By Sandi Durell   Meet the 21 townspeople who live in Popcorn Falls, where the waterfall has dried up, the town is teetering on bankruptcy and the new Mayor is having mic problems in Town Hall while preparing to introduce the CEO of Cattaraugus County, Mr. Doyle, who can...

    By Sandi Durell   Commitment, passion and loyalty to a cause, or a person, can be admirable. Taken to extreme, it’s downright ugly, crazy and inhuman. Welcome to The New Group’s The True, marking a return for playwright Sharr White in this blistering peek into politics and...

       by Alix Cohen   Never underestimate the power of superbly performed, old fashioned, rock n’ roll. Director/ Choreographer Joshua Bergasse imbues this exceptional production with attitude, soul, winking humor, ebullience, and energy. Creative, often synchronized...

  by Sandi Durell   Facing aging comes with a lot of new challenges. But in Susan Miller’s new play 20th Century Blues, the complexity broadens and goes even deeper when a group of four friends come together for an annual reunion to be photographed, chronicling the changes that have...

      By Sandi Durell   Advice to those who are in need is a double-edged sword . . . especially from one who isn’t licensed other than by life’s experiences.   Trying to bring real substance to Cheryl Strayed’s popular book ‘Dear Sugar’ on stage creates its own problems....

    By Sandi Durell   This latest edition to Broadway musicals has a strong message along with a remarkably talented cast. With original big band style music by Richard Oberacker and book and lyrics by Rob Taylor and Oberacker, this throwback to the 40s and the end of WWII,...

      By Sandi Durell     Growing up isn’t an easy task at any time. But here we are in the 1980s and competition is fierce – girls being girls, are chatter boxes, busily comparing themselves to older girls, each other, famous people they see on TV, trying to...

      By Sandi Durell     Charity Hope Valentine is fresh, sweet yet tough, and reimagined in the form of Sutton Foster as she brings her farm girl innocence to The New Group’s delightful revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center. With heart on her sleeve, (and...

    By Samuel L. Leiter     Rising young playwright Tarell Alvin McRaney’s Head of Passes, which the playwright says was inspired by the Biblical story of Job, is an occasionally potent but structurally awkward play set in a former bed and breakfast in the wetlands of...

        By Sandi Durell     Get ready to party on the gambling vessel Barracuda with its cast of “Hot Stuff” characters in this bigger, more extravagant Broadway version that gives a wink and a nod to the many tacky Hollywood Disaster films of the 70s...