http://showbusinessweekly.com/articles.sec-2-1-theater-reviews.htmlPlaywrights Jerrod Bogard, Bekah Brunstetter, Bruce Graham, Samuel D. Hunter, Neil LaBute, and Lynn Manning come together to delve into the realities of disabled people in a sincere and shockingly hilarious collection of short plays.]]>It’s London, 1879, and The Explorers Club is in crisis: a woman is campaigning for admittance; a savage has slapped Her Majesty, inciting a war; the Irish are probably Jewish and a beloved pet snake has swallowed a guinea pig.]]>J.B. Priestley was one of Britain’s top playwrights from the 1930s through the 1950s. “Cornelius”—a dark comedy which comments on the drudgery of the business world and the allure of roads not taken—was recently chosen for revival by ...]]>The United States had its fair share of economic troubles recently, but it’s difficult to imagine a time when things are so bad that we are forced to sell part of Florida to China.]]>Ever since Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company purchased Manna-hata, the island of many hills for 60 guilders, the dealings of ambitious businessmen battling to claim New York City has been going strong.]]>Every war has two sides. It can be difficult to position yourself at a vantage point with an all-inclusive perspective, but this new play pulls it off ingeniously.]]>Rod McLachlan’s electric Off-Broadway debut centers on the production crew of “Rehabilitation,” a reality television series that documents addicts in seek of treatment.]]>If you wish your theatre-going experience was more like a house party and less like a sacramental ceremony this show is for you. ]]>Based on Todd Haynes’s celebrated film starring Julianne Moore, a perfect housewife discovers that her ideal of Heaven may be closer to a nightmare.]]>To place a finger on the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters sounds like an impossible task, maybe even a messy one depending on who you’re talking to.]]>If imitation is considered the highest form of flattery, then ‘Showgirls! The Musical!’ currently playing at XL, is a fervent homage to the cult ninties film.]]>Depending on your personal sensitivities, you’ve probably noticed that most gay characters in mainstream plays and television are predictably one-dimensional.]]>The play opens onto a busy night in the kitchen of The Golden Dragon, a Chinese Thai Vietnamese restaurant. The actors perform a ballet of precision as they cut, chop...]]>Based on historical accounts of Dickinson, the poetess was notoriously irritating by always demanding attention, boasting fake illnesses, and obsessing over death.]]> Anyone who has seen the 1981 film “Mommie Dearest” or read the 1978 autobiographical book upon which it was based is all too familiar with the physical and emotional abuse that young Christina Crawford suffered at the hands of her movie-star mother, Joan Crawford.]]>When asked to name his favorite authors, Tennessee Williams is reputed to have replied “Chekhov! Chekhov! Chekhov!”]]>When friends gather to celebrate the conceptual artist Lara’s (Kim Merrill) nomination for a half-million-dollar grant, which is contingent on her producing and presenting a brilliant new work to an anonymous committee.]]>They say that you should never meet your heroes. ]]>Elizabeth (Susan Ferrara) and Kelly (Rachael Hip-Flores) are polar opposites. Elizabeth is heterosexual, homophobic...]]>Like Willy Loman in quadruplicate, the members of Skyline sales force are smiling out at a world that no longer smiles back. ]]>