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Starting with the towheaded 7 year old huggable, wonderstruck Oliver, 7 year old Brandon Singel, the audience just loves him to pieces, as he wanders about rough and tumble, desperate and humble Victorian London. That’s John Anthony Lopez as Fagin...

Foreground: Nora Achrati as Zerbinette and Megan Dominy as Hyacinth. Background: Michael Glenn as Scapin with Bradley Foster Smith as Sylvestre. Photo by Stan Barouh. Some plays rely on insight, perceiving deep into the human condition and offering...

THE Rise and Fall of Little Voice is an anecdote about a teen-aged girl with a phenomenal talent for mimicking well known singers and the attempts of her mother and the mother’s lover to exploit her. As written it is a very sad story of a young girl...

I’ve long held that the best writers make the best critics. In addition to aesthetic insight, the job calls for  descriptive powers both sufficient to engage the reader in art he hasn’t yet experienced and entertaining enough to attract...

The manner of the way the Independent on Sunday’s critics and arts writers came to know they were being swept away was bad enough. One theatre critic heard from a colleague on another newspaper who was himself on holiday in the United States when...