders at the Vineyard Theatre
After presenting a season that included the engaging “This Day Forward” by Nicky Silver and the soaring “Kid Victory” by Greg Pierce and John Kander, the iconic Vineyard Theatre has chosen to present...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Harry Clarke” Wrangles with Reality at the Vineyard...
Harry Clarke (the persona and the person) was born out of the dysfunctional matrix of paternal abuse and maternal collusion that plagued Philip Brugglestein from his childhood through his adulthood....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Amateurs” at Vineyard Theatre
Whether medieval or modern, no plague is comfortable. The first part of “The Amateurs,” currently playing at Vineyard Theatre, is uncomfortable in a different way and the audience wonders, “Can this...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Beast in the Jungle” at the Vineyard Theatre
A novella by Henry James is the inspiration for the new Dance Play “The Beast in the Jungle” which marks the final mainstage production of the Vineyard Theater’s 35th Anniversary Season. The book by...
View ArticlePreview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre
Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway News: “Avenue Q” to Play an Additional Four Weeks at New World...
AVENUE Q – winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical – is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at New World...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater’s “sandblasted” at the...
As Stacey Derosier’s lighting comes up on the stage of Charly Evon Simpson’s “sandblasted,” which is currently being co-presented by Vineyard Theatre and Women’s Project Theater at the Vineyard, Angela...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Sandra” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday,...
There are two paths to “disappearance” in David Cale’s engaging “Sandra” currently running at the Vineyard Theatre. The audience discovers that Ethan Martin’s path has been well thought out. Sandra...
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