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  • Off-Broadway Review: JUST THE TIP (Jon Schnitzer at SoHo Playhouse’s Huron Club)

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    By Alex Simmons | June 23, 2025
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    HOLY LAND, HOLY LAUGHS Comedy goes a lot of places, and some say a comedian can and should be able to joke about anything. But what if a comedian wants to go to Israel and the Palestinian territories? What if that comedian wants to tell jokes about it? Jon Schnitzer is not the first comedian…

  • Cabaret Review: UNDRESSED: THE MUSICAL (Red Eye NY)

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    By Alex Simmons | November 12, 2024
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    UNMENTIONABLES WORTH MENTIONING New Yorkers are generally up for anything. Improv musical? Sure. Improv musical with five men in their underwear? Absolutely! Improv musical based on your most embarrassing moment in public? Uhhh… Luckily, the talented performers of Undressed: The Musical even the playing field by performing in their knickers. The audience aren’t the only…

  • Cabaret Review: THEATER ADULT with GIANMARCO SORESI (Joe’s Pub at Public Theater)

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    By Alex Simmons | October 22, 2024
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    QUIPS AND CHORDS Seasoned comedian Gianmarco Soresi asked a jovial audience member at Public Theater’s cozy Joe’s Pub: “Did you go to school for musical theater?”; “What was the last musical you booked?”; and “Could you sing a little of it right now?” At first this moment is playful crowd work, but when Gianmarco summons…

  • Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE BEACON (Irish Rep)

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    By Alex Simmons | October 11, 2024
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    A BEACON OF NOPE A secluded matriarch, a remote cottage on the Irish coast, and a haunting family secret. The key components of an Irish drama are here. Yet despite strong performances and a haunting ambience, The Beacon leaves its audience searching the horizon after the final bow. First presented at Garry Hynes’ distinguished Druid…

  • Off-Broadway Review: PRE-EXISTING CONDITION (Connelly)

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    By Alex Simmons | June 24, 2024
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    One of the most difficult crises to recover from is assault, let alone the assault from an intimate partner. Do you tell anyone? Do you confront? Do you forgive? To muse over these questions, Tony-nominated playwright Marin Ireland (Ironbound) offers the harrowing process of life after a lover’s assault with Pre-Existing Condition, now playing at…

  • Theater Review: CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (PAC/NYC)

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    By Alex Simmons | June 21, 2024
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    A PUUUURFECT REVIVAL IS SERVED “Get your life!” says the pre-show announcement as the lights dim in the Perelman Performing Arts Center before last night’s opening of this much talked-about revival of Cats. The Cast of CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL That phrase might sound out-of-place in a Broadway musical’s pre-show announcement; however, when you step…

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