Maria Paz Alegre

This was originally published in Theatre Is Easy. By Lauren Yee; Directed by Taibi Magar Off Broadway, Play Runs through 6.24.18 Atlantic Theater Company, 330 West 16th Street BD Wong in The Great Leap. Photo by Ahron R. Foster. BOTTOM LINE: As nations vie to build friendships with China, the country’s dark history of is often ignored or forgotten. In The Great Leap, Lauren Yee thankfully refuses to allow her audience to forget. Set in the early summer of 1989, the Univers

This was originally published in Theatre is Easy. By Théâtre du Soleil and Hélène Cinxous; Directed by Ariane Mnouchkine Produced by Théâtre du Soleil Off Broadway, Experimental Musical Runs through 12.20.17 Park Avenue Armory, 642 Park Avenue Back, L-R: Andrea Marchant, Ya-Hui Liang, Marie-Jasmine Cocito, Palani Murugan, and Quentin Lashermes Front: Seear Kohi and Omid Rawendah in A Room In India. BOTTOM LINE: A Room In India may seem overly ambitious in its frenetic atte

Original Review is published in Theatre Is Easy By Arthur Miller; Directed by Rubén Polendo Produced by Theater Mitu Off Broadway, Play Revival Runs through 7.23.17 BAM's Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Place BOTTOM LINE: Theatre Mitu transforms Death of a Salesman into a spectacular avant-garde production. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is considered by many to be the great American play. Revived countless times on stage, it has also been successfully adapted into televis

Original Review is posted in Theatre Is Easy. By Yianni Papadimos; Directed by Brendan Stackhouse Part of the Hot! Festival Off Off Broadway, Play Ran through 7.17.17 Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street Yianni Papadimos, Bryce Dutton, Colin Parrinello, and Steven Meehan in The Dog Died: A Midwestern Case Study. Photo by Brendan Stackhouse. BOTTOM LINE: This is not your typical "coming out" story, but a story about the people you come out to, and the fascinating ways that

Original Review Published in Theatre Is Easy By L.M. Montgomery; Adapted and Directed by Chris Henry Off Off Broadway, Play with Dance Runs through 6.12.17 Royal Family Performing Arts Space, 145 West 46th Street by Maria Paz Alegre on 6.15.17 Brooke Averi, Jenna Ho, Rocky Vega, Jenna Ho, and Camrie Hewie in Anne of Green Gables Part I. Photo by Marina Peidad. BOTTOM LINE: Get your puffy-sleeved dresses ready, Anne Shirley has come to town! It’s always ambitious to theatric

Original Review in Theatre Is Easy By Suzan-Lori Parks; Directed by Lear deBessonet Off Broadway, Play Runs through 6.4.17 Signature Theatre Company, 480 West 42nd Street by Maria Paz Alegre on 5.15.17 Adam Green, Birgit Huppuch, Patrena Murray, Julian Rozzell, Tony Torn, Reynaldo Piniella, Hannah Cabell, and Zainab Jah in Venus. Photo by Joan Marcus. BOTTOM LINE: Come one, come all! The true story of the "Venus Hottentot," the woman who will make your heart race until i

By Joe Tracz, based on the novel by Rick Riordan; Music and Lyrics by Rob Rokicki; Directed by Stephen Brackett Produced by Theatreworks NYC Off Broadway, Musical Runs through 5.6.17 Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street BOTTOM LINE: Teen rebel and unlikely hero Percy Jackson takes audience members on an epic quest filled with monsters, music, and a plethora of Greek gods. While children’s stories featuring "the chosen one" are a dime a dozen, The Lightning Thie

Everybody By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Directed by Lila Neugebauer Off Broadway, Play Runs through 3.19.17 Signature Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street by Maria Paz Alegre on 2.20.17 Theasy.com Louis Cancelmi, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Braun, Lakisha Michelle May, Brooke Bloom, Marylouise Burke in Everybody. Photo by Monique Carboni. BOTTOM LINE: An affecting and inventive new adaptation of an ancient morality play, filled with biting wit and shrewd commentary on the state o

Life According to Saki By Katherine Rundell, based on the short stories of H.H Munro; Directed by Jessica Lazar Produced by Atticist Off Broadway, Play Runs through 3.5.17 Fourth Street Theater, 83 East 4th Street by Maria Paz Alegre on 2.13.17 Theasy.com David Paisley, Ellen Francis, Phoebe Frances Brown, and Caitlin Thorburn in Life According to Saki. Photo by Alex Brenner. BOTTOM LINE: Those who love wit and wickedness will greatly enjoy this charming ensemble product

Tell Hector I Miss Him By Paola Lázaro; Directed by David Mendizábal Off Broadway, Play Runs through 2.19.17 Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street by Maria Paz Alegre on 1.25.17 Theasy.com Juan Carlos Hernández and Selenis Leyva in Tell Hector I Miss Him. Photo provided by Atlantic Theater Company BOTTOM LINE: Tell Hector I Miss Him brilliantly delivers a raw and impassioned performance of life and longing in Puerto Rico. From the very first line of the pla