The dog-eat-dog theme gets an entertaining application to the restaurant business with some distinctively sprightly playwriting from Theresa Rebeck paired with equally robust direction by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel in “Seared”. Best friends, chef Harry (Raul Esparza) and investor Mike (David Mason), after two and half years struggling at a hole-in-the-wall Brooklyn location, are on the brink of success when their place ends up in “Best Bets” in New York Magazine; Harry wowed t

THE SOUND INSIDE, near perfect in its world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2018, is even better on Broadway. (I’ve posted my original review below). I was skeptical that the play, which transacts so intimately, could maintain its intimacy in the move from the “black-box” nature of the smallish Nikos Stage to the wide, Broadway stage of the grand-style of Studio 54. Adam Rapp’s sublime and intricate text prevails; THE SOUND Inside IS a playwri