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Slam Frank

October 25, 2026

Inspired by the Twitter debate in July 2022 as to whether Holocaust victim Anne Frank acknowledged her white privilege (as much good as it did her),"Slam Frank", the musical satire of "The Diary of Anne Frank" which ran last fall at the AsylumNYC, has reopened for an Off Broadway run at the Orpheum Theatre. This new musical by the clever pair of Andew Fox (music and Lyrics) and Joel Sinensky (book) takes on many of the buzz words and hot topics of 21st century in what seems like a full-length Saturday Night Live skit intended to either include or insult everybody (take your pick.) Sam Lafrage’s slick professional production barrels on to its outrageous conclusion covering just about everything one could satirize at this time. [more]

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

November 22, 2024

Great in entirely predictable ways, especially its rich musical orchestrations and arrangements from jazz genius Branford Marsalis (he's assisted by Tony Award- winner Daryl Waters), "A Wonderful World" wastes its decided advantages by keeping Armstrong at a distance while incongruously tasking him with narrating his own life. An impassive witness to himself, Armstrong is also a bizarrely unreflective one as he meanders from place to place and wife to wife, before finally appearing with his wronged women to sing "What a Wonderful World" as an ethereal eleven o'clock number on Adam Koch and Steven Royal's protean set. To say the least, it's a lackluster concluding statement on the complexities of Armstrong's marriages, as well as his feelings about a world that, despite all of its "trees of green" and "red roses too," caused him so much pain. [more]

Our Brother’s Son

May 6, 2022

Freshman playwright Charles Gluck, a retired gastroenterologist who has finally followed his dream to write a play, has turned out one terrific piece of theater. There is virtually no superfluous dialogue in this script; almost every line serves a specific purpose, whether it’s to provide key exposition, continue to build the play’s fully three-dimensional characters or to accelerate and intensify the dramatic through point. [more]