FELA!

“Fela!” is a whirlwind of song and dance, a perpetual motion machine in which all the parts are nearly always moving, always gyrating, largely in synch with the Afro-beat rhythms that give the show its pulse.
The star (and he is very much the star; he has nearly all the lines, and participates in practically all [...]

SUPERIOR DONUTS

Expecting even the most talented playwright to follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winner with a second Prize-winning effort is like… well, expecting a ballplayer who has hit .380 one season to manage to bat .390 the next. (Never mind .400; no one has hit that high since Ted Williams in 1941.) It’s conceivable, of course, but [...]

THE TOXIC AVENGER

The proof is in the pudding (or in the green, oozing slime): In the right hands, even a Grade Z horror movie can be turned into a Grade A musical. Case in point: “The Toxic Avenger”, now concluding its run (it plays through January 3rd) at New World Stages.
Thanks to a rockin’ score by longtime [...]