...you know the playwright has potential...Mr. Sickles's zingy dialogue sparkled...Ellen Dolan is just right...

Town & Village On Stage

By her words and actions Sahar, the principal character in Sharbari Ahmed's engrossing play, "Raisins Not Virgins," emphasizes the difference between an American who happens to be a Muslim and a devoted Muslim who happens to be an American.

Town & Village On Stage

You have to know the territory to catch on to the title of the two short plays that make up Linda Segal Crawley's "Pineapple & Henry." "Pineapple & Henry" is a place - an intersection of two streets in Brooklyn.

The two plays (Ms. Crawley calls them acts) that make up "Pineapple & Henry," "Gourmet Foods" and "Al's Place," have nothing in common except where the action takes place: a small corner store that has had different owners and different uses over its history.

Linda Segal Crawley's new play, "Pineapple & Henry," makes clear that people don't always get what they want...Love and business complications abound. Ms. Friedman, who gives evidence of channeling early Barbra Streisand, and Mr. Alvin, with his spats, cigar and double-breasted striped suit invest the proceedings with comedy and menace.